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Sources: Salesforce has held talks about acquiring Slack, although a deal is not guaranteed; Slack stock jumps 30%+ while Salesforce falls ~4% — A deal would likely value Slack at more than $17 billion and mark Salesforce's largest acquisition ever — Salesforce.com Inc. is in advanced talks …
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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Coinbase says it will end margin trading immediately after revised guidance from the CFTC; the feature will be fully offline by the end of December — Crypto exchange Coinbase plans to end all margin trading effective Nov. 25, 2020, due to recent regulations by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Kuo says Apple will introduce redesigned MacBooks with Apple Silicon and an Apple Watch with a new form factor, both in the second half of 2021 — In a report today, reliable Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo shared his view on Apple's product momentum heading into the holidays.
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Apple stands by head of global security Thomas Moyer, indicted on bribery charges: “We conducted a thorough internal investigation and found no wrongdoing” — Sheriff's office allegedly sought 200 iPads in trade for concealed carry permits. — A grand jury in California's …
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AWS experienced an outage in North America Wednesday that affected many sites and services including Roku, Flickr, Adobe, and others — AWS has been experiencing an outage for hours — Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon's internet infrastructure service that is the backbone of many websites and apps …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Analysis of PS5 and Xbox Series X games, like Devil May Cry 5, CoD, and Dirt 5, shows PS5 narrowly outperforming Xbox despite Microsoft's “most powerful” claims — Microsoft has been proudly discussing how powerful its Xbox Series X console is for months now.
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| Charlie Warzel / New York Times: |
An inside look at Facebook News Feeds of two baby boomers for three weeks around Election Day showed that comments were a primary source of debunked claims — Many Americans' feeds are nightmares. I know because I spent weeks living inside two of them. — Opinion writer at large.| The Coinbase Blog: |
Coinbase shares an internal email on an upcoming NYT story alleging several Black employees had negative experiences, says it “will paint an inaccurate picture” — In the spirit of transparency, we're sharing an internal email that was sent to our employees earlier today: … All,
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| Thomas Seal / Bloomberg: |
UK government says it will spend £250M to help carriers replace Huawei 5G tech by 2027, including around £50M in 2021 — The U.K. will spend 250 million pounds ($333 million) to diversify its sources of 5G wireless equipment after banning China's Huawei Technologies Co. from supplying the next-generation technology.
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Court filing: CFIUS extends the deadline for ByteDance to complete its sale of TikTok by seven days, until December 4 — The Trump administration has given the owner of TikTok another week to resolve national security concerns before it's required to sell the viral video-sharing app.
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| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
For many AI researchers, OpenAI's GPT-3 has been an unexpected step toward machines that can understand the vagaries of human language — The latest natural-language system generates tweets, pens poetry, summarizes emails, answers trivia questions, translates languages and even writes its own computer programs.
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Observable, which develops data visualization tools and aims to build a GitHub-style community, raises $10.5M Series A led by Sequoia Capital and Acrew Capital — Creating sophisticated data visualizations may not be for everyone, but a startup called Observable is trying to make the process a bit less impenetrable.Sponsor Posts
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