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Huawei files lawsuit with a federal appeals court against the FCC's decision to bar rural carriers from using federal subsidies to buy Huawei's equipment — Huawei says FCC order is unlawful as it does not give Huawei required due process protections in labelling the company …
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| Will Knight / Wired: |
Jerome Pesenti, VP of AI at Facebook, on using AI for content moderation, limitations of deep learning and current AI, commercializing AI research, and more — Jerome Pesenti is encouraged by progress in artificial intelligence, but sees the limits of the current approach to deep learning.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: FTC investigators, who have been looking into Amazon's e-commerce business, have begun asking software companies about Amazon's practices around AWS — - FTC said to broaden Amazon inquiry beyond online retail — Amazon's cloud business leads market over No. 2 Microsoft
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Instagram says it will now require birthdates from new users, in order to improve safety features for minors and better target ads for age-restricted products — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc's Instagram said it will require birthdates from all new users starting on Wednesday …
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
FCC investigation finds Verizon, T-Mobile, and US Cellular exaggerated 4G coverage in official filings to the FCC; Ajit Pai has no plans to punish the carriers — FCC buries investigation's finding in 5G press release, won't punish carriers. — 49 with 42 posters participating
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| Andrei Frumusanu / AnandTech: |
An in-depth look at Qualcomm's new Snapdragon 865 and 765 chips, and why Snapdragon 865 does not come with an integrated 5G modem — We're here in Maui for the second day of Qualcomm's fourth annual Snapdragon summit, for what is probably the most exciting part of the event …
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| Colin Lecher / The Verge: |
How the Basel Action Network, which embeds trackers in discarded devices to trace where they end up in the world, uncovered bad practices of an e-waste recycler — How an e-waste sting uncovered a shocking betrayal — Jim Puckett got the messages from his “little lie detectors.”
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| Jason Schreier / Kotaku: |
Sources: Microsoft is planning a cheaper, disc-free Xbox, codenamed Lockhart, to go alongside its high-end Project Scarlett console — In June, Microsoft announced Project Scarlett, a new iteration of the Xbox that the company said would “set a new bar for console power, speed and performance.”
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| Kieren McCarthy / The Register: |
Internet Society says private equity firm Ethos Capital will pay $1.135B for the .org top level domain registry — Anger rises over ten-figure sale of registry — Analysis The price tag for one of the internet's largest and most important domain-name registries has finally been revealed: $1.135bn.
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Analysis: Series A and Series B rounds have annually accounted for between 21% and 37% of total $100M+ VC rounds across the globe since 2010 — It's become the norm for some private tech companies to raise in a single round what VC firms raise for an entire new fund.
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Imgur says it now has 300 MAU and launches Melee, an iOS app where users see a feed of memes and gameplay clips for the games to which they subscribe — 10 years after debut, 300 million monthly user Imgur is one of the last massively popular yet unpersonalized home pages on the internet.| Neha Malara / Reuters: |
Slack reports Q3 revenue of $168.7M up 60% YoY, beating analyst estimates, and a net loss of $87.8M, says its paying customers grew to 105K, up 30% YoY — (Reuters) - Slack Technologies Inc (WORK.N) forecast disappointing current-quarter revenue and profit on Wednesday as its messaging platform wrestles with stiff competition.
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Kashmiris, who are subject to an ongoing four month internet shutdown, are losing their WhatsApp accounts because of the platform's policy on inactive accounts — On Wednesday, Kashmiris began disappearing from WhatsApp — and no one initially knew why. Citizens of the disputed geographical territory … | Munsif Vengattil / Reuters: |
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