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Twitter says accounts that have not been logged into for six months leading up to Dec. 11 will be removed, likely freeing up a large number of usernames — No exact date for when usernames will be available — Twitter is sending out emails to owners of inactive accounts with a warning …
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| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Facebook buys the VR studio behind Beat Saber, one of virtual reality's biggest titles with over 1M copies sold since May 2018 — Virtual reality doesn't have many hit games yet, but Facebook is buying the studio behind one of the platform's biggest titles.
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Amazon announces new Alexa emotions for developers to let Alexa respond to questions from US users with a “happy/excited” or a “disappointed/empathetic” tone — Alexa is also getting a radio DJ-like voice — You might hear a little more emotion from Alexa's vaguely-robotic voice …
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| CNBC: |
Sources: Facebook made several bids to acquire Fitbit, including a final offer of $7.30/share, below Google's announced offer of ~$2.1B in cash at $7.35/share — - Facebook is “Party A,” the company that bid against Google to acquire Fitbit, according to sources familiar with the matter.
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
HP Inc. beats with Q4 revenue of $15.41B, up 0.3% YoY, says its personal systems business, which includes PCs, contributed $10.43B in revenue, up 4% YoY — Enrique Lores speaks at the HP Media Day at the 70th Cannes Film Festival at Majestic Barierre on May 22, 2017, in Cannes, France.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon partners with pharmacy chain Giant Eagle to bring to Alexa prescription medication reminders and the ability to request refills — As Amazon moves further into the healthcare market, the company today is rolling out a medication management feature for Alexa owners.
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| Leo Kelion / BBC: |
US teen says TikTok blocked her from posting after she accused China of putting Muslims into concentration camps; TikTok blames other reasons for the suspension — A US teenager's TikTok video clip accusing China of putting Muslims into “concentration camps” has gone viral on the Chinese-owned social network.
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| Kate Clark / TechCrunch: |
NYSE files paperwork with SEC that proposes letting companies raise fresh capital as part of direct listings on the exchange, a method used by Slack and Spotify — The New York Stock Exchange filed paperwork this morning with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to allow companies to raise capital as part of a direct listing.
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CNBC, Financial Times, Bloomberg, Silicon Valley Business …, and Fortune
Tweets: @albertwenger, @brandonreeves08, @nongaap, @rkroeger13, and @bgurley
| Sean Lyngaas / CyberScoop: |
Commerce Department proposes rules for implementing Trump's supply-chain order, including giving foreign companies time to address US concerns and avoid a ban — Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross will “adopt a case-by-case” approach to determining what components will be banned (Getty Images)
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| Bloomberg: |
A look at SoftBank's controversial process of participating in multiple rounds to pump up a startup's valuation and how the WeWork debacle is changing that — In early 2018, the founders of Chinese artificial intelligence startup SenseTime Group Ltd. flew to Tokyo to see billionaire investor Masayoshi Son.| Frank Pasquale / Law and Political Economy: |
A look at the state of AI accountability research, which is focused not just on improving existing systems but also on whether such systems should ever be used — Over the past decade, algorithmic accountability has become an important concern for social scientists, computer scientists, journalists, and lawyers.
Tweets: @evanselinger, @iajunwa, @biancawylie, @dorotheabaur, @hypervisible, @laurenebridges, @algorithmwatch, and @biancawylie
| Julia Carrie Wong / The Guardian: |
Facebook bans white nationalist outlets Red Ice TV and Affirmative Right, says VDare's page is still under review, after recent report — Platform bars Red Ice TV and Affirmative Right, as VDare continues to operate — Facebook will no longer allow Red Ice TV and Affirmative Right to use its platform … | Steven Scheer / Reuters: |
Facebook sued by NSO Group employees who claim their private Facebook and Instagram accounts were unfairly blocked after WhatsApp had sued NSO Group last month — JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A group of employees from Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group filed a lawsuit against Facebook Inc on Tuesday …
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Shuttl, an app-based bus aggregator that operates ~2,000 buses clocking over 100K daily rides in India, says it has raised $36M as part of its ongoing Series C — Shuttl, a startup that runs an app-based bus aggregator service in India, said on Monday that it has raised $36 million …
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The Financial Express, Livemint, Tech in Asia, PYMNTS.com, and Inc42 Media. Tweets: @joshconstine
| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Kasada, which has developed tech to fight bot-powered attacks, says it has closed $7M Series A, which includes funding from its newest investor In-Q-Tel — Kasada, an anti-bot startup we profiled earlier this year, has raised $7 million in its Series A with In-Q-Tel, the non-profit venture arm …
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon says it is shutting down a controversial program in 2020 that uses AI to send shoppers free samples based on their buying habits — - The program, which it began testing earlier this year, used Amazon's data insights to send shoppers free samples of select products.| Edward Ongweso Jr / VICE: |
Uber drivers in France are occupying a majority of Uber's Greenlight Hubs, centers for registering new drivers, demanding a cap on the number of drivers, more — “CAPITALISM HAS GONE TOO FAR. THE GIG ECONOMY IS KILLING PEOPLE.” — FOR NEARLY TWO WEEKS, UBER DRIVERS ACROSS FRANCE …
Tweets: @veenadubal and @bigblackjacobin
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