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    • PhishLabs report: in Q3 2018, 49% of phishing sites displayed the padlock security icon next to the site's domain name in a browser address bar, up 25% YoY (Brian Krebs/Krebs on Security)

    Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: PhishLabs report: in Q3 2018, 49% of phishing sites displayed the padlock security icon next to the site’s domain name in a browser address bar, up 25% YoY  —  Maybe you were once advised to “look for the padlock” as a means of telling legitimate e-commerce sites from phishing

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    • China-based Horizon Robotics, which makes chips optimized to run neural networks, is raising up to $1B in a Series B, valuing it between $3B-$4B (Louise Lucas/Financial Times)

    Louise Lucas / Financial Times: China-based Horizon Robotics, which makes chips optimized to run neural networks, is raising up to $1B in a Series B, valuing it between $3B-$4B  —  Horizon Robotics, one of China’s leading designers of artificial intelligence chips, is raising up to $1bn in a funding round that will value it at

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    • Report: Google quietly asks for donation back from GOP politician accused of racist remark

    Google is reportedly rescinding a $5,000 donation to US senator Cindy Hyde-Smith over controversial remarks the Mississippi politician recently made. But, apparently, the company is trying to keep it under wraps. Wishy-washy is definitely in this year. In leaked emails obtained by investigative news source Popular Information, it appears Google has officially requested the campaign offices

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    • NBCUniversal debuts a machine learning tool to help brands place ads around scenes relevant to their product, by analyzing scripts, CC data, visual descriptors (Patrick Kulp/Adweek)

    Patrick Kulp / Adweek: NBCUniversal debuts a machine learning tool to help brands place ads around scenes relevant to their product, by analyzing scripts, CC data, visual descriptors  —  The tool identifies places for brands to buy spots in more opportune times  —  The next time you see, say … NBCUniversal debuts a machine learning

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    • Amazon debuts RoboMaker, a cloud-based service to let coders develop, test, and deploy their robotics applications using the open source Robot Operating System (Brian Heater/TechCrunch)

    Brian Heater / TechCrunch: Amazon debuts RoboMaker, a cloud-based service to let coders develop, test, and deploy their robotics applications using the open source Robot Operating System  —  Amazon’s kicking off Re:Invent week with the launch of AWS RoboMaker.  The cloud-based service utilizes the widely deployed … Amazon debuts RoboMaker, a cloud-based service to let

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    • Facebook's YouTube competitor Watch is pivoting to older audiences as teens tune out and the company pares down the number of shows it purchases (Michelle Castillo/CNBC)

    Michelle Castillo / CNBC: Facebook’s YouTube competitor Watch is pivoting to older audiences as teens tune out and the company pares down the number of shows it purchases  —  – Facebook’s Watch, a hub for shows and premium video content, was intended to be its big competitor to YouTube. Facebook's YouTube competitor Watch is pivoting

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    • Securitize, which helps companies issue asset-backed security tokens, raises $12.75 Series A from investors including Coinbase Ventures and Ripple's Xpring fund (Jon Russell/TechCrunch)

    Jon Russell / TechCrunch: Securitize, which helps companies issue asset-backed security tokens, raises $12.75 Series A from investors including Coinbase Ventures and Ripple’s Xpring fund  —  Coinbase, the $8 billion crypto exchange giant, is one of a bevy of big name crypto investors backing a project aimed … Securitize, which helps companies issue asset-backed security

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