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Daniel Tunkelang

@dtunkelang
51 posts
2020-06-07
A lot of “we're going to review” and “we're going to work on”. I'd like to see what actions result from all this, and when they happen. In the meantime, these are just words. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2020-06-07 View on X
Bloomberg

In post, Zuckerberg vows to review content policies on state force and voter suppression, ensure content moderation diversity, and announces a new voter hub

Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg :

2020-06-06
A lot of “we're going to review” and “we're going to work on”. I'd like to see what actions result from all this, and when they happen. In the meantime, these are just words. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2020-06-06 View on X
Bloomberg

In post, Zuckerberg vows to review content policies on state force and voter suppression, ensure content moderation diversity, and announces a new voter hub

- CEO to look at policies on voter suppression, state force  — Facebook will launch a voter hub for vetted information

2020-05-27
De-identifying images and videos to make them human-recognizable but not machine-recognizable is a nice idea. But I'm curious if this sort of adversarial AI can work indefinitely. If it can't, then past images and videos will eventually be recognizable. https://techcrunch.com/...
2020-05-27 View on X
TechCrunch

Israel-based D-ID, which is working on tech to make faces unrecognizable to face recognition software, raises $13.5M led by AXA Ventures

If only Facebook had been using the kind of technology that TechCrunch Startup Battlefield alumnus D-ID was pitching, it could have avoided exposing … Tweets: @dtunkelang Tweets: D...

2020-05-26
This: “Bill Gates — with his tech-made money and philanthropic efforts to improve public health — has become an avatar of populist rage at those who possess technical fluency, an elite education, and well-stamped passport.” https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...
2020-05-26 View on X
BuzzFeed News

An in-depth look at the baseless conspiracies attempting to turn Bill Gates into the pandemic's villain, widely shared on Facebook and YouTube

with his tech-made money and philanthropic efforts to improve public health — has become an avatar of populist rage at those who possess technical fluency, an elite education, and ...

2020-05-23
Pity this was such a softball interview. The questions weren't bad, but I expected at least some follow-up to the platitudinous answers. Such is life in the age of access journalism. https://www.wired.com/...
2020-05-23 View on X
Wired

Interview with Sundar Pichai on working from home, antitrust, collaborating with Apple and others, how Alphabet's holding company model held up, and more

In an interview, the Google and Alphabet CEO discusses working from home, weathering antitrust probes, and how the company needs to do a better job on diversity.

2020-05-22
$350M is new funding for Magic Leap: that's quite a trick! https://www.businessinsider.com/ ...
2020-05-22 View on X
The Information

Internal memo: Magic Leap has raised $350M from new and existing investors and is withdrawing notices laying off remaining employees

Magic Leap CEO Rony Abovitz told employees Thursday his struggling augmented reality firm had raised $350 million from existing and new investors.

2020-05-16
I'm shocked, shocked, that blockchain couldn't save journalism. https://www.patreon.com/...
2020-05-16 View on X
Patreon

Civil, which began with the intent to launch dozens of sites supported by a blockchain-based platform and the CVL token, fell short of fixing media funding woes

Allegra Hobbs / Patreon : Tweets: @studyhallxyz , @studyhallxyz , @dtunkelang , @harrysiegel , @jenniferbrandel , and @jason_pontin Tweets: @studyhallxyz : We are indeed in the “t...

2020-05-15
People have been predicting an exodus from Silicon Valley for years. Will this time be different? And will housing prices and salaries plunge accordingly? https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2020-05-15 View on X
Bloomberg

As tech giants introduce new work from home guidelines, employees are considering moving away from Silicon Valley and companies contemplate adjusting salaries

wait for it — actually enjoy living in the Bay Area, which, spoiler, is a nice place to live! https://twitter.com/... Josh / @joshuaogundu : The funny thing is people assuming that...

2020-05-12
Calling it “cognitive search” makes me throw up in my mouth a little, but it's nice to see people still trying to make enterprise search not suck. https://venturebeat.com/...
2020-05-12 View on X
VentureBeat

Amazon makes Kendra, its cloud-based search tool that uses natural language processing to improve enterprise search, generally available

Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :

2020-05-10
Regardless of who they have as CEO, Banjo is still a private company to whom law enforcement agencies are outsourcing mass surveillance. https://www.deseret.com/...
2020-05-10 View on X
Deseret News

CEO of surveillance firm Banjo resigns after a report last month that he was once a neo-Nazi and was involved in the drive-by shooting of a synagogue

PARK CITY — Embattled event detection tech firm Banjo announced Friday that the company's current CEO and founder, Damien Patton …

2020-05-06
Theranos. Juicero. Magic Leap. https://www.businessinsider.com/ ...
2020-05-06 View on X
Business Insider

Sources: Magic Leap is in talks to raise $100M in funding from a major health company after laying off around half of its workforce

- Magic Leap is turning to a “major” health care company to raise money, according to an internal memo obtained by The Information. Source: The Information .

