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Callin, David Sacks’ ‘social podcasting’ app, launches and announces a $12M Series A round

TechCrunch

As live audio becomes more and more popular, co-founders David Sacks (former COO of PayPal and CEO of Yammer) and Axel Ericsson sought to combine social audio and podcasting into one seamless app. But Sacks said that once it expands to allow hosts to share transcripts, live captioning would “be on the roadmap.”

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Ethical Social Media: Oxymoron or Attainable Goal?

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

For this generation, social media has generated a vast set of new ethical challenges, which is unsurprising when you consider the degree of its influence. Social media has been linked to health risks in individuals and political violence in societies.

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Building the Woke Web: Web Accessibility, Inclusion & Social Justice

A List Apart

What would your life be like without the internet? Keeping your answers to that in mind, do you think access to the internet is a human right? Living without internet. Globally, over 40% of people still do not have access to the internet. Having no access to the internet creates problems in many parts of modern life.

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What IT leaders need to know about the EU AI Act

CIO

The untargeted scraping of facial images from the internet or security footage to create facial recognition databases is also prohibited. The law would also ban AI systems that monitor employee or student emotions, conduct social scoring, or engage in predictive policing based on a person’s profile or characteristics.

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Internet and Online Safety for All Ages | App Development

Praxent

Internet and Online Safety for All Ages. Since the beginning of the 21st century, social media has become an increasingly important part of most people’s lives. Now, just about everyone has an online identity linked to their real name, meaning that your Internet life and your real-world life are always connected.

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Twitch cracks down on boobs again by rolling back its ‘artistic nudity’ policy

TechCrunch

The announcement comes days after Twitch announced sweeping updates to its sexual content policy, which streamlined the platform’s community guidelines and allowed nudity in certain contexts, […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Remote work requirement exposes the corporate digital divide

DXC

Like many others, my family and I have done our best to enjoy the unexpectedly large amount of time we have together at home due to social distancing guidelines. Adjusting to the new normal, we have relied heavily on Internet access not only for work and school, but to stay sane and keep the peace. […].