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    • YouTube's use of demonetization as a form of punishment is not the same as moderation and does not work on major creators who have other sources of revenue (Julia Alexander/The Verge)

    Julia Alexander / The Verge: YouTube’s use of demonetization as a form of punishment is not the same as moderation and does not work on major creators who have other sources of revenue  —  Steven Crowder’s case is a perfect example  —  When YouTube wanted to punish political pundit Steven Crowder amid widespread outcry …

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    • SV Academy, a startup that provides free 12-week training programs to help people get tech-based sales jobs, raises $9.5M Series A led by Owl Ventures (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)

    Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: SV Academy, a startup that provides free 12-week training programs to help people get tech-based sales jobs, raises $9.5M Series A led by Owl Ventures  —  When you live in Silicon Valley, it feels like nearly everyone works in tech and that entry into the industry is wide open. SV Academy,

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    • Parent company of Jack'd, a gay dating app with 6M+ users, settles complaint over flaw that had exposed private user photos on a public server for over a year (Adi Robertson/The Verge)

    Adi Robertson / The Verge: Parent company of Jack’d, a gay dating app with 6M+ users, settles complaint over flaw that had exposed private user photos on a public server for over a year  —  New York’s attorney general has settled a complaint over gay, bisexual, and queer dating app Jack’d, whose parent company left

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    • Struggling display maker Japan Display says a customer will invest $100M as part of a bailout led by a Chinese investment firm; source: the customer is Apple (Makiko Yamazaki/Reuters)

    Makiko Yamazaki / Reuters: Struggling display maker Japan Display says a customer will invest $100M as part of a bailout led by a Chinese investment firm; source: the customer is Apple  —  TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan Display Inc (6740.T) said on Friday it would receive a $100 million investment from a customer … Struggling display

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    • Ive's departure indicates that the era of the singular genius at Apple is over, and we should stop thinking of Apple as the singular expression of one person (Dieter Bohn/The Verge)

    Dieter Bohn / The Verge: Ive’s departure indicates that the era of the singular genius at Apple is over, and we should stop thinking of Apple as the singular expression of one person  —  Design by committee isn’t necessarily bad  —  As the news about Jony Ive leaving Apple sinks in, you’ll be seeing a

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    • Report: multiple publishers have been unimpressed with revenue from Apple News+; one said revenue has been one twentieth of what Apple said it would be (Juli Clover/MacRumors)

    Juli Clover / MacRumors: Report: multiple publishers have been unimpressed with revenue from Apple News+; one said revenue has been one twentieth of what Apple said it would be  —  Apple News+ seems to be floundering just months after its launch, according to new details from participating magazine publishers shared by Business Insider. Report: multiple

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    • EA patches flaw in its Origin platform, used by tens of millions, that could let hackers access all of a user's personal account data without any login details (Danny Palmer/ZDNet)

    Danny Palmer / ZDNet: EA patches flaw in its Origin platform, used by tens of millions, that could let hackers access all of a user’s personal account data without any login details  —  Tech security companies said a “chain of vulnerabilities”, now fixed, could have left accounts vulnerable to attack. EA patches flaw in its

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    • HP Spectre x360 15 AMOLED review: a 2-in-1 with a bright and pixel-dense 4K screen, but not as fast as other laptops, has average battery life, abysmal trackpad (Dan Seifert/The Verge)

    Dan Seifert / The Verge: HP Spectre x360 15 AMOLED review: a 2-in-1 with a bright and pixel-dense 4K screen, but not as fast as other laptops, has average battery life, abysmal trackpad  —  The Spectre x360 15 AMOLED has an amazing screen, but it isn’t without other faults  —  OLED has been the de

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    • SpaceX is in communication with all but three of 60 Starlink satellites one month after launch

    It’s been over a month since SpaceX launched its first batch of 60 internet-beaming satellites for the company’s massive Starlink initiative, and all but three of the satellites seem to be working as intended. Initially, SpaceX was able to communicate with all 60 spacecraft after launch, but eventually lost communication with three outliers. The uncommunicative

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    • Bumble adds in-app video and audio calls, with the option to start a call appearing only after a match has been made (Ashley Carman/The Verge)

    Ashley Carman / The Verge: Bumble adds in-app video and audio calls, with the option to start a call appearing only after a match has been made  —  Bringing video into online dating  —  Bumble’s figured out a new way to bring video to its app: in-app voice or video calling.  The feature applies to

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