Facebook begins testing Facebook News with a subset of people in the US across four categories of select publishers: general, topical, diverse, and local news
Testing a dedicated place for news in the US — Journalism plays a critical role in our democracy.
Pentagon awards $10B JEDI cloud contract to Microsoft over Amazon
Microsoft has emerged victorious in a dramatic competition for public cloud resources for the U.S. Defense Department, beating out market leader Amazon Web Services, the Pentagon said on Friday.
Zuckerberg struggles to explain why Facebook News' “trusted” sources includes Breitbart News, says Facebook wants to “to include a breadth of content in there”
On Friday morning, Facebook announced its plan to spend millions of dollars on high-quality journalism …
Study: researchers say an algorithm widely used in the US healthcare system to assess medical needs for millions of people is biased against black patients
A series of studies argue that by focusing on costs as a proxy for health, risk algorithms are ignoring the racial inequalities in healthcare access.
Don Valentine, founder of Sequoia Capital, dies at 87
Don Valentine, founder of Sequoia Capital and one of the generation of leaders who forged Silicon Valley, died today aged 87 at his home in Woodside, California. He shaped Sequoia and left his imprin...
Google says it's improving 10% of English searches in the US by using NLP techniques to better understand query context and words' relationship with each other
For Google's namesake search engine, delivering the right results is about understanding what people are asking for.
Sources say Facebook will pay some news partners up to $3M a year for appearing in its news tab, coming today to a couple hundred thousand US users
and now Facebook is going to do just that https://www.vox.com/... @slpng_giants : Will @facebook pay for the “Diversity is not our strength” and the “Immigrants make our country poorer and dirtier” op...
At an event with News Corp's Robert Thomson, Mark Zuckerberg says every internet platform has a responsibility to fund and form partnerships for news
media biz dev geniuses in my timeline today Michael Nuñez / @michaelfnunez : Couple of interesting details so far: - Zuck admits “majority of people don't use [secondary tabs]” meaning Marketplace, Gr...
In leaked video, Sundar Pichai admits at an all-hands that Google is “genuinely struggling” with employee trust as it defends the hiring of former DHS official
At company's weekly town hall with employees, executives assail leaks and defend hiring DHS official
Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint announce the Cross Carrier Messaging Initiative to bring RCS to Android phones in 2020
Ben Schoon / 9to5Google :
AT&T says HBO Max will be available free to the 10M AT&T customers in the US who are also HBO subscribers when it launches in the spring
Leaked documentation about Windows 10X shows the OS is designed for both laptops and foldable devices, with the Start Menu being referred to as “Launcher”
Microsoft has mostly kept details of Windows 10X- a version of Windows 10 that has been tailored to dual-screen devices- under wraps.
Inside the increasingly urgent discussions between Pentagon and tech industry on how to reduce the growing US dependence on advanced chip manufacturing abroad
Talks over how American companies can ensure future supplies of advanced computer chips have taken on more urgency.
A look at how most database schemas from the 1950s through the 1990s were designed to encode gender as a binary, reinforcing the social norms from that period
College student Manahil Bandukwala recently tweeted a complaint about her computer science class.
Facebook updated fact checking guidelines in August to include ads, but some fact checkers say they learned about the change only from Zuckerberg's testimony
Many third-party contractors learned of new policy from Mark Zuckerberg's testimony to Congress Tweets: @alexhern Tweets: @alexhern : “Several of us really don't want that power,” one fact checker sai...
Square says it is rolling out free fractional share trading to users of its Cash App, allowing them to buy fractions of shares for as little as $1
Jay Peters / The Verge :
ARM says it will keep supplying Huawei with its chip designs after determining that Armv8-A and its next-gen architecture are of non-US origin
Steve Dent / Engadget :
Jack Dorsey criticizes Mark Zuckerberg's free speech comments, says there wasn't any talk of reach and amplification and his Iraq War mention was not authentic
Sarah Frier / Bloomberg :
Sources: Will.i.am's AI startup i.am+ hasn't paid staff in 7 weeks, is late on tax payments, and its smart home platform Wink stopped working with many devices
which @iamwill bought in 2017 — is falling apart. Employees haven't been paid in 7 weeks. More here ↴ https://www.theverge.com/... Robert Stephens / @rstephens : But he'll be attending the “Davos in t...
Sprout Social, a social media monitoring, marketing, and analytics startup files for an IPO, after having raised $115M and being valued at ~$800M in Dec. 2018
Jason D. Rowley / Crunchbase News :
Profile of Vijay Shekhar Sharma, founder of Indian digital payments company Paytm, which hit a $15B valuation in less than a decade, and now plans to go global
https://edition.cnn.com/... Anuj Gupta / @anujg : He revolutionized how millions of people spend money in India. His next target: America https://edition.cnn.com/... A good profile of @vijayshekhar Ra...
Minneapolis-based Total Expert, which makes marketing and customer management SaaS tools for banks, raises $52M Series C, bringing its total raised to $86M
It's no secret that the art of customer service in the modern era is something that banks desperately need help with.
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