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| Nick Clegg / About Facebook: |
Facebook defends its stance in Australia, says it invested $600M since 2018 to support the news industry and plans at least $1B more over the next three years — Last week, in a move that will have felt abrupt and dramatic to many, Facebook announced it was stopping the sharing of news on its service in Australia.
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| Scott Chipolina / Decrypt: |
Business intelligence firm MicroStrategy buys 19,452 Bitcoin, worth $1.0261B, and now holds ~90K Bitcoin, worth ~$4.5B at current prices — Business intelligence firm MicroStrategy has purchased 19,452 Bitcoin, worth $1.026 billion, at an average price of $52,765.| ProPublica: |
Emails show how Facebook responds to requests by authoritarian governments to censor content, as happened in Turkey during its military offensive against Kurds — Amid a 2018 Turkish military campaign, Facebook ultimately sided with Turkey's demand to block the page of a mostly Kurdish militia.
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| Yimou Lee / Reuters: |
Taiwanese chipmakers are buying water by the truckload for some of their foundries in drought-hit areas as the island widens restrictions on water supply — TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan chipmakers are buying water by the truckload for some of their foundries as the island widens restrictions …
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
YouTube to roll out a “supervised” account option in beta in the coming months in more than 80 countries, aimed at kids that are too old for YouTube Kids — YouTube is launching a PG version of the internet's biggest video service. — A new “supervised” YouTube account option …
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Amazon says its Luna cloud gaming service is available to try for free in the US on select Fire TV devices, after launching as invite-only last year — And anyone in the US can also buy a Luna Controller — Amazon's cloud-gaming service, Luna, is now available to try for free in the US …
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| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
iRobot, which makes Roomba vacuums, says a software update to fix issues with i7 and s9 models will take several weeks, after users reported them acting “drunk” — Users have reported their robotic helpers acting ‘drunk’ — iRobot, maker of the robotic Roomba vacuums … | Taylor Lyles / The Verge: |
HP says it is acquiring gaming peripheral company HyperX for $425M, giving the company a major foothold in the gaming accessory market — The acquisition means HP owns the HyperX brand — HP has announced that it is acquiring gaming peripheral company HyperX for $425 million.
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| Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios: |
Source: Dispo, a retro photo sharing app co-founded by YouTube star David Dobrik, raises $20M Series A led by Spark Capital at a $200M valuation — Dispo, a retro photo-sharing app co-founded by YouTube star David Dobrik, recently raised $20 million in Series A funding led by Spark Capital …
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| Jeff Cox / CNBC: |
US Federal Reserve's systems that let banks send money back and forth went down for several hours, impacting its automated clearinghouse system and more — Fed operational error brings down payment system — The Federal Reserve's system that allows financial institutions to send money …
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| New York Times: |
Myanmar's draconian draft cybersecurity law follows a yearslong effort to build out Myanmar's surveillance capabilities, following cues from China — As the military seized power again, the generals moved quickly to take the country offline, criminalize online dissent and block social media.| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
California's 2018 net neutrality law, SB 822, can go into effect after a California judge declined to grant the telecom industry a preliminary injunction — It survived challenges from Trump's DOJ, and now one from telecom industry too — Net neutrality died a horrible death in 2017 …
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| Tim Anderson / The Register: |
Google says it has been sponsoring two full-time Linux developers at the Linux Foundation for years to improve security and hopes other companies will follow — Plus: Why the Chocolate Factory only uses code it builds from source — Interview Worried about the security of Linux and open-source code …
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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Amazon Echo Show 10 review: adjustable screen angle, good sound quality, silent motorized movement, but photo/video options heavily reliant on Amazon services — Since its inception in 2015, Amazon's Alexa virtual assistant has always been a disembodied digital form trapped in a box of electronics.
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| Reuters: |
Thomson Reuters says it will spend $500M-$600M over two years to develop its AI and ML tools as it transitions to a “content-driven technology company” — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Thomson Reuters Corp will streamline technology, close offices and rely more on machines to prepare … | Alfred Ng / The Markup: |
Auditing of algorithms can help address bias but there needs to be industry standards/regulations to hold the auditors or the companies that use them to account — For more than a decade, journalists and researchers have been writing about the dangers of relying on algorithms to make weighty decisions … | Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
TikTok says it removed 300K+ videos in the US for election misinformation in H2 2020, and 441K videos from its For You recommendation page for misinformation — And another 400,000 were removed from the For You page — TikTok removed over 340,000 videos in the US for breaking …
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TikTok, Insider, TikTok, The Wrap, Social Media Today, Mashable, Tubefilter, MUO, and Engadget. Tweets: @mattnavarra
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Beijing-based Didi Chuxing is considering launching in UK, France, and Germany by H1 2021 and has hired a team dedicated to European markets — - Company is said to target the U.K., Germany and France — Didi is beefing up its presence in Europe with local hires
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| Bloomberg: |
Russian e-commerce giant Wildberries, which controls 14% of the market, has recently expanded into France, Germany, Italy, and Spain — Winston Churchill, it's often said, quipped that you should never let a good crisis go to waste. Tatyana Bakalchuk would agree.| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Hubilo, which helps businesses host virtual and hybrid events with real-time analytics, raises $23.5M Series A led by Lightspeed Venture Partners — Hubilo, a platform that helps businesses of all sizes host virtual and hybrid events and gain access to real-time data and analytics …
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
LG says that it will license its webOS software to other TV brands, such as RCA, Ayonz, and Konka; LG's redesigned webOS 5.0 version will not be included — The modern webOS is no longer exclusive to LG's TV lineup — LG tonight announced that the company's webOS smart TV platform will soon be found on TVs from other brands.
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Tweets: @rubenerd, @matthewkeyslive, @kfury, and @stroughtonsmith
| Jane Wakefield / BBC: |
Portland ends partnership with Sidewalk Labs to track mobility; Sidewalk spin-off Replica says it was unwilling to share granular data requested by the city — A smart city project started by Google's sister firm Sidewalk Labs to track mobility patterns in the US city of Portland has been shelved.
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google makes GameSnacks, a collection of 100+ lightweight HTML5 games, more accessible in Chrome, Pay, Discover, and Assistant in some countries, like India — A year ago, Google's Area 120 incubator launched an HTML5 gaming platform to “test whether lightweight, casual games would resonate …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google Cloud unveils Autopilot, an operating mode for its Kubernetes Engine that turns over management of its clusters to Google's engineers and automated tools — Google Cloud today announced a new operating mode for its Kubernetes Engine (GKE) that turns over the management …
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9to5Google, Google Cloud Blog, XDA Developers, ZDNet, 9to5Google, and SiliconANGLE
| Kris Holt / Engadget: |
Facebook says it is testing more tools to combat child exploitation on its platform, including a measure warning users of “non-malicious sharing” of viral memes — Facebook says it is testing more tools to help the social network prevent people from sharing content that — exploits children.
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VICE, About Facebook, CNET, PCMag, Social Media Today, Adweek, MUO, Forbes, and Tech Xplore
Tweets: @hashem_ayesha, @oliviasolon, and @mattnavarra
| Marcella McCarthy / TechCrunch: |
Brazil-based RecargaPay, which lets users top up prepaid cell phones online, raises $70M Series C, bringing its total raised to over $100M — RecargaPay, a Brazil-based fintech that allows users to top off their prepaid cell phones online, announced this morning that they've closed …
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