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YouTube updates guidelines to ban videos that promote the superiority of any group to justify discrimination, resulting in the removal of thousands of channels — YouTube is trying to reduce the prevalence of extremist content on the platform — YouTube is changing its community guidelines …
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| Kelly Weill / The Daily Beast: |
YouTube suspends monetization of Steven Crowder's channel after continued review finds “pattern of egregious actions” that are against Partner Program policies — Right-wing performer gay-bashed a Vox reporter for years. They initially declined to do anything, then ‘demonetized’ him …
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YouTube says it will “remove content denying that well-documented violent events, like the Holocaust or the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary, took place” — Over the past few years, we've been investing in the policies, resources and products needed to live up to our responsibility …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Amazon shows off its latest delivery drone, saying it will make deliveries to customers in the coming months, has a 15 mile range, and can carry up to 5 pounds — For the first time, Amazon today showed off its newest fully electric delivery drone at its first re:Mars conference in Las Vegas.
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| Steven Zheng / The Block: |
Report: Facebook to create an independent foundation to manage its cryptocurrency, will charge members a $10M licensing fee for the right to operate a node — Facebook is creating an independent foundation to govern its cryptocurrency, according to a report by The Information.
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Apple details the cryptography behind its upcoming Find My feature, which works so that even Apple cannot track device locations — WHEN APPLE EXECUTIVE Craig Federighi described a new location-tracking feature for Apple devices at the company's Worldwide Developer Conference keynote on Monday …
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| Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
Microsoft and Oracle announce a partnership to link their US data centers in an effort to unite against Amazon's AWS — (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp and Oracle Corp on Wednesday said they reached an agreement to make their two cloud computing services work together with high-speed links between …
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Connected bike and treadmill-maker Peloton says it confidentially filed for an IPO; the company raised $550M in August 2018 at a $4B valuation — Exercise tech darling and service provider Peloton has filed for IPO with a confidential draft submission of its S-1 statement to the SEC on Wednesday.
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| Tom Simonite / Wired: |
Amazon announces Alexa Conversations, which will enable Alexa to utilize multiple skills within conversations by asking follow ups to the initial question — Amazon's Alexa is ready to broaden its one-track mind. — The virtual assistant can deliver weather forecasts and traffic updates …
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Lab testing giant LabCorp says personal and financial info of 7.7M patients was stolen in the same data breach that affected 11.9M Quest Diagnostics patients — LabCorp is the latest laboratory testing giant this week to confirm it's affected by the same third-party data breach.
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| Amy He / eMarketer: |
In 2019, US consumers will, for the first time, spend more time per day using their mobile devices than watching TV — For the first time ever, US consumers will spend more time using their mobile devices than watching TV, with smartphone use dominating that time spent.| Casey Newton / The Interface: |
With Apple making its Sign In with Apple feature mandatory for App Store developers, it starts to feel less like competition and more like brute force — On Monday, at its Worldwide Developer Conference in San Jose, Apple introduced a privacy-focused login tool called “Sign in with Apple.”
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| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
Netflix says it is testing a feed, called Extras, with trailers, photos, and alerts about shows in its mobile app — Senior Silicon Valley Correspondent @https://twitter.com/jank0 FOLLOW — Netflix has begun to test a new feed in its mobile app that aggregates trailers … | Polina Marinova / Fortune: |
Q&A with a16z managing partner Scott Kupor about significant shifts in VC, down rounds, impact of SoftBank's Vision Fund, startup culture, direct listings, more — Each product we feature has been independently selected and reviewed by our editorial team.| Callum Burroughs / Business Insider: |
UK-based open banking startup TrueLayer raises $35M from Tencent and Temasek, bringing its total raised to $47M — Reuters — UK fintech TrueLayer is receiving funding from Chinese financial giant Tencent and Singaporean sovereign wealth fund Temasek.
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Matillion, a developer of cloud data integration software for Amazon Redshift, Google BigQuery, and Snowflake, raises $35M Series C led by Battery Ventures — It's safe to say that data warehouses — large stores of data accumulated from a range of systems — are having a moment.| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Pivotal Software reports full-year revenue guidance of $756M-$767M, vs $803M expected, causing stock to drop as much as 45% — KEY POINTS — Pivotal Software CEO Rob Mee. — Pivotal Software shares crashed on Wednesday, knocking off about half the company's market value … | Patricia Nilsson / Financial Times: |
AI-powered automated news service Radar now writes thousands of stories a month, including general interest stories, for up to 350 local news titles in the UK — The UK's most prolific reporter churns out thousands of stories a month for hundreds of publications across the country …
Tweets: @matthausk and @financialtimes
| Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
Baltimore estimates recent ransomware attack will cost the city $10M to clean up, not including $8M of deferred or lost revenue from unprocessed payments — Mayor says Baltimore is “open for business,” but city has lost millions from slowed payments. — BALTIMORE—It has been a month since … | Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Cloudera says CEO Tom Reilly is retiring and will leave the company's board, with board member Martin Cole to become interim CEO; stock down 31%+ after hours — KEY POINTS — Interim CEO Martin Cole is a former Accenture executive who has been on Cloudera's board since 2014. — Cloudera CEO Tom Reilly.| Elizabeth Schulze / CNBC: |
Google appeals the EU's $1.7B fine over alleged anticompetitive advertising practices; EU says it will defend its decision in court — KEY POINTS — In March, the European Commission fined Google $1.7 billion for anti-competitive practices in the online advertising market.| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Amazon launches StyleSnap, an ML-powered feature in its app that lets users take a picture of an article of clothing and find similar items for sale on Amazon — StyleSnap uses machine learning to find similar clothes and styles — Amazon is a behemoth of online retailing, but there's one sector it has yet to crack: fashion.| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
Apple's standalone $999 Pro Stand for its Pro Display XDR does not offer any groundbreaking functionality to justify its price tag — You can pinpoint the exact moment when Apple lost the WWDC audience on Monday. John Ternus, the company's VP of hardware engineering …
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