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After Pittsburgh shooting, Gab has been suspended by Paypal, Stripe, and hosting provider Joyent; Microsoft has terminated Azure agreement with Gab last month — Stripe and cloud host Joyent have indicated that they will suspend Gab's accounts — Hours after Paypal confirmed …
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Sources: IBM is close to a deal to acquire open-source software maker Red Hat — By By Ed Hammond , By Kiel Porter , and By Alex Barinka — Red Hat has a market capitalization of $20.5 billion — An agreement could be announced as early as Sunday| Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
Twitter told a user that pipe bomb suspect did not violate its rules when she reported his threats weeks ago; Twitter now says it made a mistake, apologizes — Taylor Hatmaker @tayhatmaker / 14 hours — At least two Twitter accounts linked to the man suspected of sending explosive devices …
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| Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed News: |
Online hatred, trolling, harassment, and conspiracy theories are spilling into the physical world with ever greater and more alarming frequency — This week, reporters dredged up the online pasts of two monsters: a Florida man who was arrested for sending pipe bombs to at least a dozen …
Tweets: @cwarzel, @katherinemiller, @mollymckew, @harrisalexc, and @mikeh_pr
| Washington Post: |
Ukrainian officials recount their efforts to get Facebook's attention and help stem the flood of disinformation in 2015, in the middle of Russian invasion — KIEV, Ukraine — In the spring of 2015, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko was desperate for Mark Zuckerberg's help.
Tweets: @tonyromm and @charleskriel
| The Local: |
Google cancels plan to open a second startup incubator in Berlin after protests by anti-gentrification groups, says it is donating the space to local nonprofits — Google has called off plans to open a campus in the Kreuzberg area of Berlin. After months of anti-gentrification protests …
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| Frank Catalano / GeekWire: |
Tony Ageh, chief digital officer of New York Public Library, talks about privacy concerns and other issues as libraries embrace digital transformation — If you want to see how a public library adopts technology at scale, consider heading to New York City.| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Tesla starts rolling out Navigate on Autopilot in the US, an active guidance feature that suggests and makes lane changes, takes highway exits, and more — Some Tesla owners in North America will wake up to a new driver assistance feature that had been delayed for testing, according to a tweet sent Friday evening by CEO Elon Musk.| Theodore Schleifer / Recode: |
How Saudi government-related funds, like the country's main tech university endowment and Aramco's Wisayah, invest in US VC firms, often confidentially — People talk about money from “the Saudis.” But it's not that simple. Who exactly are “the Saudis,” anyway?
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| Amir Bozorgzadeh / VentureBeat: |
A look at how AR has found popularity in the enterprise with industrial deployments in automotive assembly lines, quality control, training centres, and more — When I ran my last piece earlier this month on the not-so-surprising progressive state of the VR industry, it was intended to shake … | Nellie Bowles / New York Times: |
As children of Silicon Valley's elite move away from screen-based schooling, US public schools are touting devices with screens, presaging a new digital gap — America's public schools are still touting devices with screens — even offering digital-only preschools. The rich are banning screens from class altogether.
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A look at AI-related research for predicting earthquakes by using seismic data, which scientists say is similar to the audio data used to train voice assistants — SAN FRANCISCO — Countless dollars and entire scientific careers have been dedicated to predicting where and when the next big earthquake will strike.
Tweets: @nytimes and @scottnations
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