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7:00 PM ET, March 4, 2016

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Kurt Wagner / Re/code:
Meerkat Is Ditching the Livestream — And Chasing a Video Social Network Instead  —  Two weeks ago, Meerkat CEO Ben Rubin sent an email to his company's 48 investors laying bare an observation that he'd made peace with months earlier: Meerkat, the livestreaming app that played the role …
Gawker:
Voicemails that appear to be from Trump phone show friendship with MSNBC's Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, and Tamron Hall  —  Voicemails Appear to Reveal Donald Trump's Cozy Relationship With the Liberal Media  —  Early Thursday morning, Gawker received an anonymous email with an attachment …
BBC:
Turkish police raid offices of anti-Erdogan daily paper, Zaman, after court ruling placed it under state control  —  Turkey police raid critical Zaman newspaper in Istanbul  —  Turkish police have raided the offices of the opposition Zaman newspaper, hours after a court ruling placed it under state control.
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Agence France-Presse:
Istanbul court orders anti-Erdogan daily Zaman into administration amid alarm over freedom of expression
Michael O'Connell / Hollywood Reporter:
New Emmy Rules Open Categories to YouTube and Other Streaming Shorts  —  The TV Academy is also increasing nominee count in writing and directing races and doing away with ranked voting.  The TV Academy is rolling out additional changes for the 2016 Emmys, and it's good news for streamers who deal in short form content.
Catalina Albeanu / Journalism.co.uk:
La Presse+ app generates more than 75% of La Presse's advertising revenue, is accessed by 250K unique devices per weekday, average 40 minutes in the app  —  For La Presse, the tablet is the future as it leaves print behind  —  Publisher Guy Crevier says newspapers should change their model before they find themselves in a crisis
Discussion: @niemanlab and @mathewi
Simon Thomsen / Business Insider Australia:
Sydney Morning Herald suspends Australian journalist Paul Sheehan indefinitely from his position at Fairfax Media over his fabricated rape story  —  The Sydney Morning Herald has suspended columnist Paul Sheehan over his false rape column  —  The Sydney Morning Herald has suspended …
Kurt Wagner / Re/code:
Twitter Editorial Director Karen Wickre Is Leaving the Company  —  Twitter's editorial director, Karen Wickre, is leaving the company after more than four years.  —  Wickre made the announcement in a Medium post Friday.  She ran Twitter's editorial teams, which includes overseeing …
Discussion: @kvox, Karen Wickre and SiliconBeat
Nate Hoffelder / The Digital Reader:
Barnes & Noble to close Nook App store, Nook Video, and UK Nook Store March 15  —  B&N is Shutting Down One of Its Top Three Digital Blunders on 15 March  —  Barnes & Noble announced a slew of of closures on Thursday, including Nook Video, the UK Nook Store, and what had to have been one of B&N's greatest digital mistakes.
Chris Lehmann / The Baffler:
Streaming TV startups Cheddar and Viceland stem from lazy theorizing about what millennials want  —  Your Media Future: Cheesy and Skeezy  —  For decades, American parents and authority figures have fretted over how the goddamn kids in their lives might be induced to pull themselves …
Janko Roettgers / Variety:
Sources: Samsung likely to close Milk Music, is in talks with Tidal for acquisition or partnership  —  Samsung Likely to Shutter Milk Music Service; Considering Tidal Deal (Exclusive)  —  Samsung is getting close to making a major announcement in the music space, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the plans.
 
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Alex Heath / The Verge:
Meta details Llama 3: 8B- and 70B-parameter models, a focus on reducing false refusals, and an upcoming model trained on 15T+ tokens that has 400B+ parameters

David Pierce / The Verge:
Google announces a new Platforms and Devices team overseeing Pixel, Android, Chrome, Photos, and more, to integrate AI across its products, led by Rick Osterloh

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Microsoft researchers introduce VASA-1, an AI model that creates a realistic talking face video from a portrait photo and an audio file, in research preview
 
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