Alibaba says NYT story on Jack Ma's retirement is wrong; Ma will continue as executive chairman for some time, providing a succession strategy on Monday
Jack Ma, who co-founded the world's largest e-commerce platform, will unveil a succession strategy next week, part of a management plan 10 years …
Profile of Lina Khan, whose antitrust argument, which says Amazon has far too much power, is making waves in Washington by reframing decades of antitrust law
With a single scholarly article, Lina Khan, 29, has reframed decades of monopoly law. — The dead books are on the top floor of Southern Methodist University's law library.
Researchers think we may be on the verge of breakthroughs in AI's comprehension of language similar to the AI image recognition breakthroughs of 2012
IN 2012, ARTIFICIAL intelligence researchers revealed a big improvement in computers' ability to recognize images by feeding …
Google removed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny's YouTube ad inviting Russians to join protests after authorities complained it violated election law
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Google removed a YouTube advert by Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny after authorities complained …
Many fitness- and health-tracking apps and devices, including Apple Health and Watch, don't take pregnancy, or any other health condition, into account
I'm not a super fit person. I am considered a healthy weight, and I exercise simply because I enjoy eating and drinking whatever I want. Tweets: @dana_flo , @skrishna , @sara_ann_marie , and @carnage...
Ripple's general counsel Brynly Llyr has left the company as it prepares for a class action lawsuit about whether its XRP cryptocurrency is a security or not
The general counsel of one of the world's leading cryptocurrency companies has departed her post.
Facebook says it deleted 1.3B fake accounts in six months; fake accounts are being created, probably for commercial purposes, faster than Facebook can delete
Sheryl Sandberg's testimony to Congress revealed that fraudulent pages are being created as fast as the social network can delete them. Tweets: @goldinagency Tweets: Goldin Agency / @goldinagency : An...
How mainstream users searching YouTube for info about Germany's far-right protests get pointed toward extremist and conspiracy videos
CHEMNITZ, Germany — The day after far-right demonstrators took over the streets here, Sören Uhle, a city official who oversees municipal marketing and development …
US GAO releases report on how the 2017 Equifax hack occurred and the steps taken in its aftermath, concluding Equifax left information vulnerable on many fronts
GAO report takes us inside Equifax from March 2017 onward, showing how a few slip-ups led to one of the biggest breaches in US history.
Interviews with ER physicians in seven US cities reveal a spike in severe injuries due to electric scooters; Bird, Lime, and Spin say apps contain safety info
They have been pouring into emergency rooms around the nation all summer, their bodies bearing a blend of injuries … Tweets: @dannyspewak , @safeselfdrive , @jwangark , @triketora , @fordvox , @teddya...
A look at how Stockholm became Europe's capital of startup exits, with Spotify's $27B IPO and iZettle's $2.2B acquisition
The exits earlier this year by two of Sweden's biggest startup names would be enough to swell the pride of any regional ecosystem. Spotify's $27 billion IPO …
Apple says it has permanently banned Infowars' app from the App Store
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McKinsey study says AI adoption will add $13T/year to global production, and the companies that embrace AI now will see their cash flow double by 2030
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Apple has hired Liz Schimel, a former president of Condé Nast China, whose LinkedIn page lists a July start date and her Apple role as “head of news business”
Apple is beefing up the management of its Apple News product, with the recent hiring of veteran media executive Liz Schimel.
After getting caught boosting its benchmark scores, Huawei says it will let users access “performance mode” to speed up smartphones at the cost of battery life
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China's Supreme People's Court rules that blockchains can be legally used to authenticate digital evidence in legal disputes
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House passes a bill that requires White House to create and maintain a database with the names of foreign hackers and cyber-threat groups working against US
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet :
Democratic AGs from NY, California, Washington, and elsewhere say they have not been invited to DOJ meeting on tech companies allegedly stifling free speech
including those in tech hubs like Calif. — so far haven't been invited. People are pissed. http://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Healthcare AI has the same racial and gender biases as the data used to train it, which must be addressed if AI systems are to help make real medical decisions
Dave Gershgorn / Quartz : Tweets: @joyclee , @datasociety , @dmonett , and @davegershgorn Tweets: Doctor as Designer / @joyclee : “When you actually talk to real doctors and patients, suddenly the th...
Sources: Saudi Arabia's Aramco is considering a $1B fund to invest in international tech companies and may open an office in Silicon Valley or elsewhere in US
Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @bryce Tweets: Bryce Roberts / @bryce : So, a seed fund http://twitter.com/...
EU regulators greenlight Apple's December 2017 acquisition of Shazam
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Amazon has gained a wealth of city data from the 238 entrants for its HQ2, which could give it an edge over its rivals for building facilities like warehouses
for free. http://www.axios.com/... Mike Dudas / @mdudas : “When Amazon invited cities to compete for its second global headquarters a year ago today, it got reams of data from the 238 entrants — enoug...
As Trump threatens new regulations for Google, Facebook, and Twitter, experts say legal precedents show algorithms may be protected under the First Amendment
Jared Schroeder / Columbia Journalism Review : Tweets: @jonathanwpeters Tweets: Jonathan Peters / @jonathanwpeters : Regulating algorithms might seem like new territory, but, as @Clipper56 writes in ...
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