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Twitter is funding bluesky, an independent effort to develop an open and decentralized standard for social media, with the goal of Twitter being a client of it — Twitter is funding a small independent team of up to five open source architects, engineers, and designers to develop an open and decentralized standard for social media. The goal is for Twitter to ultimately be a client of this standard. 🧵
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| Klint Finley / Wired: |
How decentralized protocols may help solve some issues plaguing social media today; @bluesky team should consider existing projects like Mastodon — The CEO tweeted that he's hiring a team to develop open source standards for decentralized social networks. His hope: It will spawn better ways to combat hate and harassment.| Maya Shwayder / Digital Trends: |
| Alexander George / Popular Mechanics: |
The Mac Pro uses three axial fans and a centrifugal fan to keep it cool, with blade design drawn from vehicle tires to make them sound pleasant even when loud — Spend a few tens of thousands on optional upgrades, and the new Mac Pro becomes a list of superlative performance specs. A 28-core CPU.
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| Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land: |
Google says it is changing mobile search results for news topics, adding more carousels of stories, starting in the US and rolling out later internationally — Users will now see multiple carousels of news stories. — Google is changing how it presents news stories in its search results.
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YouTube bans videos that “maliciously insult” people based on their race, gender, or sex, and will remove some of Steven Crowder's videos targeting Carlos Maza — The change comes after controversy around a right-wing comedian's homophobic slurs aimed at a gay Latino journalist.
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| Julie Verhage / Bloomberg: |
Robinhood starts rolling out its Cash Management service, which offers 1.8% interest, debit cards, and FDIC coverage on deposits through bank partnerships — Robinhood Markets Inc. has finally launched its take on a bank account, albeit a very different version of the service it once hoped to offer.| The Verge: |
A rundown of the 100 gadgets that defined the 2010s, shaped first by the smartphone wars before branching off into new categories — The 100 gadgets that made a difference and defined the 2010s — Gadgets in the 2010s were shaped first by the furious race to win the smartphone wars …
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| Charlotte Tucker / EU-Startups: |
Paris-based Yubo, which lets young people create live video discussion spaces, raises €11M led by Iris Capital and Idinvest Partners — Today Yubo, the social platform connecting Generation Z around the world, announces snapping up more than €11 million.| Abe Othman / AngelList: |
AngelList report: seed stage investors can increase their yields by investing into every credible deal, contradicting the common wisdom of passing on most — If you miss the best-performing seed investment, you will eventually be outperformed by someone who blindly invests in every credible deal.
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| Bloomberg: |
Investigation details how Amazon, Apple, Google, and Facebook handle voice assistant transcriptions, relying heavily on contractors and downplaying user privacy — Ruthy Hope Slatis couldn't believe what she was hearing. She'd been hired by a temp agency outside Boston for a vague job …
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| Michael Potuck / 9to5Mac: |
Twitter now lets users upload iOS Live Photos as GIFs, will preserve original JPEG quality for web uploads — In another update to how Twitter handles photos, the company today shared the news that users can upload Live Photos from iPhone or iPad and they will show as GIFs on the social media platform.
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| Sean Lyngaas / CyberScoop: |
Jeanette Manfra, assistant director for cybersecurity at DHS, will be joining Google Cloud as global director of security and compliance — One of the U.S. government's most influential cybersecurity officials is heading to Google. — Jeanette Manfra will take a job at the tech giant's cloud division … | Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Profile of Canva, a graphic design app that CEO Melanie Perkins helped build from a yearbook-design business out of Perth into a profitable $3.2B Adobe rival — On a steamy May morning in 2013, Canva CEO Melanie Perkins found herself adrift on a kiteboard in the channel between billionaire …
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| Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: |
LeanDNA, an AI-powered analytics platform for factory management, raises $15M Series B led by S3 Ventures, bringing its total raised to $20M — Factories have been somewhat left behind in the innovation world, but one Austin-based company is taking advantage of that to capitalize on increasing productivity.
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