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Twitter’s manipulated media policy will remove harmful tweets & voter suppression, label others

Twitter today is announcing the official version of its “deepfake” and manipulated media policy, which largely involves labeling tweets and warning users of manipulated, deceptively altere

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Google’s Glass dreams live on with the arrival of enterprise hardware

Google Glass was ahead of its time. That’s not to say that the people who wore it out in public didn’t look like giant dorks, of course, but in hindsight it seems safe to say that the world just wasn’

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Iowa’s caucus app was a disaster waiting to happen

A smartphone app designed to help announce the results of the Iowa caucus ended up crapping out and causing a massive delay by almost an entire day.The Iowa caucus traditionally uses gatherings of peo

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Quibi links up with FaZe Clan for a game show that would let winners join the FaZe team

Quibi has linked up with the popular esports team FaZe Clan on a new game show that would let six subscribers for the new short-form streaming service compete for a slot on the FaZe roster.The show is

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Official: 2019-nCoV fatality rate 2.1% in China

The fatality rate for confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus-caused pneumonia in China is 2.1 percent as of Monday, according to National Health Commission (NHC) at a press conference on Tuesday

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Messenger Kids adds expanded parental controls, details how much kids’ data Facebook collects

Facebook’s messaging app for families with children, Messenger Kids, is being updated today with new tools and features to give parents more oversight and control over their kids’ chats. N

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What is going on with Tesla?

Shares of American electric car company Tesla are sharply higher again this morning, adding $122.40 (or 15.69 percent ) to their value before regular trading today. The gains come after Tesla has rap

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N26’s head of product is building a better bank

Fintech startup N26 recently reached a new milestone as it now has five million customers. The company launched onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt five years ago.The premise was simple. A young startup wan

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Lemonade is getting into pet insurance

Lemonade, the homeowners and renters insurance provider that’s raised $480 million, has announced its plans to expand into pet insurance. This marks the startup’s foray into a new insuranc

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Former Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi dies at 95

Former Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi passed away on Tuesday morning at the Nairobi Hospital in the presence of his family, President Uhuru Kenyatta announced. NAIROBI, Feb. 4 (Xinhua) -- Former

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APD | Lexus 2019 sales achieve a record high of 10% from previous year’s

By APD writer Carmelo M. AcuñaMANILA – The global sales of the high-end Lexus for January to December 2019 marked a new yearly record high of 765,330 units or 10% incre

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APD | Lexus 2019 sales achieve a record high of 10% from previous year’s

By APD writer Carmelo M. AcuñaMANILA – The global sales of the high-end Lexus for January to December 2019 marked a new yearly record high of 765,330 units or 10% incre

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Profile: Chinese doctor races against fate and coronavirus

Perhaps there is no Superman coming to save Zhang Dingyu, a 57-year-old doctor with an incurable disease. But over the past month, he has become a Superman for many pe

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America's healthcare system is a costly mess

The United States may have the most expensive healthcare system in the world, yet it is difficult to find anyone outside the country who'd recommend it as a global model.Even inside the country, m

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Nomagic, a startup out of Poland, picks up $8.6M for its pick-and-place warehouse robots

Factories and warehouses have been two of the biggest markets for robots in the last several years, with machines taking on mundane, if limited, processes to speed up work and free up humans to do oth

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UK Council websites are letting citizens be profiled for ads, study shows

On the same day that a data ethics advisor to the UK government has urged action to regulate online targeting a study conducted by pro-privacy browser Brave has highlighted how Brits are being profile

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Payments infra startup Finix closes $35M Series B led by Sequoia

This morning Finix, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) startup selling payments tech to other businesses, announced that it has raised a $35 million Series B. Sequoia led the round, which also saw partici