👨⚖️ Facebook, Twitter, Google warn planned Hong Kong tech law could drive them out
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Facebook, Twitter, Google warn planned Hong Kong tech law could drive them out. Facebook Facebook Inc., Twitter Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google have privately warned the Hong Kong government that they could stop offering their services in the city if authorities proceed with planned changes to data-protection laws that could make them liable for the malicious sharing of individuals’ information online. (Newley Purnell via Wall Street Journal)
China regulator orders Didi to be removed from App Stores. China's cyberspace regulator ordered app stores to remove Didi Chuxing from their list of offerings, citing serious violations on the ride-hailing company's collection and usage of personal information. (Bloomberg)
21 ways medical digital twins will transform health care. The health care industry is starting to adopt digital twins to improve personalized medicine, health care organization performance, and new medicines and devices. Although simulations have been around for some time, today’s medical digital twins represent an important new take. (George Lawton via VentureBeat)
My Twitter Rehab. I’m almost 60, and in these many decades I’ve seen people—some of them good friends—taken down by all kinds of things. Alcohol and drugs, mostly. A few years ago, I lost someone to heroin, and hundreds of us sat at his funeral in wordless communion. (Caitlin Flanagan via The Atlantic)
Tinybird turns raw data into realtime API at scale. Meet Tinybird, a new startup that helps developers build data products at scale without having to worry about infrastructure, query time and all those annoying issues that come up once you deal with huge data… (Romain Dillet via TechCrunch)
How REvil Ransomware Took Out Thousands of Business at Once. A massive chain reaction on Friday infected at least hundreds and likely thousands of businesses worldwide with ransomware, including a railway, pharmacy chain, and hundreds of storefronts of Sweden's Coop grocery store brand. (Lily Hay Newman via WIRED)
The inside story of how an ambitious African cryptocurrency startup failed. In 2018, three intrepid entrepreneurs from Angola, Ghana, and Nigeria undertook an ambitious journey to build a trading platform for digital currencies. One resigned from a high-paying job at Dell in Canada. (Chikezie Omeje via Quartz)
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