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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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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 … | Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
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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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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| 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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| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
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.| TechCrunch: |
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 … | Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
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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Amazon says it has filed a protest of the Pentagon's decision to award the JEDI contract to Microsoft, claiming “unmistakable bias”, and “errors” in process — - Oracle and IBM were removed from the competition earlier this year, and last month Amazon was knocked out.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
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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UK's Labour party pledges free broadband for all by 2030, by nationalizing part of BT and introducing a tax on tech giants, if it wins the general election — Labour has promised to give every home and business in the UK free full-fibre broadband by 2030, if it wins the general election.| 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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Sources: FCC plans to scrap and replace the Electronic Comment Filing System, used for public feedback, after the fake comments controversy — After years of so-called “upgrades” that have failed to allay oversight lawmakers' concerns about the integrity of its public comment system … Sponsor Posts
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