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1. Unsealed court documents reveal that Facebook knew kids were being tricked into spending thousands of dollars on their parents' credit cards
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... paint a picture of a company whose internal staff raised multiple red flags about kids using their parents' cards in this way, and whose concerns were brushed off in the name of profits. One very disturbing ...

2. Tesla is laying off 7 percent of its full-time employees
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk has announced that the company is laying off 7 percent of its full-time employees in an effort to cut costs and increase profits. He revealed that while Tesla will run a second consecutive ...

3. Google, 25 milioni per app di IA a fini sociali
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Con il bando AI Impact Challenge, Google finanzierà i migliori progetti no profit sull’uso benefico dell’intelligenza artificiale. The post Google, 25 milioni per app di IA a fini sociali appeared first ...

4. Fitbit users can share data with the National Institutes of Health
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Fitbit is following a stellar 2018, which saw it bounce back to profit thanks in part to its Versa smartwatch, by diving even further into healthcare. As part of a new team-up with the National Institutes ...

5. Dark markets have evolved to use encrypted messengers and dead-drops
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... risks, the prices of their merchandise plummeted, while their profits soared. But much of the security of dark markets was an illusion. The anonymity of cryptocurrencies could often be pierced; the services ...

6. GM will make Cadillac its 'lead' electric vehicle brand
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While Chevrolet launched the Volt plug-in hybrid and pure-electric Bolt, Cadillac has taken a backseat in GM's electric vehicle push. Now as it attempts to find profits in that segment, the company's ...

7. Not customers: doctors have patients, libraries have patrons, lawyers have clients and teachers have students
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... years, I've been dismayed by the rise of "CEOs" and other corporate titles in the nonprofit sector.) We live in a complex, technological society, where navigating the everyday (deciding what to eat, how ...

8. SpaceX will lay off 10 percent of its staff to fund projects
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SpaceX is letting around 10 percent of its 6,000-plus employees go, according Reuters and Ars Technica. The private space corporation previously said it's been profitable for years, thanks to lucrative ...

9. SpaceX laid off 10% of its employees
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Elon Musk's SpaceX let go 10% of its 6,000 person staff today. In May of last year, the company stated that it has had "many years" of continuing profitability and in recent weeks raised $273 million ...

10. GoFundMe shuts down Trump border wall campaign
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... said all donations will be returned to donors unless they specify within 90 days that they want their donation to be redirected to the new non-profit. What a clusterfuck. And if things weren't already ...

11. Lionsgate accused of abusing YouTube's contentID system to remove criticism of its movies
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... but which sometimes contain no copyrightable material at all! Some fraudsters profit from contentID claims on content they know they don't own. But the ContentID system is so shambolically defective it ...

12. Panasonic Lumix S
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Approfittando del CES 2019 di Las Vegas, Panasonic ha rilasciato ulteriori specifiche sulle prossime mirrorless Lumix S1 e Lumix S1R. The post Panasonic Lumix S appeared first on Webnews. Read all  ...

13. Da Panasonic nuovi dettagli sulle Lumix S1 e S1R
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Approfittando del CES 2019 di Las Vegas, Panasonic ha rilasciato ulteriori specifiche sulle prossime mirrorless Lumix S1 e Lumix S1R. The post Da Panasonic nuovi dettagli sulle Lumix S1 e S1R appeared ...

14. LA's teachers are ready to strike on Tuesday, rejecting privatization of public education
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... into their own pockets. The Democratic Party establishment fucking loves Ronald Reagan and firmly embraces the doctrine that says that state functions should be shifted to for-profit private hands -- ...

15. LAWSUIT: Los Angeles accuses Weather Channel app of secretly mining user data
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... shared and profited from the location information of millions of American consumers, the city attorney of Los Angeles said in a lawsuit filed on Thursday. One of the most popular online weather services ...

16. Gamer who attacked wife on livestream reinstated by Twitch (UPDATE: banned again)
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... only two weeks, the service has restored Luke Munday's account and is profiting from his newfound notoriety. Twitch and Munday and Munday’s attorney didn’t respond to requests for comment from The ...

17. Intel-powered camera uses AI to protect endangered African wildlife
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Technology is already in use to help stop poachers. However, it's frequently limited to monitoring poachers when they're already in shooting range, or after the fact. The non-profit group Resolve ...

18. Google Assistant permette di fare beneficenza
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Con Google Assistant sarà possibile effettuare donazioni a organizzazioni no profit semplicemente con la propria voce. The post Google Assistant permette di fare beneficenza appeared first on Webnews. ...

19. Government shutdown puts national parks in nightmare mode
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... more: Unlike shutdowns in some previous administrations, the Trump administration was leaving parks open to visitors despite the staff furloughs, said John Garder, senior budget director of the nonprofit ...

20. Math against crimes against humanity: Using rigorous statistics to prove genocide when the dead cannot speak for themselves
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... getting killed." Last year, Ball decided to fill in the blanks. With colleagues from Data Cívica, a non-profit, and the Human Rights Program at Ibero-American University, both in Mexico City, he developed ...

21. Detaining immigrants is big business
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... United States has become. “In 2018 alone, for-profit immigration detention was a nearly $1 billion industry underwritten by taxpayers and beset by problems that include suicide, minimal oversight, and ...

22. Protests after violent seizure of Peking University's Marxist Society
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... oligarchs who have been profiting from the processes of capitalist restoration since 1978 and is well aware that it is sitting on top of a social time bomb. Read the rest Read all  ...

23. Scratch is hiring an executive director
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... the Scratch Team will be moving out of MIT into a separate nonprofit organization (the Scratch Foundation). We’re looking to hire a new Executive Director to help build this organization and develop strategies ...

24. How a millionaire slumlord got sweetheart government deals to maintain armed forces housing and then left them to rot
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... profits soared, with Picerne's payday heading toward the billion-dollar mark -- even as they scaled back maintenance. Meanwhile Picerne has bought a 100-acre Irish estate with two mansions, a Palm Beach ...

25. Carcinogens, monopolies, influence-peddling: Juul is a microcosm with everything wrong in the world
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... the Wall Street Journal notes, Marlboro's Juul buyout is a good deal for both companies: Marlboro gets to profit from a new generation of children who are hooked for life on a carcinogenic product, and ...