Tag: coronavirus

Facebook stops advertisers from targeting users into ‘pseudoscience’

Mark Zuckerberg has said that fighting coronavirus misinformation is one of his “top priorities,” yet Facebook’s ad policies have been slow to catch up. Now, the company will no longer allow advertisers to target users based on their interest in “pse… Source

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Pandemic reset leads investors to focus on resilience, adaptability

Mahendra Ramsinghani Contributor More posts by this contributor How to make a deal with a VC at a tech conference With Alibaba, Pivotal and Lightbend on board, Reactive flexes its ROI muscle in the microservices world For the vast majority of startup founders who were planning their capital raise in…

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Ventilator companies are opening up critical repair documents to the public

After being called out by the US Public Interest Research Group (PIRG), more ventilator manufacturers are sharing critical repair information. Last month, the PIRG asked device manufacturers to release all repair documentation for essential medical e… Source

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Facebook pulls ‘pseudoscience’ from its list of targeted ad categories

Even as Mark Zuckerberg touted the “hundreds of thousands of pieces of misinformation related to COVID-19” that the site had pulled in recent months, Facebook continued to offer targeted ads classified as “pseudoscience.” It was an odd choice from a social network so publicly declaring its own campaigns to remove…

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Eurosport follows ESPN in airing an esports racing championship

A pan-European TV network is joining ESPN in broadcasting virtual races while motorsport is shut down due to COVID-19. Eurosport has signed a deal to broadcast Torque Esports’ The Race All-Star Series on cable, satellite, IPTV and streaming (both liv… Source

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Virgin Orbit’s ventilators gain FDA authorization, deliveries to hospitals will start within days

Virgin Orbit has secured an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its ventilator, which the small satellite launch company designed and prototyped within the past few weeks in response to growing need for ventilator hardware to address the most severe cases of COVID-19…

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