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    • OXIO, which lets big brands offer telco-type services by turning mobile data into a tradeable digital asset using tokens on blockchains, raises $12M Series A (Ian Allison/CoinDesk)

    Ian Allison / CoinDesk: OXIO, which lets big brands offer telco-type services by turning mobile data into a tradeable digital asset using tokens on blockchains, raises $12M Series A  —  OXIO wants to use blockchain to make “Telecom-as-a-Service” as common as SaaS.  —  To that end, the New York-based startup … OXIO, which lets big

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    • SoundCloud says it's rolling out verified badges for users who are "well-known and/or highly searched-for artist, collective, DJ, label, curator or podcaster" (SoundCloud Blog)

    SoundCloud Blog: SoundCloud says it’s rolling out verified badges for users who are “well-known and/or highly searched-for artist, collective, DJ, label, curator or podcaster”  —  Big news: SoundCloud is rolling out profile verification.  Official blue checkmarks will now show up in search and on profiles of verified creators. SoundCloud says it's rolling out verified badges

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    • The Los Angeles Police Department issues a moratorium on using commercial facial recognition software following inquiries about its use of Clearview AI software (BuzzFeed News)

    BuzzFeed News: The Los Angeles Police Department issues a moratorium on using commercial facial recognition software following inquiries about its use of Clearview AI software  —  The Los Angeles Police Department has banned the use of commercial facial recognition systems, following inquiries from BuzzFeed News … The Los Angeles Police Department issues a moratorium on

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    • Trust & Will, a digitally native will and estate planning startup, raises $15M Series B, led by Jackson Square Ventures (Danny Crichton/TechCrunch)

    Danny Crichton / TechCrunch: Trust & Will, a digitally native will and estate planning startup, raises $15M Series B, led by Jackson Square Ventures  —  Let’s get something morbid out of the way right up front: estate planning is a growth business in 2020.  Whether you need to create or update a will, build a

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    • President Trump has fired the official in charge of election cybersecurity

    Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call President Donald Trump announced the firing the official in charge of election cybersecurity, Christopher Krebs, in a Tuesday evening tweet. Before his firing, Krebs served as the first director of the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). Although the presidential election was widely called

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    • Researchers developed ‘explainable’ AI to help diagnose and treat at-risk children

    A pair of researchers from the Oak Ridge Laboratory have developed an “explainable” AI system designed to aid medical professionals in the diagnosis and treatment of children and adults who’ve experienced childhood adversity. While this is a decidedly narrow use-case, the nuts and bolts behind this AI have particularly interesting implications for the machine learning

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