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3 Cybersecurity Technologies You Should Know

The Crazy Programmer

Modern-day internet users need to ensure they are protected, and companies should also set cybersecurity protocols to help keep their systems secure from threats. The majority of cyber-attacks actually use phishing or social engineering, where users are tricked into revealing personal information.

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River, the latest venture from Wander founder Jeremy Fisher, launches with $10.4 million in funding

TechCrunch

River is meant to rethink the way we consume content across the internet. The app pulls stories and content from across the entire internet, including from publishers, Twitter and other social media, etc. adults get their news either “often” or “sometimes” from social media.

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Ethical Social Media: Oxymoron or Attainable Goal?

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

For this generation, social media has generated a vast set of new ethical challenges, which is unsurprising when you consider the degree of its influence. Social media has been linked to health risks in individuals and political violence in societies.

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Yat thinks emoji ‘identities’ can be a thing, and it has $20M in sales to back it up

TechCrunch

I learned about Yat in April, when a friend sent our group chat a link to a story about how the key emoji sold as an “internet identity” for $425,000. Like any URL on the internet, Yats can redirect to another website, or they can function like a more eye-catching Linktree. “I hate the universe,” she texted.

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Signal AI, a ‘decision augmentation’ startup, raises $50M for a platform that extracts insights from the internet and other public content

TechCrunch

Signal AI , an artificial intelligence startup that trawls the vast sea of internet and other publicly available data to provide organizations with sentiment insights and other information to make better business decisions, has raised $50 million. “We’ve been diversifying the data that we inject in the platform,” he added.

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The industrial data revolution: What founders got wrong

TechCrunch

At the time of that Economist article, I was on leave from UC Berkeley to run a lab for Intel Research in collaboration with the campus. We were focused all the way back then on what we now call the Internet of Things (IoT). Consider social media data and the recent conversations around “fake news.”

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9 Ways to Speed Up Mobile Website

The Crazy Programmer

As I am about to highlight in this article, the speed with which a website load is very critical to both the users and owners. Studies show that 40% of Internet users do not wait for a site to load more than three seconds. Mobile-friendly pages are essential as more than half of Internet users are on the mobile internet.

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