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In internal letter, Facebook moderators in Austin claim Accenture managers pressured on-site counselors to divulge info on trauma sessions; one counselor quit (Sam Biddle/The Intercept)

Sam Biddle / The Intercept: In internal letter, Facebook moderators in Austin claim Accenture managers pressured on-site counselors to divulge info on trauma sessions; one counselor quit  —  Nearly 1,500 miles from the Menlo Park headquarters of Facebook, at a company outpost in Austin, Texas, moderators toil around … In internal letter, Facebook moderators in

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Google's Area 120 incubator is testing Fundo, a service for YouTube creators to sell invites to online events, personalized shoutouts to fans, and more (Janko Roettgers/Variety)

Janko Roettgers / Variety: Google’s Area 120 incubator is testing Fundo, a service for YouTube creators to sell invites to online events, personalized shoutouts to fans, and more  —  Google’s skunkworks lab Area 120 has been quietly testing an events-centric crowdfunding service for YouTubers, Variety has learned. Google's Area 120 incubator is testing Fundo, a

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You Need a Cyberdeck, this Board Will Help

In 1984, William Gibson’s novel Neuromancer helped kick off the cyberpunk genre that many hackers have been delighting in ever since. Years before Tim Berners-Lee created the World Wide Web, Gibson was imagining worldwide computer networks and omnipresent artificial intelligence. One of his most famous fictional creations is the cyberdeck, a powerful mobile computer that

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SmileDirectClub, which ships teeth-aligners directly to users, with dental professionals monitoring patient progress remotely, files for an IPO (Megan Rose Dickey/TechCrunch)

Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: SmileDirectClub, which ships teeth-aligners directly to users, with dental professionals monitoring patient progress remotely, files for an IPO  —  SmileDirectClub, the at-home teeth-straightening service, is on its way to becoming a public company.  SmileDirectClub is seeking to raise … SmileDirectClub, which ships teeth-aligners directly to users, with dental professionals monitoring

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Federal judge rules Georgia will have to fall back to paper ballots if it doesn't replace its electronic voting machines with a secure system for 2020 election (Timothy B. Lee/Ars Technica)

Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica: Federal judge rules Georgia will have to fall back to paper ballots if it doesn’t replace its electronic voting machines with a secure system for 2020 election  —  Judge finds several serious flaws with Georgia’s current election technology.  —  Election security advocates scored a major victory … Federal judge

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Beto O’Rourke seeks new limits on Section 230 as part of gun violence proposal

Photo by Sandy Huffaker/Getty Images On Friday, 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke announced a sweeping policy plan to counter hate speech and gun violence in America that specifically proposes changes to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, one of the tech industry’s most pivotal legal protections. Outside of proposing a nationwide gun licensing

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