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    • Israeli ride-hailing service Gett, which anticipates becoming profitable later this year, is planning an IPO on either the London Stock Exchange or in Israel (Financial Times)

    Financial Times: Israeli ride-hailing service Gett, which anticipates becoming profitable later this year, is planning an IPO on either the London Stock Exchange or in Israel  —  Taxi-hailing company Gett, which anticipates becoming profitable later this year, is planning an initial public offering to cash … Israeli ride-hailing service Gett, which anticipates becoming profitable later

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    • Slack launches Enterprise Key Management, a tool that enables customers in regulated industries to control their encryption keys and revoke them if required (Ron Miller/TechCrunch)

    Ron Miller / TechCrunch: Slack launches Enterprise Key Management, a tool that enables customers in regulated industries to control their encryption keys and revoke them if required  —  Slack announced today that it is launching Enterprise Key Management (EKM) for Slack, a new tool that enables customers to control … Slack launches Enterprise Key Management,

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    • Inside YouTube's efforts to shut down uploads, coming as quickly as 1 per second, of the Christchurch shooting as uploaders managed to evade its detection tools (Washington Post)

    Washington Post: Inside YouTube’s efforts to shut down uploads, coming as quickly as 1 per second, of the Christchurch shooting as uploaders managed to evade its detection tools  —  SAN FRANCISCO — As a grisly video recorded by the alleged perpetrator of Friday’s bloody massacres at two New Zealand mosques played … Inside YouTube's efforts

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    • Stanford is launching the Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence to put humans and ethics at the center of AI and aims to raise $1B+ (Elizabeth Dwoskin/Washington Post)

    Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: Stanford is launching the Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence to put humans and ethics at the center of AI and aims to raise $1B+  —  PALO ALTO, Calif. — A Stanford University scientist coined the term artificial intelligence.  Others at the university created … Stanford is launching the Institute for

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    • An overview of Apple's big spending plan to challenge streaming incumbents like Netflix, ahead of its March 25 "It's show time" event (John Koblin/New York Times)

    John Koblin / New York Times: An overview of Apple’s big spending plan to challenge streaming incumbents like Netflix, ahead of its March 25 “It’s show time” event  —  Apple is coming to Hollywood.  —  Delete that.  —  Hollywood is going to Apple.  —  On March 25, a delegation of producers … An overview of

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    • UKCloud, which provides cloud infrastructure for the public sector, raises £25M from Digital Alpha (Andrii Degeler/Tech.eu)

    Andrii Degeler / Tech.eu: UKCloud, which provides cloud infrastructure for the public sector, raises £25M from Digital Alpha  —  British cloud infrastructure provider for the public sector UKCloud has landed a £25 million funding round from Digital Alpha.  The company is working with the UK’s health … UKCloud, which provides cloud infrastructure for the public

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    • OneWeb, which recently launched its first constellation of micro-satellites to provide global internet access, raises $1.25B to begin mass producing satellites (Paul Sawers/VentureBeat)

    Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: OneWeb, which recently launched its first constellation of micro-satellites to provide global internet access, raises $1.25B to begin mass producing satellites  —  OneWeb, a space startup that recently launched its first “constellation” of micro-satellites to deliver broadband access across the globe … OneWeb, which recently launched its first constellation of micro-satellites

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    • Fidelity National has agreed to acquire Worldpay for ~$34B in cash and stock, in the biggest deal ever in the booming international payments sector (Bloomberg)

    Bloomberg: Fidelity National has agreed to acquire Worldpay for ~$34B in cash and stock, in the biggest deal ever in the booming international payments sector  —  Fidelity National Information Services Inc. agreed to combine with Worldpay Inc. for about $43 billion including debt … Fidelity National has agreed to acquire Worldpay for ~B in cash

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    Inside YouTube’s struggles to shut down video of the New Zealand shooting — and the humans who outsmarted its systems

    A new recut or repackaged version of the video showing the massacre was uploaded to YouTube every second, chief product officer Neal Mohan said in an interview with The Washington Post, offering the first detailed account of how the crisis unfolded inside the world’s largest video site. Inside YouTube’s struggles to shut down video of

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