 |  | | Tuesday, January 07, 2020 • By Anthony Ha | |
Happy Tuesday Facebook says it will crack down on certain types of misleading media, TiVo announces a streaming dongle and Union Square Ventures backs legal tech startup Jumo. Here’s your Daily Crunch for January 7, 2020. | | | |
| In a policy update announced late yesterday, Facebook’s Monika Bickert wrote that moving forward, the social network will take a stricter line on manipulated media content — removing content that's been edited or synthesized "in ways that aren't apparent to an average person and would likely mislead someone into thinking that a subject of the video said words that they did not actually say.” However, edits for quality or cuts and splices to videos that simply curtail or change the order of words are not covered by the ban. So as Natasha Lomas notes, a more subtle form of political fakery will still be allowed. Read more | |  | | |
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| CEO Dave Shull said the TiVo Stream 4K is launching the company "full on into the streaming wars." It’s integrated with services like Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and HBO, and will also include content from TiVo+, the free, ad-supported movie and TV service that the company launched last fall. And it will include live TV and cloud DVR through Sling TV. Read more | | | |
| Juro's business is focused on taking the tedium out of negotiating and drawing up contracts by making contract-building more interactive and trackable. Read more | |  | | |
| Using its AI tools, the concept car's systems can follow the driver's gaze and interpret it. That means you will be able to get more information about a restaurant, or about which movies are playing at a cinema that you're driving by. Read more | | | |
| European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has made responding to technology-driven change a key priority for her five-year term — which began last month — alongside challenges posed by climate change and demographic shifts, tacitly linking all three to a rise in regional unease. (Extra Crunch membership required.) Read more | |  Image Credits: Picture Alliance / Getty Images | | |
| Matthew Prince, co-founder and CEO at Cloudflare, says that this acquisition is part of a new suite of products called Cloudflare for Teams, which has been designed to protect an organization from threats on the internet. S2 developed a solution specifically to help prevent browser-based code attacks. Read more | | | |
| Speaking of concept cars, Mercedes-Benz channeled the world of James Cameron's hit movie “Avatar” for its latest — an electric autonomous vehicle covered in bionic flaps that aims to show how man and machine can merge and live responsibly in nature. Read more | | | |
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