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Twitter is suspending 70 accounts linked to Michael Bloomberg's campaign for violating its policies, citing platform manipulation and duplicative content — Michael R. Bloomberg's presidential campaign has been experimenting with novel tactics to cultivate an online following, or at least the appearance of one.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Comcast's NBCUniversal is in advanced talks to acquire streaming-video service Vudu from Walmart — Entertainment giants increasingly look to give consumers free or low-cost alternatives to premium subscription streaming services — Fox Corp. and Comcast Corp. are each in discussions …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
With iOS 14, Apple may start opening its walled garden, beginning with allowing third-party apps as defaults, which could ease antitrust pressure — Default app changes are small but significant — I have a love-hate relationship with my iPhone. I love the hardware …
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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Researchers detail “SweynTooth” bugs, which could allow hackers in radio range to crash Bluetooth Low Energy-based devices like pacemakers and fitness trackers — Hundreds of smart devices—including pacemakers—are exposed thanks to a series of vulnerabilities in the Bluetooth Low Energy protocol.
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Tweets: @wired and @aaronmiri
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: the Trump campaign has bought exclusive nationwide masthead ads on YouTube for days leading up to and on election day; ads may cost up to $1M+ a day — In the immediate run up to the U.S. presidential election and on Election Day, the homepage of YouTube is set to advertise just one candidate: Donald Trump.
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Ethos Capital, prospective buyer of .org TLD, proposes rules that would ban steep fee increases for nonprofits, establish an independent “stewardship council” — It also promises an independent oversight committee — Ethos Capital, the company controversially buying the .org top-level domain …
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| Jon Marcus / New York Times: |
A look at current innovations in higher ed, including ongoing subscriptions instead of tuition, AI tutors, and transcripts that can help students find work — Labs test artificial intelligence, virtual reality and other innovations that could improve learning and lower costs for Generation Z and beyond.
Tweets: @luminafound
| Canalys: |
Canalys: global PC shipments are expected to decline between 3.4% and 8.5% YoY in 2020, taking into account the impact of the coronavirus outbreak — Canalys updates its client PC shipment forecast estimates in the seventh week of every quarter. While the data is designed to help its clients …
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TechCrunch, MSPoweruser, and LaptopMag
| Leila McNeill / BBC Future: |
Profile of computer scientist Xia Peisu, who is called the “Mother of Chinese Computing” for shaping some of China's first computer science institutions — Isolated from the rest of the world, one woman pushed computing from a geeky obsession into a transformative industry.
Tweets: @tsmullaney, @drkevorko, @amanda_ruggeri, @mauracunningham, @womenwhocode, @leilasedai, and @physicstoday
| Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land: |
In the EU, Google is now showing alternate directory sources above the map in its search results page to comply with antitrust decision in shopping search — Branded directory buttons are being displayed above the map. — In April 2019, Google was experimenting with a new local SERP …
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| The Intercept: |
An EU report, circulated among EU and national officials in November 2019, calls for the creation of a network of national police facial recognition databases — A police investigator in Spain is trying to solve a crime, but she only has an image of a suspect's face, caught by a nearby security camera.
Tweets: @theintercept, @onekade, @fightfortheftr, @lam_barrett, @theintercept, @privacyint, and @jovialjoy
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Shopify says it will join the Libra Association, contributing financially and operating a node that processes transactions of Facebook's stablecoin — After eBay, Visa, Stripe, and other high-profile departures, the Libra Association scored a win today with the addition of Shopify.
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Shopify, CNBC, Social Media Today, CryptoSlate, InsideBitcoins.com, TechSpot, ZDNet, The Market Refresh, Telegraph, Modern Consensus, BetaKit, Crypto Briefing, The Daily Hodl, Forbes, PYMNTS.com, BitcoinExchangeGuide, Cointelegraph, CryptoGlobe, Finextra, CoinDesk, Yahoo Finance, The Block, PaymentsSource, CNET, Decrypt, Reuters, and Seeking Alpha
Facebook: Libra. Tweets: @davidmarcus, @jamesplloyd, @anildelphi, @gmbutts, @globalnewsto, @libra_, @caseynewton, @forbescrypto, @zachary, @yassineark, and @mdudas. Thanks:@joshconstine
| Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: |
MIT researchers say they used AI to discover new potent antibiotics that treat drug-resistant diseases — Machine learning uncovers potent new drug able to kill 35 powerful bacteria — Artificial intelligence has been used to discover new antibiotics effective against untreatable diseases …
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The Guardian, MIT News, Ubergizmo, TechSpot, Newser, and The Next Web
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