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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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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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| Bloomberg: |
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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Observe.ai, which develops call center software that analyzes conversations, raises $54M Series B led by Menlo Ventures, bringing its total raised to $88M — Observe.ai, a startup developing AI call center software, today closed a $54 million funding round.
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| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Anchor says it is cracking down on copycat podcasters by improving the detection of stolen podcasts, adding new rules around monetizing shows, and more — ‘This is definitely a new type of attack for Anchor’ — Anchor, a Spotify-owned company, is addressing the copycat podcast problem that's roiled the industry for the past month.| Jason Gurwin / The Streamable: |
ViacomCBS will rebrand CBS All Access as Paramount+ early next year and expects to expand internationally, starting in Australia, Latin America, and the Nordics — Announces 5 New Originals, Plans to Expand Internationally in 2021 — It's official, CBS All Access is changing its name to Paramount+ next year.| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Seegrid, which builds autonomous industrial vehicles for transporting materials, adds $27M to its recent $25M round, taking its total raised to $150M — Seegrid, a company that builds self-driving vehicles to carry materials in industrial environments, has added a further $27 million to its recent equity funding.
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Volansi, maker of long-range delivery drones, raises $50M Series B led by Icon Ventures; its M20 drone has a touted range of 350 miles and top speed of 75 mph — Robotics generally have seen an increase in interest during the pandemic, so it makes perfect sense that investors are taking a closer look at autonomous drone delivery.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources detail Apple's Tuesday event: Apple Watch Series 6 with faster CPU and blood oxygen meter, new mid-tier iPad Air, and no new iPhones — - Company to debut new Apple Watches and iPad Air on Tuesday — Smaller HomePod, headphones in the works; iPhones coming later
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