Month: September 2021

CNN restricts access to its Facebook Pages in Australia after a ruling that makes news organizations legally liable for comments on their Facebook posts (Benjamin Mullin/Wall Street Journal)

Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal: CNN restricts access to its Facebook Pages in Australia after a ruling that makes news organizations legally liable for comments on their Facebook posts  —  Company said it wants to avoid liability for user comments following Australian court ruling  —  CNN said it has restricted access …

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Stellar Health, whose cloud-based tools help healthcare providers offer value-based care to patients, raises $60M+ Series B led by General Atlantic (FinSMEs)

FinSMEs: Stellar Health, whose cloud-based tools help healthcare providers offer value-based care to patients, raises $60M+ Series B led by General Atlantic  —  Stellar Health, a NYC-based healthcare technology company, raised over $60m in Series B funding.  —  The round was led by General Atlantic …

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Acceldata, which makes AI-based data observability software for data quality, pipelines, and system infrastructure, raises $35M Series B led by Insight Partners (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Acceldata, which makes AI-based data observability software for data quality, pipelines, and system infrastructure, raises $35M Series B led by Insight Partners  —  The Transform Technology Summits start October 13th with Low-Code/No Code: Enabling Enterprise Agility.  Register now!

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Excel Ray Tracing with Help from C

It isn’t news that [s0lly] likes to do ray tracing using Microsoft Excel. However, he recently updated his set up to use functions in a C XLL — a DLL, really — to accelerate the Excel rendering. Even if ray tracing isn’t your thing, the technique of creating custom high-performance Excel functions might do you

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FDA clears an AI program from computational diagnostics startup Paige, which can help detect cancerous cells in prostate tissue slides (Conor Hale/FierceBiotech)

Conor Hale / FierceBiotech: FDA clears an AI program from computational diagnostics startup Paige, which can help detect cancerous cells in prostate tissue slides  —  Tech companies have been questing for years to develop artificial intelligence able to help diagnose cancer—and now one has an FDA clearance to do just that.

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Tim Sweeney and Epic execs discuss Epic’s metaverse plans, contrasting it with Facebook’s “manicured” feed, and emphasizing the role of creators (Gene Park/Washington Post)

Gene Park / Washington Post: Tim Sweeney and Epic execs discuss Epic’s metaverse plans, contrasting it with Facebook’s “manicured” feed, and emphasizing the role of creators  —  Epic CEO Tim Sweeney and other executives detail their plan for the metaverse and how it differs from Facebook’s vision

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Netflix scoops up Oxenfree developer Night School

Oxenfree. Netflix is continuing its push into video games with the acquisition of Night School Studio, the team best-known for 2016’s Oxenfree and 2019’s Afterparty. (Oxenfree, it should be noted, had strong Stranger Things vibes — and Night School also previously worked on a canceled Stranger Things title.) “Night School wants to stretch our narrative

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Netflix acquires its first game studio, Night School Studio, which was founded by Sean Krankel and Adam Hines in 2014 and is best known for the game Oxenfree (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: Netflix acquires its first game studio, Night School Studio, which was founded by Sean Krankel and Adam Hines in 2014 and is best known for the game Oxenfree  —  A new GamesBeat event is around the corner!  Learn more about what comes next.  —  Netflix has acquired its first game studio

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Researcher discloses AirTag Lost Mode vulnerability that enables phishing attack; says Apple spent three months investigating and refused basic questions (Krebs on Security)

Krebs on Security: Researcher discloses AirTag Lost Mode vulnerability that enables phishing attack; says Apple spent three months investigating and refused basic questions  —  The new $30 Airtag tracking device from Apple has a feature that allows anyone who finds one of these tiny location beacons to scan …

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Internal docs show how Amazon’s Astro robot decision-making works; sources who worked on versions of Astro describe it as a “privacy nightmare” and “dangerous” (Matthew Gault/VICE)

Matthew Gault / VICE: Internal docs show how Amazon’s Astro robot decision-making works; sources who worked on versions of Astro describe it as a “privacy nightmare” and “dangerous”  —  Leaked meetings show the robot will heavily rely on facial recognition and user behavior, but sources who worked on Astro say the robot is flawed.

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Facebook’s research on kids even considered turning playdates into growth drivers

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook’s interest in understanding and eventually acquiring younger users extends well beyond Messenger Kids or the currently paused plans for a child-friendly Instagram. A new report in The Wall Street Journal’s series on Facebook’s internal research shows the company’s focus on kids goes much deeper, including studying children

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