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The portrait of an avatar as a young artist – TechCrunch

LaTurbo was early to exploring these questions of identity and experimenting with telepresence. She has shape-shifted across media types, spending time…

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Reports say White House has drafted an order putting the FCC in charge of monitoring social media – TechCrunch

In the executive order, the White House says it received more than 15,000 complaints about censorship by the technology platforms….

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Google’s Cloud outage is resolved, but it reveals the holes in cloud computing’s atmosphere – TechCrunch

Five hours after Google publicly announced that it was working to resolve an outage in its Cloud computing network that…

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Nine lessons on how Niantic reached a $4B valuation – TechCrunch

We’ve captured much of Niantic’s ongoing story in the first three parts of our EC-1, from its beginnings as an…

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YouTube tightens restrictions on channel of UK far right activist — but no ban – TechCrunch

YouTube has placed new restrictions on the channel of a UK far right activist which are intended to make hate…

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In brief: Tony Fernandes quits Facebook following New Zealand attacks

“Facebook could have done more to stop some of this,” said the AirAsia CEO, after a suspected terrorist livestreamed an…

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Is Europe closing in on an antitrust fix for surveillance technologists? – TechCrunch

The German Federal Cartel Office’s decision to order Facebook to change how it processes users’ personal data this week is a…

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