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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Leaked doc: Microsoft is now letting managers approve permanent remote work for employees, who can also work from home for less than 50% of their working week — Microsoft employees will also be able to relocate — Microsoft is allowing its employees to work from home permanently.
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| Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: |
Twitter announces changes to clamp down on US election misinfo, like blocking retweets of misleading content from candidates and accounts with 100K+ followers — Move is latest escalation of anti-misinformation measures in run-up to presidential vote — Twitter has announced …
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| Ashley Stewart / Business Insider: |
Sources: Microsoft's Phil Spencer told employees that Game Pass will absolutely be on iOS and iPadOS in 2021 via a “direct browser-based solution” — - Microsoft last month officially added a key feature to Game Pass, its Netflix-style subscription library of Xbox games …
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| Noorie Malik / Yelp: |
Yelp introduces Business Accused of Racist Behavior, a new alert to caution users about businesses that may be associated with overtly racist actions — At Yelp, we value diversity, inclusion and belonging, both internally and on our platform, which means we have a zero tolerance policy to racism.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: AMD is in advanced talks to buy rival chip maker Xilinx for more than $30B in a deal that could be finalized as early as next week — Deal that could be worth more than $30 billion would mark the latest big tie-up in the rapidly consolidating industry
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| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
A group of seven central banks, including the Federal Reserve, detail how a digital currency should be designed, including its principles and core features — A group of seven central banks and the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) have published a comprehensive report on digital currency, detailing how it should be designed.
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| Bloomberg: |
Google is testing features to turn YouTube into a shopping destination, where creators can tag and track featured products for users to buy directly on the site — - Some creators asked to track products for e-commerce catalog — YouTube tests integration with Shopify for creator merchandise
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| Washington Post: |
The recently thwarted Michigan kidnapping plot highlights social media's role in promoting violent extremism, as well as building a case against extremists — In June, one of the suspects in the plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer took to the relative privacy of a Facebook group to make clear his brewing hatred.
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has banned TikTok, citing circulation of videos that it deemed “immoral and indecent” — Pakistan has banned popular short video app TikTok in the nation, citing circulation of videos that it deemed “immoral and indecent.”
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Microsoft adopts 10 “principles” for its app store, including letting developers choose a payment system for IAPs, that it says should be a model for others — In a not-so-subtle dig at Apple and Google, Microsoft today announced a series of “principles” for its Windows 10 App Store …
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple to extend Apple TV+ free year trials that started between November 1 2019, and January 31 2020, through February 2021 — If you purchased a new Apple device from September 2019 last year — like an iPhone, iPad, Mac or Apple TV — you were automatically eligible for a free year of Apple TV+.
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| Sam Curry: |
A group of researchers describe how they've uncovered 55 vulnerabilities as part of Apple bug bounty program in the past 3 months and received ~$288K so far — Between the period of July 6th to October 6th myself, Brett Buerhaus, Ben Sadeghipour, Samuel Erb, and Tanner Barnes worked together and hacked on the Apple bug bounty program.
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| Noam Scheiber / New York Times: |
Labor Board accuses Google contractor HCL of violating employees' labor rights by refusing to negotiate with a union and retaliating by shipping work to Poland — The complaint says the contractor, HCL, refused to negotiate with the union and retaliated by shipping work to Poland.| Bloomberg: |
The pandemic has forced some European countries to confront their weak internet infrastructure, which rising hospital admissions and home working have exposed — - Pandemic reveals weaknesses in region's broadband networks — Governments start to engage with industry to spur investment| Phil Harvey / Light Reading: |
DOD awards $600M to AT&T, Ericsson, Nokia, and others for 5G experiments at five US military test sites; tests will include pilots for 5G-enabled AR/VR — The Department of Defense today announced it is awarding some $600 million to more than a dozen companies for “5G experimentation” at five military test sites.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Grid AI, which helps AI researchers and engineers scale their models to match workloads needed for enterprise use, raises $18.6M Series A led by Index Ventures — Grid AI, a startup founded by the inventor of the popular open-source PyTorch Lightning project, William Falcon …
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| Stephen O'Grady / Redmonk: |
Cloud development lacks integration between different tools, resulting in developers having to borrow time from writing code to managing environments — When the iPhone was first introduced in January of 2007, it took the world by storm. The first device to compress - successfully …
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| Ira Boudway / Bloomberg: |
Waymo says it will open its fully driverless ride-hailing service in suburban Phoenix to the public — Waymo said Thursday that it is opening its fully driverless ride-hailing service in suburban Phoenix to the public. Alphabet Inc.'s self-driving car unit began ferrying a select group …
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Tweets: @waymo, @martinvars, @eisenberg, @teemu_roos, @orthereaboot, @avgregr, and @binarybits
| Nallur Sethuraman / Reuters: |
Report: Amazon has invested $95.51M in its Indian payments unit ahead of the festive season sales that start on October 17 — BENGALURU (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc AMZN.O has invested 7 billion rupees ($95.51 million) in its Indian payments unit, ahead of the festive season, data from business intelligence firm Tofler showed.| Cherlynn Low / Engadget: |
Google says Assistant can now search and control third-party Android apps, starting with the top 30 on the Play Store, with support for more coming soon — Before today, if you ask Siri or the Google Assistant to “check the news on Twitter,” you'll either be shown the @CHEK_News account …
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