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Tim Cook's claim in an internal email that the banned app in Hong Kong “was being used maliciously to target individual officers for violence” doesn't add up — I've seen a copy of Cook's company-wide memo, and the copy reproduced here is accurate.
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Google removed a game from the Play store that allowed players to role-play as Hong Kong protesters, says it violated rules related to “sensitive events” — HKmap.live raised concerns of endangering law enforcement and residents; ‘The Revolution of Our Times,’ violated rules related to sensitive events,' Google says
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| Charles Duhigg / New Yorker: |
A deep dive into Amazon's enormous growth over the past decade as it tries to maintain its lean management culture and prepares to fend off regulators — Politicians want to rein in the retail giant. But Jeff Bezos, the master of cutthroat capitalism, is ready to fight back.
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| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Twitter releases new Catalyst app for macOS Catalina, now available to download in the Mac App Store — The most notable Catalyst app yet — Twitter's stop-start history of Mac development entered a new era today with the release of yet another all-new app.
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| Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: |
RigUp, a marketplace for on-demand services and skilled labor in the energy industry, raises $300M Series D led by a16z, report says at a valuation of $1.9B — Austin is hot this month, and we're not just talking about the temperature. — Two days ago, we wrote about AI startup SparkCognition's $100 million Series C.
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| Elizabeth Montalbano / Threatpost: |
Researchers identify zero-day vulnerability in iTunes for Windows, now patched, that was exploited by attackers to deliver BitPaymer/iEncrypt ransomware — Bad actors are actively targeting a vulnerability in the Windows version of Apple iTunes to deliver BitPaymer/iEncrypt ransomware.| Lauren Goode / Wired: |
The Essential Gem's unveiling resurfaces allegations against Andy Rubin, making clear that it's becoming hard to disassociate products from their makers — The Essential Gem's unveiling makes clear that it's becoming harder to disassociate new products from the people making them.
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Pinterest says its use of AI to identify and hide content that displays or encourages self-injury reduced reports of self-harm content by 88% — Today's World Mental Health Day, a day for global mental health education, awareness, and advocacy against social stigma first celebrated in 1992 …
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| CNBC: |
SAP CEO Bill McDermott steps down after over nine years, will be an adviser until year end; board members Jennifer Morgan and Christian Klein appointed co-CEOs — SAP said on Thursday that Bill McDermott is stepping down as CEO after more than nine years running the German software company.| Kate Clark / TechCrunch: |
Lattice, an employee performance and engagement management platform, raises $25M Series C at a valuation of around $200M, six months after a $15M Series B — The secretive New York-based hedge fund Tiger Global Management has led a $25 million Series C investment in Lattice …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Standard Cognition, an AI-powered checkout company, buys DeepMagic, an autonomous retail kiosk startup, to better compete with Amazon Go — Valued at $535 million, autonomous retail startup Standard Cognition has emerged as a soon-to-be tech giant and the best hope for merchants to compete with Amazon Go.| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple adds a new option in iOS 13.2 beta that allows users to delete their Siri and Dictation history and opt out of sharing audio recordings — Today's iOS 13.2 beta introduces a new option that allows iPhone and iPad users to delete their Siri and Dictation history and opt out of sharing audio recordings …
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| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
Facebook launches PyTorch 1.3, the latest version of its open-source deep learning library with quantization and support for use of Google Cloud TPUs — Facebook today released the latest version of its deep learning library PyTorch with quantization and Google Cloud TPU support for speedier training of machine learning models.
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