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AI at Google: our principles

Summary of mobile app ad tech stack today as it evolves towards true RTB.

Product Management isn’t a major one can study, few folks graduate into, and most people learn by apprenticeship.

How Facebook's ad auction model is different, the Vickrey-Clarke-Groves model

Facebook is today making three important announcements on false news, to which WIRED got an early and exclusive look. In addition, WIRED was able to sit down for a wide-ranging conversation with eight generally press-shy product managers and engineers who work on News Feed to ask detailed questions about the workings of the canals, dams, and rivers that they manage.

Popular, YC-recommend Product Management framework.

The Japanese government commissioned a detailed report on the history of Japanese robot anime.

Cheap flight packages

crowd-sourced ratings of all those click-wrap agreements you never read

Even a low-key evening at home can mean handing over a trove of personal information to high-tech companies

Today, we keep passports, birth certificates, utility bills at home under our own control, maybe in an “important drawer”, and we share them when needed. We don’t store these bits of paper with a third party. Self-sovereign identity is the digital equivalent of what we do with bits of paper now.

Elements of a webpage either inspire us by giving us more units of Psych or overwhelm us by depleting our existing store of Psych. Once you understand what elements are adding to or depleting users’ energy, you can then start to manage that energy: adding inspiration and minimizing overwhelm to help users take your core actions.

For when your favorite song just isn’t long enough. This web app lets you search a song on Spotify and will then generate a never-ending and ever changing version of the song.

Can the most contentious piece of the web form the basis of a new standard?

In just 72 hours, over a million redditors placed 16.5 million tiles to transform a simple, white, 1000×1000-pixel canvas into a surprisingly beautiful clash of communities, nations, ideologies, and fandoms.

Embedded with full interview with Campbell Brown and Adam Mosseri at Recode's Code Media conference.

How a confused, defensive social media giant steered itself into a disaster, and how Mark Zuckerberg is trying to fix it all.

The final years of Nokia’s mobile phone

Why copyright is not the right concept in an age when ideas can be distributed at no cost.

John Perry Barlow on Neal Cassady and the origin story of the Grateful Dead song, Cassidy.

Adweek’s Super Bowl LII Ad Tracker. Here you’ll find a frequently updated list of all the national (plus a few regional) commercials that will air during the Big Game on Feb. 4, along with details on the agencies that created them.

Silicon Valley CEOs are supposed to be sacrosanct. So how did it all go wrong at Uber?

profile of Michael Wolff

According to Bytedance, every piece of content is automatically screened to check that it is acceptable before appearing on Toutiao. But once something has attracted more views, the system applies a more sophisticated screening algorithm. Certain material is also examined by humans as a final check.

Ultimately, any cure will require the following: clever technical solutions to stop the spread of fake news; efforts to cut fake news publications from revenue sources; and legal sanctions against those that intentionally try to mislead the public, in order to shape public debate.