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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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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
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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| YouTube Blog: |
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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| TechCrunch: |
Sources: Bird in talks to acquire scooter startup Scoot, which was last valued at ~$71M; Scoot would be Bird's first full acquisition — If you are among those who thought that the scooter market sounded a little overhyped and overcrowded, we've gotten wind of a deal that could point to some impending consolidation.
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Crunchbase News. Tweets: @kateclarktweets, @jmbooyah, @kan_academy, @nickabouzeid, @jmbooyah, and @jmbooyah. Thanks:@nickabouzeid
| 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.| 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 … | 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.| 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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Quest Diagnostics Newsroom, SiliconANGLE, Dark Reading, and TechSpot
| 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.”| Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
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MacRumors, iPhone Hacks, Axios, Patently Apple, Mashable, and BGR
Tweets: @stephennellis, @mdudas, @beirutspring, @adamfowler_it, @glyph, @spencerdailey, and @reuters
| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
FCC says AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon, and US Cellular agreed to pay a total $2.5B+ for spectrum licenses in 24GHz-28GHz bands across the US for their 5G networks — Verizon, US Cellular, and Starry also bought plenty in FCC's 5G auctions. — AT&T and T-Mobile committed to spend nearly $1.8 billion …
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| 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.| 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.
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The Amazon Blog, TechCrunch, ZDNet, Pocket-lint, SlashGear, VentureBeat, and PYMNTS.com. Tweets: @amazonnews
| Kim Zetter / Politico: |
Sources show election security company VR Systems' use of remote-access software may have opened gap for hackers to tamper with NC voter data in 2016 — A Florida election software company targeted by Russians in 2016 inadvertently opened a potential pathway for hackers to tamper …
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Tweets: @kimzetter, @kimzetter, @ronwyden, @kimzetter, and @kimzetter
| 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 …
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