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Edtech is so widespread, we already need more consumer-friendly nomenclature to describe the products, services and tools it encompasses. Continue reading Extra Crunch roundup: Edtech VC survey, 5 founder mistakes, fintech liquidity, more
Watching streamed content on a big TV can involve a good many cables running between your media streamer, soundbar or surround-sound audio setup and TV. Roku aims to cut some of the clutter with the Streambar, one unit that combines a streaming player … Continue reading Roku squeezes 4K streaming player into compact soundbar
A compelling new study has followed thousands of Canadian teenagers for several years tracking associations between screen time use and depression. The research separated different types of screen time, and found while frequent television and… Continue reading Teen depression linked to social media screen time, but video games are fine
In what appears to be the latest salvo in a new, wired form of protest, developer Sam Lavigne posted code that scrapes LinkedIn to find Immigration and Customs Enforcement employee accounts. His code, which basically a Python-based tool that scans LinkedIn for keywords, is gone from Github and Gitlab and Medium took down his original […] Continue reading Security, privacy experts weigh in on the ICE doxxing
What do you and researchers on Google’s Brain Team have most in common? You both probably spend a lot of time triaging email. In a Reddit AMA, 11 Google AI researchers took time to share the activities that consume the greatest chunks of their days. Email was a frequent topic of conversation in addition to less banal activities like skimming academic papers and brainstorming with… Read More Continue reading A typical day for researchers on Google’s Brain Team
But critics say the copyright changes will kill memes. Continue reading Europe Is Moving Closer to Forcing Google to Pay for News Summaries
Today Facebook, Microsoft, YouTube and Twitter collectively announced a new partnership aimed at reducing the accessibility of internet services to terrorists. The new Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism adds structure to existing efforts by the companies to target and remove recruiting materials for terror groups from major web platforms. Together, the four tech leaders say they… Read More Continue reading Facebook, Microsoft, YouTube and Twitter form Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism
Today Facebook, Microsoft, YouTube and Twitter collectively announced a new partnership aimed at reducing the accessibility of internet services to terrorists. The new Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism adds structure to existing efforts by the companies to target and remove recruiting materials for terror groups from major web platforms. Together, the four tech leaders say they… Read More Continue reading Facebook, Microsoft, YouTube and Twitter form Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism
Google is announcing a major update to its store visits measurement tool today at its Google Marketing Next conference. Google has used anonymized location and contextual data since 2014 to estimate brick and mortar store visits spurred by online… Continue reading Google is now using deep learning to measure store visits
Aiden, a London-based startup building a machine learning-powered personal assistant to save mobile marketers time and money, closed a $750,000 seed round today from Kima Ventures and a number of angels, including Nicolas Pinto, Pierre Valade and… Continue reading Aiden closes $750,000 seed round in its quest to amplify marketers