Fri. 01/25 - AI Can Beat Us At Starcraft II Too (Also?)

Now the AIs can defeat us at StarCraft II (too?), Zuckerberg wants to unify his collection of messaging apps, my grand unifying theory for the streaming video wars and of course the weekend longreads suggestions.Sponsors:Juniper.net/tryMetalab.coLinks:Zuckerberg Plans to Integrate WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook Messenger (NYTimes)Facebook knowingly duped game-playing kids and their parents out of money (Reveal)Facebook ignored kids’ spending problems, internal documents reveal (BBC News)DeepMind AI Challenges Pro StarCraft II Players, Wins Almost Every Match (ExtremeTech)Coming to a TV near you: personalized ads (Axios)The SmartTouchUSA.com Weekend Longreads:From Founder to CEO (podcast)EVERYBODY DOES IT: THE MESSY TRUTH ABOUT INFILTRATING COMPUTER SUPPLY CHAINS (The Intercept)Katzenberg and Whitman: Hollywood’s New Odd Couple (Fortune)Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey: The Rolling Stone Interview (Rolling Stone)“The Linux of social media”—How LiveJournal pioneered (then lost) blogging (ArsTechnica)Reddit’s r/changemyview is a template for how all online discussion should be (TNW)

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