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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Facebook says it will stop accepting new political ads a week before the US presidential election, as part of steps to protect against election interference — Striking a compromise to prevent election misinformation — Facebook will stop taking new political advertising in the United States …
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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Facebook says it will limit message forwarding on Messenger to five people or groups at a time to tackle the spread of misinformation — The social network said it would block new political ads in late October, among other measures, to reduce misinformation and interference.
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| Ashley Gold / Axios: |
Facebook says it will take down a video of Trump suggesting people vote twice in North Carolina “unless it is shared to correct the record” — Facebook, citing its policies against voter fraud, will take down a video of President Trump suggesting people vote twice in North Carolina …
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| Steve Kovach / CNBC: |
Facebook's new policies on the US election are so narrow, and come into effect so late, that they won't have any real effect on election misinformation — - Facebook on Thursday said it would ban new political ads in the week before the Nov. 3 presidential election and enforce …
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| New York Times: |
Sources: DOJ plans to file antitrust charges against Google as soon as this month, after AG Barr overruled career lawyers who said they needed more time — The attorney general is said to have set a deadline over the objections of career lawyers who say they need more time to build the case.
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| Alex Heath / The Information: |
Apple confirms it will delay enforcement of IDFA changes in iOS 14 until early next year “to give developers the time they need to make the necessary changes” — Apple plans to delay the enforcement of a controversial change to its next mobile operating system that would upend …
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| Ryan Mac / BuzzFeed News: |
Facebook told employees it deleted an event page for Kenosha Guard but internal docs show it was deleted by the page admin; Facebook apologizes for the error — Sandra Fiehrer thought she was helping Facebook enforce its own rules when she reported “Armed Citizens to Protect our Lives and Property …
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| Mark Sullivan / Fast Company: |
Source: only the iPhone 12 Pro Max will support speedy millimeter-wave 5G, and the feature will be limited to the US, South Korea, and Japan — Just one of the new iPhones Apple is set to announce will support the faster millimeter-wave flavor of 5G wireless service, a wireless industry source tells Fast Company.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon launches Alexa for Residential, a service for property managers to set up and maintain Alexa-powered smart home devices in their buildings — Amazon wants to bring Alexa to property managers. The company this morning launched a new service, Alexa for Residential …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
TikTok announces Stitch, a feature that lets users sample five seconds of video from other users, alongside a set of marketing tools and partnerships for brands — There's a big question mark hanging over the future of TikTok right now, in the form of what exactly will happen …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple says it will offer one-time use codes for developers to entice users with free or discounted subscriptions, redeemable on iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 — Apple is introducing a change to how subscriptions work. No, it's not lowering its cut, despite the government's antitrust investigation and its lawsuit with Epic.
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| Cherlynn Low / Engadget: |
Qualcomm announces Snapdragon 8cx Gen 2 5G for Windows ARM-based laptops, with better AI performance and support for Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5.1 — Here's a sign that the troubled Windows on Snapdragon platform isn't going away anytime soon: Qualcomm is announcing today its new made-for-PC processor based on ARM design.
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| Johann Lau / The Keyword: |
Google Maps is prioritizing traffic patterns from the last 2 to 4 weeks to predict traffic amid lockdowns and working with DeepMind to accurately predict ETAs — Every day, over 1 billion kilometers are driven with Google Maps in more than 220 countries and territories around the world.
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| Brendan Sinclair / GamesIndustry.biz: |
Oculus ends sales of Rift and Quest in Germany, pending talks with regulators who cast doubt on legality of requiring Oculus devices be linked to Facebook login — Facebook says it's a temporary move and will continue supporting existing owners in the country
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| TechCrunch: |
WhatsApp launches website to track security issues, with the company also revealing six previously undisclosed vulnerabilities, now fixed — Facebook-owned WhatsApp has revealed six previously undisclosed vulnerabilities, which the company has now fixed. The vulnerabilities are being reported …
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| Tom Simonite / Wired: |
Alphabet, Microsoft, Salesforce, and others are offering tools to get workers back in offices, despite extending their own remote working policies into 2021 — Alphabet, Microsoft, and Salesforce are offering services to track employees, arrange tests, and record results—all while most of their staffers are remote.
Tweets: @nmainland, @dancharvey, and @cbre
| Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac: |
US Appeals court rules that Apple must pay 12,000+ retail workers in California for time they spent going through security screenings at the end of their shifts — An appeals court has ruled that Apple must pay retail staff for the time they spend waiting for their bags to be searched before they leave the store.
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Tweets: @benlovejoy, @stevenhebert, and @caseynewton
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Facebook expands its data portability tool, which lets users transfer photos and videos to other services, to support Dropbox and Koofr — Facebook's photo and video portability tool has added support for two more third party services for users to send data via encrypted transfer — namely …
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| Bloomberg: |
Episerver will acquire Optimizely, which helps companies manage and test different versions of websites; Optimizely raised $146M and was last valued at $600M — - Optimizely valued below $600 million in deal, people said — Goldman Sachs, Benchmark, Andreessen back Optimizely
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| Ewan Morgan / Washington Post: |
Ownership of esports teams and leagues, particularly by state-backed companies like Tencent, has drawn scrutiny from human rights advocates and watchdog orgs — On June 29, Riot Games published the following statement on their website. “It's been a year of breaking new ground so far … Sponsor Posts
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