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Jan

Twitter Is Struggling but Jack Dorsey’s Other Company Is Nearing an All-Time High

Text size While Twitter (TWTR) shares wilt under the threat of government regulation, Jack Dorsey’s other company is on the precipice of an all-time high stock price. Square (SQ) stock, which was trading at $89.65 per share Monday afternoon, is up an eye-popping 158% this year, and 228% over the past 12 months. Since Aug. […]

Jan

Facebook backs Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence with $7.5 million

Facebook will donate $7.5 million for the creation of The Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence, a research center being made to explore topics such as transparency and accountability in medical treatment and human rights in human-AI interaction. The announcement was made today during a speech by COO Sheryl Sandberg at the Digital Life Design (DLD) conference […]

Jan

3 Reasons Why Your Success Depends on More Than a Great Product

Creating a high-quality product is just one part of building a profitable business. The reality is that a myopic focus on product development can ultimately prevent you from achieving your business goals. Unfortunately, this notion is one that many growing companies don’t understand until it’s too late. For most companies — and all early-stage startups […]

Jan

Verizon offers free robocall blocking, two years after AT&T and T-Mobile

Enlarge / A Verizon logo at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Verizon yesterday said it will make spam and robocall blocking features free for all wireless customers starting in March, about two years after AT&T and T-Mobile began offering free robocall blocking. “In March, we will be rolling out our free spam […]

Jan

Giving algorithms a sense of uncertainty could make them more ethical

Algorithms are increasingly being used to make ethical decisions. Perhaps the best example of this is a high-tech take on the ethical dilemma known as the trolley problem: if a self-driving car cannot stop itself from killing one of two pedestrians, how should the car’s control software choose who live and who dies? In reality, […]

Jan

The social layer is ironically key to Bitcoin’s security – TechCrunch

A funny thing happened in the second half of 2018. At some moment, all the people active in crypto looked around and realized there weren’t very many of us. The friends we’d convinced during the last holiday season were no longer speaking to us. They had stopped checking their Coinbase accounts. The tide had gone […]

Jan

Tech companies funding journalism projects deepens their codependence and implies the media is the exception that should be protected from tech’s disruption (James Ball/Columbia Journalism Review)

James Ball / Columbia Journalism Review: Tech companies funding journalism projects deepens their codependence and implies the media is the exception that should be protected from tech’s disruption — Yesterday, Facebook announced it would spend $300 million over three years on journalistic content, partnerships, and programs. Source link