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A look at Parler, which is backed by Rebekah Mercer, has doubled its user base to 10M in a week, but unlike Facebook and Twitter, leaves moderation to users — The libertarian-minded platform aims to challenge tech giants through a focus on free speech; surge in users since the election
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A deep dive into OCSP responder Apple uses to verify integrity of Mac apps, which is a critical part of macOS security, but could benefit from more transparency — On November 12, 2020 Apple released macOS Big Sur. In the hours after the release went live, somewhere in Apple's infrastructure …
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| Max Weinbach / Android Police: |
Sources leak specs for Samsung Galaxy S21 series: the S21 Ultra will have a 108MP main camera sensor, and 3x optical and 10x “super” optical telephoto sensors — The Galaxy S21 launch is just a few months out, which means it's a great time for leaks.
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| Barry Collins / Forbes: |
A year after promising to create a way for people to memorialize accounts of deceased users, Twitter has yet to launch such a system — When Twitter threatened to automatically close inactive accounts, it sparked a furious response from users who feared the accounts of their dead friends and family were about to disappear forever.| Cyrus Farivar / NBC News: |
Report: most major tech companies in Silicon Valley have kept paying their thousands of unionized blue-collar workers for now, but future remains uncertain — Nora Morales, 57, an overnight janitor at Google's main campus in Mountain View, California, knows better than anyone else how empty Silicon Valley's offices have become.
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Sales readiness service MindTickle raises $100M in a round of debt and equity led by SoftBank's Vision Fund 2; source: MindTickle is now valued at ~$500M — MindTickle, a startup that is helping hundreds of small and large firms improve their sales through its eponymous sales readiness platform …
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Airbnb says 1.4M users have rejected its non-discrimination agreement, foregoing their use of the platform, since it implemented the policy in 2016 — In the four years since it implemented an agreement to promote equitable treatment of its users, Airbnb claims that 1.4 million individuals …
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Researchers: flaws in Bumble exposed info of ~95M Bumble users, including Facebook data of some, and it took over 200 days after being notified to fix the bug — Bumble prides itself on being one of the more ethically-minded dating apps. But is it doing enough to protect the private data of its 95 million users?| Frank McShan / MacRumors: |
Results uploaded to Geekbench show that Apple Silicon M1 scores higher than every previous Mac in the single core benchmark, even when the M1 is emulating x86 — The first native benchmarks of Apple's M1 chip appeared on the Geekbench site last week showing impressive native performance.
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Thoughtexchange, which hosts large group conversations while shielding participants' identities to reduce gender and ethnicity biases, raises $34M Series B — Thoughtexchange, a Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada-based advanced platform for scaling conversations, received an investment from HarbourVest Partners.| Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
Qualcomm has received a US license to sell some 4G smartphone chips to Huawei — (Reuters) - Qualcomm Inc on Friday received a license from the U.S. government to sell 4G mobile phone chips to China's Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, an exemption to U.S. trade restrictions imposed amid rising tensions with China.
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Interview with Bjarne Stroustrup, the creator of C++, who first began work on the language in 1979 and still remains very much involved in its development — Powerful, flexible, complex: The origins of C++ date back 40 years, yet it remains one of the most widely used programming languages today.
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Slashdot. Tweets: @eagerbeavertech, @eagerbeavertech, @owenrdhughes, @techrepublic, @steveranger, @grady_booch, and @timokissel. Thanks:@steveranger
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