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Twitter decides to ban advertising from all accounts owned by Russia Today (RT) and Sputnik, donate estimated $1.9M earnings since 2011 to research on misinfo — Twitter has made the policy decision to off-board advertising from all accounts owned by Russia Today (RT) and Sputnik, effective immediately.
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Twitter overstated MAUs by 1-2M since Q4 2014 by including users of a service for third-party apps; according to revised numbers, its MAUs shrank in Q2 by 2M — Social media company says it had been including users of service for third-party apps as monthly users that shouldn't have been counted
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Twitter's Q3 revenue of $589.6M tops estimates; MAUs grew 4% YoY to 330M, DAUs grew 14% YoY; net loss down to $21.1M; shares rise 13%+ — Monthly active users grew 4% year-over-year to 330 million — Quarterly sales of $589.6 million topped analysts' estimates
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| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
AMD launches two Ryzen Mobile processors, the Ryzen 7 2700U and Ryzen 5 2500U, with integrated Radeon Vega graphics for ultrathin notebooks — It's been a revival year for AMD. Its Ryzen chips thrust it back into the desktop arena — so much so that it practically forced Intel …
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Facebook launches Workplace Chat desktop app and will roll out group video chat soon, says 30K organizations use Workplace and that 1M groups have been created — It's been once year since Workplace, Facebook's social network designed specifically for businesses and other organizations …
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Three female engineers sue Uber for sex and race discrimination, claim Uber pays female engineers less than male, white, and Asian-American counterparts — Three female engineers claim that “stack ranking” was stacked against them. — A new lawsuit claims Uber pays female engineers …
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Google Pixelbook review: beautiful hardware, great Chrome apps performance, but has average battery life, and Android apps need to be updated for screen and pen — Can a supercomputer for web apps challenge the iPad Pro?
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Uber launches multi-stop trips in the US and Canada, with other markets like UK and Ireland expected soon — It's been a long time coming, but Uber is finally rolling out multi-stop trips to riders in North America. — You may have noticed a hullabaloo about this earlier in the year.
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Facebook partners with auto dealers, including Edmunds, Cars.com, Auction123, CDK Global, and SocialDealer, to add used car listings into its Marketplace — Facebook Marketplace has been around for a year now. In that time, the social network has gotten a firm grasp on what users are buying and selling on its Craigslist rival.
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Reddit shuts down Nazi and white supremacist subreddits, after updating policy to ban content encouraging violence; subreddits banned had 25 to 7,000 users each — Reddit has shut down several Nazi and white supremacist subreddits after a policy change banning material that “encourages …
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| Erica Anderson / The Keyword: |
Google announces partnership with International Fact-Checking Network to focus on increasing number of fact checkers, expand service globally, more — With so much information available around the clock and across devices, the ability to quickly understand what's true and what's false online is increasingly important.
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple and Cochlear launch made-for-iPhone cochlear implant, the iPhone Nucleus 7 Sound Processor, available today in Australia, and in more countries later — Apple and Cochlear originally announced their partnership back in July, and today the first product out of that partnership is available.
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