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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
In leaked audio from an internal meeting, Mark Zuckerberg says they will re-examine policies around politicians discussing the use of state force on Facebook — The company is treating a moral issue as if it's a legal one — I. The CEO — On Friday afternoon, Facebook …
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| New York Times: |
In a rare public protest at Facebook, hundreds of employees stage a virtual walkout, pushing back on Zuckerberg's choice to let Trump's inflammatory posts stand — While Twitter started labeling some of the president's inflammatory posts, Facebook's chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, has said his company should leave them alone.
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| NBC News: |
Twitter suspended the account of a white nationalist group claiming to be an Antifa organization that pushed violent rhetoric related to ongoing protests — Two hashtags that trended worldwide on Twitter falsely claimed that there was a “cover-up” or a “blackout” of protests in Washington, D.C., overnight.
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| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
Twitter restricts a tweet from US House Rep. Matt Gaetz for violating its policy against glorifying violence, after it had been retweeted over 12,000 times — The platform did not remove it — Twitter has restricted a tweet from Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) for violating its policies …
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Cisco says it is postponing the online version of Cisco Live, its major customer event that was scheduled to start Tuesday, amid ongoing protests across the US — Cisco said Monday night that it is postponing the online version of Cisco Live, its major customer event, amid the ongoing protests …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google pushes an update for its Pixel line, with improved Adaptive Battery, Google Assistant integration with Recorder, a personal safety check scheduler, more — Google today announced the latest “feature drop” for its Pixel line of Android phones. Adaptive Battery now predicts …
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| TechCrunch: |
Google adds a suite of Bedtime tools to Android, building on its Wind Down feature, to turn on Do Not Disturb and enable grayscale effect, for Pixels first — At Google's 2018 I/O developer conference, the company debuted a new suite of “digital well-being” aimed at helping Android users better manage their screen time.
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Samsung's Sero TV, which rotates between landscape and portrait depending on the kind of content you're watching, is now available in the US and UK for $1,999 — 43 inches of rotating screen — If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement.| Gartner: |
Gartner says global sales of smartphones to end users declined 20.2% YoY in Q1'20, with Huawei performing the worst out of the top five vendors, down 27.3% YoY — Samsung, Huawei and Oppo Recorded Double-Digit Declines — Global sales of smartphones to end users declined 20.2% …
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| Elizabeth A. Harris / New York Times: |
Hachette, Penguin Random House, Wiley, HarperCollins sue Internet Archive, saying its project to let users borrow ebooks scanned from books violates copyrights — Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Hachette and Wiley accused the nonprofit of piracy for making over 1 million books free online.
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| Gretchen McCulloch / Wired: |
The pandemic presents the biggest language translation challenge for COVID-19 info, as Google Translate supports only 109 languages, Bing 71, and Wikipedia 309 — Services like Google Translate only support 100 languages, give or take. What about the thousands of other languages—spoken by people just as vulnerable to this crisis?
Tweets: @appenglobal, @backchnnl, @professorolsen, @wired, @itiuk, and @bentranslates
| Financial Times: |
Chinese gaming company NetEase seeks to raise between $2.6B to $3B in a Hong Kong secondary offering, amid tensions between Beijing and Washington — Gaming group's share sale could start wave of Chinese businesses raising cash in city — Gaming group NetEase will sell up to $3bn of shares …
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