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Internal Facebook memo from longtime exec Andrew Bosworth says he “desperately” wants Trump to lose in 2020, but Facebook should not tilt the scales against him — In an internal memo, Andrew Bosworth said he “desperately” wanted the president to lose.
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Andrew Bosworth publicly releases his internal post on Facebook's role in 2016 election, Cambridge Analytica, polarization, algorithmic transparency, and more — The NYT recently obtained a copy of a post I made to the wall of my internal profile within Facebook.
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Sonos sues Google, seeking financial damages and a ban on the sale of Google's speakers, smartphones, and laptops in US for allegedly infringing on five patents — The maker of home speakers said Google and Amazon stole its technology and abused their power, but it could only risk suing one.
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| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
Google says Assistant now has 500M users and announces upcoming features: Scheduled Actions, privacy-focused voice controls, longform reading, and Sticky Notes — Google Assistant is now used by 500 million monthly active users, and today Google is previewing features on the way in 2020 …
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| Natasha Mascarenhas / Crunchbase News: |
Report: pizza-making robot startup Zume, which raised $375M from SoftBank Vision Fund in 2018, plans to lay off up to 400 staff, or about 80% of its employees — In a little over a year, pizza-making robot startup Zume has gone from getting $375 million from SoftBank, to pivoting …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google's Project Zero is trailing a new policy under which all vulnerabilities will be publicly disclosed after 90 days, irrespective of when the bug is fixed — Project Zero is widely regarded for finding major vulnerabilities, but criticized by industry peers for their relatively fast disclosure times.
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| Cory Weinberg / The Information: |
Sources: Softbank-backed car-rental startup Getaround plans to lay off ~150 employees, or about a quarter of its staff, to mitigate rising costs — Car-rental startup Getaround plans to lay off roughly 150 employees, or about a quarter of its staff, in a bid to reduce rising costs, people familiar with the matter said.
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| Anna Baydakova / CoinDesk: |
Telegram says it will not integrate TON Blockchain and a Gram cryptocurrency wallet into its messenger app for now — Telegram will not integrate a crypto wallet into its messaging app, at least until it gets the green light from U.S. regulators, the company said Monday on its official website.
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| Asha Barbaschow / ZDNet: |
Intel previews Tiger Lake mobile CPUs, with Xe-based discrete-level graphics, and Thunderbolt 4, which it says will have four times the throughput of USB 3 — CEO Bob Swan said the chip giant is focused on ‘relentless innovation’. — Intel has offered a first look of its newest Intel Core mobile processors, code named Tiger Lake.
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Lyft open sources Flyte, a platform for maintaining AI workflows that currently manages over 7,000 unique workflows at the company — Hot on the heels of Uber's open-sourcing of an AI debugging tool this morning, Lyft announced the release of Flyte, which it describes as a structured … | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Uber open sources Manifold, a visual tool for debugging AI models that is used in analyzing Uber's Michelangelo ML platform — Debugging machine learning (ML) models isn't a walk in the woods. Just ask the data scientists and engineers at Uber, some of whom have the unenviable task …
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
A look at Intel's NUC 9 Extreme modular desktop, building on previous efforts by combining a compact design with upgradeable parts, coming in March for $1,050+ — It might change the way mini-PCs are built — Today, you can upgrade a desktop PC's gaming performance just by plugging in a new graphics card.
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| Mike Jaconi / Business Insider: |
PayPal's $4B Honey acquisition is a bet on the affiliate model and loyalty programs, as it aims to control the starting point of a transaction alongside payment — The affiliate industry has long been seen as a thing of the past, but its business model, where businesses are paid for driving transactions …
Tweets: @mdudas, @evanwray1, and @chrismaddern
| Washington Post: |
Facebook bans deepfakes, but its new policy may not cover simpler forms of deception like with the distorted Pelosi video — Facebook has banned users from posting computer-generated, highly manipulated videos, known as deepfakes, seeking to stop the spread of a novel form of misinformation months …
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