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Hackaday Links: January 26, 2019

The news this week was dominated by the novel coronavirus outbreak centered in Wuhan, China. Despite draconian quarantines and international travel restrictions, the infection has spread far beyond China, at least in small numbers. A few cases have been reported in the United States, but the first case reported here caught our eye for the

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Profile of BlueDot, which uses AI to sift through news reports in 65 languages to detect and warn about infectious disease outbreaks like Wuhan Virus (Eric Niiler/Wired)

Eric Niiler / Wired: Profile of BlueDot, which uses AI to sift through news reports in 65 languages to detect and warn about infectious disease outbreaks like Wuhan Virus  —  The BlueDot algorithm scours news reports and airline ticketing data to predict the spread of diseases like those linked to the flu outbreak in China.

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Inside game streaming wars, where Ninja reportedly got paid $20M to $30M to move to Mixer and streamers with 10K concurrent views on Twitch can get $10M+ offers (Shannon Liao/CNN)

Shannon Liao / CNN: Inside game streaming wars, where Ninja reportedly got paid $20M to $30M to move to Mixer and streamers with 10K concurrent views on Twitch can get $10M+ offers  —  New York (CNN Business)When Jeremy Wang started streaming on Twitch in 2016, he was an unknown twenty-something with a few coding internships

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With the launch of Razr pre-orders, Motorola released a video "Caring for razr", which says "Screen is made to bend; bumps and lumps are normal" (Dieter Bohn/The Verge)

Dieter Bohn / The Verge: With the launch of Razr pre-orders, Motorola released a video “Caring for razr”, which says “Screen is made to bend; bumps and lumps are normal”  —  Pre-sale begins today  —  Today’s the day that the Motorola Razr is available for pre-sale for $1499, exclusively on Verizon. With the launch of

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Appeals court reverses a lower court and reinstates a suit challenging constitutionality of sex-trafficking law FOSTA, finding plaintiffs have standing to sue (Electronic Frontier Foundation)

Electronic Frontier Foundation: Appeals court reverses a lower court and reinstates a suit challenging constitutionality of sex-trafficking law FOSTA, finding plaintiffs have standing to sue  —  Judges Found Plaintiffs Have Standing to Sue  —  SAN FRANCISCO-A lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of FOSTA … Appeals court reverses a lower court and reinstates a suit challenging constitutionality

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Study: 98% of kids in the UK can’t tell fake news from the truth

{$inline_image}The 2019 general election is already being remembered as the one where misinformation went mainstream. It was, of course, already on the political agenda after the 2016 referendum and US election, with growing numbers of academics and parliament sounding the alarm over foreign actors using so-called “fake news” to disrupt the democratic processes. But what

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Unito, whose tool helps teams communicate between different workplace productivity software suites, raises $10.5M Series A led by Bessemer Venture Partners (Lucas Matney/TechCrunch)

Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: Unito, whose tool helps teams communicate between different workplace productivity software suites, raises $10.5M Series A led by Bessemer Venture Partners  —  Startup productivity tools have never been better, but that’s led to employees being more passionate than ever about the tools that they want to use themselves. Unito, whose tool

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