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Internal documents: Facebook's AI has minimal success enforcing its rules against problematic content, including removing just an estimated 3%-5% of hate speech — AI has only minimal success in removing hate speech, violent images and other problem content, according to internal company reports
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Facebook disputes WSJ report, saying the prevalence of hate speech on the platform dropped by 50% over the past three years to about 0.05% of content viewed — The Wall Street Journal said in a new report that Facebook's AI is not consistently successful at removing objectionable content| New York Times: |
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
What to expect from Apple's Unleashed event on Monday: 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros with mini-LED, AirPods 3, redesigned Mac mini, and macOS Monterey launch — Apple's first fall event of 2021 focused on the iPhone and the Apple Watch, but the second, set to be held on Monday, October 18, is expected to be Mac-centric.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
A Mac developer says new MacBook Pro chips named M1 Pro and M1 Max appeared in app logs; sources: MacBook Pros will regain MagSafe and may lose the Touch Bar — This is the free version of Power On. If you like it, consider subscribing to Bloomberg.com—you'll receive this newsletter several hours earlier …
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| Patrick McGee / Financial Times: |
Analysis: Apple Search Ads now account for 58% of iOS app installs from an ad click, up from 17% a year ago; Apple to earn $5B from its ads business in FY 2021 — iPhone maker's share of mobile app advertising market has tripled in six months — Apple's advertising business has more than tripled …
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| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
Internal document: Netflix estimates Squid Game will create almost $900M in value for the company; 87M viewers finished the series in the first 23 days — More than 130 million people have watched the Korean show — Netflix estimates that its latest megahit, “Squid Game,” …
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| Tripp Mickle / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at YouTube's in-house creator partnerships team, which has over 1,000 employees across 45 countries offering advice and guidance to about 12,000 creators — The site has spent more than a decade building an in-house agency for digital superstars, drawing ad sales, sponsorships and other revenue| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Valve quietly updates Steam's rules to ban games “built on blockchain technology that issue or allow exchange of cryptocurrencies or NFTs” — Your move, Epic Games Store — Games that use blockchain technology or let users exchange NFTs or cryptocurrencies won't be allowed on Steam …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: China is considering asking Tencent, ByteDance, and other media companies to let rivals access and display their content in search results — - MIIT may ask Tencent to allow Baidu, others to search WeChat — If implemented, it could shake up the online advertising arena
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Dave Limp, Amazon SVP of devices and services, on Astro robot, making money from Alexa, working with other parts of the Amazon empire, and more — My guest today is Dave Limp, the SVP of devices and services at Amazon — or, more simply, the guy in charge of Alexa.
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| Cynthia O'Murchu / Financial Times: |
Nine UK schools to start taking payments for lunches by scanning students' faces, claiming that the system speeds up queues and is more COVID-safe — Advocates say they speed up queues, but privacy campaigners query whether they are necessary — Facial recognition computers have found …
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| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
How the tech used to make giant, ultrahigh-precision mirrors and lenses for the James Webb Space Telescope was repurposed to develop displays for mobile devices — To peer deeper than ever into space, NASA needed optics of unprecedented size; the technology to make them was later repurposed …
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