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| Mark Graham / Internet Archive Blogs: |
The Internet Archive starts adding banners on some Wayback Machine pages with links that provide contextual information from fact-checking organizations — Fact checking organizations and origin websites sometimes have information about pages archived in the Wayback Machine.
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Reclaim The Net. Tweets: @internetarchive, @waybackmachine, @xor, @ngleicher, @noupside, @balajis, and @skepticaliblog
| David Pierce / Protocol: |
A profile of Discord, which lies at the center of the gaming world with 100M+ MAUs, as it pushes to turn into a communication tool for everyone, not just gamers — Most longtime Discord users have a similar origin story. They liked playing video games, and liked playing with their friends …
Tweets: @kevinctofel, @panzer, @postimusmaximus, @aweary, @martinsfp, @s8mb, @lordravenscraft, @protocol, @bromid, and @protocol
| Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
Twitter lifts restrictions from the NY Post's Twitter account, updating its practice of “not retroactively overturning prior enforcement” — Social-media company reverses policy that previously required newspaper to delete old tweets before being able to tweet again
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New York Post, New York Post, The Hill, The Verge, Mediaite, and TheBlaze
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| Nandita Mathur / Livemint: |
Forty-six top US companies including Apple, Google, and Twitter have filed an amicus brief supporting a legal challenge to block Trump admin's H-1B visa changes — - The move comes in the wake of the US administration's proposal to scrap the computerized lottery system to grant H-1B work visas … | Karen Hao / MIT Technology Review: |
Researchers have developed a deep learning technique that can significantly decrease the computational capacity required to solve partial differential equations — Partial differential equations can describe everything from planetary motion to plate tectonics, but they're notoriously hard to solve.
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| Elliott Ackerman / Wired: |
Profile of Shield AI, which raised money from a16z and others to develop autonomous military drones that scan buildings to help soldiers clear them — On the battlefield, any doorway can be a death trap. A special ops vet, and his businessman brother, have built an AI to solve that problem.| FinSMEs: |
DriveWealth raises $56.7M Series C for its digital brokerage services that help broker-dealers and its global online partners access the US securities market — DriveWealth, LLC, a Chatam, N.J.-based global digital trading technology company, raised $56.7m in Series C funding.
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TechCrunch, Business Insider, AltFi, Business Wire, Benzinga, Financial Planning, Pulse 2.0, Finextra, and Fintech Today
| Christine Hall / Crunchbase News: |
Cloud video surveillance company Eagle Eye Networks raises $40M Series E from Accel to invest in new AI projects such as license plate recognition — Eagle Eye Networks, a cloud video surveillance company, raised $40 million in Series E funding from Accel to advance its platform.| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Wise, a fintech startup that partners with other companies so that they can offer business bank accounts to their own customers, raises $12M Series A — Fintech startup Wise has raised a $12 million Series A round. The company offers business bank accounts with an interesting go-to-market strategy.
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Skan, which helps enterprises automate repetitive business processes by combining data engineering with computer vision, raises $14M Series A — Skan.ai, an AI-enabled process discovery and operational intelligence platform, today closed $14 million in funding.
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Cheddar, Skan, Pulse 2.0, Crowdfund Insider, and FinSMEs
| Annie Musgrove / Tech.eu: |
Odaseva, a France-based data protection services provider for large-scale Salesforce customers, raises $25M Series B led by Eight Roads Ventures — French SaaS company Odaseva has raised $25 million in Series B funding to continue growing its data governance platform for enterprise.
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SearchDataBackup, AiThority, Crunchbase News, and Odaseva
| Kaitlyn Tiffany / The Atlantic: |
How Trump's presidency has changed the internet, from fueling conspiracy theories to forcing social media platforms to reexamine their content policies — Being online has changed Donald Trump. He was the internet's candidate in 2016—he appears in Urban Dictionary's definition of meme god … Sponsor Posts
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Think Twice: Know how Zoho Mail protects you from spam — In the first two parts of the Think Twice series we discussed email spam, those uninvited guests who wreak havoc at your email party, as well as types of email spam and tips to prevent it.
Think Twice: Know how Zoho Mail protects you from spam — In the first two parts of the Think Twice series we discussed email spam, those uninvited guests who wreak havoc at your email party, as well as types of email spam and tips to prevent it.
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The Event of the Year for Cloud Native — Keep cloud native connected! Free keynote passes available. Nov 17-20.
The Event of the Year for Cloud Native — Keep cloud native connected! Free keynote passes available. Nov 17-20.
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It's OK to Disconnect Sometimes. — How to Prevent Mental Fatigue & Information Overload.
It's OK to Disconnect Sometimes. — How to Prevent Mental Fatigue & Information Overload.
Intel:
11th Gen Intel Core desktop processors - codenamed “Rocket Lake” - are coming — Gaming is in our DNA. Get the latest on Intel's continued journey to make the PC the best place to play.
11th Gen Intel Core desktop processors - codenamed “Rocket Lake” - are coming — Gaming is in our DNA. Get the latest on Intel's continued journey to make the PC the best place to play.Who's Hiring In Tech?
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Karen Hao / MIT Technology Review:
Researchers have developed a deep learning technique that can significantly decrease the computational capacity required to solve partial differential equationsFind
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A profile of Discord, which lies at the center of the gaming world with 100M+ MAUs, as it pushes to turn into a communication tool for everyone, not just gamersFind
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Christine Hall / Crunchbase News:
Cloud video surveillance company Eagle Eye Networks raises $40M Series E from Accel to invest in new AI projects such as license plate recognitionFind
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Nick Greenhalgh / Denver Business Journal:
StackHawk, whose tech helps developers find application security vulnerabilities before they get into production, raises $10M Series A led by Sapphire VenturesFind
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Romain Dillet / TechCrunch:
Wise, a fintech startup that partners with other companies so that they can offer business bank accounts to their own customers, raises $12M Series AFind
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Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat:
Skan, which helps enterprises automate repetitive business processes by combining data engineering with computer vision, raises $14M Series AFind
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DriveWealth raises $56.7M Series C for its digital brokerage services that help broker-dealers and its global online partners access the US securities marketFind
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