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| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
As millions pay for premium subscriptions to have a “clean” digital media experience, privacy and freedom from advertising are gradually becoming luxury goods — A decade ago, an internet video start-up called Hulu boldly declared an end to the era of paid TV.
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New York Times and The Wonder Valley Catalog
| Bill Wasik / New York Times: |
A look at how the internet deviated from its sunny, American, all-devouring vision of mass empowerment, and why today it doesn't mean the same thing to everyone — The Internet Dream Became a Nightmare. What Will Become of It Now? — “Hey, everyone!” the world's eighth-richest man said … | Anmol / MSPoweruser: |
Microsoft to end Cortana support for iOS and Android apps in eight countries including UK, China from Jan. 31; Cortana content like reminders will stop working — Recently there were rumours that Microsoft might be discontinuing Cortana on Android and iOS.
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| Pew Research Center: |
Survey: ~60% US adults believe they can not avoid data collection by corporations or govt., 81% think the risks of corporate data collection outweigh benefits — Majorities think their personal data is less secure now, that data collection poses more risks than benefits …
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| Taylor Lorenz / New York Times: |
Profile of FaZe Clan, an esports and gaming lifestyle media org with 34 content creators, 15 pro esports players, 11 players/entertainers, and over 214M viewers — They already make every moment into consumable content. What can it become? — This article is part of our continuing Fast Forward series …
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| CNBC: |
Twitter bans political ads globally, will allow some “cause-based” ads with limited targeting and promotion of issue-related fact-based reporting from news orgs — - Twitter laid out the framework for its new policy on political ads, which bans certain advertisers and has stricter rules for issue ads.
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| Josh Dzieza / The Verge: |
A look at Roundup, Montana, which has become a hub in Amazon's supply chain with prep centers that repackage sellers' goods according to Amazon's specifications — How the tiny town of Roundup, Montana, became a hub in Amazon's supply chain — On any given day, thousands of packages from Walmarts …
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| Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: |
Qualia, which streamlines closing of real estate deals and claims to handle 15%+ of all US transactions, raises $55M Series C, bringing its total raised to $95M — Anyone who has bought a home knows that the sheer amount of paperwork involved in closing the transaction is not only overwhelming …
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Built In Austin and FinSMEs
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
DroneDeploy, a drone mapping and analytics platform, raises $35M Series D, bringing its total raised to $90M, says it now has over 5,000 enterprise customers — DroneDeploy, a startup developing a holistic cloud-based drone mapping and analytics platform, today announced that it's closed …
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The Robot Report
| Olivia Solon / NBC News: |
Microsoft hires former AG Eric Holder to determine if AnyVision complies with the ethical principles stipulated during the facial recognition company's Series A — According to five sources, AnyVision's technology has powered a secret military surveillance project that has monitored Palestinians in the West Bank.
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Boing Boing, CNET, MSPoweruser, IT Management, Gizmodo, Axios, and Business Insider
Tweets: @oliviasolon and @cfarivar
| The Verge: |
Creators say YouTube's new labeling policy for kids' content that holds creators solely accountable are murky, as some video categories fall in a gray area — The government could sue them for thousands of dollars — On Tuesday afternoon, YouTube formally announced its plan to have creators label …
Tweets: @stopskeletons, @nickonripple, @kellymakena, @waxpancake, and @loudmouthjulia
| Tiernan Ray / ZDNet: |
Facebook's AI team details XLM-R, a natural language model which translates between 100 languages, but struggles with the limits of existing computing power — Facebook AI research's latest breakthrough in natural language understanding, called XLM-R, performs cross-language tasks … Sponsor Posts
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