Analysis of the first Oversight Board rulings, which in the long term may influence Facebook moderation rules more than the upcoming decision on Trump ban (Evelyn Douek/Lawfare)
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January 31, 2021
Rating: 5
The pandemic has increased the adoption of AR in automotive and other industries, where it is being used to provide remote assistance for employees in real time (Sara Castellanos/Wall Street Journal)
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January 31, 2021
Rating: 5
Analysis: investors have pumped $7.3B into ~730 US-based fitness apps and services over the past five years, with $2.4B coming just in 2020 across 187 deals (Christine Hall/Crunchbase News)
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January 31, 2021
Rating: 5
A look at Bilibili, the "YouTube for China", as it balances competition and cooperation with Alibaba and Tencent, both of which invested in the video platform (Zeyi Yang/Protocol)
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January 31, 2021
Rating: 5
Mozilla's 2020 Internet Health Report spotlights racial injustice of algorithms, lax data rights for gig workers, and accountability of social media firms (The Internet Health Report 2020)
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January 31, 2021
Rating: 5
ELSA, an app that helps non-native English speakers improve pronunciation and speaking skills, raises $15M Series B, says its revenue increased by ~300% in 2020 (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)
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January 31, 2021
Rating: 5
Chinese self-driving startup AutoX announces that its robotaxi service, with no safety drivers on board, is now available to the general public in Shenzhen (Brad Templeton/Forbes)
Reviewed by Jaison Peter
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January 31, 2021
Rating: 5
Canalys: a record 11.2M Chromebooks were shipped in Q4 2020, up 287% YoY, with Lenovo Chromebooks up 1,766%; in 2020, 30.7M Chromebooks were shipped, up 109% (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)
Reviewed by Jaison Peter
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January 31, 2021
Rating: 5
VAMS, a CDC website built by Deloitte at a cost of $44M to manage rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine, has been abandoned by states due to bugs and problems (Cat Ferguson/MIT Technology Review)
Reviewed by Jaison Peter
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January 31, 2021
Rating: 5
Experts say Apple's App Tracking Transparency feature will damage Facebook's core business; the feature will limit Facebook's data collection from 85K+ iOS apps (Wall Street Journal)
Reviewed by Jaison Peter
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January 30, 2021
Rating: 5
Profile of ShareChat, an India-centric social network which lacks English language support and has 160M MAUs, 100M of which signed up in the last year (Shubham Agarwal/Fast Company)
Reviewed by Jaison Peter
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January 30, 2021
Rating: 5
Research: smartphone shipments in India fell 4% YoY to ~150M in 2020 and H2 2020 saw 100M+ shipments; among the top 5 brands, realme grew the most at 22% YoY (Prachir Singh/Counterpoint Research)
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January 30, 2021
Rating: 5
Canalys: smartphone shipments in China fell 4% YoY to 84M in Q4 2020 and shipments for 2020 fell 11% YoY to 330M, as iPhone's share jumped from 15% to 18% YoY (Catherine Shu/TechCrunch)
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January 30, 2021
Rating: 5
Profile of Instacart CEO Apoorva Mehta, who since the pandemic started has overseen three consecutive quarters of positive cash flow, a first for the company (Chloe Sorvino/Forbes)
Reviewed by Jaison Peter
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January 30, 2021
Rating: 5
Robinhood explains why it placed restrictions on certain securities over the past week, says its clearinghouse-mandated deposit for equities increased tenfold (Under the Hood)
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January 30, 2021
Rating: 5
Filing: Xiaomi has sued US Defense and Treasury departments, after the DOD blacklisted the company thereby blocking US investors from buying Xiaomi's securities (Bloomberg)
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January 30, 2021
Rating: 5
Reddit's uncommon qualities as a community platform, inspiring nihilism and humor, may explain why r/WallStreetBets' growth feels reminiscent of r/The_Donald (John Herrman/New York Times)
Reviewed by Jaison Peter
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January 30, 2021
Rating: 5
Clearsky researchers say Hezbollah's cyber unit Lebanese Cedar hacked 250+ unpatched Atlassian and Oracle servers at telecoms and ISPs in US, UK, Israel, more (Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet)
Reviewed by Jaison Peter
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January 30, 2021
Rating: 5
Robinhood has placed trade restrictions on more than 50 stocks as of Friday and limited the purchase of some stocks, like GameStop, to a single share (Mitchell Clark/The Verge)
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January 30, 2021
Rating: 5
Graphika: Huawei officials retweeted messages from fake accounts on Twitter to spread a pro-5G influence campaign in Belgium; Huawei is investigating the claim (Adam Satariano/New York Times)
Reviewed by Jaison Peter
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January 30, 2021
Rating: 5
Canalys: iPad shipments grew 40% YoY in 2020, across the year Apple shipped about an estimated 58.8M tablets, up 24% YoY from 2019 (Mike Peterson/AppleInsider)
Reviewed by Jaison Peter
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January 29, 2021
Rating: 5
Profile of r/WallStreetBets founder Jaime Rogozinski, who hasn't moderated since April and describes the GameStop surge a "train wreck happening in real time" (Akane Otani/Wall Street Journal)
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January 29, 2021
Rating: 5
Sources: Facebook is developing newsletter tools for journalists and writers, including tools to help build followers, curate email lists, and offer paid subs (Mike Isaac/New York Times)
Reviewed by Jaison Peter
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January 29, 2021
Rating: 5
