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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Reddit will ban r/The_Donald, r/ChapoTrapHouse, and ~2,000 other subreddits, most of which are inactive, after updating rules to more explicitly ban hate speech — More than 2,000 communities are being removed on Monday for violating Reddit's new content policies
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Twitch temporarily bans President Trump for “hateful conduct” that was aired on stream, noting it does not make exceptions for “political or newsworthy content” — A temporary suspension for ‘hateful conduct’ — Twitch has temporarily banned President Donald Trump …
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Indian government bans 59 Chinese apps including TikTok, ShareIt, UC Browser, WeChat, and Clash of Kings, citing national security and maintaining public order — Govt bans 59 Chinese apps including TikTok as border tensions simmer in Ladakh — As tensions along the Line of Actual Control …
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Lululemon says it plans to acquire home fitness startup Mirror for $500M; Mirror was last valued at $300M — Lululemon today announced plans to acquire home exercise startup Mirror, for $500 million. The fitness apparel company noted its plans by way of a press release …
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Memo: Microsoft suspended its ads on Facebook and Instagram in the US in May and has since expanded the pause globally, over concerns of “inappropriate content” — Microsoft suspended its advertising on Facebook and Instagram in the U.S. in May and recently expanded that to a global pause …
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| New York Times: |
Sources: Uber has made a takeover offer to buy Postmates in a deal that could be reached as early as Monday evening — The ride-hailing company has been trying to expand its food-delivery business to compensate for the collapse of its main business. — SAN FRANCISCO — Uber …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Benchmark scores for Apple's Developer Transition Kit unit, with A12Z chip used in iPad Pro, suggest it outperforms Surface Pro X even under Rosetta 2 emulation — Apple's Developer Transition Kit equipped with an A12Z iPad Pro chip began arriving in the hands of developers this morning …
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| Micah Maidenberg / Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon details new one-time bonuses for front-line workers and delivery contractors with Amazon throughout June, after phasing out its initial pandemic pay bump — Payout comes after e-commerce giant ended last month a short-term pay bump; sales have shot up during coronavirus — Amazon.
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| Shirin Ghaffary / Vox: |
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The New York Times pulls its stories from Apple News, saying the service does not align with its strategy of building direct relationships with paying readers — The Times said Apple News did not align with its strategy of building direct relationships with paying readers.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
AWS makes CodeGuru, a set of tools that use machine learning to automatically review code for bugs and suggest potential optimizations, generally available — AWS today announced that CodeGuru, a set of tools that use machine learning to automatically review code for bugs … | Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
Despite pretending to be a free speech alternative to Twitter, Parler is taking down content and shutting down accounts — Well, that did not take long at all. On Friday we predicted that just like every other social media platform out there, the new favorite among people who falsely …
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| Julia Alexander / The Verge: |
YouTube bans six channels, including those of white supremacists Stefan Molyneux, David Duke, and Richard Spencer, for violating its hate speech policies — Bans come after YouTube's 2019 policy update — YouTube has banned several prominent white supremacist channels …
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CNN, Mashable, CNET, Right Wing Watch, TechCrunch, 9to5Google, Mercury News, and Engadget
Tweets: @rileyjaydennis, @ericgarland, @micdamicrophone, @oneunderscore__, @jkfecke, @cmclymer, and @kevinroose
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon Prime Video launches Watch Party, a desktop feature for US Prime members to watch content together and chat with up to 100 viewers — Amazon Prime Video is beginning to roll out a co-viewing feature to Amazon Prime members in the U.S., the company announced today.| Janko Roettgers / Protocol: |
Hulu, Samsung have pulled apps focused on 360-degree videos, as Oculus sunsets its 360-video optimized Go headset; Facebook: the future is more immersive 6DOF — Samsung is done with VR video: The company will remove its Samsung XR app, which aggregated 360-degree videos from publishers …
Tweets: @protocol
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google brings free product listings to Search results, after adding them to its Shopping tab in April, to help businesses during the pandemic — Back in April, Google announced that all merchants can have their goods appear for free in the Shopping tab. Those free product listings … | Elizabeth Culliford / Reuters: |
Google says it has removed search ads linking to sites that charged US users large fees for voter registration or harvested their data, after a watchdog report — (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) Google said on Monday that it had removed search ads that charged users searching …
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