2020-04-22
Despite its nearly global monopoly on web search, Google has never delivered a compelling product search experience, instead ceding the ecommerce market to Amazon. Will this time be different? Or is it a case of too little, too late? https://searchengineland.com/ ...
2020-04-22 View on X
Search Engine Land

Google will let merchants list their products for free in Shopping search results, as part of an effort to better compete against Amazon in product search

Ginny Marvin / Search Engine Land :

2020-04-12
Tip-baiting is a sick, twisted way for people to abuse some of the most vulnerable members of our society. Instacart should fix this immediately by making it impossible — or at least a lot harder — for customers to reduce tips post-delivery. https://www.cnn.com/...
2020-04-12 View on X
Los Angeles Times

Instacart is paying workers about the same to do 2-3 orders at a time as it does for one order as demand rises during the pandemic, interviews and receipts show

and then changing them to zero https://www.cnn.com/... @juliaangelenpr : Well we've hit a new low as humans: https://twitter.com/... Frankie Pumps / @fiercefrankie1 : Who even thin...

2020-04-11
Tip-baiting is a sick, twisted way for people to abuse some of the most vulnerable members of our society. Instacart should fix this immediately by making it impossible — or at least a lot harder — for customers to reduce tips post-delivery. https://www.cnn.com/...
2020-04-11 View on X
Los Angeles Times

Instacart is paying workers about the same to do 2-3 orders at a time as it does for one order as demand rises during the pandemic, interviews and receipts show

Dina W. did her last job for Instacart on March 20.  Before the coronavirus outbreak, Dina could easily avoid doing …

2020-04-10
French news publishers complained that Google wouldn't pay to include snippets in search results. So Google stopped including snippets. Now publishers have convinced government to force Google to include snippets in search results. And pay of course. WTF. https://www.reuters.com/...
2020-04-10 View on X
Bloomberg

France orders Google to pay publishers to display article snippets, starting from October of 2019, after Google initially refused to do so

Gaspard Sebag / Bloomberg :

2020-04-07
Corporations that thought forced arbitration was a great idea to tilt the scales against employees, gig workers, and customers now face the prospect of mass arbitration. As the judge said, “there is a lot of poetic justice here.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
2020-04-07 View on X
New York Times

A look at law firm Keller Lenkner and startup FairShake, which file arbitration lawsuits against companies en masse, including 2K+ against DoorDash in one day

New York Times : Tweets: @dealbook , @carnage4life , @dtunkelang , @mattdpearce , @jbsgreenberg , @profdaf , @nytimesbusiness , @jbsgreenberg , @deepakguptalaw , @adamliptak , @ss...

2020-04-06
I don't see this case ending with Google making any meaningful disclosures about its ranking algorithms, but I still hope it will be entertaining. https://www.theregister.co.uk/ ...
2020-04-06 View on X
The Register

UK High Court judge says Google will either need to let an SEO expert inspect its ranking algorithms or withdraw evidence from its long-running competition case

Tough choice for adtech monolith in Foundem case  —  Google must either show its “crown jewels” to a man it described …

2020-04-02
Anthony Levandowski and Uber are fighting over an indemnity agreement to determine who has to pay Google $179 million for Levandowski's theft of Google's self-driving technology trade secrets. Pass the popcorn. https://techcrunch.com/...
2020-04-02 View on X
TechCrunch

Anthony Levandowski files motion to force Uber into arbitration, alleging Uber must shoulder $179M judgment against him as part of its 2016 indemnity agreement

Anthony Levandowski, the star self-driving car engineer who was at the center of a trade secrets lawsuit, has filed a motion … Tweets: @lorakolodny and @dtunkelang Tweets: Lora Kol...

2020-03-18
Thank you @Amazon for prioritizing medical supplies and household basics. https://techcrunch.com/...
2020-03-18 View on X
Business Insider

Amazon prioritizes shipments of household staples and high-demand products to its warehouses, partially suspending Fulfillment by Amazon program through April 5

Eugene Kim / Business Insider :

2020-03-05
Big tech companies are replacing onsite interviews with video interviews. Obviously this is in reaction to the coronavirus, but maybe it's not such a bad idea in general. https://www.theverge.com/...
2020-03-05 View on X
The Verge

Google moves all job interviews to Hangouts “for the foreseeable future” due to coronavirus, while Amazon and Facebook have also limited on-site job interviews

Jay Peters / The Verge : Tweets: @carlquintanilla , @dtunkelang , @rothgar , and @nickstatt Tweets: Carl Quintanilla / @carlquintanilla : (Verge) - Google has begun informing pros...