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Pentagon awards $10B JEDI cloud contract to Microsoft over Amazon — Microsoft has emerged victorious in a dramatic competition for public cloud resources for the U.S. Defense Department, beating out market leader Amazon Web Services, the Pentagon said on Friday.
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Facebook begins testing Facebook News with a subset of people in the US across four categories of select publishers: general, topical, diverse, and local news — Testing a dedicated place for news in the US — Journalism plays a critical role in our democracy.
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Zuckerberg struggles to explain why Facebook News' “trusted” sources includes Breitbart News, says Facebook wants to “to include a breadth of content in there” — On Friday morning, Facebook announced its plan to spend millions of dollars on high-quality journalism … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
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| Greg Bensinger / Washington Post: |
In leaked video, Sundar Pichai admits at an all-hands that Google is “genuinely struggling” with employee trust as it defends the hiring of former DHS official — At company's weekly town hall with employees, executives assail leaks and defend hiring DHS official| Sequoia Capital: |
Don Valentine, founder of Sequoia Capital, dies at 87 — Don Valentine, founder of Sequoia Capital and one of the generation of leaders who forged Silicon Valley, died today aged 87 at his home in Woodside, California. He shaped Sequoia and left his imprint not just on his family and friends …
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Google says it's improving 10% of English searches in the US by using NLP techniques to better understand query context and words' relationship with each other — For Google's namesake search engine, delivering the right results is about understanding what people are asking for.
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AT&T says HBO Max will be available free to the 10M AT&T customers in the US who are also HBO subscribers when it launches in the spring — (Reuters) - In the bestselling novel “Circe” — optioned by WarnerMedia for its forthcoming HBO Max streaming service — the daughter …
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| Don Clark / New York Times: |
Inside the increasingly urgent discussions between Pentagon and tech industry on how to reduce the growing US dependence on advanced chip manufacturing abroad — Talks over how American companies can ensure future supplies of advanced computer chips have taken on more urgency.
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ARM says it will keep supplying Huawei with its chip designs after determining that Armv8-A and its next-gen architecture are of non-US origin — ARM will keep supplying Huawei with its chip designs at least through the next generation, the company said. That's a reversal from earlier this year … | Sean O'Kane / The Verge: |
Sources: Will.i.am's AI startup i.am+ hasn't paid staff in 7 weeks, is late on tax payments, and its smart home platform Wink stopped working with many devices — A stalled deal in Dubai has created problems for i.am+ — Will.i.am's technology company i.am+ is running out of money …
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| Atiya / MSPoweruser: |
Leaked documentation about Windows 10X shows the OS is designed for both laptops and foldable devices, with the Start Menu being referred to as “Launcher” — Microsoft has mostly kept details of Windows 10X- a version of Windows 10 that has been tailored to dual-screen devices- under wraps.
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Profile of Vijay Shekhar Sharma, founder of Indian digital payments company Paytm, which hit a $15B valuation in less than a decade, and now plans to go global — To say that Vijay Shekhar Sharma is ambitious is an understatement. The founder of Paytm, India's largest digital payments company …
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| Ryan Broderick / BuzzFeed News: |
TikTok says its content moderation policies are led by a US-based team and it will not remove content, including posts about Hong Kong, at the behest of China — Short-form video app TikTok can't shake an air of suspicion that surrounds it in the United States.
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