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Apple says it will remove all 181 vaping-related apps from its App Store, after experts attribute a variety of lung injuries and fatalities to e-cigarettes — Amid growing health concerns over e-cigarettes, Apple will remove all 181 vaping-related apps from its mobile App Store this morning, Axios has learned.
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Source: NIH and Google planned to launch a dataset of 100K chest X-rays in 2017, scrapped project days before launch, after finding personal info on some images — Fumbled project with NIH highlights potential pitfalls of Google's ambitions with sensitive health data
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Email: Sundar Pichai says Google is scaling back weekly all-hands TGIF meetings to once a month; meetings will focus only “on product and business strategy” — CEO announced changes to TGIF meeting in an email — Google's weekly town halls, internally known as “TGIF” meetings …
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Twitter bans political ads globally, to allow some “cause-based” ads with limited targeting and promotion of issue-related fact-based reporting from news orgs — - Twitter laid out the framework for its new policy on political ads, which bans certain advertisers and has stricter rules for issue ads.
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| Tucker Higgins / CNBC: |
The Supreme Court says it will hear Google's appeal in the copyright lawsuit brought by Oracle over Java APIs — - The Supreme Court said on Friday that it will hear a dispute between tech giants Oracle and Google in a blockbuster case that could lead to billions of dollars in fines and shape copyright law in the internet era.
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Germany passed a law on Thursday that could force Apple to open up the iPhone's NFC chip to rival mobile payment platforms in the country — BERLIN (Reuters) - Apple said on Friday moves in Germany to force it to open up its Apple Pay mobile payments system to rivals could hurt data protection … | Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Hulu to raise its Hulu + Live TV price by 22%, from $44.99/month to $54.99/month, for all subscribers starting on December 18 — Hulu is implementing its second price increase in less than a year for its Hulu With Live TV product — with the base package of 60-plus live channels increasing 22%, to $54.99 per month.
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NUVIA, founded by three former Apple chip execs, raises $53M Series A from Dell and others to develop a new CPU for data center servers — (Reuters) - Three of Apple Inc's former top semiconductor executives in charge of iPhone chips have founded a startup to design processors for data centers …
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TikTok says it has started allowing some users to add links to their profile bios and send their viewers to shopping sites — TikTok is beginning to dabble in social commerce. The short-form video app said it has started to allow some users to add links to e-commerce sites …
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In a Reddit AMA, Google demos Stadia, which is set to launch on Nov. 19 but without key features like Family Sharing, Buddy Passes, Stadia Connect, and more — In a run-up to the November 19th Stadia launch, Google did a Reddit AMA showing how game casting will work for the streaming service.| Jason Ronald / Xbox Wire: |
Microsoft rolls out its November 2019 Xbox Update with support for Google Assistant in English, improved gamertags, text-based content filters, and more — November is here and that means friends, family, food and plenty of gaming in between. Thanks to your feedback …
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Report finds toxic content on Giphy, including child abuse, depictions of rape, and imagery associated with white supremacy, despite its ban on illicit content — Certain hashtags and keywords revealed the illegal and banned content. — Image search engine Giphy bills itself as providing … | Alex Sherman / CNBC: |
Sources: John Legere has no plans to leave T-Mobile and take the CEO job at WeWork — - T-Mobile CEO John Legere isn't planning to take the CEO job at WeWork according to people familiar with the matter. — WeWork, which is being taken over by SoftBank, is considering a number of people for the CEO role.
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Sources: after exploring partnerships with banks in 2018 to offer an Amazon-branded checking account, Amazon scrapped those plans in their early stages — This week, Google confirmed that it will soon offer checking accounts to its users. But one of the company's biggest rivals—Amazon …
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Google says it is now rolling out support for RCS messages in the Android Messages app to all of its users in the US — Google today announced that it is now rolling out to all of its users in the U.S. support for Rich Communication Services messages (you can think of it as the next generation of SMS) …
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