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Congressional staffers say Apple is among companies trying to weaken a bill that would hold US companies accountable for using Uighur forced labor in China — Apple wants to water down key provisions of the bill, which would hold U.S. companies accountable for using Uighur forced labor, according to two congressional staffers
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Microsoft is enticing Zoom users to Teams with new free 24-hour meetings, allowing up to 300 people to join calls via the web without an account — Microsoft Teams is now free to use for 24-hour video calls all in a browser — Microsoft is making a big push to entice fans of Zoom …
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| Michael del Castillo / Forbes: |
Crypto analytics startup Chainalysis raises $100M Series C led by Addition at a $1B valuation, says its revenue grew by around 96% over the past year — A new bitcoin unicorn is about to be born. After days of rumors flying around the cryptocurrency industry, investigation firm Chainalysis …
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| Scott Stein / CNET: |
Apple's AR execs on how iPhones and iPads are becoming world-mapping, object-scanning tools that are laying the groundwork for the arrival of AR headsets — Sometime in the not-too-distant future, Apple will reportedly unveil an augmented- or mixed-reality headset. Apple hasn't discussed any headgear yet.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Airbnb's “chief trust officer” resigned in 2019 over concerns about Airbnb's data sharing with Chinese authorities, who wanted more “real-time data” — Company says it declined to disclose more details with China and is transparent with users …
Tweets: @eliotwb, @zackwhittaker, @alexstamos, @byrontau, @repkenbuck, and @mmasnick
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Snap has reportedly acquired Voisey, a UK startup that lets users create short music tracks and videos using their own voice overlayed on custom instrumentals — Snapchat helped pioneer the use of lenses on faces in photos and videos to turn ordinary picture messages into fantastical creations …
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Sources: Trump admin is providing only limited cybersecurity assistance to Biden's transition team, which now relies on a standard, paid Google Workspace — The incoming administration is working remotely, operating on a standard, paid Google network — WASHINGTON—When it comes …
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| Peter Guest / Rest of World: |
Facebook created country-specific community standards for the first time ahead of Myanmar's general election, and seemingly reduced hate speech and misinfo — Accused of enabling genocide, the social media giant has temporarily changed its rules in Myanmar to prevent abuse and misinformation.
Tweets: @yaqiu, @restofworld, @jason_koebler, and @lmatsakis
| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
ContextLogic, owner of mobile commerce app Wish, files for an IPO, says Wish had 108M MAUs and revenue of $1.75B for the first nine months of 2020, up 32% YoY — This morning Wish, a well-known mobile ecommerce startup, filed to go public. It joins Affirm, Airbnb, and Roblox in filing … | BBC: |
YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter say they will join forces with fact-checkers, governments, and researchers to tackle COVID-19 vaccine conspiracies from January — Three of the largest social networks have said they will join forces with fact-checkers, governments and researchers to try to come … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Filing: Facebook files a lawsuit against a Turkish national who operated a network of Instagram clone sites that allegedly scraped 100K accounts — Facebook has today filed another lawsuit against a company acting in violations of its terms of service. In this case, the company …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Google is testing Project Guideline, an AI-powered system that enables navigation guidance for low-vision people, allowing them to run races by themselves — In collaboration with nonprofit organization Guiding Eyes for the Blind, Google today piloted an AI system called Project Guideline …
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| Ashley King / Digital Music News: |
With Twitch enforcing DMCA takedowns, CD Projekt Red is releasing its Cyberpunk 2077 game with a “streamer-friendly” mode that disables copyrighted music — The games industry is tackling DMCA takedowns on streaming platforms with a new ‘streamer-friendly mode.’| Bloomberg: |
Facebook responds to Apple's defense of IDFA, saying Apple is using its “dominant market position to self-preference their own data collection” — Apple Inc. on Thursday slammed Facebook Inc. and other internet giants for their ad-targeting practices in response to a letter questioning …
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| Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
Robinhood co-founder Baiju Bhatt steps down as co-CEO, leaving Vlad Tenev as sole CEO ahead of a rumored IPO — Robinhood, creator of the popular stock-trading app of the same name, announced on Friday that Vlad Tenev will be the company's sole chief executive, ending an arrangement …
Tweets: @yoda, @pjux, @jeffjohnroberts, and @alex
| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Stackline, an online retail intelligence and management startup with clients like Sony, Levi's, and Starbucks, raises $50M Series A from Goldman Sachs — Stackline raised $50 million from Goldman Sachs Growth Equity to fuel its online retail intelligence platform as the e-commerce industry grows rapidly amid the pandemic.| Frank Konkel / Nextgov: |
The CIA awards its Commercial Cloud Enterprise contract to AWS, Microsoft, Google, Oracle, and IBM; the project's expected value is in the “tens of billions” — The agency has awarded a contract to bring foundational cloud services from multiple cloud service providers into the intelligence community.| James Pearson / Reuters: |
Source: Vietnam has threatened to shut down Facebook inside the country if it does not censor more “anti-state” posts on the platform — HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnam has threatened to shut down Facebook in the country if it does not bow to government pressure to censor …
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