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Ant Group's IPO has been suspended in both Shanghai and Hong Kong, after regulators summoned Jack Ma and other executives of the firm — The Shanghai Stock Exchange postponed the offering one day after regulators summoned Jack Ma and other executives of the financial technology giant.
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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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| Sarah Nassauer / Wall Street Journal: |
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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| 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 … | Meredith Whittaker / The Boston Globe: |
People who are most affected by AI decision-making should be allowed to play a central role in shaping conversations about algorithmic governance and regulation — The people who bear the risks of algorithmic systems should get to determine whether — and how — they're used.
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| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
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 …
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| Sky News: |
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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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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| Jemima Kelly / Financial Times: |
Monzo and Revolut, which have struggled during the pandemic, have faced a barrage of complaints in recent months from customers who've had their accounts frozen — There comes a time in your life that you realise that some of the friends you used to consider good friends aren't actually your true friends.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
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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Sources: Quibi mulled options like a freemium model and had 450K subs paying $4.99/mo. when it closed, far less than the 7.4M it targeted for its first year — The instincts of Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman, who headed the start-up, proved wrong — When Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman …
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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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| Katharine Gemmell / Bloomberg: |
Marketing agencies are snapping up British real estate to replicate the success of US-based TikTok creator houses, with at least three appearing since March — TikTok stars are moving into all-expenses-paid luxury mansions in the U.K. after U.S. marketing agencies pioneered the lucrative trend
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