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| Chuin-Wei Yap / Wall Street Journal: |
Huawei got ~$46B in loans from Chinese state lenders, saved $25B in taxes from state incentives, $2B in land discounts, and $1.6B in grants in the last 25 years — China's tech champion got as much as $75 billion in tax breaks, financing and cheap resources as it became the world's top telecom vendor
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| William Feuer / CNBC: |
FAA proposes new rule requiring most drones to implement remote ID systems that allow tracking by law enforcement, envisions compliance within three years — - The rule will implement a remote ID system to identify and track drones in real-time. — Such a rule has long been in the works.
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| Julia Alexander / The Verge: |
YouTube gives creators more ways to handle copyright disputes with a YouTube Studio update that includes an Assisted Trim tool to edit out claimed content — An automatic trim feature helps directly tackle the problem — YouTube's recent Studio update is finally giving people an easier way to deal with copyright claim disputes.
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| Varun Mishra / Counterpoint Research: |
iPhone XR has been the top-selling model globally in every quarter since Q4 2018 and contributed to over one-quarter of total Apple sales in Q3 2019 — According to Counterpoint Research's Market Pulse, the iPhone XR was the top-selling model globally in Q3 2019, capturing 3% market share.
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| Associated Press: |
Turkey's top court rules that a two-year ban on Wikipedia violates freedom of expression; it remains unclear when access to the site will be restored — ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey's highest court on Thursday ruled in favor of Wikipedia, saying the Turkish government's two-year ban …
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| Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post: |
Sources: building on tactics deployed during 2018 midterms, US Cyber Command is exploring additional strategies to counter Russian 2020 election interference — Military cyber officials are developing information warfare tactics that could be deployed against senior Russian officials …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Facebook Messenger now requires a Facebook account to sign up, removing the option to use a phone number, says a vast majority of users log in through Facebook — Facebook has quietly removed the ability to sign up for Messenger without a Facebook account, the company confirmed to VentureBeat this afternoon.| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Comcast is in advanced talks to acquire Xumo, which offers an ad-supported video streaming service, as Comcast prepares to launch NBC's Peacock — Deal would help cable giant's digital-video ambitions as it prepares to launch its own video-streaming service| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
A look at Netflix's meteoric growth in the past decade, which saw its stock deliver more than 4,000% return, the best performing among S&P 500 companies — - Netflix was by far the best performer in the S&P 500 during the decade among companies currently in the index.| Kim Zetter / Politico: |
How VR Systems, a small FL-based election tech company that Mueller suggested was hacked by Russia, could be a weak link in maintaining US election integrity — On November 6, 2016, the Sunday before the presidential election that sent Donald Trump to the White House, a worker in the elections office …
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| Sean O'Kane / The Verge: |
NY governor has vetoed a bill that would have legalized e-bike/scooter sharing services like Lime; bill was overwhelmingly passed in June by the NY legislature — He just vetoed a bill that was overwhelmingly passed in June — New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has vetoed a bill …
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| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
Chuck Peddle, a key designer of the cheap MOS 6502 CPU that powered the first big wave of personal computers, like Commodore PET and Apple II, has died at 82 — His invention brought digital technology to a new breed of consumer devices and powered early Apple and Commodore computers.
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