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Overview of the Senate hearing on foreign influence in social media, which heard testimony from Sheryl Sandberg and Jack Dorsey — Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg and Twitter's Jack Dorsey told lawmakers on Wednesday that they are better prepared to combat foreign interference on their platforms …
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A look at the philosophies and styles of Sheryl Sandberg, a veteran of Capitol Hill, and Jack Dorsey, a relative newcomer — SAN FRANCISCO — The Silicon Valley leaders who testified before Congress for the first time on Wednesday came to Washington with personal styles that could not be more different.
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
DoJ says AG Jeff Sessions will meet with state AGs to discuss a “growing concern” that social media giants are “hurting competition” and stifling free speech — The Justice Department has confirmed that Attorney General Jeff Sessions has expressed a “growing concern” …
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| Bloomberg: |
Google's decision not to appear before the Senate was an unforced error, drawing criticism and robbing it of a chance to defend itself — - Senators blast search giant for executive absence at hearing — Some people at the company said to regret Pichai's no-show
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
In House committee hearing, Dorsey said Twitter intends to share an abuse transparency report this year, agrees to have the company undergo a civil rights audit — A meek and quiet “no” was Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's refrain as he responded to an onslaught of questions from House Energy Committee Republicans …
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Sources: Apple has considered the name “iPhone Xs Max” for the 6.5-inch model; both Xs and Xs Max will have 4GB RAM, up from 3GB, and dual SIM options — Last week 9to5Mac exclusively shared the first look at the new iPhone Xs models due to be officially announced by Apple on September 12.
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| Guilherme Rambo / 9to5Mac: |
Information found in the latest watchOS 5 beta suggests 42mm Apple Watch Series 4 will have a 384x480 resolution, up from 312x390 used in current models — Today, we've been able to figure out the probable screen resolution for the 42mm version of this new device.
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| Andrew Perrin / Pew Research Center: |
Survey of US adults: 42% took a break from Facebook for several weeks or more, 26% deleted app from their phone, 54% adjusted privacy settings in past 12 months — Significant shares of Facebook users have taken steps in the past year to reframe their relationship with the social media platform.
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| Bryan Menegus / Gizmodo: |
Bernie Sanders debuts the Stop Bad Employers by Zeroing Out Subsidies (Stop BEZOS) Act that would tax big firms equal to the welfare received by low wage staff — Bernie Sanders introduced a bill today that culminates weeks of feuding between the Vermont senator and Amazon …
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| Bloomberg: |
Uber announces new safety features for drivers and riders, such as checking in on idle cars and anonymous pick up addresses, rolling out in the coming months — - Ride-hailing service has seen all sorts of catastrophes — Questions have lingered over how thoroughly drivers are vetted
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| Diptendu Lahiri / Reuters: |
Report: Goldman Sachs ditches plans for a cryptocurrency trading desk in the foreseeable future as regulatory framework remains unclear; cryptocurrencies slide — (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs Group Inc (GS.N) is ditching plans to open a desk for trading cryptocurrencies in the foreseeable future … | Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Snap launches new styles of Spectacles 2 with polarized lenses that look more like traditional sunglasses, available today for $199 — And they've got polarized lenses — If the main hangup that's kept you from purchasing Snap's Spectacles has been their design, two new models that the company …
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Google unveils Dataset Search, a search engine that will cover datasets from environmental and social sciences, government, and ProPublica-style news orgs — Dataset Search could be a scientist's best friend — Google's goal has always been to organize the world's information, and its first target was the commercial web.
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Roblox, an MMO game popular with kids, raises $150M Series F, source says at a $2.5B+ valuation, bringing total raised to $185M — The company is now valued at more than $2.5B — Roblox, which allows kids to create 3D worlds and games, has raised an additional $150 million in funding.
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| Kate Clark / TechCrunch: |
SEC filing shows Groq, a startup developing a tensor processing unit, has raised $52.3M of a $60M round — Groq has raised $52.3 million of a $60 million round, per an SEC filing. Social Capital co-founder and former Facebook executive Chamath Palihapitiya, who's listed on the filing, has participated in the funding.| IDC: |
Global VR headset shipments dropped 33.7% YoY in Q2, with screenless viewers shrinking from 1M in 2Q'17 to 409,000 in 2Q'18, but the market outlook is positive — Worldwide shipments of virtual reality (VR) headsets were down 33.7% year over year in the second quarter of 2018 (2Q18) …
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Vimeo pivoting from being a video viewing destination to focus on selling software tools such as Vimeo Stock, a stock video clips service akin to Getty Images — Vimeo, the 14-year-old video service that started as a platform for indie filmmakers, is changing its business to focus …
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| Nitasha Tiku / Wired: |
A look at the wave of tech startups that claim they can increase the amount collected on debts while helping consumers by using tech to personalize the process — Consumer debt, credit card debt, and personal loan debt are at all-time highs. Meanwhile, investors who purchase debt for cents …
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| Fathin Ungku / Reuters: |
Facebook says it will invest more than $1B to build its first Asian data center in Singapore, slated to open in 2022 — SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Facebook (FB.O) said on Thursday it will invest more than $1 billion to build its first data centre in Asia in Singapore, slated to open in 2022.
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Nielsen acquires games market intelligence company SuperData Research, which estimates digital game sales by looking at the behavior of 160M people — Nielsen wants to get better at tracking video games. To fill in the digital-shaped gap in its data reporting, the market analysis firm … Sponsor Posts
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