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Facebook launches free-to-play cloud gaming on desktop and Android but says it is unable to bring games to iOS due to Apple's “arbitrary” policies — - Facebook announced the launch of cloud gaming on its desktop website and Android app but not to iOS due to Apple's “arbitrary” policies.
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Sources: staff at Verkada, a facial recognition and security camera startup, abused the company's own surveillance cameras to monitor and harass women coworkers — Employees at Verkada accessed the company's facial recognition system to take photos of women colleagues and make sexually explicit jokes.
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Sources: Apple is working on third-generation entry-level AirPods without noise cancellation and a smaller second version of the AirPods Pro — - New AirPods earbuds planned to be announced as early as 2021 — Hit accessory sees new competition from Amazon, Google, others
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Twitter says it will place messages it calls “pre-bunks” at the top of users' feeds to pre-emptively debunk false info about voting by mail and election results — Twitter said Monday it would begin placing messages at the top of users' feeds to pre-emptively debunk false information …
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Ant Group will raise $34.5B in its dual Shanghai and Hong Kong IPOs, valuing it at $313.37B, making it the biggest listing of all time — - Ant Group will raise $34.5 billion in its dual initial public offering (IPO) after setting the price for its shares on Monday, making it the biggest listing of all time.
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Jack Ma's Ant Group set out to disrupt China's banks but now partners with many of them while counting huge Chinese institutions as shareholders — The tech giant, which is preparing for a mega I.P.O., has transformed personal finance in China. Regulators have taken notice.| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
Twilio reports Q3 revenue of $448.8M, up 52% YoY, vs. $409.8M est., says it now has 208,000 active customer accounts, up from 172,000 in Q3 2019 — The cloud communications as a service provider says it now has 208,000 active customer accounts, up from 172,000 in Q3 2019.
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YouTube revamps its mobile apps with gestures like swiping up for fullscreen and expands video chapters by adding lists with chapter preview images — YouTube today is rolling out a series of updates to its player page on mobile devices. The changes relocate some elements, add new features … | Bloomberg: |
SAP shares drop as much as 21%, the biggest intraday fall since 1999, as profit and sales declined and it cut revenue forecast for the full year — - Previous outlook incorrectly ‘assumed economies would reopen’ — German software maker also delays longer-term financial goals
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As tourism dries up, Portugal, Spain, France, and other European countries are moving to use Airbnb rentals for long-term use by citizens — Platforms like Airbnb have been criticized for raising living costs in popular cities. Now, officials are trying to move properties aimed at tourists to long-term leases.
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| Stephanie Clifford / New York Times: |
Seesaw, a remote learning startup with just 60 employees in February, saw rapid growth during the pandemic and is now used in over 75% of American schools — It wasn't simple to become a do-it-all education tool almost overnight. — The first requests that upended Seesaw, a popular classroom app …
Tweets: @nytimestech, @kmi_edu, @ryanstrutin, @jasonhowell, and @aaronsnow
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Sources: Apple TV+, Netflix, and others explored buying the rights for “No Time to Die”, but balked at MGM's $600M price tag — Apple, Netflix and other streaming services explored the possibility of acquiring “No Time to Die,” the upcoming James Bond movie that was originally slated to debut last April.
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