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    • FloSports, a $150/year live and on-demand streaming service focusing on niche sports, raises $47M Series C led by Discovery, bringing the total raised to $75M (Todd Spangler/Variety)

    Todd Spangler / Variety: FloSports, a $150/year live and on-demand streaming service focusing on niche sports, raises $47M Series C led by Discovery, bringing the total raised to $75M  —  NY Digital Editor @https://twitter.com/xpangler FOLLOW  —  FloSports, a provider of live-streaming and on-demand niche sports programming … FloSports, a 0/year live and on-demand streaming service

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    • iOS 13 shows a pop-up with a map of location data an app has tracked and its reasons for needing the data, when asking permission for background location access (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)

    Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: iOS 13 shows a pop-up with a map of location data an app has tracked and its reasons for needing the data, when asking permission for background location access  —  Apple continued its strong focus on privacy with the announcement of iOS 13 this week.  The update includes several new privacy

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    • How 12,000+ videos watched by a young man on YouTube since 2015 first pulled him into a far-right rabbit hole and more recently into a left-wing universe (Kevin Roose/New York Times)

    Kevin Roose / New York Times: How 12,000+ videos watched by a young man on YouTube since 2015 first pulled him into a far-right rabbit hole and more recently into a left-wing universe  —  Over years of reporting on internet culture, I’ve heard countless versions of Mr. Cain’s story: an aimless young man — usually

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    • Google details the root cause behind the recent outage that caused Google Cloud to lose a third of its traffic, which affected Snapchat and YouTube among others (Brian Barrett/Wired)

    Brian Barrett / Wired: Google details the root cause behind the recent outage that caused Google Cloud to lose a third of its traffic, which affected Snapchat and YouTube among others  —  FIVE DAYS AGO, the internet had a conniption.  In broad patches around the globe, YouTube sputtered.  Shopify stores shut down. Google details the

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    • Amazon VP Sean Scott talks about how his team built the Scout delivery robot, which is currently in field testing, how Scout finds its way around, and more (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)

    Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Amazon VP Sean Scott talks about how his team built the Scout delivery robot, which is currently in field testing, how Scout finds its way around, and more  —  Earlier this year, Amazon announced its Scout sidewalk delivery robot.  At the time, details were sparse, except for the fact … Amazon

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