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
media company execs, 6 months from now. https://twitter.com/... Peter Kafka / @pkafka : One between the lines note: Regular Facebook newsfeed is Trump Trump and more Trump. New Facebook News, not so m...
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 include Breitbart News, says Facebook wants “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.
An upcoming book by a one-time aide to former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis alleges that Trump directed Mattis to “screw Amazon” out of winning the JEDI contract
On Friday, the Pentagon awarded a massive cloud computing contract to Microsoft.
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.
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
Don Valentine, founder of Sequoia Capital, dies at 87
Don Valentine, founder of Sequoia, RIP Dave Morin / @davemorin : He created something that inspires entrepreneurs to both change the world and to achieve their potential. And, I have always loved his ...
New York-based Blueground, a platform that leases apartments and upgrades them with various tech gadgets for long-term corporate rentals, raises $50M Series B
New York-based Blueground, a tech-equipped apartment rental company, announced today it has raised $50 million in a Series B round co-led by WestCap and Prime Ventures.
London-based LabGenius, which uses AI and “robotic automation” for protein drug discovery, raises $10M Series A led by Lux Capital and Obvious Ventures
LabGenius, a London-based startup applying AI and “robotic automation” to protein drug discovery, has raised $10 million in Series A funding.
As SoftBank's Masayoshi Son, Marcelo Claure, and Ron Fisher take over WeWork, a look at the incoming team's disappointing performance at Sprint
- Masayoshi Son, Marcelo Claure and Ron Fisher are all on the Sprint board and are the three SoftBank executives now calling the shots at WeWork.
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
and in turn, charge higher rates to advertisers.” Comparing churn with churn at Verizon = the test. https://www.reuters.com/... @loudmouthjulia : HBO Max is eventually getting ads, according to Reuter...
Facebook took down ad by a PAC, which falsely claimed Sen. Graham supports Green New Deal, says it will fact-check ads from political groups but not politicians
(Reuters) - Facebook Inc said on Saturday that it had removed an ad which falsely claimed that U.S. Republican Senator Lindsey Graham supported … Tweets: @fabiochiusi , @drvox , @slpng_giants , @annal...
Squarespace has acquired Unfold, a templates app for creating Stories on Instagram, Facebook, and Snapchat that has 9M MAUs, for an undisclosed sum
Squarespace, a build-your-own website startup, has acquired social media app Unfold, used by a slew of celebrities including Kim Kardashian West …
How database schemas from the 1950s through the 1990s, which encoded gender as a binary value, are affecting non-binary persons today
Meredith Broussard / Slate : Tweets: @libshipwreck , @futuretensenow , @bmatb , @schemaly , @roavingxss , and @espiers Tweets: Librarianshipwreck / @libshipwreck : “Over and over again, we have seen ...
Minneapolis-based Total Expert, which makes marketing and customer management SaaS tools for banks, raises $52M Series C, bringing its total raised to $86M
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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
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Australian digital lending platform Athena Home Loans raises $70M Series C at a $230M valuation to expand into home loans after an initial focus on refinancing
just weeks after shout-out from Frydenberg Finextra Research Headlines : NAB joins A$70m funding round for digital mortgage startup Athena Lea Nonninger / Business Insider : Australian fintech Athena ...
How Census Bureau is working with internet platforms to fight misinformation ahead of 2020 census and guide users to its site via searches and voice assistants
CHICAGO (AP) — Worried about internet trolls and foreign powers spreading false news, census officials are preparing …
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
Alex Hern / The Guardian : Tweets: @carnage4life and @alexhern See also Mediagazer Tweets: Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : This is an interesting point about 3rd party fact checking of political ads ...
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