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YouTube debuts Super Stickers, which show up in chat, as a new way for creators to make money; since Super Chat's 2017 launch over 100,000 channels have used it (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: YouTube debuts Super Stickers, which show up in chat, as a new way for creators to make money; since Super Chat’s 2017 launch over 100,000 channels have used it  —  YouTube today is expanding the ways creators can make money with the global launch of a new feature, Super Stickers. YouTube

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Civil rights leaders from 10 groups dined with Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg, and Nick Clegg to discuss Facebook's political ad rules and more (Cat Zakrzewski/Washington Post)

Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: Civil rights leaders from 10 groups dined with Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg, and Nick Clegg to discuss Facebook’s political ad rules and more  —  Activists are hopeful they’re getting through to the Facebook chief. Civil rights leaders from 10 groups dined with Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg, and Nick Clegg to

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V-Moda’s first reference studio headphones are coming this month for $350

Image: V-Moda V-Moda’s M100 headphones, later iterated upon with the Crossfade Wireless and Crossfade 2 Wireless, were a fantastic value and a crowd favorite for their durability, bass-forward performance, and customizable side plates. Today, the company is introducing the M200 headphones, but these aren’t meant for your Spotify playlists and they’re not pitched to mainstream

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Brazilian mobility startup Kovi, which rents vehicles to on-demand drivers, raises $30M Series A led by Global Founders Capital (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)

Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: Brazilian mobility startup Kovi, which rents vehicles to on-demand drivers, raises $30M Series A led by Global Founders Capital  —  Kovi, a fast-growing 17-month-old Brazilian mobility startup, has raised a $30 million Series A led by Global Founders Capital. Brazilian mobility startup Kovi, which rents vehicles to on-demand drivers,

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FTC says AT&T has agreed to pay $60M to settle the agency's 2014 lawsuit that alleged it lied to customers about "unlimited" data plans that it throttled (Makena Kelly/The Verge)

Makena Kelly / The Verge: FTC says AT&T has agreed to pay $60M to settle the agency’s 2014 lawsuit that alleged it lied to customers about “unlimited” data plans that it throttled  —  Unlimited should mean unlimited!  —  On Tuesday, the Federal Trade Commission announced that AT&T will pay $60 million to settle a case

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Toronto-based Untether AI raises $20M Series A from Intel Capital, Radical Ventures, and others to develop machine learning inferencing hardware (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Toronto-based Untether AI raises $20M Series A from Intel Capital, Radical Ventures, and others to develop machine learning inferencing hardware  —  Untether AI, a Toronto-based startup that’s developing high-efficiency, high-performance chips for AI inferencing workloads … Toronto-based Untether AI raises M Series A from Intel Capital, Radical Ventures, and others to

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Inside TikTok: A culture clash where U.S. views about censorship often were overridden by the Chinese bosses

The tensions inside TikTok’s Beijing-based parent company highlight a growing challenge for the American Internet as Chinese tech giants race to expand and compete more directly with social-media firms in the West. Inside TikTok: A culture clash where U.S. views about censorship often were overridden by the Chinese bosses Source: Washington Post Tech

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What happened in the comments section of the FCC’s net neutrality hearing?

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge This week on The Vergecast, Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel talks with Jeremy Singer-Vine, the data editor for the BuzzFeed News investigative unit, about his story that was published recently regarding the fake comments on the Federal Communications Commission’s online net neutrality debate. If you haven’t read the piece,

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