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Microsoft refutes report from last week that it is moving manufacturing out of China, says there currently aren't any plans to do so (Andrew E. Freedman/Tom's Hardware)

Andrew E. Freedman / Tom’s Hardware: Microsoft refutes report from last week that it is moving manufacturing out of China, says there currently aren’t any plans to do so  —  Microsoft Refutes Report That it Will Move Manufacturing From China Andrew E. FreedmanJuly 8, 2019 at 12:54 PM A Microsoft store.  Credit: ShutterstockA Microsoft store.

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Superhuman still allows spying, even after last week's privacy fixes, as recipients of Superhuman emails don't know their actions are tracked or sent to senders (Mike Davidson/Mike Industries)

Mike Davidson / Mike Industries: Superhuman still allows spying, even after last week’s privacy fixes, as recipients of Superhuman emails don’t know their actions are tracked or sent to senders  —  Last week was a good week for privacy.  Or was it?  —  It took an article I almost didn’t publish and tens of thousands

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Predictive policing AI is a bigger scam than psychic detectives

Law enforcement agencies around the world have recently begun extricating themselves from expensive, ineffective predictive policing systems. The machine learning equivalent of psychic detectives, it turns out, simply doesn’t work. AI can’t predict crime In Palo Alto, California a three-year long program using predictive policing is finally being shuttered. Police spokesperson Janine De la Vega

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Medallia, which offers a customer experience management platform, sets IPO range at $16 to $18/share, will raise $247M at a valuation of $2.8B at the mid-point (NASDAQ.com)

NASDAQ.com: Medallia, which offers a customer experience management platform, sets IPO range at $16 to $18/share, will raise $247M at a valuation of $2.8B at the mid-point  —  Medallia, an enterprise customer experience and feedback management platform, announced terms for its IPO on Monday. Medallia, which offers a customer experience management platform, sets IPO range

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Interview with Instagram's Adam Mosseri about using AI to deal with bullying on the platform, reassessing its core incentives, breaking up big tech, and more (Katy Steinmetz/TIME)

Katy Steinmetz / TIME: Interview with Instagram’s Adam Mosseri about using AI to deal with bullying on the platform, reassessing its core incentives, breaking up big tech, and more  —  Ethan Cohen tried to laugh off his first experience with bullying on Instagram.  Like many kids his age, the Raleigh, N.C. … Interview with Instagram's

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