A look at crowdsourced public safety apps growing amid rising violence in Brazil; Fogo Cruzado, which warns of shootings in Río and Recife, has 250K+ downloads (Raphael Tsavkko Garcia/MIT Technology ...)
Reviewed by Jaison Peter
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November 30, 2020
Rating: 5
JD Digits, JD.com's big data unit, unveils its plans to build an AI-powered smart city "operating system" for China's smart city project in Xiongan, China (Masha Borak/South China Morning Post)
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November 30, 2020
Rating: 5
Interview with former director of US CISA Chris Krebs on being fired by Trump via tweet, why paper ballots are key to ensuring election security, and more (Scott Pelley/CBS News)
Reviewed by Jaison Peter
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November 30, 2020
Rating: 5
UK-based Primer, an ex-PayPal staff fintech that aims to help merchants future proof and consolidate their payment stack, raises a £14M Series A led by Accel (Steve O'Hear/TechCrunch)
Reviewed by Jaison Peter
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November 30, 2020
Rating: 5
The UK will ban the installation of new Huawei 5G network equipment starting September 2021 and pledges $333M to diversify its 5G supply chain (Thomas Seal/Bloomberg)
Reviewed by Jaison Peter
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November 30, 2020
Rating: 5
How students in a remote part of Pakistan mobilized during the pandemic to demand better internet from the military-run unit controlling it (Alizeh Kohari/Rest of World)
Reviewed by Jaison Peter
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November 30, 2020
Rating: 5
A look at Cartel TikTok, viral videos showcasing drug cartel culture, that experts say is a propaganda tool designed to mask the violence and attract recruits (Oscar Lopez/New York Times)
Reviewed by Jaison Peter
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November 30, 2020
Rating: 5
Google, Temasek, and Bain & Company report: investments in Indonesia's tech sector in the first half of 2020 totaled $2.8B, up 55% from the same period in 2019 (Mercedes Ruehl/Financial Times)
Reviewed by Jaison Peter
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November 29, 2020
Rating: 5
Report: China accounted for 23% of cross-border data flows in 2019, nearly twice the share of the US, which ranked second with 12%, followed by the UK and India (Nikkei Asia)
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November 29, 2020
Rating: 5
Pandemic has deepened the digital education divide in India, where ~38% of households with students had no smartphone in the house, according to a recent survey (Wall Street Journal)
Reviewed by Jaison Peter
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November 29, 2020
Rating: 5
Profile of Christine Su, Twitter's senior PM for conversational safety, who is a queer Asian-American "activist-entrepreneur" with an MBA and MA in agriculture (Anna Kramer/Protocol)
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November 29, 2020
Rating: 5
A report on student grades from Virginia reveals that online learning has led to a sharp drop in students' academic performance (Hannah Natanson/Washington Post)
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November 29, 2020
Rating: 5
As Facebook and Google continue to ban political ads, Republican super PACs are spending millions on other platforms that offer no advertiser transparency (Issie Lapowsky/Protocol)
Reviewed by Jaison Peter
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November 29, 2020
Rating: 5
How Reach Vet, an AI-based system used in clinical practice by the US Department of Veterans Affairs, helps identify veterans at high risk of suicide (Benedict Carey/New York Times)
Reviewed by Jaison Peter
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November 29, 2020
Rating: 5
HMBradley, a Santa Monica-based banking startup which offers up to 3% interest on savings accounts, raises $18.25M Series A led by Acrew Capital (Christine Hall/Crunchbase News)
Reviewed by Jaison Peter
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November 29, 2020
Rating: 5
Interviews with tech leaders on Tony Hsieh's legacy, his student life at Harvard, his unconventional business approach, and the culture he built at Zappos (Alex Konrad/Forbes)
Reviewed by Jaison Peter
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November 29, 2020
Rating: 5
Big Tech threatens democracy and one solution may be to take away their role as gatekeepers of content and let users choose the information presented to them (Foreign Affairs)
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November 29, 2020
Rating: 5
A look at China's draft Personal Information Protection Law, which would significantly increase fines for companies responsible for data breaches to up to $7.6M (Celia Chen/South China Morning Post)
Reviewed by Jaison Peter
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November 28, 2020
Rating: 5
