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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Google Stadia review: works well and has a clearer picture than early rivals but 4K games do not look 4K, tons of features are missing, and it feels like a beta — Google Stadia works. — That's what you came here to find out, and I won't bury the lede: on Tuesday, November 19th …
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| Todd Haselton / CNBC: |
Apple announces press event on December 2 in NYC, says the event will be focused on “honoring our favorite apps and games of 2019” — Apple just announced a press event that it will hold a special press event at 4 p.m. ET on Dec. 2 in New York City.
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
T-Mobile President and COO Mike Sievert to succeed John Legere as CEO on May 1, 2020 — - T-Mobile President and COO Mike Sievert will succeed John Legere as CEO on May 1, 2020, the company announced Monday. — CNBC's David Faber reported in July that Sievert was expected …
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Google buys Microsoft-backed CloudSimple to help its customers run VMware workloads on the Google Cloud Platform, after partnering with the company in July — - CloudSimple makes it easier for large companies to run applications in public clouds like Google's.| Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: |
Uber Chief Product Officer Manik Gupta, who joined from Google in 2015, says he is leaving the company — Uber Chief Product Officer Manik Gupta announced today he is leaving the company. Gupta's last day will be December 13, he wrote in a note to Uber's product team today.| Craig Lloyd / iFixit News: |
16" MacBook Pro teardown shows a new thermal system, keyboard similar to the standalone Magic Keyboard, a six-speaker system, and a high-performance mic array — A beloved old feature returns to the MacBook Pro, and it starts with M-a-g. If you guessed MagSafe, we have disappointing news …
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| Tim Ingham / Music Business Worldwide: |
Amazon expands its free ad-supported version of Amazon Music to its mobile apps, FireTV, and the web, with access to select playlists and radio-like stations — Watch out Spotify: Amazon Music has widened the net of its ‘free’ music streaming platform. — Amazon Music customers without … | William Feuer / CNBC: |
Evan Spiegel says Snapchat has a team that fact checks all political advertising on the platform, in stark contrast to Facebook — - Snap's policy represents a middle ground in a debate that has been largely defined by extremes as Facebook pushes for no regulation and Twitter grapples with removing political ads altogether.
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| Sam Machkovech / Ars Technica: |
Facebook launches Oculus Link software for Oculus Quest in beta, allowing users to access Rift PC games using a USB-C cable — Beta for this wired-VR update is now live; official Oculus Link cable coming soon. — Oculus Quest owners, your chance to dive into the world of PC-VR gaming has begun.
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| Margaret Harding McGill / Axios: |
GOP Sen. Josh Hawley debuts a bill targeting Apple and other US tech companies that prohibits them from storing user data or encryption keys in China and Russia — Republican Sen. Josh Hawley, a prominent big tech critic, will introduce legislation Monday meant to protect Americans' online data …
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| Raymond Zhong / New York Times: |
Musical.ly founder Alex Zhu, who now heads TikTok, claims that TikTok doesn't share data with China or ByteDance and doesn't censor videos at China's behest — Alex Zhu, the head of the Chinese-owned viral video app, is trying to assuage Washington's fears. “I am quite optimistic,” he said.
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| Colin Lecher / The Verge: |
Filings show that the US Commerce Department is giving Huawei another reprieve of three months before the US ban takes effect, now slated for February 16, 2020 — Yet another delay — Huawei has been given yet another reprieve from the Trump administration's ban on its products …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google Maps tests a social networking feature with the ability to “Follow” Local Guides, which will surface their recommendations to their followers — Google Maps will soon begin testing a new feature that's more common to social networks like Facebook, rather than a maps app: the ability to find and follow other users.
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| Jason Hovet / Reuters: |
Czech government approves a proposal for a 7% digital tax covering revenue from large companies gained via targeted ads, user data sales, and more — PRAGUE (Reuters) - The Czech government approved a 7% digital tax proposal on Monday aimed at boosting state coffers by taxing advertising … | Olivia Solon / NBC News: |
Inside Facebook's efforts to fight revenge porn using AI and a 25-person team; source: Facebook gets about 500K reports of revenge porn per month — The Facebook team tasked with fighting nonconsensual intimate images spoke for the first time about their research, early missteps and hopes for AI.| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Home insurance startup Luko raises $22M Series A led by Accel for its home protection tech that monitors doors, pipes, and meters, using AI to detect anomalies — Luko, a France-based insurance tech startup that's using sensors, data, and machine learning to circumvent the need to make a claim …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Israeli ride-hailing service Gett to shut down operations in NYC, known there as Juno, says Lyft will take on its 15,000 enterprise clients starting next year — Gett, the ridesharing company backed by Volkswagen and valued at around $1.5 billion, is putting the brakes on a major part of its growth strategy.| Bloomberg Law: |
A look at Facebook and Google's funding of nonprofits shaping the privacy debate; together they gave $960K+ to Center for Democracy and Technology alone in 2018 — Few companies have more riding on proposed privacy legislation than Alphabet Inc.'s Google and Facebook Inc. To try to steer the bill their way … | Bloomberg: |
Chinese government data suggests Apple shipped 10M iPhones in the country during Sept. and Oct., up 6% YoY, as overall smartphone shipments dropped 5% to 69.3M — - Upgrades to camera and battery spur 6% growth in shipments — China is Apple's most important market after the U.S.
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