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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Reddit will ban r/The_Donald, r/ChapoTrapHouse, and ~2,000 other subreddits, most of which are inactive, after updating rules to more explicitly ban hate speech — More than 2,000 communities are being removed on Monday for violating Reddit's new content policies
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| Rahul Shrivastava / India Today: |
Indian government bans 59 Chinese apps including TikTok, ShareIt, UC Browser, WeChat, and Clash of Kings, citing national security and maintaining public order — Govt bans 59 Chinese apps including TikTok as border tensions simmer in Ladakh — As tensions along the Line of Actual Control …
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Twitch temporarily bans President Trump for “hateful conduct” that was aired on stream, noting it does not make exceptions for “political or newsworthy content” — A temporary suspension for ‘hateful conduct’ — Twitch has temporarily banned President Donald Trump …
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| Shirin Ghaffary / Vox: |
Interviews and documents shed light on Amazon's warehouse policies, exposing inconsistent health and safety protocols and tactics used to quell rising tensions — Courtney Bowden, 30, in front of the Amazon flex warehouse in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, on June 14. Bowden was fired in March.
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| Washington Post: |
Sources detail the efforts by Facebook executives to accommodate Trump's posts, starting in 2015 with a Trump video calling for a ban of Muslims entering the US — Starting as early as 2015, Facebook executives started crafting exceptions for the then-candidate that transformed the world's information battlefield for years to come.
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Tweets: @juddlegum, @b_fung, @reuters, @dabeard, @moonalice, @themetz, @jason_kint, @olieslaegerc, @prdyt, @commonsense, @azeem, @jason, @karaswisher, @notinmycolour, @caseynewton, and @tkawaja
| Wall Street Journal: |
Just Eat Takeaway's Grubhub acquisition rests on the belief that restaurants should handle delivery, helping it avoid the costs of building delivery fleets — Bid by Dutch giant Just Eat Takeaway would join two companies that have avoided building their own delivery fleets
Tweets: @paulpage and @carnage4life
| New York Times: |
The New York Times pulls its stories from Apple News, saying the service does not align with its strategy of building direct relationships with paying readers — The Times said Apple News did not align with its strategy of building direct relationships with paying readers.
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Benchmark scores for Apple's Developer Transition Kit unit, with A12Z chip used in iPad Pro, suggest it outperforms Surface Pro X even under Rosetta 2 emulation — Apple's Developer Transition Kit equipped with an A12Z iPad Pro chip began arriving in the hands of developers this morning …
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Mixer co-founder Matt Salsamendi on Microsoft shutting Mixer down, Twitch's market power, the need for low latency streaming, and his own startup journey — Matt Salsamendi was barely old enough to drive when he and James Boehm founded a game-streaming startup called Beam Interactive … | Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google brings free product listings to Search results, after adding them to its Shopping tab in April, to help businesses during the pandemic — Back in April, Google announced that all merchants can have their goods appear for free in the Shopping tab. Those free product listings …
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Tweets: @williamready, @ericjhonsa, and @johnkoetsier
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Amazon says it has eliminated all single-use plastic in its packaging across its 50+ fulfillment centers in India, replacing bubble wraps with paper cushions — Amazon said on Monday it has eliminated all single-use plastic in its packaging across its fulfillment centers in India … | Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Apple's decision in Feb. to limit HTTPS certs' lifespan to 398 days in Safari has been mimicked by Chrome and Firefox to the dismay of Certificate Authorities — Apple, Google, and Mozilla reduce the lifespan for HTTPS certificates to 398 days, against the wishes of Certificate Authorities.| Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal: |
Online used car marketplace Shift says it will go public through a reverse merger with Insurance Acquisition in Q3, raising $185M and valuing Shift at $415M — Shares of Carvana and Vroom soared with temporary closing of bricks-and-mortar dealerships — Online used-car seller Shift … Sponsor Posts
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