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Uber loses its license to operate in London after authorities discovered that 14K+ trips were taken with uninsured drivers — Ride-hailing service to continue while it appeals against Transport for London decision — Uber has lost its licence to operate private hire vehicles in London …
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| Ian Sample / The Guardian: |
Sir Tim Berners-Lee launches Contract for the Web, backed by 150+ organizations including Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and EFF to safeguard the web from abuse — Inventor of web calls on governments and firms to safeguard it from abuse and ensure it benefits humanity
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Facebook launches Viewpoints, a market research app that pays users for completing surveys, research, and other tasks, for users in the US — Facebook is once again offering a market research app, but this one appears to avoid some of the privacy concerns from before.
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| Dani Deahl / The Verge: |
Transcribers for Rev say they are exposed to troubling material, including violent police recordings and descriptions of child abuse, often with no warning — Violent police recordings, descriptions of child abuse, and graphic medical videos have appeared without warning, transcribers say
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OneZero. Tweets: @jjvincent, @mikeisaac, @sarahnemerson, @starfire2258, @liopleurodonic, @russellbrandom, @ozm, and @kerrymflynn
| Elly Cosgrove / CNBC: |
eBay to sell StubHub to Swiss ticket resale marketplace Viagogo for about $4.05B in cash — - The sale is expected to close by the end of the first quarter of 2020, subject to regulatory approval and customary closing conditions. — Tickets are offered for sale through StubHub in Chicago, Illinois.
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| Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian / ICIJ: |
Leaked Chinese government docs reveal the mechanics of running mass detention camps in Xinjiang, predictive policing, mass surveillance, and snooping on expats — A new leak of highly classified Chinese government documents has uncovered the operations manual for running the mass detention camps …
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| Bryan Menegus / Gizmodo: |
Leaked Amazon injury reports show one of its NY warehouses has a very high incident rate score of 15.19 in 2018, versus an average of 6.1 for sawmills in the US — Since opening in September 2018, Amazon's massive fulfillment center on New York's Staten Island has garnered a reputation …
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| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
T-Mobile says it suffered a data breach that affected over one million customers, exposing their names, billing addresses, phone numbers, and more — T-Mobile has confirmed a data breach affecting more than a million of its customers, whose personal data (but no financial or password data) was exposed to a malicious actor.
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| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Product Hunt founder Ryan Hoover raises $10M for a second Weekend Fund to back early-stage companies — Covering venture capital, software and startups — Six years since founding product discovery site Product Hunt, Ryan Hoover says he isn't planning to step away anytime soon.
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Ryan Hoover. Tweets: @kevinrose, @om, @rrhoover, @varadhjain, @sriramk, @alexrkonrad, and @garrytan. Thanks:@alexrkonrad
| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
E-book and audiobook subscription service Scribd raises $58M led by Spectrum Equity, bringing its total raised to $106M — Digital reading subscription service Scribd has raised a $58 million round of funding led by Spectrum Equity. The new funding round brings the total amount of money raised by Scribd to $106 million.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Frame.io, a cloud video collaboration platform used by clients like BBC, raises $50M Series C, says it now has 1M active accounts and ~17,000 paying customers — New York-based Frame.io, a video review and collaboration platform now used by over a million customers, has raised $50 million … | AnandTech: |
Review of AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X and 3970X, with 24/32 Cores on 7nm: they beat Intel chips across many benchmarks, especially on parallel computing tasks — One of the constant themes of 2019 has been to ask AMD employees about the future of its Threadripper line of products.Thanks:@anandtech
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