Sunday, February 14, 2021
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Libeo, a French startup that lets SMEs easily process invoices and B2B payments, raises €20M Series A and says it is processing €100M annually (Annie Musgrove/Tech.eu)
Libeo, a French startup that lets SMEs easily process invoices and B2B payments, raises €20M Series A and says it is processing €100M annually — Libeo, a French fintech software that simplifies invoices and payments for SMEs, has closed a €20 million Series A round …
Q&A with Unity CFO Kim Jabal, about the impact from Apple's upcoming IDFA changes, the tug of war between targeted ads and privacy, competition with Epic, more (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)
Q&A with Unity CFO Kim Jabal, about the impact from Apple's upcoming IDFA changes, the tug of war between targeted ads and privacy, competition with Epic, more — Unity Technologies recently reported better than expected earnings for the fourth quarter ended December 31.
Research: $1.3B or 55% of all money laundering in cryptocurrency in 2020 was driven by just 270 deposit addresses owned by five illicit fund receiving services (Chainalysis Blog)
Research: $1.3B or 55% of all money laundering in cryptocurrency in 2020 was driven by just 270 deposit addresses owned by five illicit fund receiving services — This blog is an excerpt from the Chainalysis 2021 Crypto Crime Report. Click here and sign up to get the full document emailed …
Germany-based Lengoo, which offers customised AI-powered translation service to enterprise clients, raises $20M Series B (Devin Coldewey/TechCrunch)
Germany-based Lengoo, which offers customised AI-powered translation service to enterprise clients, raises $20M Series B — Most people who use AI-powered translation tools do so for commonplace, relatively unimportant tasks like understanding a single phrase or quote.
What we want from Facebook and other platforms is not less politics but less of a distortionary effect on politics caused by an algorithmic bias toward outrage (Will Oremus/OneZero )
What we want from Facebook and other platforms is not less politics but less of a distortionary effect on politics caused by an algorithmic bias toward outrage — Social networks would love to show users less political content. Here's why that's a problem.
The NYT overstated the influence of both Slate Star Codex and the Rationalist community on Silicon Valley, and falsely portrayed the tech industry as right-wing (Noah Smith/Noahpinion)
The NYT overstated the influence of both Slate Star Codex and the Rationalist community on Silicon Valley, and falsely portrayed the tech industry as right-wing — Stereotyping the tech industry as a bunch of secretive right-wingers isn't correct, and it isn't helpful. — 11 hr ago
Inside "PGM" Facebook groups, the largest of which has 160,000+ members, where Brazilians collect, share, and memorialize the accounts of the recently deceased (Rest of World)
Inside “PGM” Facebook groups, the largest of which has 160,000+ members, where Brazilians collect, share, and memorialize the accounts of the recently deceased — Long before the Covid-19 pandemic, Brazilian Facebook users were gathering to memorialize total strangers.
In letter to employees, Bezos says his transition is not a retirement and he'll use his time to focus on the Day 1 Fund, Bezos Earth Fund, Blue Origin, and WaPo (aboutamazon.com)
In letter to employees, Bezos says his transition is not a retirement and he'll use his time to focus on the Day 1 Fund, Bezos Earth Fund, Blue Origin, and WaPo — Fellow Amazonians: — I'm excited to announce that this Q3 I'll transition to Executive Chair of the Amazon Board and Andy Jassy will become CEO.
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Saturday, February 13, 2021
A look at the challenges of podcast moderation: the difficulty of finding infringing content, the plethora of players, and philosophical objections to the idea (Ashley Carman/The Verge)
A look at the challenges of podcast moderation: the difficulty of finding infringing content, the plethora of players, and philosophical objections to the idea — When former White House adviser-turned-podcaster Steve Bannon called for the beheading of Dr. Anthony Fauci and FBI director Christopher Wray, the tech platforms reacted.
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China approves two cars from state-owned automakers with Level 3 autonomous capabilities, the first such approvals; the cars can drive in Chongqing and Beijing (Reuters)
Reuters : China approves two cars from state-owned automakers with Level 3 autonomous capabilities, the first such approvals; the cars can...
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Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal : An interview with White House OSTP Director Michael Kratsios, a Peter Thiel protégé confirmed by ...
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