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[ad_1] Erin Griffith / New York Times: As Lyft, Pinterest, Postmates, Slack, and Uber prepare to go public, VCs are preparing to invest in a new wave of startups created by employees enriched by IPOs  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Riley …

[ad_1] Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Polarr, which develops a hardware-agnostic AI stack to enable computational photography on a range of devices, raises $11.5M Series A led by Threshold Ventures  —  Polarr, a six-year-old San Francisco computer vision startup cofounded by …

[ad_1] Benedict Evans: There are parallels between Facebook’s response to organized abuse of its platform and Microsoft’s response to malware on Windows and Office 20 years ago  —  – There are strong parallels between organised abuse of Facebook and FB’s …

[ad_1] Emma Haruka Iwao / Google Cloud Blog: Google breaks world record for the most accurate value of pi, first time using cloud computing, calculating 31.4T digits after a ~112-day computation  —  Try GCP  —  Get $300 free credit to …

[ad_1] Parmy Olson / Forbes: Profile of Peter Szulczewski, co-founder of Wish, the most downloaded shopping app worldwide with a valuation of $8.7B+, and a revenue of $1.9B last year  —  n a sun-filled San Francisco afternoon, Peter Szulczewski is …

[ad_1] Run one mile: check. Do 50 pushups: check. Plank for one minute: check. Backslide into your former state of inactivity after only one week of exercise in 2019: check. If this sounds like you, don’t worry, it’s not too …

[ad_1] Miriam Posner / New Yorker: How supply-chain management software from companies like SAP optimizes for production needs but can create a bullwhip effect on factory workers from a distance  —  This past December, the workers’-rights organization China Labor Watch …

[ad_1] Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: Google says it removed 2.3B bad ads in 2018, down 28% from 2017 and terminated ~1M bad advertiser accounts, including ~734K publishers and app developers  —  Around this time of year, Google shares how many …

[ad_1] Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Google says it removed 2.3B bad ads, 1.5M bad apps, and 28M bad pages in 2018, plans updated tools and a new Policy Manager to help publishers with compliance  —  Google is a tech powerhouse …

[ad_1] Janko Roettgers / Variety: Google is shutting down its Spotlight Stories VR film studio, part of Google’s ATAP group, according to an email from the studio’s executive producer  —  Google is shutting down its Spotlight Stories immersive entertainment unit, …