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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Leaked audio recordings and internal posts show Mark Zuckerberg's balancing act, as employees demand a harder line against Trump but users want the opposite — In 2020, Facebook would be roiled by a global pandemic, internal protests over racial injustice, a deeply polarizing election …
Tweets: @ekp, @reckless, @kevinroose, @caseynewton, @caseynewton, @zoeschiffer, @verge, @profgalloway, @verge, @alexstamos, @verge, and @anotherhelen
| Jason Del Rey / Vox: |
While livestreaming video e-commerce has taken off in China, it has yet to go mainstream in the US, but Walmart hopes it can lead the way with its bet on TikTok — For years, Walmart has been struggling to keep up with Amazon in pursuit of e-commerce dominance. Kena Betancur/VIEWpress via Getty Images| Bloomberg: |
Shopify says two “rogue members” of its support teams stole customer data from over 100 merchants; the company is working with the FBI to investigate — - Emails, names, addresses, order details may have been exposed — E-commerce platform is working with FBI on investigation
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 review: a big change for iPhones, with widgets, better notifications, and useful App Library, while iPad gets a more incremental update — It's time to blow up your iPhone's home screen — Apple spells out the significance of its new iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 updates right …
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9to5Mac, AppleInsider, The Verge, Bustle, CNBC, MacRumors, and TechCrunch
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Apple iPad (2020) review: fast with a robust selection of apps and 128GB model is good value, but lacks multi-user support and USB-C; 32GB model is inadequate — It's really great, but the limitations are becoming grating — The new 2020 edition of the iPad, now in its eighth generation, continues to be an iPad.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google rolls out updates to Maps with a layer showing COVID-19 cases per 100,000 people, with labels to indicate trends, coming to 220 countries and territories — Google today announced an update to Google Maps that will bring a new COVID-19 layer to the service to help you better understand the number of cases in a given area.
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| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
DOJ, in a rare legislative proposal, asks Congress to adopt a law weakening Section 230, in an effort to hold Facebook, Google, and others liable for content — At issue is Section 230, which gives Facebook, Twitter and other social media legal protection for items their users post to the companies' websites
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Tweets: @wsj, @kantrowitz, and @rasmus_kleis
| New York Times: |
Facebook removes accounts, groups, and Pages tied to China that posted about US politics; the network was followed by fewer than 3,000 US accounts — The social media campaign was small but targeted all sides of the debate. Officials said Beijing had not decided whether to wade more directly in the American presidential race.
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| Christopher Bing / Reuters: |
Sources: US election day exercises simulating attacks like hacks and disruption to voting show US officials will struggle to counter online misinformation — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. election day exercises simulating attacks ranging from hackers to anthrax to disrupt voting show state …
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Nick Clegg denies Facebook could pull out of EU over data transfer ban, saying legal action is “to send a signal” that the ban could be a disaster for the EU — Facebook's head of global policy has denied the tech giant could close its service to Europeans if local regulators order …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources detail what went wrong at Magic Leap, which raised $3.5B and failed to build its much-hyped AR headset, with most blame placed on founder Rony Abovitz — The augmented reality startup was undone by profligate spending and its own hype. Investors finally lost patience when the pandemic struck.
Tweets: @joshuabrustein, @silviakillings, @kantrowitz, and @markmilian
| Sarah Jeong / OneZero: |
Q&A with Casey Newton on leaving The Verge to start a newsletter on Substack called Platformer, after many years as The Verge's Silicon Valley editor — Sarah Jeong talks to Newton about the details of his deal, subscription journalism, and the magic of email
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| Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: |
Google says developers can now use its open source UI framework Flutter to develop Windows apps, currently in alpha, with support for Windows 7 and newer — While Flutter first made its name for making it easy to create apps for iOS and Android, the app development framework has since grown …
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| Kevin / kwokchain: |
An in-depth look at Mike Speiser's investment playbook at Sutter Hill Ventures; Speiser incubated Snowflake, of which he was a founding investor, as interim CEO — In Formula 1 racing, you can win a world championship as a driver with one team but then not even make the top 10 without that team's car and infrastructure.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Spotify introduces Polls, an interactive tool for podcast hosts that lets listeners answer questions — Spotify today is introducing a new feature designed to make podcasts more interactive. The company says it's beginning to test “Polls,” a tool that will allow listeners to engage … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Instagram updates Reels with longer videos, an extended timer, and better editing tools, after reports the TikTok competitor is failing to gain traction — Instagram is today rolling out a few changes to its TikTok competitor, Reels, after early reviews of the feature criticized its design … | David Yaffe-Bellany / Bloomberg: |
ByteDance asks a US court for a preliminary injunction to prevent the US government from banning TikTok from app stores, as Trump's ban looms — The owner of TikTok asked a federal judge in Washington for a preliminary injunction to block the Trump administration from removing the social network from U.S. app stores.
