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Sources: production has ramped up for new 13" and 16" MacBook Pros and a new 13" MacBook Air with Apple Silicon chips but without other major design changes — - Company readies MacBook Pros, MacBook Air with in-house chips — Smaller Mac Pro and iMac with Apple chips also in development
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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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Walmart ends plans to use Bossa Nova robots to scan shelves, sources say after concerns about shoppers' reactions and seeing similar results from human workers — Retailer ends contract with robotics company after seeing similar results from workers grabbing online orders during pandemic
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Sources: UK's NHS COVID app, downloaded 19M times, had the wrong risk threshold and sent warnings to a “shockingly low” number of users about potential exposure — The wrong threshold had reportedly been set for the app and was not recording those who were close enough to transmit the virus.
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PayPal reports Q3 revenue of $5.46B, up 25% YoY, as it adds 15.2M net new active accounts; Venmo's total processed payment volume rises 61% YoY to $44B — PayPal said it processed a record-setting $247 billion in total payment volume during the quarter. — PayPal on Monday delivered … | Washington Post: |
Court docs reveal that a previously undisclosed facial recognition system called NCRFRILS was used to identify a Lafayette Square protester accused of assault — A line of U.S. Park Police officers pushed protesters back from Lafayette Square on June 1, firing pepper balls …
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AWS introduces new GPU-equipped P4 instances, powered by Intel Cascade Lake processors and Nvidia's A100 Tensor Core GPUs, offering 2.5x DL performance over P3 — AWS today announced the launch of its newest GPU-equipped instances. Dubbed P4, these new instances are launching a decade …
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SEC increases the limit dictating how much capital companies can raise before registering, a move that could result in a boon for security token offerings — The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has increased limits dictating how much capital companies can raise before registering …
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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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Sources: Quibi mulled options like a freemium model and had 450,000 subs paying $4.99/mo., far less than the 7.4M it targeted for its first year, when it closed — The instincts of Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman, who headed the start-up, proved wrong — When Jeffrey Katzenberg …
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YouTube says it will end full-day masthead ad reservations in 2021, to give “advertisers more budget flexibility”, says change is not connected to the election — - YouTube will discontinue full-day reservations for its masthead ads beginning in 2021.
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Spotify says it is testing a new service that lets artists and labels promote their tracks in users' recommendations while receiving a lower royalty rate — Spotify announced today it will begin to test a new service that gives artists more of a say in how their music is discovered on the Spotify platform.
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