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Internal memo from a fired Facebook data scientist says large amounts of inauthentic bot activity has boosted many countries' leaders, with Facebook slow to act — Facebook ignored or was slow to act on evidence that fake accounts on its platform have been undermining elections …
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| David Gilbert / VICE: |
Activists say ethnic violence in Ethiopia in recent months has been supercharged by hate speech on Facebook, which says it has increased monitoring of content — Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. — Throughout his life, Ethiopian singer Hachalu Hundessa sang about love …
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Sources: Sony has cut PS5 production for this fiscal year by 4M units to ~11M, following production issues with its custom-designed SoC — - Low yields of company's custom-designed silicon a bottleneck — Sony facing aggressive pricing from Microsoft's Xbox team
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| Bloomberg: |
Source: Apple tells staff it's no longer offering credit cards via Barclays, which offers zero interest financing, as it shifts to Apple Card financing plans — - Longtime credit-card deal offered Apple customers no interest — Company to focus on Apple Card installment payments instead
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| Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire: |
After retrieving a submerged shipping-container-size data center from Scotland's Orkney Islands, deployed in 2018, Microsoft says the project was a success — Two years after deploying a shipping-container-size data center to the depths off Scotland's Orkney Islands, Microsoft has reeled it back in …
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| Steven Musil / CNET: |
The Trump administration, in a filing, says that Trump's EO on a TikTok ban will not hinder the company from paying salaries to its employees in the country — An executive order banning TikTok from the US won't affect employees' paychecks, the Trump administration said Monday in a court filing.
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| Seth Schiesel / Protocol: |
Q&A with Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick on his skepticism about cloud gaming and Microsoft's new subscription and installment pricing plans for Xbox — Strauss Zelnick, CEO of Take-Two Interactive Software, has an ambitious goal for his company.
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| TechCrunch: |
Home buying startup Opendoor announces it's going public by merging with Chamath Palihapitiya's SPAC — Today, Social Capital Hedosophia II, the blank-check company associated with investor Chamath Palihapitiya, announced that it will merge with Opendoor, taking the private real estate startup public in the process.
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| Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: |
ByteDance says Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, has 600M DAUs, up from 400M DAUs at the start of the year — - Douyin had 400 million daily active users in January — ByteDance China chief promises additional investment — Douyin, the Chinese-market version …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Google unveils its own Meet hardware bundle meant for conference rooms, including a Smart Camera, Smart Audio Bar, remote control, and more, starting at $2,699 — The Series One kits will be available for preorder soon — Google has rapidly updated its videoconferencing Google Meet software …
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| Jay Rosen / The Verge: |
Q&A with ex-CSO of Facebook Alex Stamos on why big newsrooms should have threat modeling teams, how media is amplifying disinformation with its coverage, more — An interview with Facebook's ex-security chief — Editor's note: We're barreling toward the 2020 election with big unresolved problems …
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| Nicole Phelps / Vogue: |
Amazon launches invitation-only Luxury Stores for US Prime members, available on its mobile app, with Oscar de la Renta as the first brand partner — After months of industry speculation, Amazon is finally launching its Luxury Stores experience. Oscar de la Renta is the first and only label …
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| Cyrus Farivar / NBC News: |
As Big Fish Games announces $155M class action settlement in WA, 21 users describe how they were hooked on casino-style apps and lost significant sums of money — Shellz, 37, a nurse from Houston, spends at least two hours a day with her husband playing a casino-style smartphone game called Jackpot Magic.
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| Justine Calma / The Verge: |
Facebook launches an information center to combat climate change misinformation and pledges to cut greenhouse gases from its global operations this year — It's also working to bring more reliable climate information to its users — Facebook today pledged to slash greenhouse gases …
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Over 400,000 people have registered to vote in 2020 on Snapchat, according to data reported within the app, already passing its numbers for the 2018 election — As of Monday evening, 407,024 people have registered to vote on Snapchat, according to data reported within the app.
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| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Facebook paid $367.6M to buy a 400K square foot complex from REI in Bellevue, WA, expanding its 3M square feet office space footprint in Seattle — Facebook is yet again expanding in the Seattle region, its largest engineering hub outside of Silicon Valley.
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| Tatiana Cirisano / Billboard: |
Spotify partners with Songkick and Ticketmaster to add virtual event listings hosted on any platform to artist profiles and to the Concerts hub on the app — Spotify has partnered with concert discovery app Songkick and Ticketmaster to add virtual event listings to the platform … Sponsor Posts
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