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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Raspberry Pi launches Raspberry Pi 400, a compact keyboard with a built-in ARM-based computer, available today for $70 — Just add a screen and you've got yourself a PC — The Raspberry Pi Foundation has announced the Raspberry Pi 400, a compact keyboard with an ARM-based computer built in.
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| New York Times: |
How Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter plan to handle Election Day and the subsequent days, clamping down on falsehoods and highlighting accurate information — The sites are key conduits for communication and information. Here's how they plan to handle the challenges facing them before, on and after Tuesday.
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple announces November 10 event where Apple Silicon Macs are expected to debut; invites are titled “One more thing.” — Apple today announced a third fall 2020 event, which is set to be held on Tuesday, November 10 at 10:00 a.m. on the Apple Park campus in Cupertino, California.
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| Columbia Journalism Review: |
A review finds that less than half of 1,100 posts across Facebook and Instagram containing falsehoods debunked by third-party partners bore fact-checking labels — Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's CEO, has been back in Congress this week to talk about the need to reform how social-media platforms moderate content … | Washington Post: |
Sources: Facebook skirted its own rules to give conservatives, including a pro-Trump super PAC and Donald Trump Jr., preferential treatment on rules enforcement — From a pro-Trump super PAC to the president's eldest son, conservatives have blown past Facebook's fact-checking guardrails, with few consequences.
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| Bloomberg: |
SoftBank confirms a series of departures from its Vision Fund, including its COO and four partners — A slew of SoftBank Vision Fund executives have left the almost $100 billion vehicle, best known for its bets on high profile startups including WeWork, Uber Technologies Inc. and Chinese ride-hailing company DiDi Chuxing.
Tweets: @sherman4949
| Jennifer Smith / Wall Street Journal: |
Coupa, which helps companies manage their business spending, acquires supply-chain planning company Llamasoft for ~$1.5B — The $1.5 billion acquisition is part of a greater focus on supply-chain management amid pandemic-driven upheaval, shortages — Coupa Software Inc. is buying supply …
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| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Aeva, a lidar company started by two Apple veterans and backed by Porsche SE, is going public via SPAC merger, which will give it a post-deal valuation of $2.1B — Aeva, a Mountain View, Calif.-based lidar company started by two former Apple engineers and backed by Porsche SE …
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Founders say changes to H1-B visa program will make qualifying tougher and compel employers to pay foreign workers drastically higher wages, starting at $208K — New restrictions intended to protect U.S. workers curb access to pool of highly skilled foreign labor| Juro Osawa / The Information: |
Sources: Alibaba is in advanced talks to invest nearly $300M in London-based online luxury fashion retailer Farfetch and potentially create a Chinese JV — Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba is in advanced discussions to invest nearly $300 million in London-based online luxury fashion retailer Farfetch … | Rita Liao / TechCrunch: |
Tencent claims it crossed a record 100M DAUs on its mobile game Honor of Kings, which has an unusually high women player base of around 50% — At its five-year anniversary gala graced by celebrities, esports stars and orchestras, Tencent's mobile game Honor of Kings said it has crossed 100 million daily active users.
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South China Morning Post, Pandaily, Dot Esports, and Reuters
| Sarah E. Needleman / Wall Street Journal: |
PitchBook: gaming industry had $10.3B in M&A deals and $1.7B in investments so far this year, compared with $7.8B in M&A and $1.7B in investments for 2019 — With little else to do, Americans are spending record amounts of money on videogames. New players are taking up the habit …
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