Malaysia follows India as it looks to WhatsApp to curb fake news.
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After weeks of reports that Didi Chuxing, the Uber of China, was raising another monster round of funding, today the company confirmed the close: it has raised a fresh $5.5 billion, it said in a statement today, to continue global expansion and to invest deeper into emerging areas like artificial intelligence to bring more advanced systems to its transportation service. The company… Read More
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Google Wifi, the mesh router that Google unveiled first last October, is now on sale in Canada. The router sells either individually for $179 CDN, or in a 3-pack for $439 CDN, which is pretty close to U.S. pricing given current exchange rates. The Wifi solution’s mesh networking approach means it can seamlessly pair with other units to extend coverage throughout a house, without… Read More
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Blizzard’s customer support said the character was being deactivated while the company investigates a bug in the massively popular game.
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Netflix has played down the significance of its first major licensing deal in China, news of which was announced this week. The company’s share price surged nearly six percent after it announced that it had agreed to a distribution deal with iQiyi, one of China’s largest video portals which was started by internet giant Baidu. The news was first revealed at the APOS 2017 event… Read More
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Just two weeks after Australia’s mandatory data retention scheme came into force, police have revealed one of their officers “illegally” accessed a journalist’s call records.
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I took my first (and possibly only) dive into red carpet photography last night at The Tribeca Film Festival’s screening of The Circle, a movie based on Dave Egger’s prescient novel. It was as weird and strangely fascinating as I suspected it would be.
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Google Classroom used to be pretty restricted in terms of who could use it, but recent changes — the latest announced on Thursday — have opened the management system up to anyone who wants to teach or learn.
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An early player in drone-tech, 3D Robotics Inc., announced that it has raised $53 million in a Series D round of funding on Thursday, including new equity funding and conversion of debt equity. Atlantic Bridge led the round joined by Autodesk Forge Fund, True Ventures, Foundry Group, Mayfield and other undisclosed investors, according to the company statement. The company didn’t break… Read More
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Sergio Canavero has revealed that the world’s first human head transplant will take place within 10 months — and he’s already planning his next project.
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