1,200+ Google employees and 1,500+ academic, industry, and civil supporters have signed a petition condemning the termination of AI scientist Timnit Gebru
More than 1,500 researchers also sign letter after Black expert on ethics says Google tried to suppress her research on bias
Apple launches a display module replacement program for iPhone 11 devices manufactured between November 2019 and May 2020 experiencing touch issues
Apple today launched a new display replacement program for iPhone 11 devices to address a problem that cases a “small percentage” of iPhone 11 displays to stop responding to touch.
In an internal email, Google's head of AI says that Gebru threatened to resign unless she was told which colleagues deemed her draft paper as unpublishable
Sources: the US will not extend the December 4 deadline for TikTok's forced sale but will not enforce the order either, allowing the negotiations to continue
- No new deadline is expected while deal discussions progress — Administration wants to finalize deal before Trump's term ends
Snowflake reported revenue of $159.6M in Q3, up 119% YoY, and an operating loss of $169.5M, in its first earnings report since going public in September
- Snowflake's revenue growth was roughly in line with the prior quarter. — The company's shares debuted on the New York Stock Exchange …
Sources: WarnerMedia is weighing two new streaming services, with a subscription service based on CNN content in 2021 and a free entertainment service for 2022
With Ads Mitchell Clark / The Verge : Hope you weren't planning to watch Wonder Woman 1984 with an HBO Max free trial Tweets: Jessica Toonkel / @jtoonkel : WarnerMedia is discussing a couple more vide...
A summary of the draft paper co-authored by Timnit Gebru, which outlined the main risks of large language AI models and provided suggestions for future research
The company's star ethics researcher highlighted the risks of large language models, which are key to Google's business. — hide
Singapore issues digital bank licenses to Ant Group, Sea, and joint bidders Singtel and Grab, with operations likely to start in early 2022
Alibaba's Ant Group and joint bidders Grab and Singtel are amongst bidders that have snagged licences to offer digital banking services in the country …
Profile of Luminar's Austin Russell, one of the first billionaires to emerge from the autonomous vehicle world after Luminar went public via a SPAC on Thursday
I follow technology-driven changes reshaping transportation. — I cover young people doing big things.
Amazon adds live and on-demand US local news to its news app on Fire TVs, starting with 12 major markets and expanding into 90 more during 2021
At the end of a record-setting year of news consumption, Amazon Fire TV said local TV stations in 12 U.S. cities will be added to Amazon's news app, with another 90 on deck for 2021.
Inside WarnerMedia's transition to streaming: current and former execs say it was marred by rushed decision making, culture clashes, HBO brand confusion, more
- CNBC spoke with more than a dozen former and current WarnerMedia executives to gauge how John Stankey and Jason Kilar are progressing with HBO Max.
Moov Financial, which developed an open source platform for adding banking and payment functionality into apps, raises $27M Series A led by a16z
Startup's goal is to empower developers with developer-first code that's “modular, portable, and bank agnostic”
Users can now share in-app purchases and subscriptions via Apple's iCloud Family Sharing, if developers enable the option in their apps
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How Montreal-based Pornhub profits from child and revenge porn, rape, spy cam and other criminal, non-consensual sex videos
study Billy Steele / Engadget : Recommended Reading: Ted Lasso and the American decline Tweets: Gabriel Dance / @gabrieldance : facebook - the most prolific reporter of child sexual abuse imagery - wi...
Twitter says it is turning off threaded replies because they made conversations hard to read, and shuts down its prototype twttr app
Jay Peters / The Verge :
NLRB has issued a complaint against Amazon in November over firing of warehouse employee who discussed pay and other workplace issues with her coworkers
from warehouse to tech workers — who were involved with workplace activism at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic. Now one of them, Courtney Bowden, will get her retaliation case heard before an...
US and Australia sign an agreement allowing the US Cyber Command and Australia's IWD to jointly develop and share a virtual cyber training platform
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer :
Friends and colleagues of Tony Hsieh say he was privately coping with issues of mental health and addiction, made worse by COVID lockdowns, over the past year
a sad tale of someone losing touch with reality and being aided and abetted by so-called friends https://www.forbes.com/... Jeff Atwood / @codinghorror : A disturbing read, but an important reminder t...
The remit of Facebook's Oversight Board is narrow by design and its 90-day time frame per case is too long, hindering its ability to have any lasting impact
Emily Bell / Columbia Journalism Review :
Chinese scientists claim quantum supremacy with a system that calculates in mins what would take a supercomputer 2B years, using tech different than Google's
Tom Simonite / Wired :
Activision sues Netflix for poaching its CFO, says Netflix induced him to breach his contract; Fox and Viacom also have said Netflix illegally poached staff
This Time by Activision Blizzard Ayanti Bera / Reuters : Activision sues Netflix over poaching of former finance chief Bloomberg : Activision Sues Netflix Over Hiring of Former Finance Chief Tim Baysi...
YouTube will warn users before they post comments that “may be offensive to others” and adds better content filter systems for creators
Julia Alexander / The Verge :
Revolut launches tools for its business clients to accept payments online, will take a 1.3% cut for UK and EU card transactions and 2.8% in other regions
banking-as-a-service — manifests the breadth of the company's ambition. https://stratechery.com/... Jeff Weinstein / @jeff_weinstein : It's (economic) infrastructure week, again, here at @stripe! - Tu...
DoorDash raises its IPO price range to $90 to $95 from $75 to $85 per share, aiming to raise up to $3.1B
Amy Thomson / Bloomberg :
Zephr, a London startup that offers a no-code tool publishers can use to increase subscription revenue, raises $8M Series A led by Bertelsmann Digital Media
Zephr has raised $8 million in a new funding round led by Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments (owned by media giant Bertelsmann).
White House issues another executive order aiming to guide federal development of AI, focusing on nine principles to build public trust in the technology
Campbell Kwan / ZDNet :
OnlyFans says it will generate $2B+ in sales in 2020, now has 85M users, is adding around 500K users a day, and is paying out $200M+ a month to its 1M+ creators
As Cardi B prepared the release for her new song “WAP,” she checked off all the usual components of her promotional plan … Tweets: @sandeepembar , @hushes , @austinj , @anshelsag , @lucas_shaw , @john...
The DOD has added China's largest chipmaker SMIC to its blacklist of alleged Chinese military companies
As Facebook, Google, and Microsoft invest heavily in Indonesian tech companies, the nation's internet economy has grown to $44B, over fivefold from 2015
Shopify's new AI commerce stack
Their VP of Product digs into just-launched products to help entrepreneurs and developers build with the latest AI and tech.
Email fatigue is real: Here's how smart email tools help you regain control
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Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.