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In August, internal research at Facebook showed that ~70% of the platform's most active civic Groups were considered too toxic to recommend to users — The giant struggled to balance Mark Zuckerberg's free-expression mantra against findings that rabid partisanship had overrun a feature central to its future
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Network data indicates the onset of widespread internet disruptions in Myanmar amid reports of a military uprising and the detention of political leaders — Network data from the NetBlocks Internet Observatory indicate the onset of widespread internet disruptions in Myanmar on Sunday 31 January 2021 …
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| Yuri Kageyama / Associated Press: |
Nintendo reports April-December results: ~$3.6B profit on revenue of $13B, 24M Switches sold, and forecasts $3.8B profit for the fiscal year ending March 2021 — TOKYO (AP) — Nintendo Co. reported Monday that its profit for the first three fiscal quarters nearly doubled as people around …
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EU is seeking to overturn Apple's victory in $15.8B tax dispute saying the judges used “contradictory reasoning” when deciding the Irish tax case — - Regulators are challenging court view of Apple's Irish units — Vestager has warned case has larger consequences for tax fight| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Apple releases an iCloud Passwords browser extension for Chrome on Windows — Besides iTunes, Apple's biggest offering on Microsoft's operating system is the iCloud sync client for files, photos, and mail. Apple is now extending its presence on Windows with an iCloud Passwords Chrome extension.
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| Byron Kaye / Reuters: |
Australian PM Scott Morrison says Microsoft is confident Bing can fill the gap created by Google if it pulls its search services over news payment disputes — SYDNEY (Reuters) -Software giant Microsoft Corp is confident its search product Bing can fill the gap in Australia if Google pulls …
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| Maryclaire Dale / Associated Press: |
SolarWinds hackers who breached US federal court system likely gained access to sealed documents containing trade secrets, espionage targets, and more — PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Trial lawyer Robert Fisher is handling one of America's most prominent counterintelligence cases, defending an MIT scientist charged with secretly helping China.
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google has discontinued Pixel Slate, its first flagship tablet announced in October 2018, as the company focuses on laptops like Pixelbook Go — The Pixel Slate was announced in October 2018 as Made by Google's first tablet and flagship, touch-only Chrome OS device.
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Twitter restricts a number of high-profile accounts in India, citing a “legal demand”, including investigative news outlet Caravan and two politicians — Twitter blocked access to dozens of accounts in India, including some that belonged to high-profile individuals in the country …
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| Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat: |
Australian cloud data analytics company Phocas Software raises AU$45M led by Ellerston Capital to accelerate its growth in the US and UK — Phocas Software's cloud data analytics tools might be best known in Australia, where they're used by Thermo Fisher Scientific, Fiskars Royal Doulton …
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Facebook will show Facebook and Instagram iOS users globally a prompt arguing Apple's iOS 14 privacy changes prevent personalized ads and hurt small businesses — Facebook is testing a notification that notifies Apple iOS users about ways the tech giant uses their data to target personalized ads to them.| Joseph Cotterill / Financial Times: |
Local operators and companies like Google and Facebook scramble to upgrade digital infrastructure in Africa, home to less than 1% of global data center capacity — Johannesburg was built on a gold rush. But in the Isando Campus business park on the outskirts of South Africa's financial centre …
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