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    • AI-produced music raises copyright questions on whether AI or their human creators can claim authorship and whether artists mimicked by AI should be compensated (Dani Deahl/The Verge)

    Dani Deahl / The Verge: AI-produced music raises copyright questions on whether AI or their human creators can claim authorship and whether artists mimicked by AI should be compensated  —  AI is capable of making music, but does that make AI an artist?  As AI begins to reshape how music is made … AI-produced music

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    • On Game Boy's 30th anniversary, a behind-the-scenes account of how Nintendo leveraged games like Tetris and Pokémon to appeal to the North American market (Richard Moss/Polygon)

    Richard Moss / Polygon: On Game Boy’s 30th anniversary, a behind-the-scenes account of how Nintendo leveraged games like Tetris and Pokémon to appeal to the North American market  —  We look back ahead of the console’s 30th anniversary  —  Nintendo couldn’t do much wrong, come 1989. On Game Boy's 30th anniversary, a behind-the-scenes account of

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    • French startup Alsid, whose SaaS solution helps companies monitor and protect Microsoft Active Directory installation, raises $14.7M Series A led by Idinvest (Romain Dillet/TechCrunch)

    Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: French startup Alsid, whose SaaS solution helps companies monitor and protect Microsoft Active Directory installation, raises $14.7M Series A led by Idinvest  —  French startup Alsid has raised a $14.7 million funding round (€13 million).  The company is working on a security solution … French startup Alsid, whose SaaS solution helps

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    • Toronto-based Lendified, an online lender offering small business loans of up to $150K available within 48 hours, raises $15M Series A (Meagan Simpson/BetaKit)

    Meagan Simpson / BetaKit: Toronto-based Lendified, an online lender offering small business loans of up to $150K available within 48 hours, raises $15M Series A  —  Lendified, a Toronto-based FinTech, announced today that it has closed a $15 million CAD Series A funding round, in order to continue its growth within Canada. Toronto-based Lendified, an

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    • Serena Williams reveals Serena Ventures, a fund she founded in 2014 that has backed 30 startups so far across e-commerce, fashion, and social good (Yomi Kazeem/Quartz)

    Yomi Kazeem / Quartz: Serena Williams reveals Serena Ventures, a fund she founded in 2014 that has backed 30 startups so far across e-commerce, fashion, and social good  —  Andela, the developer training and outsourcing company with operations in four African countries, already has a high-powered roll call … Serena Williams reveals Serena Ventures, a

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    • The French Government officially launches Tchap, its own messaging app with end-to-end encryption, after patching a security flaw found upon initial release (Romain Dillet/TechCrunch)

    Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: The French Government officially launches Tchap, its own messaging app with end-to-end encryption, after patching a security flaw found upon initial release  —  The French government just launched its own messaging app called Tchap in order to protect conversations from hackers, private companies and foreign entities. The French Government officially launches

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    • Sources: Qualcomm's joint venture with Guizhou province on a server chip plant will be shut down; Qualcomm and the province spent $570M on the plant since 2016 (The Information)

    The Information: Sources: Qualcomm’s joint venture with Guizhou province on a server chip plant will be shut down; Qualcomm and the province spent $570M on the plant since 2016  —  A joint venture between Qualcomm and the government of a rural Chinese province to make server chips will wind down by the end of the

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    • HipChat co-founders raise $3M in seed funding for Swoot, a social podcast app that lets users recommend podcasts and see what their friends are listening to (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)

    Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: HipChat co-founders raise $3M in seed funding for Swoot, a social podcast app that lets users recommend podcasts and see what their friends are listening to  —  Pete Curley and Garret Heaton, who previously co-founded team chat app HipChat and sold it to Atlassian, are officially launching their new product Swoot

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    • Research paper argues that Facebook increased user surveillance as its competitors exited the market, makes the case for antitrust action against the company (Cory Doctorow/Boing Boing)

    Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing: Research paper argues that Facebook increased user surveillance as its competitors exited the market, makes the case for antitrust action against the company  —  In 2017, a 28-year-old law student named Lina Kahn turned the antitrust world on its ear with her Yale Law Review paper … Research paper argues

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    • Autonomous car startup Pony.ai launches PonyPilot, a pilot ride-hailing service for its employees within a 50 square kilometer area in Guangzhou, China (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

    Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Autonomous car startup Pony.ai launches PonyPilot, a pilot ride-hailing service for its employees within a 50 square kilometer area in Guangzhou, China  —  Guangzhou, China-based self-driving startup Pony.ai is joining an exclusive club of companies that have launched autonomous ride-hailing programs. Autonomous car startup Pony.ai launches PonyPilot, a pilot ride-hailing service

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    • SiriusXM launches SiriusXM Essential, an $8/month streaming only plan for mobiles and smart speakers that gives access to 200+ channels (Janko Roettgers/Variety)

    Janko Roettgers / Variety: SiriusXM launches SiriusXM Essential, an $8/month streaming only plan for mobiles and smart speakers that gives access to 200+ channels  —  SiriusXM wants to cater consumers without cars, or cars without compatible stereos, with a new $8 plan for mobile and in-home listening. SiriusXM launches SiriusXM Essential, an /month streaming only

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    • Report: CIA shared intelligence with US allies showing Huawei received funding from Chinese security and intelligence agencies and the People's Liberation Army (Zak Doffman/Forbes)

    Zak Doffman / Forbes: Report: CIA shared intelligence with US allies showing Huawei received funding from Chinese security and intelligence agencies and the People’s Liberation Army  —  Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own.  — Share to facebook  — Share to twitter  — Share to linkedin Report: CIA shared intelligence with US allies showing

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    • GM's Cruise execs talk about the autonomous driving unit's history, its progress and plans, internal development tools they use, and more (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

    Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: GM’s Cruise execs talk about the autonomous driving unit’s history, its progress and plans, internal development tools they use, and more  —  According to marketing firm ABI, as many as 8 million driverless cars will be added to the road in 2025.  Meanwhile, Research and Markets is predicting … GM's Cruise

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