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| Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Quibi decided to shut down and return $350M in capital to investors rather than trying to prolong the life of the company via another big investment — Quibi Holdings LLC is shutting itself down, according to people familiar with the matter, a crash landing for a once-highflying …
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Meg Whitman and Jeffrey Katzenberg confirm Quibi is shutting down: “Our failure was not for lack of trying; we've considered and exhausted every option” — We started with the idea to create the next generation of storytelling and because of you, we were able to create and deliver …
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| Kevin Collier / NBC News: |
US intelligence director says Iran was behind threatening emails to FL Democratic voters demanding they vote for Trump; voter info was likely publicly available — Iranian intelligence was responsible for a recent campaign of emails sent to intimidate Florida voters, the FBI announced Wednesday night …
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| Kashmir Hill / New York Times: |
Activists around the world are building facial recognition tools to identify police officers using off-the-shelf image recognition software — “We're now approaching the technological threshold where the little guys can do it to the big guys,” one researcher said.
Tweets: @kashhill, @kashhill, @nytimes, @merbroussard, @shiraovide, and @aclu
| Nathan Grayson / Kotaku: |
Twitch sent DMCA notices to streamers on Tuesday, deleting content without allowing counterclaims; Twitch says “thousands” of music rights holders complained — It's finally happening: Twitch is taking action against copyrighted music—long a norm among streamers—in response to music industry pressure.
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| New York Times: |
A look at the well-funded Big Tech opponents, from lawyers to academics, that have helped guide potential government regulation like Google's antitrust suit — An unlikely collection of lawyers, activists, economists and academics are fueling the tech backlash, armed with funding from billionaire sponsors.
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky says Jony Ive will collaborate with Airbnb as a design consultant, as part of a multi-year partnership with Ive's firm LoveFrom — Jony Ive retired from Apple about a year ago, following an almost 25 year tenure as head of Apple product design.
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| Sam Shead / CNBC: |
Facebook Dating launches in Europe, after Ireland's regulators forced a delay of its planned debut in February, claims it made 1.5B matches across 20 countries — - Facebook has expanded its “Facebook Dating” service to Europe. — Facebook claims that the platform has generated 1.5 … | Anna Irrera / Reuters: |
PayPal will let users buy and sell cryptocurrency using its online wallets in the coming weeks and shop at merchants on its network starting in early 2021 — LONDON (Reuters) - PayPal Holdings Inc joined the cryptocurrency market on Wednesday, allowing customers to buy …
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| Isabelle Kirkwood / BetaKit: |
Federal district court approves the settlement between Kik and the SEC where Kik will pay a $5M fine to settle dispute over a 2017 token sale that raised ~$100M — A court has approved the settlement between Kitchener-Waterloo messenger app Kik and the US Securities Exchange Commission (SEC), which was proposed earlier this week.
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| The Intercept: |
Documents show Google Cloud will be used for its AI capabilities by the CBP in conjunction with Anduril Industries' surveillance tech on the US-Mexico border — After years of backlash over controversial government work, Google technology will be used to aid the Trump administration's efforts … | David Uberti / Wall Street Journal: |
Contact tracing in the US has been hampered by the lack of a single national app, with 10 states and DC creating their own and most having no app at all — The lack of a national plan on contact tracing has resulted in a state-by-state patchwork of differing technological tools| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
FCC's top lawyer defends its authority to interpret Section 230, saying 1996 legislation that included Section 230 amended a 1934 act that created the FCC — FCC lawyer claims authority to interpret any part of the Communications Act. — The Federal Communications Commission's top lawyer today explained …
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| Hugh Son / CNBC: |
JPMorgan launches QuickAccept, a smartphone card reader and payments service for SMBs providing instant deposits of POS transactions for free, unlike Square — - JPMorgan's new QuickAccept service lets businesses take card payments within minutes, either through a mobile app or a contactless card reader …
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Over 430,000 viewers tuned in simultaneously to watch Rep. Ocasio-Cortez play Among Us on Twitch, the third highest ever for an individual Twitch stream — More than 430,000 people tuned in simultaneously to Twitch on Tuesday night to watch Rep. Alexia Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) play a hit video game as part of an effort to promote voting.
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| Reuters: |
China-based Yuanfudao, which offers online courses and homework plans to students, has raised $2.2B in two recent rounds, raising its valuation to $15.5B — BEIJING (Reuters) - Beijing-based education technology startup Yuanfudao said on Thursday that it has secured $2.2 billion from major Chinese …
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Israeli startup Mine, which helps users control their data, raises $9.5M Series A led by Google's Gradient Ventures and has helped send 1.3M deletion requests — TechCrunch readers probably know that privacy regulations like Europe's GDPR and California's CCPA give them additional rights around …
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| Kenrick Cai / Forbes: |
Robust Intelligence, which helps developers deploy AI models in a secure manner, comes out of stealth with $14M in seed and Series A funding led by Sequoia — Yaron Singer climbed the tenure track ladder to a full professorship at Harvard in seven years, fueled by his work on adversarial machine learning … | Jack Nicas / New York Times: |
Report: at least 2,000 US law enforcement agencies, including 49 of the 50 largest police departments, have the tools to access locked, encrypted phones — At least 2,000 law enforcement agencies have tools to get into encrypted smartphones, according to new research, and they are using them far more than previously known.
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Tweets: @jacknicas, @oliviasolon, @teamupturn, @stanfordcis, @ruchowdh, @bartongellman, @dangillmor, @jacknicas, @josephfcox, and @teamupturn
| Vikas SN / The Economic Times: |
Snap executive says Snapchat's DAU in India grew 150% YoY in Q3, as Snap announces a slate of new India-specific original series and mini games — Snapchat has witnessed nearly 150% year-on-year growth in its daily active users from India in the third quarter of 2020
Tweets: @venkatananth, @ettech, @alexeheath, and @sub8u
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