Author: Tech Support

    • Google's Area 120 incubator is testing Fundo, a service for YouTube creators to sell invites to online events, personalized shoutouts to fans, and more (Janko Roettgers/Variety)

    Janko Roettgers / Variety: Google’s Area 120 incubator is testing Fundo, a service for YouTube creators to sell invites to online events, personalized shoutouts to fans, and more  —  Google’s skunkworks lab Area 120 has been quietly testing an events-centric crowdfunding service for YouTubers, Variety has learned. Google's Area 120 incubator is testing Fundo, a

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    You Need a Cyberdeck, this Board Will Help

    In 1984, William Gibson’s novel Neuromancer helped kick off the cyberpunk genre that many hackers have been delighting in ever since. Years before Tim Berners-Lee created the World Wide Web, Gibson was imagining worldwide computer networks and omnipresent artificial intelligence. One of his most famous fictional creations is the cyberdeck, a powerful mobile computer that

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    • SmileDirectClub, which ships teeth-aligners directly to users, with dental professionals monitoring patient progress remotely, files for an IPO (Megan Rose Dickey/TechCrunch)

    Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: SmileDirectClub, which ships teeth-aligners directly to users, with dental professionals monitoring patient progress remotely, files for an IPO  —  SmileDirectClub, the at-home teeth-straightening service, is on its way to becoming a public company.  SmileDirectClub is seeking to raise … SmileDirectClub, which ships teeth-aligners directly to users, with dental professionals monitoring

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    • Federal judge rules Georgia will have to fall back to paper ballots if it doesn't replace its electronic voting machines with a secure system for 2020 election (Timothy B. Lee/Ars Technica)

    Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica: Federal judge rules Georgia will have to fall back to paper ballots if it doesn’t replace its electronic voting machines with a secure system for 2020 election  —  Judge finds several serious flaws with Georgia’s current election technology.  —  Election security advocates scored a major victory … Federal judge

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    • Beto O’Rourke seeks new limits on Section 230 as part of gun violence proposal

    Photo by Sandy Huffaker/Getty Images On Friday, 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke announced a sweeping policy plan to counter hate speech and gun violence in America that specifically proposes changes to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, one of the tech industry’s most pivotal legal protections. Outside of proposing a nationwide gun licensing

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    • Edge cloud services provider Zenlayer raises $30M Series B to expand globally with an emphasis on emerging markets like India, Indonesia, and Brazil (FinSMEs)

    FinSMEs: Edge cloud services provider Zenlayer raises $30M Series B to expand globally with an emphasis on emerging markets like India, Indonesia, and Brazil  —  Zenlayer, a Los Angeles, CA- and and Shanghai, China-based edge cloud services provider, raised $30m in Series B funding. Edge cloud services provider Zenlayer raises M Series B to expand

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    • YouTube is hiring managers to work with political creators

    YouTube is hiring managers to work specifically with progressive political publishers and conservative political publishers as the company faces accusations of censoring right-wing political content amid a crackdown on supremacist content and conspiracy theories. The new managers will focus on “advising partners on YouTube channel development strategies and representing the political publisher landscape within the

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    • Five years later, a deep dive into Gamergate's origins and how conspiracy-fed trolling tactics it took mainstream are now central to post-truth information wars (Charlie Warzel/New York Times)

    Charlie Warzel / New York Times: Five years later, a deep dive into Gamergate’s origins and how conspiracy-fed trolling tactics it took mainstream are now central to post-truth information wars  —  On August 15, 2014, an angry 20-something ex-boyfriend published a 9,425-word screed and set in motion a series of vile events that changed the

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    Bakkt says it plans to launch its physically-settled bitcoin futures contracts on Sept. 23, after getting approval from NY state's financial regulator (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

    {$inline_image} Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: Bakkt says it plans to launch its physically-settled bitcoin futures contracts on Sept. 23, after getting approval from NY state’s financial regulator  —  Bakkt has been cleared to launch.  —  The Intercontinental Exchange’s young subsidiary announced Friday that it had acquired … Bakkt says it plans to launch its physically-settled

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