Thomas Power
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Thomas Power (@thomaspower on Twitter)
The main reason for developing the twopscore was to identify accounts that are either fake, inactive or not very engaged. We check a Twitter profile for 10 characteristics and each of these…
Sainsbury's in 'desperate' bid to seal £14bn merger with Asda
Sainsbury's chief executive Mike Coupe claims the Competition and Markets Authority's suggestion that the merger could result in higher prices 'could not be further from the truth'
Former Oath CEO Tim Armstrong is exiting Verizon with a payout worth…
Tim Armstrong will leave Verizon Communications with an awards and benefits package worth more than $60 million. The Wall Street Journal calculated the total amount based on a securities filing from…
NZ's Ardern tells students 'it is okay to grieve'
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern visits the Cashmere High School in Christchurch, whose students and parent community were among those most impacted by recent attacks. Rough cut (no reporter narration).
Facebook drops targeting options for housing, job, and credit ads after controversy
The company is also building a tool to view housing ads
Nvidia's new $99 pocket-sized AI computer is designed for DIY projects
Nvidia has just released a $99 pocket-sized computer named the Jetson Nano, targeted towards “embedded designers, researchers, and DIY makers” who want to tinker with a system for offline AI…
Starting June 19, Twitter will require any app that has 100K+ calls/day…
By Josh Constine / TechCrunch. View the full context on Techmeme.
Kickstarter staff announce their intention to unionize, potentially becoming the first major…
By Bijan Stephen / The Verge. View the full context on Techmeme.
Google has created its own game studio, led by former EA and…
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The Innovation Game
How can a game drive innovation? A recurring theme of SXSW 2019 was the importance of play and curiousity to artificlal intelligence and future tech.
Facebook settles with ACLU over allegedly discriminatory ads for employment, housing, and…
By Sara Fischer / Axios. View the full context on Techmeme.
Kickstarter’s staff is unionizing
The company’s staff plans to unionize with the Office and Professional Employees International Union.
ACLU reaches settlement with Facebook over discriminatory ads
As part of the nearly $5 million settlement, Facebook has agreed to make major changes to its ad platform.
Twitter cracks down on API abuse, will charge B2B devs
To prevent its own Cambridge Analytica moment and make sure it’s getting paid for its data, Twitter will audit developers using its APIs. Starting June 19th, Twitter will require developers of any app…
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Andreas Antonopoulos: 'I want to see the independence day of crypto'
Speaking at this year's ETHDenver conference, the open blockchain advocate Andreas Antonopoulos called for unity amongst the crypto community.
Murdoch adds former Speaker Paul Ryan to Fox board
Board appointments come as company completes sale of Hollywood assets to Disney
Nobody wants a Bitcoin ETF because cryptocurrency ‘has no intrinsic value’
We're going to have to take a step back and rethink the whole "Bitcoin ETFs are coming" trope as the SEC receieves negative feedback on the idea.