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| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
Viral selfie app ImageNet Roulette demos biases in AI by surfacing labels applied by anonymous workers to a database of 14M photos, used to train AI for 9 years — ImageNet Roulette, a digital art project and viral selfie app, exposes how biases have crept into the artificial-intelligence technologies changing our lives.
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| Nino Tasca / The Keyword: |
Google says it doesn't retain Assistant audio recordings by default and it is increasing privacy protections for the transcription process used with a small set — Senior Product Manager, Google Assistant — We believe you should be able to easily understand how your data is used and why …
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Tweets: @lilyhnewman and @wagner_digital
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Facebook's competitors are talking to FTC about the company's hardball tactics, some of which Snap compiled in a dossier called Project Voldemort — Antitrust investigation gives competitors chance to air complaints about Facebook's hardball tactics
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Engadget, Business Insider, Seeking Alpha, and Slashdot
Tweets: @andrewdevillier, @kyurieff, @stevenoverly, @hoofnagle, @robaeprice, @mayazi, and @mattnavarra
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: several WeWork directors, including SoftBank members, plan to push for Adam Neumann to step down as CEO — SoftBank officials are among those expected to push for Neumann ouster — A bloc of WeWork directors is planning to push Adam Neumann to step down as chief executive …
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CNBC, Wall Street Journal, Axios, The Information, New York Times, Financial Times, Business Insider, New York Post, Washington Post, Bloomberg, RagingBull, Fast Company, Inc42 Media, SiliconANGLE, Financial Times, PYMNTS.com, CNN, Telegraph, Business Insider, TechCrunch, and Seeking Alpha
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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Samsung says Galaxy Fold will go on sale in the US on September 27 for $1,980 and will be available at AT&T, Best Buy, and Samsung stores — Months after it failed to launch, the Galaxy Fold is finally arriving in the United States later this week. Unfortunately, the Galaxy Fold US launch …
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Samsung US Newsroom, Engadget, The Verge, TechCrunch, Digital Trends, Android Authority, Gizmodo, Android Police, Pocketables, and Android Headlines. Tweets: @johnwilson
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
A look at Peloton, which may raise $1.2B in this week's IPO and sells $2.3K iPad-equipped stationary bikes and $40/mo. cycling video subscriptions to 510K+ subs — 13 reasons this bike has a cult — It makes lazy people like me work out. That's the genius of the Peloton bicycle.
Tweets: @joshconstine, @austen, @joshconstine, @joshconstine, @joshconstine, @joshconstine, @joshconstine, @joshconstine, and @joshconstine
| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Cloudflare enables a new “bot fight mode” as a opt-in feature for all accounts, which will frustrate bots via deliberately computationally intensive challenges — Cloudflare is ratcheting up its fight against bots with a new “fight mode,” which it says will frustrate …
Tweets: @zackwhittaker
| Keith Shaw / Robotics Business Review: |
Report: global sales of robots reached 422K units worth $16.5B in 2018; 74% of global robotics installations were in China, Japan, South Korea, US, and Germany — The International Federation of Robotics (IFR) today released its annual World Robotics Report, which showed an annual global sales value of $16.5 billion in 2018.
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Bloomberg, Xinhua News Agency, Automation.com, Robotics & Automation News, and ZDNet
| Ryan Duffy / Morning Brew: |
Binance launches fiat-to-crypto and crypto-to-crypto trading in the US, with support for bitcoin, Binance coin, ether, XRP, bitcoin cash, litecoin, and tether — This morning, Binance.US launched a digital assets marketplace. As you've probably guessed, it's the U.S. arm of Binance, the world's top crypto exchange by trading volume.| Cagan Koc / Bloomberg: |
Canada's state pension fund invests CAD$53M in jobs website Neuvoo; Neuvoo operates in 77 countries and has annual revenues of CAD$75M+ — - CDPQ spends $40 million for minority equity stake in Neuvoo — Deal marks CDPQ's latest investment in artificial intelligence
| Matt Sheehan / ReinsuranceNe.ws: |
Vouch Insurance, an online platform offering insurance policies tailored for early-stage tech start-ups, raises $24.5M Series A — Vouch Insurance, a new insurance company focused on early stage tech start-ups, has announced its launch, with capacity for its policies to be provided by Munich Re.| New York Times: |
Profile of Rideshare Drivers United, a group of Uber and Lyft drivers in California who played a key role in getting recent gig economy labor legislation passed — When California lawmakers passed a worker-protection bill essentially requiring Uber and Lyft to treat drivers as employees …
Tweets: @kateconger and @nytimesbusiness
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