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GitHub Finally Has Its Own Mobile Apps Nov 14, 2019

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GitHub is the largest repository of open source software in the world. Everyone from Microsoft, which acquired the company last year, to Google to Walmart use it to host their open source projects. But GitHub is also the place where users report bugs, request features, and submit their own contributions to open source projects. It has wikis that developers can use to publish documentation. It has a web hosting service called Pages for content that doesn't quite fit into the wiki mold.

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Opinion: The Global South Is Redefining Tech Innovation Nov 13, 2019

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Conversations around today’s internet are stuck in a stifling binary. Either we hear that the digital revolution will either magically deliver us into an über-efficient world where we are all connected and uplifted, or our fears about it gone awry, threatening our democracies and economic security, will be realized.

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Opinion: Trolling Is Now Mainstream Political Discourse Nov 13, 2019

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It was a few weeks before the 2016 election, and I was putting together a report on the future of online political discourse.

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Coinbase Wants to Pay Interest on Crypto Coins, Sort Of Nov 12, 2019

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This June, as the news bristled with headlines about Facebook’s cryptocurrency-to-be and the price of bitcoin once again soared, the mood in the San Francisco offices of Coinbase was subdued. In 2017, the cryptocurrency exchange was close to the frenetic epicenter of the bitcoin boom. Millions of people used its app to dip their toes into cryptocurrency speculation. Then came the crash.

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Can AI Built to ‘Benefit Humanity’ Also Serve the Military? Nov 12, 2019

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Microsoft’s recent victory in landing a $10 billion Pentagon cloud-computing contract called JEDI could make life more complicated for one of the software giant’s partners: the independent artificial-intelligence research lab OpenAI. OpenAI was created in 2015 by Silicon Valley luminaries including Elon Musk to look to the far horizon, and save the world.

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African AI Experts Get Excluded From a Conference—Again Nov 11, 2019

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At the G7 meeting in Montreal last year, Justin Trudeau told WIRED he would look into why more than 100 African artificial intelligence researchers had been barred from visiting that city to attend their field’s most important annual event, the Neural Information Processing Systems conference, or NeurIPS. Now the same thing has happened again.

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WhatsApp Cofounder Brian Acton on Why Privacy Matters Nov 11, 2019

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The cofounder of WhatsApp and the Signal Foundation thinks the use of encrypted communications tools will only increase in the future. “There’s a global education that’s happening,” says Brian Acton, who left WhatsApp in 2018 and now chairs the non-profit foundation, which promotes open-source, end-to-end encryption in messaging. “Back in the ‘90s, we all got the same hoax emails, and we all learned to ignore them.

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Even in an Existential Crisis, WeWork Continues to Grow Nov 08, 2019

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California Reveals It’s Been Investigating Facebook Nov 08, 2019

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Opinion: California’s Anti-Deepfake Law Is Far Too Feeble Nov 07, 2019

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Imagine it’s late October 2020, and that there's fierce competition for the remaining undecided voters in the presidential election. In a matter of hours, a deepfake video depicting a candidate engaged in unsavory behavior goes viral, and thanks to microtargeting, reaches those who are most susceptible to changing their vote.

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