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Sources and documents: research into Facebook's polarizing effect was shelved by Zuckerberg and others, weakening efforts to apply its conclusions to products — The social-media giant internally studied how it polarizes users, then largely shelved the research| 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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As the worst of the pandemic may have passed in China, officials are eager to find new uses for the virus monitoring software that's now on many phones — With the disease there mostly under control, officials are looking for new uses for the government software that's now on many phones.
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| Richard Lai / Engadget: |
Ex-HTC CEO Peter Chou unveils XRSpace Mova, a $599 5G VR headset with a virtual world called Manova, focusing on intuitiveness and a social-first approach — Even though Peter Chou had long parted ways with the VR business he created at HTC, the former CEO continued to work in the industry …
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| Sebastian Sinclair / CoinDesk: |
Facebook's subsidiary Calibra, which is developing a wallet app to be used by Libra, gets rebranded as Novi — In the approach to the launch of Facebook's Libra payments ecosystem, a key subsidiary has been given a new name and a new look. — According to an announcement on Tuesday …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple says it has fixed bug that stopped some iOS apps from opening over the past few days and led to a deluge of app updates — Apple has now resolved the bug that was plaguing iPhone and iPad apps over the weekend, causing some apps to not launch at all.| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
ARM announces high-end mobile designs of Cortex-A78 CPU and Mali-G78 GPU, which will power flagship Android phones of 2021 for better performance and efficiency — An early look at the future of mobile devices — ARM has announced its latest high-end mobile designs …
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| Steve Lohr / New York Times: |
Online learning courses are booming during the pandemic, with Coursera adding 10M new users from mid-March to mid-May, seven times the pace in the previous year — The pioneering online learning networks offer hard-earned lessons for what works and what doesn't with online education.
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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 … | Will Heaven / MIT Technology Review: |
Smaller American retailers are turning to robots to automate warehouse work, techniques long used by Amazon and others, spurred on by the pandemic — In a warehouse in Secaucus, New Jersey, a handful of people stand around the base of a white box as big as a house.| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Despite being banned in China, YouTube is automatically deleting comments that contain certain phrases that are insulting to the country's Communist Party — These Chinese language phrases are removed within seconds — YouTube is automatically deleting comments that contain certain Chinese … | Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
DefinedCrowd raises $50.5M Series B to help companies including Mastercard, BMW, others improve their AI services, says revenue spiked more than 650% in 2019 — Artificial intelligence services require mountains of reliable data to reach their full potential.| Mark Scott / Politico: |
With GDPR's two-year anniversary today, the Irish Data Protection Commission is under pressure to act, amid doubts about the agency's enforcement ability — Ireland's Data Protection Commission is under pressure to act, and act soon. — Facebook's European headquarters in Dublin.
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