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WeWork co-founder Adam Neumann is resigning as CEO, will be nonexecutive chairman of We Co.; source: his voting shares will be reduced in power from 10:1 to 3:1 — - WeWork CEO Adam Neumann will step down but retain his seat as nonexecutive chairman, the company says.
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| Alex Hern / The Guardian: |
Leaked TikTok content moderation guidelines reveal how it censors videos mentioning Tiananmen Square, Tibetan independence, or Falun Gong — Leak spells out how social media app advances China's foreign policy aims — TikTok, the popular Chinese-owned social network …
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| Jia Tolentino / New Yorker: |
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook says it doesn't fact-check politicians' speech or block their content, generally assuming it is newsworthy, even if it violates Facebook policies — Facebook confirms it won't fact-check politicians' speech or block their content if it's newsworthy even if it violates the site's hatespeech rules or other policies.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft opens registrations for public preview of Project xCloud, coming in October to US, UK, and Korea, starting with Android devices — Available in the coming weeks in the US, UK, and Korea — Microsoft is starting to accept registrations for its upcoming Project xCloud game streaming preview.
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Apple says a bug in iOS 13 and iPadOS may grant “full access” to third-party keyboards by mistake, says it's working on a fix — Apple is warning users of an iOS bug involving third-party keyboards. — In a brief advisory posted Tuesday, the tech giant said the bug impacts …
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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
After many years in the lab, Boston Dynamics will begin selectively leasing its four-legged robot Spot, which can keep its balance under extreme circumstances — A new leasing program is putting dozens of robots to work in the real world — Boston Dynamics is letting its first major robot out of the lab.
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| Tim Baysinger / The Wrap: |
Comscore settles with SEC on charges the firm and its ex-CEO made false statements, engaging in a fraudulent scheme to overstate revenue by ~$50M from 2014-2016 — Media analytics firm is accused of overstating revenue by $50 million, making false statements about performance
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Report: analysis of ~2,000 malware samples attributed to Russian state-sponsored hacking groups shows that the groups rarely share code with one another — A first-of-its-kind research project highlights the connections between nearly 2,000 samples of Russian APT malware.
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| Christina Farr / CNBC: |
Amazon launches Amazon Care, a virtual primary care clinic with an option for nurses to visit employees in the home, as a pilot for employees in Seattle — - Amazon just launched Amazon Care, a virtual primary care clinic with an option for nurses to visit employees in the home.
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| Michael Muchmore / PCMag: |
Adobe launches Fresco, an iPad app for painting that supports oil, watercolor, and vectors, with a limited version available for non-Creative Cloud users — Adobe today announced the availability of its much-anticipated iPad drawing app, Fresco, which supports the Apple Pencil and uses AI …
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Google contract workers in Pittsburgh, employed by IT services provider HCL, vote to join the United Steelworkers union in a 49 vs 24 vote — PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - About 80 contracted Google employees voted to join the United Steelworkers union. — The workers voted in favor of unionization …
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| Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
Kuo: 2020 iPhones will have a new metal frame structure similar to iPhone 4 to reduce the negative impact of metal on the efficiency of the internal antenna — Apple will unveil redesigned iPhones next year that boast a new metal frame structure reminiscent of the iPhone 4 … | Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Azure Sentinel, Microsoft's cloud-based security information and event management service, hits general availability, with prices starting at $2.46 per GB — Pricing starts at $2.46 per gigabyte (GB) of ingested data. — Microsoft today took Azure Sentinel out of public preview … | Anna Wiener / New Yorker: |
An excerpt from “Uncanny Valley”, a memoir on the aspiration, ambivalence, and disillusionment of Silicon Valley startup culture — Life in Silicon Valley during the dawn of the unicorns. — Depending on whom you ask, 2012 represented the apex, the inflection point …
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| Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat: |
Paris-based BlaBlaCar, which has raised $335M and has 80M members, 25M of which are in Russia, to acquire Busfor, Russia's largest bus platform — The mobility revolution sweeping through Europe is reshaping just about every facet of how people on the continent travel.| Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
Fidel, which offers an API to enable developers to build on top of payment card data from Visa/Mastercard, raises $18M Series A co-led by Nyca Partners and QED — Fidel, the U.K.-headquartered startup that offers an API to let developers build functionality, such as rewards …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Built-in Google Assistant is no longer exclusive to “Made by Google” Chrome OS devices, begins rolling out to more Chromebooks — Google Assistant first debuted on the Pixelbook in 2017 and later came to the Pixel Slate last year. The smart assistant is now coming to non-Made by Google Chromebooks starting today.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Duda, which offers a cloud-based website building platform for digital agencies, raises $25M from Susquehanna Growth Equity, bringing its total raised to $50M — WordPress last week secured its position as a top dog in the world of web development when its parent company Automattic announced …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
TigerGraph, which offers a suite of enterprise graph database tools, raises $32M Series B led by private equity firm SIG, bringing its total raised to ~$60M — TigerGraph, a Redwood City, California-based software developer providing a suite of enterprise graph database tools …
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| Rachel Premack / Business Insider: |
Amazon's suspended 3rd-party sellers say they aren't receiving 30-day suspension notice that Amazon agreed to as part of a German antitrust settlement in July — - Amazon signed a pledge on August 16 with its third-party sellers that it would give a 30-day suspension notice before permanently removing them from the platform.
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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
What to expect from Amazon's hardware event today: new Echo devices, Alexa-powered earbuds, updates to the Fire TV and Fire tablet lines, more — New Echo devices? New Fire TV things? We'll find out — Amazon is hosting an event in Seattle on Wednesday, September 25th …
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