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A profile of Urban Dictionary, which started as a fun way to find meanings for slang but has done little to moderate submissions, letting hate speech flourish (Jason Parham/Wired)

Jason Parham / Wired: A profile of Urban Dictionary, which started as a fun way to find meanings for slang but has done little to moderate submissions, letting hate speech flourish  —  The crowdsourced dictionary once felt like a pioneering tool of the early internet era.  Now in its 20th year, it has become something

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A look at Ultra Wideband-based U1 chip in iPhone 11 models, which is being used for AirDrop and could have many other potential applications like tracking tags (Jason Snell/Six Colors)

Jason Snell / Six Colors: A look at Ultra Wideband-based U1 chip in iPhone 11 models, which is being used for AirDrop and could have many other potential applications like tracking tags  —  Apple likes talking about the awesome chips it designs for its iPhones, but it hates even hinting at products it hasn’t yet

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After selling AppNexus to AT&T for $1.6B, Brian O'Kelley raises $10M for his new startup, CMDTY, to apply his adtech expertise to supply chain logistics (Allison Schiff/AdExchanger)

Allison Schiff / AdExchanger: After selling AppNexus to AT&T for $1.6B, Brian O’Kelley raises $10M for his new startup, CMDTY, to apply his adtech expertise to supply chain logistics  —  What does physical commodities trading have in common with programmatic advertising?  Quite a lot. After selling AppNexus to AT&T for .6B, Brian O'Kelley raises M

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Spotify acquires SoundBetter, a music production marketplace for artists, producers, and musicians to connect on specific projects, for an undisclosed sum (TechCrunch)

TechCrunch: Spotify acquires SoundBetter, a music production marketplace for artists, producers, and musicians to connect on specific projects, for an undisclosed sum  —  Spotify today took another step in its efforts to build out services for artists to help diversify itself away from a business model predicated … Spotify acquires SoundBetter, a music production marketplace

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