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| Mirko Ranieri / The Keyword: |
Google Maps' Live View AR feature now includes notable landmarks in ~25 cities around the world, and gets location sharing, improved accuracy, and more — Live View in Google Maps helps you keep your bearings so you can find your way around. With new ways to use Live View …
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Tweets: @rmbyrne, @aimans_3, @v_kurbatov, and @google
| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
After criticism of racial bias, Twitter says its automated image cropping showed “salient” areas of the image, but will change it to give users more control — Twitter will change its automated image cropping feature after users complained that it was biased.
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Twitter, The Verge, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, The Next Web, and Android Headlines
Tweets: @twittersupport, @realshawneib, @karissabe, @carnage4life, @sdkstl, @onesnowclimber, and @bluechoochoo
| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon says that of its 1.37M frontline workers, 19K+ contracted COVID-19 between March 1 and Sept. 19, with an infection rate lower than general US population — - Amazon on Thursday released comprehensive data into the spread of the coronavirus across its workforce.
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Tweets: @bpopken, @cnn, @jason, @stevekovach, and @rashadrobinson
| Arnold Kim / MacRumors: |
YouTube restores Picture in Picture functionality to everyone on its mobile website on iOS 14, after limiting its availability to Premium users a few weeks ago — Tonight, the YouTube website has started allowing iOS 14 devices to use the built-in Picture in Picture functionality for its videos even without a Premium account.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Cisco acquires PortShift, an Israeli startup developing a Kubernetes-native security platform, reportedly for ~$100M — Cisco is making another acquisition to expand its reach in security solutions, this time specifically targeting DevOps and the world of container management.
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Netflix support document says 4K streaming will work only on Macs that have a T2 security chip and run macOS 11.0 Big Sur with the latest Safari browser — Macs without a T2 chip can't watch 4K Netflix — macOS Big Sur, Apple's upcoming release of its Mac operating system …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google says it will turn off face retouching by default and avoid references to “beauty” in its Camera app, starting with the Pixel 4a, 4a 5G, and 5 — When Digital Wellbeing launched, it was initially used to manage how often people use their phones.
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| The Verge: |
HP debuts 14-inch Spectre x360 laptop with a 3:2 aspect ratio, 11th-gen Intel processors, Thunderbolt 4, and AI-based noise removal features, starting at $1,199 — Plus updates for Spectre x360 13 and HP's Envy lineup — HP has just announced several new laptops, including …
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Tweets: @dcseifert, @shortformernie, and @tomwarren
| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
New animators have moved away from YouTube to make their names on TikTok instead, where it's easier for short, catchy, and experimental video clips to succeed — TikTok has become a thriving playground for animation — For three years, Maddi Winter had been searching for a hit.
Tweets: @jake_k, @waxy, @amyrightmeow, and @ttayl0r
| Stephanie Chan / Sensor Tower Blog: |
Global app revenue grew 32% YoY in Q3 2020 to more than $29B; consumer spending in the App Store grew 31% to $19B while Play Store grew ~34% YoY to $10.3B — Worldwide consumer spending in mobile apps reached $29.3 billion and their installs climbed to 36.5 billion across Apple's App Store …
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| The Verge: |
Facebook moderators at Accenture say they were told to return to the office despite the pandemic; Facebook says their work can't be done remotely — Employees are concerned about COVID-19 now that they're being told to return starting October 12th — Facebook moderators employed …
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Washington Post. Tweets: @titlecharacter, @zoeschiffer, @slpng_giants, @russellbrandom, @vote4robgill, @hypervisible, @robaeprice, and @nickstatt
| Ayanti Bera / Reuters: |
Uber Freight raises $500M from private equity firm Greenbriar Equity Group at a post-money valuation of $3.3B — (Reuters) - Uber Technologies Inc UBER.N said on Friday New York-based private equity firm Greenbriar Equity Group would invest $500 million in its logistics arm, Uber Freight … | Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Portland-based Eclypsium, which helps detect, analyze, and prevent security threats at the firmware level, raises $13M, bringing its total raised to $25M — Portland, Ore.-based startup Eclypsium raised $13 million to help expand its enterprise hardware security technology.
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| Stu Woo / Wall Street Journal: |
As QAnon presence on LinkedIn grows, the network is taking steps to limit the spread but does not sanction members for displaying support on their profiles — As more users show support for the conspiracy theories, the website reacts to those who break its guidelines
Tweets: @rstephens, @mollymckew, @stuwoo, @wsj, @jowens510, @alexeheath, @mims, and @mims
| Dan Whateley / Business Insider: |
Six former Triller employees say the 13M MAUs it announced in Oct. 2019 was over 5X what they were seeing on internal metrics, as a screenshot shows ~2M MAUs — - Short-form-video app Triller, a TikTok rival, touted massive user growth last year that some former employees believe was inflated.
Tweets: @dwhate
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Verizon says it expanded its 4G LTE-based home internet service to 48 US states, but only in areas where it doesn't offer other broadband options or in-home 5G — The service first launched in July in a select few markets — Verizon's 4G LTE-based home broadband service targeting rural communities …
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Light Reading, Verizon, and CNET
| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Google will pay publishers $1B+ through 2023 to create and curate high-quality journalism for the new Google News Showcase, starting in Germany and Brazil — Google will pay publishers more than $1 billion over the next three years to create and curate high-quality journalism for a new set …
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Nieman Lab, The Keyword, Reuters, Gizmodo, Bloomberg, CNN, Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, TechCrunch, Input, Digiday, PYMNTS.com, Android Police, The Irish Times, iDownloadBlog.com, TheStreet, 9to5Google, and Fortune
Tweets: @jbenton, @dangillmor, @spj_tweets, @jasonhirschhorn, @googlenews, @lorz, @millie, @niemanlab, @swodinsky, @vambenepe, @bradbender1, @rasmus_kleis, @emilybell, @domponsford, @maghielse, @froomkin, @dabeard, @lansy12, @nikkiusher, @mathewi, @slpng_giants, @sundarpichai, @moonalice, @quentindempster, @lutherlowe, @pierrechappaz, @martinapennisi, @charliebeckett, @sarafischer, and @sarafischer
| TechCrunch: |
Facebook files a lawsuit against BrandTotal and Unimania for breaking TOS by scraping data from Facebook, Instagram, and other sites using browser extensions — Facebook today says it has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. against two companies that had engaged in an international “data scraping” operation.
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ZDNet, Tom's Guide, About Facebook, and Social Media Today
Tweets: @lilianedwards, @bendineliot, @robleathern, @robleathern, and @campuscodi
| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
The Senate Commerce Committee votes to subpoena CEOs of Facebook, Google, and Twitter to testify before the panel about concerns over Section 230 — The Senate Commerce Committee Thursday voted on a bipartisan basis to subpoena the CEOs of Facebook, Google and Twitter to testify before the panel …
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