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Whistleblower Frances Haugen accepts an invitation to brief Facebook's Oversight Board, which she claims Facebook has lied to “repeatedly” — Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen said Monday she will meet with the social media company's Oversight Board sometime in the coming weeks.
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Internal messages, documents, and a Zuckerberg Q&A show Facebook's attempts to calm staff, including sending out talking points and holding briefing sessions — Employees are divided over Frances Haugen, a former product manager who testified that the company was putting profit before safety.
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| Janko Roettgers / Protocol: |
Magic Leap raises another $500M and says its second-gen AR headset will arrive in 2022 with a slimmer form factor and twice the field of view — Augmented reality startup Magic Leap has raised a new $500 million round of funding at a $2 billion valuation, CEO Peggy Johnson told CNBC on Monday.
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Tweets: @thisistechtoday, @dangraziano, @danprimack, @ali_heston, @tim, and @snazzyq
| Katrina Manson / Financial Times: |
Ex-Pentagon software chief Nicolas Chaillan, who recently resigned, says China is headed for global dominance due to advances in AI, ML, and cyber capabilities — Nicolas Chaillan speaks of ‘good reason to be angry’ as Beijing heads for ‘global dominance’ through technological innovation
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Tweets: @jchengwsj, @ritakonaev, @clary_co, @thedragonfeeder, @campuscodi, @byyourlogic, @baldingsworld, and @matthewstoller
| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
In an email to employees, Andy Jassy says Amazon will leave remote work decisions to team leaders, instead of having everyone return by January — [Updated below with additional details from internal FAQ.] — Amazon no longer plans to bring corporate employees back to the office en masse …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft makes a preview version of Windows Subsystem for Linux for Windows 11 available in the Microsoft Store, decoupling the app from the Windows image — Microsoft is taking the first step toward making WSL available as a decoupled app available via the Microsoft Store via a first preview release.
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Neowin, Phoronix, Windows Central, Wccftech, OnMSFT.com, Thurrott, Liliputing, XDA Developers, and MSPoweruser. Tweets: @danwahlin
| Kris Holt / Engadget: |
Twitter now lets web users remove followers without having to block them, after testing the option for over a month — All Twitter users can now remove a follower without having to block them. The company started testing this option last month, and starting today, everyone will have access to it.
Tweets: @twittersupport, @mattdpearce, @cmccurdypdx, @film_girl, @evacide, and @monicabyrne13
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft and Nvidia claim to have trained the largest and most capable AI language model yet, containing 530B parameters — Microsoft and Nvidia today announced that they trained what they claim is the largest and most capable AI-powered language model to date: Megatron-Turing Natural Language Generation (MT-NLP).| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook adds an Audio hub to its app in the US, featuring podcasts, Live Audio Rooms, and short-form audio, and rolls out Live Audio Rooms globally — Facebook is expanding its investment in audio initiatives with the launch of a new “Audio” destination in its mobile app in the U.S. …
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XDA Developers, Adweek, Benzinga, Social Media Today, Gizmodo, Engadget, Pocketnow, 9to5Mac, iThinkDifferent, and The Mac Observer
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| Janko Roettgers / Protocol: |
Source: HTC's Vive Flow VR headset, to be released on Thursday, features six degrees of freedom tracking and is mostly for content consumption and casual gaming — HTC is set to unveil a new consumer headset at an online event Thursday: For weeks, the company has been teasing an unveiling using a …
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SlashGear, The Verge, Liliputing, and UploadVR
Tweets: @purplemikey, @barrsm, @drgregvr, @drgregvr, and @skeeva
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Munich-based Personio, maker of cloud-based HR and recruiting software for SMBs, raises $270M Series E led by Greenoaks Capital Partners at a $6.3B valuation — HR technology has been thrown into the spotlight in the last 20 months: Covid-19 has changed the way we work … | Wall Street Journal: |
Analysis of leaked data from 4.9M Twitch accounts: the top 1% of streamers made over half of the money paid out in 2021, 3/4 made under $120, and more — The top 1% of paid streamers so far this year got over half of all revenue … Twitch streamer earnings this yearSponsor Posts
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