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    Tecton.ai nabs $35M Series B as it releases machine learning feature store – TechCrunch

    Tecton.ai, the startup founded by three former Uber engineers who wanted to bring the machine learning feature store idea to the masses, announced a...

    Facebook says it will remove coronavirus vaccine misinformation.

    Facebook on Thursday said it would remove posts that contain claims about Covid-19 vaccines that have been debunked by public health experts, as the...

    Justice Dept. Suit Says Facebook Discriminates Against U.S. Workers

    Mr. Trump has been a vocal critic of temporary worker visas. In October, his administration announced new rules for the H1-B program, substantially raising...

    HBO Max Will Stream All 2021 Warner Bros. Movies

    It was a framed as a singular event, and theater owners, desperate to fill screens with appealing content, happily agreed to it. “Given that...

    Google Researcher Timnit Gebru Says She Was Fired For Paper on AI Bias

    A well-respected Google researcher said she was fired by the company after criticizing its approach to minority hiring and the biases built into today’s...

    Think Local About the Digital Divide

    This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it weekdays.A rooftop in the Bronx may point...

    Europe’s ePrivacy Rule Would Limit the Hunt for Online Child Sex Abuse

    “The grooming of children for sexual purposes is always about a child on the verge of or in the midst of abuse,” said John...

    With 3 Billion Packages to Go, Online Shopping Faces Tough Holiday Test

    “I don’t know how it could be as unexpected as it appears to have been,” said Tom Nolan, the brand’s president. “We are not...

    Why ‘Wonder Woman’ at Home Matters

    This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it weekdays.If this is the moment when entertainment...

    Visa and Mastercard to Investigate Financial Ties to Pornhub

    Visa and Mastercard, the giant payments processing companies, said they would investigate their financial links to MindGeek, the parent company of the adult website...

    Wall Street needs to relax, as startups show remote work is here to stay – TechCrunch

    We are hearing that a COVID-19 vaccine could be on the way sooner than later, and that means we could be returning to normal...

    UK to set up ‘pro-competition’ regulator to put limits on big tech – TechCrunch

    The UK is moving ahead with a plan to regulate big tech, responding to competition concerns over a ‘winner takes all’ dynamic in digital...

    ‘Tokenized’: Inside Black Workers’ Struggles at Coinbase

    The next day, Mr. Armstrong, 37, summarized the tone of what he had heard. “There was just this outpouring of, like, Why does the...

    Pushed by Pandemic, Amazon Goes on a Hiring Spree Without Equal

    Over the summer, Amazon converted most of the 175,000 temporary workers to permanent employees and ended the extra pay bumps for all workers. Since...

    Alibaba vies for a piece of China’s booming EV market – TechCrunch

    There’s no lack of news these days on China’s tech giants teaming up with traditional carmakers. Companies from Alibaba to Huawei are striving to...

    Black Friday tech deals that are actually worth checking out – TechCrunch

    Black Friday approaches! In a year where asking Alexa what day today is feels totally normal, this Black Friday seems like it came out...