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Facebook unveils photo transfer tool, letting users transfer their photos and videos directly to other services starting with Google Photos, in Ireland — At Facebook, we believe that if you share data with one service, you should be able to move it to another.
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Tim Cook, Satya Nadella, and Sundar Pichai sign a renewed commitment to the Paris Agreement and urge the US to stay in, joining 70+ CEOs and US labor leaders — The U.S. government may be in the process of formally withdrawing from the term of the Paris Agreement, an International accord …
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| Charles Riley / CNN: |
EU antitrust regulator launches preliminary investigations into how Google and Facebook gather, process, use, and monetize data for advertising purposes — London (CNN Business)Europe's top antitrust regulator is probing how Google and Facebook use data, putting the companies' huge advertising businesses in the spotlight once again.
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| James Politi / Financial Times: |
US proposes tariffs on up to $2.4B of French goods after concluding that France's digital services tax unfairly discriminates against US tech companies — The Trump administration has threatened to impose 100 per cent tariffs on up to $2.4bn of French goods, including champagne …
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| Paul Thurrott / Thurrott: |
Report: Huawei's latest Mate 30 handsets do not include any American parts; Huawei also says its 5G networking gear is now “America-free”, thanks to the US ban — Here's one thing the U.S. government might not have considered when it banned Huawei from doing business in the country … | Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
T-Mobile debuts 5G across the US in 600MHz spectrum, which travels further than mmWave but has lower max data speeds; Samsung, OnePlus debuting 5G phones Friday — Samsung and OnePlus phones will launch on Friday — T-Mobile has flipped the switch on its 5G network …
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Filing: DHS proposes removing exemptions for US citizens and green card holders from going through facial recognition scans before arriving or departing the US — Homeland Security wants to expand facial recognition checks for travelers arriving and departing the U.S. to also include citizens …
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Best 2019 Cyber Monday deals on smartphones, laptops and tablets, TVs, headphones and speakers, cameras and drones, wearables, and more — Don't bother trudging to the store. We've gathered the absolute best online tech deals in every category. — Whether you're fighting through snow flurries …
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Source: through September, TikTok limited the reach of disabled, “fat and self-confident”, and LGBT users, in a misplaced bid to prevent them from being bullied — Leaked documents reveal how TikTok hid videos of people with disabilities. Queer and fat users were also pushed out of view.| Elizabeth Culliford / Reuters: |
Twitter updates global privacy policy to comply with CCPA, will move non-EU, non-US accounts that it is currently hosting in Ireland to US, to reduce GDPR risks — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Twitter Inc is updating its global privacy policy to give users more information … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Amazon previews Braket, a service to let AWS customers use D-Wave, IonQ, and Rigetti quantum computers, and debuts a Quantum Solutions Lab and research center — While Google, Microsoft, IBM and others have made a lot of noise around their quantum computing efforts in recent months, AWS remained quiet.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon debuts a medical speech transcription tool that works without human intervention and does not require explicit punctuation by users, like saying “comma” — Amazon is expanding its automatic transcription service for AWS, Amazon Transcribe, to include support for medical speech …
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