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Didi suspends its Hitch carpooling service in China after a driver allegedly raped and killed a carpooling passenger, the second such incident in 2018 — Chinese ride-hailing firm Didi Chuxing, the $60 billion-valued company that bought out Uber's China business, has suspended its carpooling service …
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Multiple fatalities reported in a mass shooting during a Madden NFL gaming tournament in Jacksonville, Florida — (CNN)The sheriff's office in Jacksonville, Florida, said there was a mass shooting at a downtown marketplace on Sunday and urged people to stay far away from the area.| Patricia Hernandez / The Verge: |
The YouTube stream for the Logan Paul vs. KSI fight had ~773K viewers, at $10/view, but 1M+ people watched unofficial streams of the fight on Twitch at its peak — Most people didn't pay for the biggest event on YouTube — After months of hype, YouTube superstars Logan Paul …
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| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
Source: the Defense Department wants to put a total of $1.7B toward the new Joint Artificial Intelligence Center over the next five years — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — In a May memo to President Trump, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis implored him to create a national strategy for artificial intelligence.
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| Jason D. Rowley / Crunchbase News: |
A look at stealthy self-driving startup Ghost Locomotion, which has raised $15M and offers a dashcam Android app, likely to gather data to train its ML models — The SF Bay Area is home to a lot of self-driving car initiatives. — Some startups, like Zoox, are trying “to make the whole widget” … | Isobel Koshiw / The Verge: |
Sources detail a Ukraine-based hacking scheme that stole press releases from three US newswires over at least five years and made $100M+ via insider trading — At a Kiev nightclub in the spring of 2012, 24-year-old Ivan Turchynov made a fateful drunken boast to some fellow hackers.| Palmer Luckey / The Blog of Palmer Luckey: |
Oculus cofounder reviews Magic Leap: less of a functional developer kit, more of a flashy hype vehicle that almost nobody can actually use in a meaningful way — The title of this review was carefully chosen, not glibly. I want what is best for VR and all other technologies on the Reality-Virtuality Continuum, Magic Leap included.
Tweets: @caseynewton, @palmerluckey, @id_aa_carmack, and @mattrosoff
| Joan E. Solsman / CNET: |
How women, including Campbell Brown and Alex Hardiman, are commanding Facebook's efforts to foster more legitimate news reporting — At Facebook, where men outnumber women almost two to one, the future of news is female. — Alex Hardiman speaks softly. Leading a team meeting …
Tweets: @mollie, @campbell_brown, @kwchang, @arctictony, @joan_e, and @groundviews
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
A look at IGTV's struggles and slow growth two months after launch as Instagram and content creators try to figure out how to make the longer video format work — ‘Everything great starts small,’ says CEO — Instagram has never truly failed at anything, but judging by modest initial view counts …
Tweets: @joshuaweidling, @hoandesign, @glenngabe, @kjeldlindsted, @joshconstine, and @joshconstine. Thanks:@joshconstine
| Jingjing Jiang / Pew Research Center: |
Survey: more than 50% of US teens say they are trying to reduce phone, social media, and video game use; 57% of parents say they restrict children's screen time — 54% of U.S. teens say they spend too much time on their cellphones, and two-thirds of parents express concern over their teen's screen time.
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| Muyao Shen / CoinDesk: |
WeChat and Alipay ban cryptocurrency-related transactions on their payment platforms — Chinese mobile payment platforms WeChat Pay and Alipay are scrambling to keep up with regulators after recent announcements regarding initial coin offerings (ICOs) and cryptocurrencies.
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Cointelegraph, CryptoSlate, Bitcoinist.com, Fortune, Cointelegraph, CryptoGlobe, Ethereum World News, Crowdfund Insider, and SludgeFeed. Tweets: @iamjosephyoung
| Ian Bogost / The Atlantic: |
Businesses have been collecting, selling, and reusing personal data for decades; Google and Facebook only made the process more visible via better ad targeting — Google and Facebook are easy scapegoats, but companies have been collecting, selling, and reusing your personal data for decades …
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