Margaret Mitchell, co-lead of Google's Ethical AI team, says she has been fired; Google says an employee conduct review confirmed multiple policy violations
Margaret Mitchell, the co-lead of Google's Ethical AI team, says that the company has fired her following an investigation into her use of corporate email.
App Annie: Australian Broadcasting Corporation's news app was briefly the most downloaded app on the AU App Store after Facebook's news ban and is now second
Readers may be going directly to the source — The Australian Broadcast Company's ABC News app shot to the top of Apple's App Store charts …
Facebook's refusal to pay a misguided media tax, pushed by Rupert Murdoch, is a defense of the open web and criticizing it for rejecting a link tax is bizarre
I have no problem with “big tech” or “Silicon Valley” or anything else, just Facebook which is really bad. James Surowiecki / @jamessurowiecki : No way to win. Facebook chooses not to pay. Google, doi...
Report: Google's AI Chief Jeff Dean apologizes in an email after Timnit Gebru's exit, saying his team should have managed the situation “with more sensitivity”
Google told employees Friday it has wrapped up its investigation into the ouster of prominent AI researcher Timnit Gebru.
Court filings: Apple is asking Valve to provide extensive sales data for about 600 games on Steam, as part of Epic lawsuit; Valve has rejected the demand
These lawyers are getting steamed up. — A new court filing has revealed that, as part of the ongoing legal battle between Apple and Epic Games …
An ex-ByteDance employee recounts the inner workings of the company's complex content moderation system and the role of China's internet censorship policies
This is the story of Li An, a pseudonymous former employee at ByteDance, as told to Protocol's Shen Lu.
Kalshi, an online trading startup letting users bet on “yes/no” questions about future events, raises $30M from Sequoia and others ahead of planned March launch
Sequoia, Chuck Schwab are among those backing Kalshi, which plans to launch in March
UK Supreme Court rules that Uber drivers should be classified as workers, not independent contractors, concluding an almost five-year legal battle
Ramifications of the UK supreme court's landmark ruling could go far beyond Uber Bloomberg : Uber's U.K. Court Loss Spells a Reckoning for Gig Work in Europe Kelvin Chan / Associated Press : UK top co...
Sources: Apple is working on a magnetically attached battery pack for iPhone 12 that would wirelessly charge the handset
and Samsung Galaxy S21 is laughing Chris Smith / BGR : Apple's next MagSafe accessory might be the most exciting one yet Rob Lenihan / TheStreet : Energous Shares Skyrocket on Apple Battery Rumors Mag...
Sequoia Capital told its LPs their personal and financial information may have been accessed after a Sequoia employee's email was successfully phished
Sequoia Capital told its investors on Friday that some of their personal and financial information may have been accessed by a third party …
Sources: Coinbase was valued at $100B+ in private share sale ahead of direct listing; docs reveal $141M net income on $691M revenue for first 9 months of 2020
Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase was valued at just over $100 billion in a recent private market share sale ahead of its upcoming public listing …
Bitcoin's market capitalization passes $1T as its price surges above $56K
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AI researchers doubt the efficacy and ethics of emotion recognition tech, as studies show facial expressions match a person's emotions only 20%-30% of the time
People's facial expressions line up with their emotions less than half the time — OneZero's General Intelligence is a roundup … Tweets: @robmccargow , @hypervisible , @autsciperson , @autsciperson ,...
Australian Treasurer Josh Frydenberg says he will hold talks with Zuckerberg to “see if there's a pathway forward”, but says news legislation will go ahead
Interview with founder of Koo, a microblogging service for regional language speakers in India that recently passed 3M users, fueled in large part by Modi's BJP
Aprameya Radhakrishna made Koo for local-language speakers. Overnight, Hindu nationalists drove its success. — • BANGALORE, INDIA Tweets: @marklittlenews , @restofworld , @anupkaphle , @cengizyar ,...
Sources: IBM is exploring a sale of its IBM Watson Health business, which has roughly $1B in annual revenue and isn't currently profitable
WSJ reports IBM exploring sale of Watson Health business https://www.wsj.com/... Jeffrey Snover / @jsnover : I always considered Watson a pixie dust marketing ploy aimed at the low tech-competent exec...
US video streaming giants are finding it more challenging to cash in on India, amid outcries over edgy content and difficulties in convincing consumers to pay
Netflix, Amazon and Disney tackle greater scrutiny from censors as they engage in a fierce pricing war Tweets: @financialtimes , @amykazmin , @rajit_h , @ftopinion , and @b_parkyn Tweets: @financialti...
SaaS startup ReverseLogix, which helps businesses automate and manage workflows surrounding product returns, repairs, and after-sales care, raises $20M Series A
The last mile can often be the most taxing — and in logistics, customers' expectations continue to intensify when it comes to shipping and delivery.
Researchers say Brave browser's Tor mode was sending queries for .onion domains to public internet DNS resolvers rather than Tor nodes; the bug is now fixed
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet : Source: RAMBLE .
EU regulators start the process of approving data-sharing arrangements with the UK, adopting a pair of “adequacy decisions” endorsing UK privacy protections
Bloomberg :
1Kosmos, which provides biometrics-based digital identity proofing and passwordless authentication through a blockchain, exits stealth and raises $15M Series A
NY finds Facebook took measures to stop collecting sensitive data via its SDKs embedded in various health apps, but does little to track the apps that send data
Jeff Horwitz / Wall Street Journal :
Sources: Apple is in talks with suppliers for next-gen lidar sensors for self-driving cars, that will be considered cutting edge four to five years from now
As Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Uber, Amazon, and others play larger roles in OpenStreetMap, hobbyists fear private sector will overshadow their work
What do Lyft, Facebook, the International Red Cross, the U.N., the government of Nepal and Pokémon Go have in common? Tweets: @citylab , @johnjcz , @wongmjane , @mslaurabliss , @tmcw , @tmcw , @kmanau...
Facebook, Twitter, and Zoom join Silicon Valley Leadership Group's “25x25” pledge to boost diversity from underrepresented groups in leadership roles by 2025
Levi Sumagaysay / MarketWatch :
Promise, which allows US consumers to manage and budget their bill payments online to utilities and government agencies, raises $20M Series A
they are not designed for people who don't always have a surplus of money in their bank accounts.” @phaedrael https://twitter.com/... Freada Klein / @therealfreada : Perfect example of a gap-closing s...
Internal email: Mailchimp CEO tells staff that “we have work to do” on pay equity and inclusion, after company denied allegations of bias from engineer who quit
Tyler Sonnemaker / Insider : Tweets: @dannyhertz Tweets: Danny Hertz / @dannyhertz : Love when powerful tech CEOs regress to little children when their massive failures are exposed https://twitter.co...
Sources: LinkedIn is developing a new service called Marketplaces to let its 740M users find and book freelancers, with plans to launch as soon as September
Sources: Chinese grocery delivery startup Xingsheng Youxuan raised about $2B from KKR and others in new funding at a $6B pre-money valuation
Shopify's new AI commerce stack
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Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
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