🛒 Google to Stop Selling Ads Based on Your Specific Web Browsing
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Google to Stop Selling Ads Based on Your Specific Web Browsing. Google plans to stop selling ads based on individuals’ browsing across multiple websites, a change that could hasten upheaval in the digital advertising industry. (Sam Schechner via WSJ)
Microsoft Mesh feels like the virtual future of Microsoft Teams meetings. Last week, Microsoft's Alex Kipman, the inventor of Kinect and HoloLens, appeared in my living room to hand me jellyfish and sharks. That might sound like I had a weird dream, but it was a meeting made possible through Microsoft’s new Mesh platform. (Tom Warren via The Verge)
Twitter Spaces arrives on Android ahead of Clubhouse. Twitter announced today it's opening up its live audio chat rooms, known as Twitter Spaces, to users on Android. Previously, the experience was only open to select users on iOS following the product's private beta launch in late December 2020. (Sarah Perez via TechCrunch)
New York's Plunging Rents Are Luring Bargain Hunters to Their Dream City. The Covid-19 pandemic spurred many New York residents to move out of cramped apartments and into other places with lower taxes and warmer weather. Others were forced out after losing their jobs. (Misyrlena Egkolfopoulou via Bloomberg)
Fake News Gets More Engagement on Facebook-But Only If It's Right-Wing. It's not exactly a secret that extreme, less-than-accurate content finds a big audience on Facebook. In the months before last year’s election, the list of most-engaged-with pages on the site was almost always dominated by far-right figures like Dan Bongino and Dinesh D’Souza, who are not known for their fealty to fact-based journalism. (Gilad Edelman via WIRED)
Private payrolls growth well short of expectations for February, ADP says. Private payroll growth disappointed in February despite otherwise encouraging signs of economic growth, according to a report Wednesday from ADP. (Jeff Cox via CNBC)
Drones With 'Most Advanced AI Ever' Coming Soon To Your Local Police Department. Three years ago, Customs and Border Protection placed an order for self-flying aircraft that could launch on their own, rendezvous, locate and monitor multiple targets on the ground without any human intervention. (Thomas Brewster via Forbes)
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