Sunday, November 21, 2021
Sources and internal docs show Facebook's race-blind policies around hate speech left minorities more likely to see derogatory and racist language on the site (Washington Post)
Sources and internal docs show Facebook's race-blind policies around hate speech left minorities more likely to see derogatory and racist language on the site — Last year, researchers at Facebook showed executives an example of the kind of hate speech circulating on the social network …
8fig, which provides equity-free flexible funding for e-commerce sellers by analyzing their growth, raises a $50M Series A (CTech)
8fig, which provides equity-free flexible funding for e-commerce sellers by analyzing their growth, raises a $50M Series A — Five months after announcing its Seed round, Israeli startup 8fig, which provides equity-free flexible funding and supply chain management tools for e-commerce sellers …
To age in their own homes and avoid assisted living facilities, some seniors are embracing smart home tech, often at the cost of their privacy and independence (Heather Kelly/Washington Post)
To age in their own homes and avoid assisted living facilities, some seniors are embracing smart home tech, often at the cost of their privacy and independence — The tipping point came nearly seven years ago when 82-year-old Evelyn was still living alone in her Georgia home.
Spotify removes the shuffle button from all album pages so that tracks play in the order artists intended, after Adele requests the change (Jennifer Meierhans/BBC)
Spotify removes the shuffle button from all album pages so that tracks play in the order artists intended, after Adele requests the change — Adele has persuaded Spotify to take the shuffle button off all album pages so tracks play in the artist's own order.
Apple's Self Service Repair, likely created to ward off regulatory pressure, may increase repairability of its own devices and spur an industry-wide change (Adam Minter/Bloomberg)
Apple's Self Service Repair, likely created to ward off regulatory pressure, may increase repairability of its own devices and spur an industry-wide change — A new approach to fixing products will benefit consumers, designers and the environment. — Years ago, long before the iPhone …
Head of safety says Meta doesn't plan to finish the global rollout of e2e encryption by default across all of its messaging services until sometime in 2023 (Dan Milmo/The Guardian)
Head of safety says Meta doesn't plan to finish the global rollout of e2e encryption by default across all of its messaging services until sometime in 2023 — Move comes as child safety campaigners express concern plans could shield abusers from detection — The owner of Facebook …
Thirty startups attained $10B+ valuations globally in 2021 so far, compared to 15 new decacorns in 2020 and five in 2019 (Gené Teare/Crunchbase News)
Thirty startups attained $10B+ valuations globally in 2021 so far, compared to 15 new decacorns in 2020 and five in 2019 — More new startups valued at $10 billion or above have been minted in 2021—far more than in any prior year, and double the number created in 2020 …
A look at projects like the Voguverse and companies like Pixel Vault that are trying to build media franchises around their NFT collectibles (Adi Robertson/The Verge)
A look at projects like the Voguverse and companies like Pixel Vault that are trying to build media franchises around their NFT collectibles — There's a long way to go — In the online auction market OpenSea, you can pay around $600 to buy a portrait of a robot in streetwear — and, if you're lucky, a stake in a new media empire.
Saturday, November 20, 2021
India police charge Amazon execs in alleged marijuana smuggling case
Japan-based VR startup Hikky raises a $57M Series A led by NTT Docomo to expand its web-based virtual events platform Vket Cloud (Ben Lang/Road to VR)
Japan-based VR startup Hikky raises a $57M Series A led by NTT Docomo to expand its web-based virtual events platform Vket Cloud — Japanese social VR startup HIKKY announced today that it has raised ¥6.5 billion (~$57 million), led by Japanese mobile network operator NTT Docomo.
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Kettle, a reinsurance startup using ML modeling on weather, satellite imagery, and other data sets to predict climate change risks, raises a $25M Series A (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
Kettle, a reinsurance startup using ML modeling on weather, satellite imagery, and other data sets to predict climate change risks, raises a $25M Series A — One of the most noticeable — and noted — effects of climate change has been its impact on how other events in the environment …
Japan allocates another $9.9B to boost its chip, quantum computing, and AI endeavors, with an undisclosed amount going to chip startup Rapidus (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg : Japan allocates another $9.9B to boost its chip, quantum computing, and AI endeavors, with an undisclosed amount going to chi...
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Jake Offenhartz / Gothamist : Since October, the NYPD has deployed a quadruped robot called Spot to a handful of crime scenes and hostage...
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