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Microsoft pledges to be carbon negative by 2030, remove all carbon it has ever emitted by 2050, and launches a $1B climate innovation fund — The scientific consensus is clear. The world confronts an urgent carbon problem. The carbon in our atmosphere has created a blanket of gas …
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Google announces Premium Support plan for enterprise cloud customers, starting at $12.5K per month with 15-minute response times for mission-critical situations — Keeping up its push to get more large enterprises to use its cloud, Google LLC today announced a new Premium Support plan …
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Turkey lifted a two-and-a-half year ban on Wikipedia on Wednesday, restoring access after the country's top court ruled that blocking it was unconstitutional — The country's top court had ruled that the move was unconstitutional. — The Turkish government lifted a two-and-a-half-year ban …
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Following a BBC investigation, Twitter apologizes for letting ads be micro-targeted using keywords like “transphobic”, “white supremacists”, and “anti-gay” — Twitter has apologised for allowing adverts to be micro-targeted at certain users such as neo-Nazis, homophobes and other hate groups.| Kim Lyons / The Verge: |
Subscription podcast startup Luminary lowers monthly US subscription prices, from $7.99 a month to $4.99, and also cuts international rates — The platform's subscription fee was an unpopular part of its troubled launch — Subscription podcast startup Luminary, which is trying to shake … | Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Fitbit confirms it has begun the rollout of blood oxygen monitoring feature to some of its wearables — Fitbit's devices from recent years have blood oxygen monitoring (SpO2) hardware, but they haven't used it — until now. Users on Reddit and elsewhere have noticed that their Versa …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Report: Twitch's top streamers leaving for other platforms has led to watched hours dropping 9.8% from Q3 to Q4 2019; YouTube Gaming was alone in growing in Q4 — The loss of several big-name streamers is finally taking its toll on Twitch, according to a new report from StreamLabs and Newzoo out today.| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
WorkBoard, a SaaS startup that makes goal setting and management software, raises $30M Series C led by a16z, less than a year after a $23M Series B — WorkBoard, a SaaS startup that provides goal setting and management software to other companies, announced today that it has closed … | Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic: |
As tech becomes the dominant force in the modern economy, Silicon Valley's culture since 1970s of nimble startups successfully challenging incumbents is fading — For decades, whole regions, nations even, have tried to model themselves on a particular ideal of innovation, the lifeblood of the modern economy.
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Nancy Pelosi slams Facebook's “shameful” behaviour, saying it doesn't “care about truth” and schmoozes Trump's admin to avoid taxes and antitrust action — - During her weekly press briefing, Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, whose district includes tech-heavy San Francisco …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google says that 120 Stadia titles are coming in 2020, including 10 exclusives, and outlines new features coming soon, including increased Assistant support — Since the holidays, there's been a lull in Stadia news that's upset some early adopters. Google today kicked off the new year … | Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Bose to close all 119 of its retail stores in N. America, Europe, Japan, and Australia due to the shift to online shopping but will maintain stores elsewhere — The move will result in hundreds of employees being laid off — Bose plans to close its entire retail store footprint in North America, Europe, Japan, and Australia.
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| Adam Bluestein / Marker: |
A look at Utah's “Silicon Slopes” tech startup scene, where Mormonism defines the training and business ethics of CEOs but makes attracting diverse talent hard — Welcome to the world of billion-dollar startups, ex-missionary CEOs, and a big diversity problem| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Nanox, which says it has digitized traditional X-rays using low-cost scanners and wants to offer an AI-based pay-per-scan service, raises $26M led by Foxconn — Medical imaging startup Nanox hopes to reinvent the X-ray with hardware inspired by Star Trek's biobed.
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Analysis: US-China “phase one” trade deal has wins for both sides, but questions remain about how committed China is and areas like cybersecurity aren't covered — The agreement includes some wins for President Trump, but implementing and enforcing the deal could be difficult.| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
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Canadian auto supplier Magna ends partnership with Lyft to develop and manufacture autonomous car systems, will focus on “the assisted driving part of autonomy” — (Reuters) - Canadian auto parts maker Magna International Inc (MG.TO) on Thursday forecast lower 2020 sales …
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