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Livepeer, a decentralized marketplace for encoding providers and developers who need video-streaming services, based on Ethereum network, raises $8M Series A
A look at the blossoming machine-learning community in Africa, where IBM and Google are trying to use AI to tackle challenges like hunger, poverty, and disease
How the firearms industry relies on female influencers to skirt the restrictions imposed by social media platforms on advertising guns and related services
vox.com · 3 days ago
Less than a day after breaching $10K, Bitcoin climbs to $11K+, as the unveiling of Libra and increased institutional support spur hopes of mainstream adoption
Legal tech startup Atrium's business model incentivizes efficiency over milking billable hours, as most law firms do, giving it a leg up in automating busywork
Google was never really serious about tablets, with years of scattershot reboots; its decision to stop making tablets was rational but could be shortsighted
FATF says its members, including US and EU countries, should adopt regulations within 12 months requiring crypto exchanges share customer info when moving funds
Leaked Microsoft memo says Slack, AWS, Google Docs, PagerDuty, and even GitHub are prohibited or discouraged from internal use, primarily over security concerns
PsiKick, a maker of self-powered industrial IoT sensors, rebrands to Everactive and raises $30M, bringing its total raised to $63M
Medallia, which offers a customer experience management platform, files for IPO; it reported a $82.2M net loss and $313.6M in revenue for its last fiscal year
UK-based Unily, a platform helping companies like McDonald's, British Airways, and Mars to deploy intranets, extranets, and customer portals, raises $68M
US adds five major Chinese supercomputer developers to the export restrictions list, citing national security concerns
Inside Apple's app review unit, where 300+ staffers check every app and update, escalate controversial cases to an executive review board led by Phil Schiller
Sen. Josh Hawley introduces bill that would remove CDA 230 protections for online platforms with 30M+ US MAUs, which FTC could return after paid audit
Foxconn names chip unit head Young Liu as its new chairman, replacing Terry Gou, who is running for president in Taiwan
Study finds Facebook status updates can possibly be used to predict users with certain diseases, especially diabetes and mental health conditions
Research: AT&T has the fastest mobile network in the US in 2019, displacing Verizon from the top spot after five years
France creates G7 cryptocurrency task force as Facebook's Libra unsettles governments
France is creating a task force of G7 central banks to study how cryptocurrencies like Libra can be governed by anti-money laundering and other regulations
UK's competition regulator tells Facebook and eBay to conduct an urgent review of their sites to prevent sales of fake and misleading online reviews
Review of documents from CBP hack shows that sensitive info, like DHS handbooks, detailed schematics and plans for border surveillance network, also leaked
YouTube confirms it is testing hiding comments under its videos by default, and only showing them when users click on a "Comments" button
Readly, a Sweden-based magazine subscription app available in Europe and the US, raises ~$17M, bringing the total raised to $47.8M
Niantic CEO John Hanke on Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, improvements to Niantic's AR engine which is about to become a platform for outside AR developers, more
Report: Facebook plans to make employees of Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus transition to @fb.com email addresses, further integrating its family of apps
dailydot.com · 5 days ago