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| President Trump follows through on his threat to challenge the legal protections enjoyed by social media and internet companies, Magic Leap’s CEO is stepping down and China sees its biggest autonomous driving round yet. Here’s your Daily Crunch for May 29, 2020. |
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| Yesterday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order targeting the legal shield that internet companies rely on to protect them from liability for user-created content. Next, we’ll almost certainly see a court battle over whether the order is legal and enforceable. While Trump and Attorney General William Barr have expressed interest in undermining Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act before, this week’s action was prompted by Twitter’s decision to add a fact-checking link to the president’s tweet about voting by mail. That conflict isn’t going away either, with Twitter adding a “public interest notice” to another of Trump’s tweets for glorifying violence. Read more |
| | Image Credits: Photo by Doug MIlls-Pool / Getty Images |
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| Magic Leap founder and CEO Rony Abrovitz announced that the company has secured a new bout of funding â but that Magic will be attempting a major turnaround without him at the helm. Read more |
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| As Chinaâs largest ride-hailing provider with mountains of traffic data, Didi clearly has an upper hand in developing robotaxis, which could help address driver shortages in the long term. But it was relatively late to the field. Read more |
| | Image Credits: NICOLAS ASFOURI / AFP / Getty Images |
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| Ciscoâs Todd Nightingale, writing in a blog post announcing the deal, said that the kind of data that ThousandEyes provides around internet user experience is more important than ever as internet connections have come under tremendous pressure. Read more |
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| Promoteo co-founder Ximena Aleman looks at what impact regulation has had so far in Latin America, and what needs to happen to strike a balance between sector growth and public trust. (Extra Crunch membership required.) Read more |
| | Image Credits: © Marco Bottigelli / Getty Images |
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| The ride-hailing giant rolled out a similar feature in the U.S. back in April, offering drivers the ability to respond to job postings from around a dozen other companies, as well as the ability to receive orders through other Uber units: Eats, Freight and Works. Read more |
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| We’re working with the COVID-19 Technology Task Force, as well as Harvardâs Berkman Klein Center, NYUâs Alliance for Public Interest Technology, Betaworks Studios and Hangar. Weâll be playing host to their live-streamed discussion around contact-tracing and exposure-notification applications, including demonstrations of some of the cutting-edge products that will be available in the U.S. to tackle these challenging, but crucial, tasks. Read more |
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