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Blizzard bans player from Hearthstone competition for a year and rescinds $10K prize money, after he publicly supported Hong Kong's pro-democracy protestors — - Expressing sympathy for Hong Kong democracy push proves costly — Hearthstone player won't be allowed to compete for a year
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As China exports its domestic standards, the US should treat China's leveraging of market access into self-censorship by US companies as trade violations — It all started with a tweet: — “It” refers to the current imbroglio surrounding Daryl Morey, the General Manager for the Houston Rockets …
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Twitter says it has unintentionally used some email addresses and phone numbers provided for account security purposes for ad targeting — Twitter disclosed Tuesday that it “unintentionally” used some mail address and phone numbers for advertising even though the information was provided for account security.
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| Peter Rubin / Wired: |
Sony announces PlayStation 5 will launch in time for “holiday 2020”, featuring a new controller with haptic technology and triggers with varying resistance — Now that the name is official, we've got more details about Sony's next-gen console—from the haptics-packed controller to UI improvements.
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| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
Google debuts a stream transfer feature that lets users move ongoing music and video streams between devices, coming first to Chromecast, Google Home, and Nest — At long last, Google is finally introducing a way for users of its smart speakers and streaming adapters to move media between those devices.
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| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Facebook says its Workplace platform has 3M paid users, up 1M in the past eight months, and introduces new features, like Portal support and new analytics tools — Should Workplace by Facebook boost employee engagement and connect frontline workers, the company is likely to add more enterprise customers.
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Bipartisan Senate report makes recommendations to prevent Russian election interference in 2020, saying Russia sowed social media discord to help Trump in 2016 — GOP-led panel endorses finding that Russia interfered to help Donald Trump — A bipartisan panel of U.S. senators Tuesday called …
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| Zachary Evans / National Review: |
FISA court rules that an FBI foreign surveillance program violated Americans' civil liberties, deeming tens of thousands of searches from 2017-2018 illegal — The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has ruled that an FBI program intended to target foreign suspects violated Americans' constitutional right …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Robinhood unveils Cash Management, which earns 2.05% APY interest on uninvested money in users' accounts, after 2018's botched roll out of its checking product — This time it actually has insurance. Zero-fee stock trading app Robinhood is launching Cash Management, a new feature …
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| Neha Malara / Reuters: |
Sensor Tower: Tencent's Call of Duty: Mobile had 100M game downloads in first week, breaking prior record of 26M set by PUBG, has yet to launch in China — (Reuters) - The mobile version of videogame franchise “Call of Duty” racked up 100 million downloads in its first week …
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Tweets: @charlieintel and @kalijvc
| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Opera 64 desktop browser launches with inbuilt tracking protection using the EasyPrivacy Tracking Protection List, a powerful screenshot tool, and more — Opera doesn't want to miss the browser privacy bandwagon, and it's taking an unusual angle to sell it: it's promising a speed boost.
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Thurrott, Opera Desktop, Computerworld, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, PCWorld, BetaNews, Windows Central, TechSpot, The Next Web, Inquirer, and Softpedia News. Tweets: @privacyproject
| David Canellis / The Next Web: |
Report on Dapp's across six blockchains, including ETH, EOS, TRON: total transaction volume was $2.03B in Q3, down 40% QoQ, dapp user retention from Q2 was 36% — GAMBLING IS STILL THE NUMBER ONE USE-CASE — The total transactional volume of blockchain apps (dapps) across …
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Arm announces consortium for autonomous vehicle tech, with General Motors, Nvidia, Denso, Toyota, Bosch, Arm, Continental, and NXP on board — Autonomous vehicles are exceedingly complex to develop, so Arm announced a consortium today to tackle the various safety and computing probles in a collaborative way.
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Interviews with 36 people shed light on Quintillion, a fiber internet company working in the Arctic whose co-founder, Elizabeth Pierce, forged $1B in contracts — When he discovered that the ship's underwater plow was stuck at the bottom of the Arctic Ocean, 50 miles off Alaska's coast, Frank Cuccio thought of Ernest Shackleton.
Tweets: @karlbode, @silviakillings, @bbgvisualdata, @felixgillette, @joelwebershow, and @austincarr
| John Voorhees / MacStories: |
In-depth Catalina review: iTunes breakup is a success and Catalyst disappoints but it is the first step to integrate macOS into an unbroken computing continuum — Ironically, Apple chose to name this year's update to macOS after an island. Since the iPhone and iOS took off …
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tyler.io, The Verge, Ars Technica, iMore, CNET, 9to5Mac, and MacDailyNews
Tweets: @johnvoorhees, @stshank, and @chancehmiller
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
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Digital Trends, CNET, The Verge, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, Thurrott, Neowin, iMore, iPhone Hacks, iDownloadBlog.com, and iPhone in Canada Blog
Tweets: @markgurman, @markgurman, @stroughtonsmith, @markgurman, @stroughtonsmith, and @kylesethgray
| Michael Hayes / OneZero: |
Leaked docs show Cellebrite has sold tech that can let NYC police “unlock and extract data from all iOS and high-end Android devices” on their own since 2018 — Previously, if law enforcement wanted to get into newer devices, they had to send the phones to one of Cellebrite's …
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Washington Post, 9to5Mac, ExtremeTech, Cult of Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, iPhone Hacks, and iMore
Tweets: @kennwhite, @amdanquart, @willoremus, and @hshaban
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YouTube recently started testing a tool called Instant Reserve to let political ad buyers book slots months ahead of time, similar to traditional TV ad buying — A new tool lets political ad buyers book slots through February, when voting starts in Iowa, New Hampshire and elsewhere| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Norwegian e-paper tablet startup Remarkable raises $15M Series A from Spark Capital — Remarkable, the Norwegian startup behind the digital paper tablet of the same name, has raised $15 million in a series A round of funding from Spark Capital. — Founded out of Oslo in 2013 …
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Samsung Galaxy Watch Active 2 review: nice touch-sensitive bezel and decent battery life, but it requires too many Samsung apps to work and Bixby is annoying — The best* smartwatch for Android users — I have been using the Samsung Galaxy Watch Active 2 for about a week now … | Ionut Arghire / SecurityWeek: |
Google addresses remote code execution flaws found in the media framework of Android versions 7.1.1 through 10 in this month's batch of security patches — Google's October 2019 set of security patches for Android address a total of 26 vulnerabilities in the operating system … | Reuters: |
Samsung projects operating income of $6.4B for Q3, beating analyst estimates, but down 56% YoY amid continued weakness in memory chip price and demand — SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics on Tuesday reported its third-quarter operating profit likely tumbled 56% … Sponsor Posts
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