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Facebook unveils photo transfer tool, letting users transfer their photos and videos directly to other services starting with Google Photos, in Ireland — At Facebook, we believe that if you share data with one service, you should be able to move it to another.
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
T-Mobile debuts 5G across the US in 600MHz spectrum, which travels further than mmWave but has lower max data speeds; Samsung, OnePlus debuting 5G phones Friday — Samsung and OnePlus phones will launch on Friday — T-Mobile has flipped the switch on its 5G network …
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| Charles Riley / CNN: |
EU antitrust regulator launches preliminary investigations into how Google and Facebook gather, process, use, and monetize data for advertising purposes — London (CNN Business)Europe's top antitrust regulator is probing how Google and Facebook use data, putting the companies' huge advertising businesses in the spotlight once again.
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| Paul Thurrott / Thurrott: |
Report: Huawei's latest Mate 30 handsets do not include any American parts; Huawei also says its 5G networking gear is now “America-free”, thanks to the US ban — Here's one thing the U.S. government might not have considered when it banned Huawei from doing business in the country … | Wired: |
Best 2019 Cyber Monday deals on smartphones, laptops and tablets, TVs, headphones and speakers, cameras and drones, wearables, and more — Don't bother trudging to the store. We've gathered the absolute best online tech deals in every category. — Whether you're fighting through snow flurries …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon debuts a medical speech transcription tool that works without human intervention and does not require explicit punctuation by users, like saying “comma” — Amazon is expanding its automatic transcription service for AWS, Amazon Transcribe, to include support for medical speech …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Amazon previews Braket, a service to let AWS customers use D-Wave, IonQ, and Rigetti quantum computers, and debuts a Quantum Solutions Lab and research center — While Google, Microsoft, IBM and others have made a lot of noise around their quantum computing efforts in recent months, AWS remained quiet.
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Match Group screens for sex offenders on Match, but not on Tinder or OkCupid, acknowledging “there are definitely registered sex offenders on our free products” — Match Group, which owns most major online dating services, screens for sexual predators on Match — but not on Tinder, OkCupid or PlentyofFish.| Mark Sullivan / Fast Company: |
Amazon unveils DeepComposer, a keyboard meant for devs that uses AI to compose music based on genre-specific models, a short initial tune, and other parameters — Amazon has come up with an entertaining but unlikely way to get developers excited about using its AI services: music.
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Source: through September, TikTok limited the reach of disabled, “fat and self-confident”, and LGBT users, in a misplaced bid to prevent them from being bullied — Leaked documents reveal how TikTok hid videos of people with disabilities. Queer and fat users were also pushed out of view.| Lesley Stahl / CBS News: |
Q&A with Susan Wojcicki on YouTube's stance on political ads, hate speech, conspiracy theories, and if it should be responsible for the content it recommends — YouTube's mission is to give everyone a voice, but the site's open platform has opened the door to hate.
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| Nick Rigillo / Bloomberg: |
Denmark-based Astralis, the world's top Counter-Strike team, plans a December 9 IPO on Nasdaq Nordic's Copenhagen exchange for SMBs, hopes to raise $18M-22M — - Denmark's Astralis team plans to go public on December 9 — Esports industry is growing fast and is now worth $1.1 billionSponsor Posts
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