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South China Morning Post and Business Insider
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| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Report: Facebook's CrowdTangle tool, used by US state election officials to monitor misinformation, doesn't effectively monitor most posts, like those in Groups — - Tech watchdog says Facebook content monitor shows limited data — Private groups, individual posts aren't tracked by CrowdTangle
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Tech Transparency Project and Engadget
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Twitter says it will begin testing audio DMs soon, after introducing support for audio in tweets, starting in Brazil — Shout into my DMs — After rolling out audio tweets for iOS in June, Twitter is now experimenting with the idea of letting people record and send voice messages through direct messages.
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| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Kuo: Apple's first product with Mini-LED displays will be a 12.9-inch iPad Pro, with its displays entering mass production in 2020 — Following his report earlier this week indicating that Apple will be accelerating adoption of mini-LED displays in its iPad and Mac notebook lineups thanks …
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AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, Mashable, Laptop Mag, Tom's Guide, iDownloadBlog.com, Wccftech, The Verge, iPhone Hacks, MacDailyNews, BGR, SlashGear, iMore, Neowin, GSMArena.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, iClarified, Ubergizmo, and Micky. Tweets: @jetscott
| David French / Reuters: |
Robinhood raises $460M from a16z, Sequoia, DST Global, and others as a extension to its $200M Series G, at a $11.7B valuation — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Robinhood Markets Inc, the financial technology startup credited with helping popularize trading among millennials, has increased …
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Crowdfund Insider, BitcoinExchangeGuide, CoinDesk, Cointelegraph, The Block, and Finextra
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Intel launches 11th-gen CPUs aimed at edge computing, like kiosks, medical devices, and robots, with improved security and performance — Intel today announced the launch of new products tailored to edge computing scenarios like digital signage, interactive kiosks, medical devices, and health care service robots.
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SemiAccurate, AnandTech, Android Authority, Business Insider, Phoronix, ZDNet, and SiliconANGLE
| Reuters: |
Sources describe frenzied negotiations between ByteDance and CFIUS, leading to rushed and messy term sheets that failed to spell out key elements of the deal — SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - As China's ByteDance raced to seal a deal with Oracle Corp ORCL.N and Walmart Inc WMT.N … | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Adobe debuts Liquid Mode, an update for Acrobat Reader that uses AI to reformat PDFs for easier reading on smaller screens, coming first to mobile and Chrome OS — Adobe today announced an update for Acrobat Reader that leverages Sensei, the company's machine learning platform …
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TechCrunch, CNET, Adobe Blog, Engadget, ZDNet, Axios, and Fast Company
| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE: |
Leaked manual from Blackdot Solutions details how to create fake Facebook accounts to gather data, and how to avoid detection by Facebook — A leaked manual from Blackdot Solutions, a British company that offers social media monitoring services, included a step-by-step guide on how to create fake profiles on Facebook and LinkedIn.
Tweets: @vice and @motherboard
| Eugene Wei / Remains of the Day: |
How TikTok's UI, focused on just one auto-playing video at a time, generates clean user-driven data thanks to its “algorithm-friendly design” — In my previous post on TikTok I discussed why its For You Page algorithm is the connective tissue that makes TikTok work.
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Business Insider, PingWest, Engadget, Digital Trends, The Overspill, and TechCrunch
Tweets: @patrick_oshag, @blakeir, and @juliet_shen
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Google expands Google Cloud's Chronicle cybersecurity analysis tools with threat detection and alerts — Google is officially expanding its Chronicle cybersecurity platform into the threat detection realm, with the promise to bring “Google-scale threat analysis” to enterprises.
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ZDNet, Security Boulevard, SC Media, Google Cloud Blog, and SiliconANGLE
| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Carrd, Linktree, and Bio.fm have capitalized on link sharing limits in apps like Instagram, creating entire businesses around simple link sharing websites — The link-in-bio side hustles are moving to full-time — If you want to learn more about an influencer, there's one place you always know to look: that link in bio.
Tweets: @codepo8, @ashleyrcarman, and @ajlkn
| Ian Sherr / CNET: |
Interview with Satya Nadella and Phil Spencer on buying more game companies, investing in Xbox Game Pass, and Microsoft's rejected TikTok bid — In an interview, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Xbox head Phil Spencer discuss further acquisitions, how to keep making hits and what happened with TikTok.
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Trusted Reviews, WinBuzzer, Looper, OnMSFT.com, Windows Central, Game Rant, International Business Times, PC Gamer, PC Games Insider, TrueAchievements, Reuters, GamingBolt, VG247, MSPoweruser, TechRadar, Pocket Gamer.biz, Wccftech, GameSpot, Stevivor, USgamer.net, Gamasutra, and GamesIndustry.biz
| Kenrick Cai / Forbes: |
Attentive, which offers enterprise text marketing tools, raises $230M Series D led by Coatue at a $2.2B valuation, following a $110M Series C earlier in 2020 — With the pandemic causing e-commerce sales to skyrocket, 2020 has served as an unlikely year of hypergrowth for Attentive.Sponsor Posts
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