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Facebook says it has blocked 115 accounts on its services that may have been engaged in “coordinated inauthentic behavior” ahead of the US midterm elections — Facebook announced Monday evening that it had blocked 115 accounts on its services that may have been engaged in …
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Facebook posts results of commissioned report on Myanmar which found Facebook wasn't doing enough to prevent it from being used to incite offline violence — We want Facebook to be a place where people can express themselves freely and safely around the world.
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
MacBook Air (2018) review: Retina display, great new trackpad, Touch ID, and a modest speed bump make it a nice upgrade for the owners of older MacBook Airs — Completely whelming — The fan is blowing on this brand-new MacBook Air with Retina Display. It's a familiar sound …
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| Laura Stevens / Wall Street Journal: |
Source: Amazon plans to split HQ2 evenly between two cities, a decision driven by the need to recruit enough talent; sources: announcement could come next week — Amazon.com plans to split its second headquarters evenly between two locations rather than picking one city for HQ2 …
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Chrome 71, which arrives next month, will block all ads on sites that have persistently shown abusive ads such as fake system messages — Chrome 71 arrives next month — With Chrome 71, Google is stepping up its fight against the internet's abusive ads problem by blocking every ad on a site that persistently shows them.
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| Paris Martineau / Wired: |
Gab is back online; its domain has migrated to Seattle-area-based registrar Epik, and Cloudflare is shielding who actually hosts the site — AFTER IT WAS revealed that the suspect in the shootings at a Pittsburgh synagogue had threatened on the social media network Gab to kill Jews …
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| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Barnes & Noble announces the Nook 10.1", a tablet with 32GB of storage, front and rear cameras, a headphone jack, and Bluetooth, out Nov. 14 for $129.99 — Today is just another day online. It's also a day when we received news of a new Nook tablet from Barnes & Noble.| Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
A look at VoteWithMe and OutVote, apps that show public information on how people in a users' contact list voted in past elections and their party affiliations — My dentist, a registered Republican, did not vote in the last midterm elections, in 2014. — But the owner of my local bookstore, a registered Democrat, did vote then.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Code reveals Instagram has considered offering collaborative School Stories that are “manually reviewed” and limit the audience to a specific school's students — Instagram is considering offering collaborative School Stories that only a certain school's students can see or contribute to.
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| Yuji Nakamura / Bloomberg: |
Tencent says it will expand its age and ID verification system, used in Honour of Kings, to its entire games library by 2019 — - The company started doing so for hit title Honour of Kings — It will expand to all games as the volume of criticism rises
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A look at the resources needed to design a chip for high-volume applications in-house, which may require ~$50M in operating costs before the first product ships — This post is an excerpt from our newsletter in which we take a deep look at the shifting trends of the semiconductor industry.
| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
As Apple argues that unit sales are the wrong way to understand its business, it needs to start reporting the numbers of active customers and revenue per user — While the saying goes that “No news is good news,” in the case of Apple it turns out that “News about no news is bad news.” From Bloomberg:| Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast: |
After CNN, NBC, and Fox News remove a Trump-endorsed political ad for being racist, Facebook says it violates its ad guidelines and stops its paid distribution — The spot was too controversial for TV. And, now, the biggest social media platform has pulled it too.
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| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
India-based Meesho, a social commerce startup that is focused primarily on WhatsApp, has raised $50M Series C from investors including Sequoia India and YC — Meesho, a Bangalore-based social commerce startup, has closed a $50 million investment to grow its business in its Indian homeland ahead of future international expansion.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
VMware acquires Heptio, a startup founded by 2 co-founders of Kubernetes; Heptio was valued at $117M according to PitchBook when it raised $25M Series B in 2017 — During its big customer event in Europe, VMware announced another acquisition to step up its game in helping enterprises build … | Whitney Filloon / Eater: |
Restaurant reservation startup Resy acquires its smaller rival Reserve, which launched from startup studio Expa, and will now serve about 4000 US restaurants — Resy is now the largest privately held restaurant reservation service in the country, and a viable competitor to OpenTable
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| Steve Lohr / New York Times: |
Profile of Electronic Registration Information Center, which has used AI software to identify 26M eligible but unregistered US voters since its founding in 2012 — The mechanics of elections that attract the most attention are casting and counting, snafus with voting machines and ballots and allegations of hacking and fraud.
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