Month: December 2018

    • Juniper Square, which operates a platform for commercial real estate investment firms, raises $25M Series B led by Ribbit Capital (Kate Clark/TechCrunch)

    Kate Clark / TechCrunch: Juniper Square, which operates a platform for commercial real estate investment firms, raises $25M Series B led by Ribbit Capital  —  Juniper Square, a four-year-old startup at the intersection of enterprise software, real estate and financial technology, has brought in an additional $25 million … Juniper Square, which operates a platform

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    • Google says it won't sell general-purpose facial recognition APIs before working through "important technology and policy questions" (Kent Walker/Google)

    Kent Walker / Google: Google says it won’t sell general-purpose facial recognition APIs before working through “important technology and policy questions”  —  More than 400 million people in the world have diabetes.  A third of them have diabetic retinopathy, a complication that can cause permanent blindness. Google says it won't sell general-purpose facial recognition APIs

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    • Some current and former fact-checkers say Facebook has ignored their concerns, they have been used for PR, and they have lost trust in the company (Sam Levin/The Guardian)

    Sam Levin / The Guardian: Some current and former fact-checkers say Facebook has ignored their concerns, they have been used for PR, and they have lost trust in the company  —  Journalists paid to help fix Facebook’s fake news problem say they have lost trust in the platform  —  Journalists working as factcheckers … Some

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    • YouTube says it removed 7.8M+ videos between July and September because they broke community guidelines and deleted 1.6M+ channels and 224M+ comments (Emily Birnbaum/The Hill)

    Emily Birnbaum / The Hill: YouTube says it removed 7.8M+ videos between July and September because they broke community guidelines and deleted 1.6M+ channels and 224M+ comments  —  YouTube removed 58 million videos between July and September this year because they broke community guidelines. YouTube says it removed 7.8M+ videos between July and September because

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    • Google expands its parental control app Family Link to Chromebooks, gives Chromebooks with supervised accounts access to Android apps from the Play store (Dieter Bohn/The Verge)

    Dieter Bohn / The Verge: Google expands its parental control app Family Link to Chromebooks, gives Chromebooks with supervised accounts access to Android apps from the Play store  —  The kids can now use Android apps  —  Google has had an app called Family Link for a little over a year now, designed to give

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    • Instacart says it will end its partnership with Whole Foods starting in February; source: move is expected to reduce Instacart's revenue by less than 5 percent (Jason Del Rey/Recode)

    Jason Del Rey / Recode: Instacart says it will end its partnership with Whole Foods starting in February; source: move is expected to reduce Instacart’s revenue by less than 5 percent  —  Instacart will begin pulling the first group of workers out of Whole Foods locations in February. Instacart says it will end its partnership

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    • Inside France's plan to teach children about the downsides of internet, including spotting trustworthy info on Twitter, with 30,000 teachers trained per year (New York Times)

    New York Times: Inside France’s plan to teach children about the downsides of internet, including spotting trustworthy info on Twitter, with 30,000 teachers trained per year  —  VAULX-EN-VELIN, France — A group of teenagers recently swarmed into a room at Collège Henri Barbusse near Lyon, France … Inside France's plan to teach children about the

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