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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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| 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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| 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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| Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times: |
| 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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Oculus Blog, The Verge, Windows Central, MSPoweruser, VRFocus, Road to VR, and Neowin. Tweets: @boztank
| Margaret Harding McGill / Axios: |
GOP Sen. Josh Hawley debuts a bill aimed at US companies' data storage practices in countries like China and Russia, which would impact companies like Apple — Republican Sen. Josh Hawley, a prominent big tech critic, will introduce legislation Monday meant to protect Americans' online data … | 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 Hill / Neowin: |
Microsoft updates its privacy rules for commercial cloud contracts, after a EU probe found that it failed to protect data under EU law — Microsoft has announced that it will update its privacy provisions for commercial cloud contracts. It comes after the European Data Protection Supervisor …
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| Jake Bright / TechCrunch: |
Opera's Africa focused fintech startup OPay raises $120M Series B from Meituan-Dianping, SoftBank Asia, others, will expand to Kenya, Ghana, and South Africa — Africa focused fintech startup OPay has raised a $120 million Series B round backed by Chinese investors.
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
AI-powered news aggregation app SmartNews raises $92M, including a $28M raise in August, at a valuation of $1.2B, bringing its total raised to $182M — Looks like there's still money to be made in news aggregation — at least according to the investors backing the news app SmartNews.| 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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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Chrome, Edge, Safari hacked at elite hacking contest Tianfu Cup, which is now China's top competition after a participation ban on foreign contests like Pwn2Own — China's top white-hat hackers have gathered in Chengdu to test zero-days against today's top software.
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Tom's Hardware, Threatpost, iPhone in Canada Blog, MSPoweruser, WinBuzzer, and Security Affairs. Tweets: @williamnee
| 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.| Andrew Allemann / Domain Name Wire: |
After ICANN lifted price caps on .org domains in June, the Internet Society has sold Public Interest Registry, the top level domain's operator, to PE firm Ethos — Ethos Capital, led by former ABRY Partners Managing Partner, buys .Org registry. — I thought this might happen. And now it has.
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