Author: Tech Support

    • Indonesian ride-hailing service Gojek, valued at $10B in its last fundraising round in July, launches GoPlay, a mobile-only streaming platform for ~$6 per month (Fanny Potkin/Reuters)

    Fanny Potkin / Reuters: Indonesian ride-hailing service Gojek, valued at $10B in its last fundraising round in July, launches GoPlay, a mobile-only streaming platform for ~$6 per month  —  JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesian ride-hailing and payments firm Gojek launched a video streaming service featuring original movies … Indonesian ride-hailing service Gojek, valued at B in

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    • A look at Deep Learning Indaba, an AI conference founded in 2017 that brings together researchers from across Africa, who often can't attend Western conferences (Dave Gershgorn/OneZero)

    Dave Gershgorn / OneZero: A look at Deep Learning Indaba, an AI conference founded in 2017 that brings together researchers from across Africa, who often can’t attend Western conferences  —  Researchers want to pave their own path.  But the growing industry is still dependent on tech giants like Google and Microsoft. A look at Deep

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    • Facebook scores big, gets rights to air highlights from major cricket tournaments

    The International Cricket Council (ICC), the governing body for the sport, announced today it’s partnering with Facebook to show exclusive digital content for ICC tournaments hosted in the Indian sub-continent until 2023. The social network will also show post-match recaps for ICC events hosted elsewhere in the world. The governing body had partnered with Facebook earlier

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    Justin Sun seeks Andrew Yang’s attention with another cryptocurrency UBI pitch

    {$inline_image}Justin Sun, the founder of blockchain platform TRON, and current CEO of BitTorrent, is appearing a little desperate for the attention of US Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang. Sun reinforced his desire to work with Yang to make Universal Basic Income (UBI) a reality during a livestream on Tuesday, just after promising to reschedule his

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    • Microsoft challenges a secrecy order preventing it from telling an enterprise customer that the US government issued a warrant for data belonging to it (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)

    Dina Bass / Bloomberg: Microsoft challenges a secrecy order preventing it from telling an enterprise customer that the US government issued a warrant for data belonging to it  —  – Company says it’s challenging ‘secrecy order’ on data demand  — Enterprise customer targeted in warrant isn’t identified Microsoft challenges a secrecy order preventing it from

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    • Attackers are mass-exploiting a vBulletin 5 vulnerability, now patched, allowing remote code execution, after an exploit was anonymously published Monday (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)

    Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Attackers are mass-exploiting a vBulletin 5 vulnerability, now patched, allowing remote code execution, after an exploit was anonymously published Monday  —  Devs push a fix for the flaw, but hackers are still hitting unpatched sites.  —  Attackers are mass-exploiting an anonymously disclosed vulnerability … Attackers are mass-exploiting a vBulletin 5

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