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| Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: |
In a first, Twitter adds a “Get the facts” label to two Trump tweets with false claims about mail-in voting, which links to a Twitter Moment refuting his claims — The action comes after years of criticism that social media companies have allowed the president to push misinformation unchecked
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| Ted Johnson / Deadline: |
Twitter won't remove Trump's tweets about a conspiracy involving Joe Scarborough's aide, but claims it will update policies, after letter from the aide's widow — UPDATED: Twitter is not immediately removing President Donald Trump's tweets about the 2001 death of an aide to Joe Scarborough …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources and documents: Zuckerberg and others shelved damning research into Facebook's polarizing effect, weakening efforts to apply its conclusions to products — The social-media giant internally studied how it polarizes users, then largely shelved the research
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Amazon is in advanced talks to buy self-driving car startup Zoox; the deal will value Zoox at less than the $3.2B valuation it achieved in 2018 — Deal expected to value Zoox at less than its last private valuation — Amazon. com Inc. is in advanced talks to buy Zoox Inc. in a move … | Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Amazon sent a script and video to US TV stations promoting its safety measures; at least 11 stations aired some form of it, and 10 didn't divulge the source — Numerous news stations ran segments featuring identical Amazon talking points — Amazon has been successfully feeding talking points …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: major advertisers on Quibi, including PepsiCo and Walmart, are seeking to defer payments as Quibi aims to cut costs after last month's lackluster debut — Some major advertisers have asked to defer their payments or revise their billing schedules — Streaming service Quibi …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook's internal R&D group, NPE Team, launches CatchUp, an audio-only calling app in the US that shows which users are currently available to chat — Facebook's internal R&D group, NPE Team, has today launched a new app called CatchUp that makes it easier for friends and family …
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NPE Blog, App Store, Mashable, CNET, Neowin, Social Media Today, 9to5Mac, PYMNTS.com, and TechGenyz
Tweets: @joshconstine, @nielr1, @maxwinebach, @leandro8209, @garrettstoffel, and @wongmjane. Thanks:@chrismessina
| Richard Nieva / CNET: |
Sundar Pichai told employees Google plans to gradually reopen offices and is targeting July 6, at ~10% building capacity, increasing to ~30% by September — Google CEO Sundar Pichai told employees Tuesday that the search giant is targeting July 6 to reopen offices for workers who want to come back.
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| Christine Fisher / Engadget: |
Switzerland is the first country to launch a large scale pilot for a COVID-19 contact tracing app, SwissCovid, using Apple's and Google's APIs — Switzerland is now piloting a COVID-19 contact tracing app that uses the Apple-Google framework. According to the Swiss university EPFL … | James Vincent / The Verge: |
Despite being banned in China, YouTube has automatically removed comments with certain phrases that are insulting to the Communist Party, calls it an error — These Chinese language phrases are removed within seconds — YouTube is automatically deleting comments that contain certain …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple releases macOS 10.15.5 with new Battery Health Management feature for MacBooks with Thunderbolt 3, managing battery life by adjusting charging patterns — Apple today released macOS Catalina 10.15.5, the fifth update to the macOS Catalina operating system that was released in October 2019.| Aditi Agrawal / MediaNama: |
Indian government open sources its contract-tracing app, Aarogya Setu, on GitHub, starting with Android app code, with iOS code to come soon after — In a major win for privacy, transparency and accountability, Aarogya Setu has made its code open source for the Android client …
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GitHub, The Register, The Economic Times, TechCrunch, Reuters, Times of India, TechCircle, The New Indian Express, and India Today. Tweets: @setuaarogya
| Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
Israel-based D-ID, which is working on tech to make faces unrecognizable to face recognition software, raises $13.5M led by AXA Ventures — If only Facebook had been using the kind of technology that TechCrunch Startup Battlefield alumnus D-ID was pitching, it could have avoided exposing …
Tweets: @dtunkelang
| South China Morning Post: |
Tencent says it will invest $70B over the next five years on new digital infrastructure for cloud computing, AI, blockchain tech, IoT, supercomputers, and more — The five-year plan will have Tencent focus on fields that include cloud computing, artificial intelligence … | Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
ESET details malware, allegedly used by Russian APT Turla against European governments, that uses Gmail for command and control and scrapes antivirus logs — Turla, one of Russia's most advanced hacker groups, has created malware that gets its orders from email attachments sent to an arbitrary Gmail inbox.Sponsor Posts
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