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Phillip Inman / The Guardian:
Sources: TikTok halts talks with UK government to build the HQ for its non-China business in London, with British ban on Huawei seen as a factor  —  Video-sharing app suspends building plans, with British ban on Huawei 5G kit seen as factor  —  The Chinese social media firm TikTok has pulled …
Wall Street Journal:
Sources say plans to remake GE as a software powerhouse were scuttled by employee confusion and delusions about what it would take to reposition the company  —  The industrial giant hoped to remake itself as a software powerhouse.  Here's what went wrong.  —  In early 2014 …
Kira Tebbe / OneZero :
In 2019, Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google were collectively granted ~27,000 H-1B visas, over 30% of total visas available to private companies  —  Five tech companies use nearly 30,000 H1-B visas, while over 50% of graduate STEM degrees are earned by international students
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Many hospitals and clinics are introducing AI-powered decision support tools, often novel and unproven, but most patients are unaware of them  —  Since February of last year, tens of thousands of patients hospitalized at one of Minnesota's largest health systems have had their discharge …

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From Mediagazer

Ted Johnson / Deadline:
In a memo, Bari Weiss and Tom Cibrowski announce the closure of CBS News Radio on May 22 and attendant layoffs; CBS News Radio was founded in 1927

Erik Wemple / New York Times:
A district court judge rules in favor of the NYT in its suit challenging rules that limited press access to the Pentagon, citing the First Amendment

David Shepardson / Reuters:
Eight states ask a district court judge for a temporary restraining order to stop the Nexstar-Tegna merger, after Nexstar said the DOJ and FCC approved the deal

More News

Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal:
Retail stores, which were closing due to declining foot traffic even before the pandemic, are now increasingly being turned into online fulfillment centers
Olivia Solon / NBC News:
Profile of Child Rescue Coalition, whose tech is used in 96 countries including the US to help police triage child porn cases, as experts raise privacy concerns

Earlier Picks

Jennifer Miller / New York Times:
A look at startups that provide end-of-life services, from estate planning to online forums for grieving virtually, amid a surge in interest during the pandemic
Niall Firth / MIT Technology Review:
Critics contend that predictive policing algorithms need to be dismantled due to biased training data, even as advocates say that algorithms can be made fair
Delian Asparouhov / Operators & Delian's Ramblings:
Despite its limitations, GPT-3, OpenAI's text-generating AI, excels at producing follow-on thoughts to input text and could thus succeed as a “writing buddy”
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