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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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| 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 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 … | 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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The Keyword, TechCrunch, Fox Business, cloudpro.co.uk, Android Central, and Android Headlines
| Gartner: |
Global shipments of PCs, tablets, and mobile phones are forecast to drop 13.6% overall in 2020, with smartphones dropping 13.7% YoY and PCs falling 10.5% — Work from Home Trend Saved PC Market from Collapse — Global shipments of devices (PCs, tablets and mobile phones) … | 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.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: TikTok parent-company ByteDance generated $17B+ in revenue and $3B+ in net profit in 2019, more than double its $7.4B revenue in 2018 — TikTok parent-company ByteDance Ltd. generated more than $17 billion in revenue and more than $3 billion in net profit last year …
Tweets: @shuvi, @mdudas, @gavinsbaker, @firstadopter, @nanduan, @jonrussell, @pingroma, and @katie_roof
| 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 … | 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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| 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, TechCrunch, The Register, The Economic Times, Times of India, TechCircle, The New Indian Express, India Today, and Reuters
Tweets: @pibmumbai, @saumiktiwari, @setuaarogya, @airnewsalerts, and @medianama
| Morris Kiruga / Rest of World: |
A look at OKash, a popular microcredit app in Kenya that threatens users to notify everyone on their contact list when they fall behind on loan payments — Okash, a popular fintech app in Kenya and Nigeria, threatens users to notify everyone on their contact list when you fall behind on your loan payments.
Tweets: @ahmed, @lalehkhalili, @mohamed, @restofworld, @ftrain, @anupkaphle, @privacymatters, and @claritytoast
| 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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App Store, MacRumors, iMore, Mashable, iPhone in Canada Blog, Wccftech, CNET, PYMNTS.com, Neowin, and 9to5Mac
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