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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: 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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| 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 … | 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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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Huawei is working on plans for a dedicated chip plant in Shanghai that aims to produce 28nm chips by the end of 2021 and 20nm chips by late 2022 — Shanghai facility aimed at breaking Chinese company's dependence on American technology — Huawei is working on plans …
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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
| Wall Street Journal: |
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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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
UK startup Marshmallow, which says it is using a wider set of analytics to gauge insurance risk, raises $30M Series A, source says at a ~$310M valuation — When it comes to using algorithms and other formulae to determine what kinds of services you might offer to specific customers and at what price …
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| Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: |
Zego, which provides real-time communication tools for enterprises and runs a Zoom-style videoconferencing service called TalkLine, raises $50M led by Tencent — - Zego offers real-time voice, video technology solutions — Rival Agora raised $350 million in U.S. listing this year| Sam Shead / CNBC: |
UK online supermarket Ocado says it acquired two robotics companies: Kindred Systems for $262M in cash and Haddington Dynamics for $25M in cash and stock — - Online supermarket Ocado has acquired San Francisco-headquartered robotics firm Kindred Systems for $262 million and Las Vegas firm Haddington Dynamics for $25 million.Sponsor Posts
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