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Twitter pauses its plan to delete inactive accounts, after concerns were raised about deceased users, until it creates a way to memorialize accounts — Twitter said Wednesday it was putting on hold a plan to delete inactive accounts amid concerns that accounts from deceased users would be swept up in the purge.
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TikTok says it didn't block US teen's account with Uighur persecution video, but did block device associated with her other account banned for bin Laden pic — There has been significant interest and confusion regarding a user's two TikTok accounts and her viral video talking about the Uighur community in China.
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Sources: amid a CFIUS investigation, ByteDance is separating TikTok from its Chinese operations and providing assurances US user data is inaccessible to China — - ByteDance has stepped up efforts to separate its social media app TikTok from much of its Chinese operations …
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Apple meets Russia's demands to show Crimea as part of Russia for Russian Apple Maps users; elsewhere on Apple Maps, Crimea isn't shown as part of any country — Apple has complied with Russian demands to show the annexed Crimean peninsula as part of Russian territory on its apps.
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Google Photos starts rolling out manual face tagging, lets users tag faces that Google's algorithm detects but doesn't recognize — A few months ago, Google Photos product lead, David Lieb, told us that manually tagging faces was on the app's update roadmap.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter confirms it is testing threaded conversations features from its prototype twttr app on Twitter.com, ahead of the official rollout next year — Twttr, the prototype app Twitter launched earlier this year, has been testing new ways to display conversations, including through the use of threaded replies and other visual cues.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Lithuania-based Vinted, an online marketplace for used clothes, raises $141M at a $1B+ valuation, led by Lightspeed with Burda, Accel, and others participating — The market for second-hand clothes — the “circular economy” as it's sometimes called — has been on the rise in the last several years … | Charlotte Tucker / EU-Startups: |
Toucan Toto, which provides a data visualization platform without requiring users to learn a new language, raises €12M led by Balderton Capital — Toucan Toco, a data storytelling startup founded in 2014, has completed its first-ever round of funding of €12 million, led by Balderton Capital.| Wolfie Zhao / CoinDesk: |
Korean crypto exchange Upbit confirms it has lost 342K of ether worth ~$49M, suspends deposits/withdrawals, says losses will be covered with its own assets — 342,000 ether have been taken from the wallets of South Korean crypto exchange Upbit, the firm's CEO says. — Learn — Bitcoin 101
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Valve says its Steam Controller, launched in 2013 as part of the failed Steam Machines program, will no longer be made; last units will sell for $5/controller — An amazing gadget bites the dust — Only the best deals on Verge-approved gadgets get the Good Deals stamp of approval … | Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
Court allows class action related to Facebook's 2018 breach to proceed; says the 29M users, as a group, can ask for better security procedures, but not damages — (Reuters) - A federal judge said up to 29 million Facebook Inc (FB.O) users whose personal information was stolen … | DutchNews.nl: |
Picnic, an online supermarket that delivers groceries in 125 Dutch and German cities, raises €250M, plans to build a new automated distribution center — Online supermarket Picnic has raised €250m in funding to develop a new, largely automated distribution centre which it hopes will come on stream within two years.
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