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Z2 vets raise $5M to grow Seattle studio Starform and launch social games

GeekWire

The startup plans to use the money on further development for its first game, as well as starting a team to work on a second project. Starform was founded in 2018 by Lou Fasulo, Taylor Daynes, Josh Rosen, and Jason English, all of whom formerly worked at the Seattle-based mobile studio Z2 before its acquisition by King in 2015.

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Did smartphones “destroy” a generation? The debate, explained.

Vox

Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images What the evidence about social media and teens’ mental health really says. So argues the social psychologist Jonathan Haidt. This dispute has generated reams of commentary as the media’s middle-aged social media users argue about whether their favorite apps are poisoning their kids.

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Cognitive Business: When Cloud and Cognitive Computing Merge

Cloud Musings

Your initial steps should include: Develop a cognitive strategy by deciding which of your products, services, processes and operations should be infused with cognition. Acquire hybrid cloud service broker expertise and develop a hybrid infrastructure transition plan that combines your current IT systems with private and/or public clouds.

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Meet the self-driving brains working with Volkswagen and Ford

The Verge

I wanted to talk to Bryan about his partnership with Lyft, but I also wanted to know if the pandemic accelerated any of his investment or development. We have a fairly large workforce across our test cities that help us test and operate the vehicles, as well as a sizable product development engineering workforce that builds the technology.

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Crisis Mode

The Verge

But Jo, who worked at the company as a social media coordinator, found that her white boss did not agree. Nancy has invested in and mentored and developed women and women of color in her multi-decade career. The American Psychological Association has even drawn up guidelines for reform to make care more accessible.

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Everything that the big social networks banned this week, ranked

The Verge

The big social platforms, who were once loath to intervene in matters of political speech, are getting much more comfortable with the idea. Third, the stream that led to this de-platforming was a video from 2015 that had aired on many mainstream television stations. Some are deleting their social media profiles entirely.

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A new Supreme Court case could fundamentally change the internet

Vox

According to her family’s lawyers, she was one of 129 people killed during a November 2015 wave of violence in Paris that ISIS claimed responsibility for. These twin safeguards fundamentally shaped the internet’s development. And it did have content guidelines that were enforced by designated bulletin board leaders.