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Apple VP of Industrial Design Evans Hankey is leaving, after replacing Jony Ive in 2019; sources say Airbnb VP of Design Gary Butcher is returning to Apple — Apple Inc.'s head of hardware design, Evans Hankey, is leaving the iPhone maker three years after taking the role …
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Sources: Twitter and Elon Musk are preparing to complete his $44B buyout by the October 28 court-issued deadline, as talks between the two have turned cordial — Advisers to Twitter Inc. and Elon Musk are hard at work trying to get the $44 billion deal closed by the end of the month, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Sources: the US weighed national security reviews of some Elon Musk ventures, such as the proposed Twitter deal and Starlink; the White House denies such talks — Biden administration officials are discussing whether the US should subject some of Elon Musk's ventures to national security reviews …
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When researchers submitted 20 ads with “blatant” voting misinformation, TikTok approved 90%, Facebook approved a “significant number”, and YouTube approved zero — New York CNN Business — Facebook and TikTok failed to block advertisements with “blatant” … | Bloomberg: |
Snap, which this week reported its slowest quarterly revenue growth ever, plans to close its San Francisco office, which “was lightly used” due to flexible work — Snap Inc., which is cutting costs and relying more on remote work, is closing its office in San Francisco …
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Apple sues Masimo, saying the medical tech company “carefully studied Apple's IP” during its patent-infringement lawsuit against Apple to make its W1 watches — Apple Inc sued medical technology company Masimo Corp in Delaware federal court on Thursday, accusing its new W1 line …
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Microsoft is working on PC Manager, a CCleaner-like app for Windows 10 and up with storage and startup app management, a way to quickly kill processes, and more — Microsoft is working on a PC Manager app that's designed to boost your computer's performance.
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Sources: Google is in talks to invest $200M+ into Toronto-based Cohere, which has raised $170M+ to let companies add NLP to chatbots and other tools — Cohere, which creates natural language processing software, also had talks with Nvidia about potential strategic investment — Which Photo Is Real?| Callan Quinn / The Block: |
Telegram plans to launch an auction for its usernames via the TON blockchain, following a TON auction for wallet usernames, some of which sold for $200K+ — - The Telegram messaging app is soon to launch a username auction platform. — Other elements of the Telegram ecosystem …
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Source: Israeli cybersecurity startup Cybereason, which is valued at $2.5B, hired JPMorgan to find a buyer, after abandoning its IPO plans for earlier in 2022 — Cybereason, a prominent Israeli security software firm valued at $2.5 billion by investors including Google … | Lewis Maddison / TechRadar: |
AdGuard: the YuZu browser appears to be overloading EasyList, a community-run filter list used by popular ad blockers, many of which cannot download updates — Access to popular filter list is being throttled — Audio player loading... EasyList has been hit with a burst of highly unusual traffic … | Thomas Seal / Bloomberg: |
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