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Meg Whitman and Jeffrey Katzenberg confirm Quibi is shutting down: “Our failure was not for lack of trying; we've considered and exhausted every option” — We started with the idea to create the next generation of storytelling and because of you, we were able to create and deliver …
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PayPal will let users buy and sell cryptocurrency using its online wallets in the coming weeks and shop at merchants on its network starting in early 2021 — LONDON (Reuters) - PayPal Holdings Inc joined the cryptocurrency market on Wednesday, allowing customers to buy …
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PayPal Newsroom, PayPal, Inc., Department of Financial …, Engadget, Cointelegraph, Forbes, NewsBTC, Paxos, The Verge, HotHardware.com News, TweakTown News, Fortune, CoinDesk, CNBC, Mashable, CryptoGlobe, Finextra, Gizmodo, Ethereum World News, Finbold, and CoinGeek
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| New York Times: |
A look at the well-funded Big Tech opponents, from lawyers to academics, that have helped guide potential government regulation like Google's antitrust suit — An unlikely collection of lawyers, activists, economists and academics are fueling the tech backlash, armed with funding from billionaire sponsors.
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Nikkei Asia. Tweets: @zephyrteachout, @zephyrteachout, @zephyrteachout, @daiwaka, @dmccabe, and @sarahmillerdc
| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
DOJ's lawsuit against Google is appropriately narrow, focusing on search and providing a template for congressional action against Big Tech even if it fails — So it finally happened: the U.S. Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against Google, alleging anticompetitive behavior under Section 2 of the Sherman Antitrust Act.
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Politico, Patently Apple, Techdirt, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, and Bloomberg
| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Filings for Q3 lobbying: Facebook spent $4.9M, up 1.5% QoQ, Google spent $1.9M, up 14.2%, Microsoft spent $1.9M, down 35.4%, Apple spent $1.6M, up 5.4% — - Google ramped up lobbying spend in the third quarter as regulators and lawmakers prepared to make public their findings of antitrust violations.| Wall Street Journal: |
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Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, The Mozilla Blog, New York Times, news.com.au, New York Times, VentureBeat, Financial Times, PYMNTS.com, Techdirt, Silicon Valley Business …, Search Engine Roundtable, Washington Examiner, bit-tech.net, Politico, Financial Times, Light Reading, MSPoweruser, infosecurity-magazine.com, Fast Company, The Precursor Blog, and Crunchbase News
| Kevin Collier / NBC News: |
US intelligence director says Iran was behind threatening emails to FL Democratic voters demanding they vote for Trump; voter info was likely publicly available — Iranian intelligence was responsible for a recent campaign of emails sent to intimidate Florida voters, the FBI announced Wednesday night …
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Washington Post, Axios, VICE, ABC News, CNBC, CBS News, New York Magazine, Reuters, and Bloomberg
Tweets: @hayesbrown and @gregmitch
| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky says Jony Ive will collaborate with Airbnb as a design consultant, as part of a multi-year partnership with Ive's firm LoveFrom — Jony Ive retired from Apple about a year ago, following an almost 25 year tenure as head of Apple product design.
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Airbnb Newsroom, The Information, AppleInsider, Bloomberg, MacRumors, Daring Fireball, CNBC, and Cult of Mac
Tweets: @markgurman, @neilcybart, @can, @neilcybart, @coryweinberg, @eliotwb, @mcwm, @jonyiveparody, @nathanblawrence, @bizcarson, @filipeesposito, @pinboard, @oliviasolon, and @daveleeft
| Jack Nicas / New York Times: |
Report: at least 2,000 US law enforcement agencies, including 49 of the 50 largest police departments, have the tools to access locked, encrypted phones — At least 2,000 law enforcement agencies have tools to get into encrypted smartphones, according to new research, and they are using them far more than previously known.
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Upturn, Business Insider, Vox, and Gizmodo
Tweets: @oliviasolon, @jacknicas, @teamupturn, @shiraovide, and @teamupturn
| Nathan Grayson / Kotaku: |
Twitch sent DMCA notices to streamers on Tuesday, deleting content without allowing counterclaims; Twitch says “thousands” of music rights holders complained — It's finally happening: Twitch is taking action against copyrighted music—long a norm among streamers—in response to music industry pressure.
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The Verge, Ars Technica, GamesIndustry.biz, TorrentFreak, Polygon, and Micky
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
iPad Air (2020) review: has an excellent screen, very fast processor, and is compatible with iPad Pro accessories, but it's expensive and has no 128GB option — Despite the higher cost, this iPad is the one to get — If you're looking to get an iPad right now and can afford it …
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Tweets: @viticci, @jfpoole, @jsnell, @jsnell, @jetscott, @jsnell, @caro_milanesi, @jetscott, @viticci, @jordannovet, @backlon, @jsnell, @bencsin, @viticci, @nicnguyen, @backlon, @dhh, @mrcippy, and @reneritchie
| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
FCC's top lawyer defends its authority to interpret Section 230, saying 1996 legislation that included Section 230 amended a 1934 act that created the FCC — FCC lawyer claims authority to interpret any part of the Communications Act. — The Federal Communications Commission's top lawyer today explained …
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Federal Communications …, Washington Examiner, CNET, and Reuters
Tweets: @notaaroncraig, @fcc, @jrosenworcel, and @kendraserra
| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Facebook confirms it is testing a feature for users to connect with their neighbors, as rival Nextdoor considers options for going public — - Product for local connections is being tested in Canada now — Nextdoor is considering options, including a public offering
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New York Post, TechCrunch, MobileSyrup, Benzinga, The Verge, Engadget, Input, Social Media Today, MakeUseOf, Gizmodo, Neowin, and SlashGear
Facebook: Grigg Digital. Tweets: @mattnavarra, @mattnavarra, @braincell_23, @jesselehrich, @qwongsj, and @thatchristinag
| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Over 430,000 viewers tuned in simultaneously to watch Rep. Ocasio-Cortez play Among Us on Twitch, the third highest ever for an individual Twitch stream — More than 430,000 people tuned in simultaneously to Twitch on Tuesday night to watch Rep. Alexia Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) play a hit video game as part of an effort to promote voting.
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The Verge, Washington Post, ABC News, GeekWire, Ars Technica, The Next Web, The Guardian, The Esports Observer, New York Post, NDTV Gadgets 360, Business Insider, CNBC, CBS News, Mother Jones, New York Times, GameSpot, Kotaku, Mashable, POPSUGAR Culture, Eurogamer.net, The Root, news.avclub.com, Washingtonian, Forbes, Vulture, Wired, dexerto.com, The Hill, MIT Technology Review, Dot Esports, Polygon, and VICE
Tweets: @ilhanmn, @ilhanmn, @slasher, @aoc, @mxmtoon, @rashidatlaib, @jbouie, @matt_silverman, @markdistef, and @pinknews
| The Intercept: |
Documents show Google Cloud will be used for its AI capabilities by the CBP in conjunction with Anduril Industries' surveillance tech on the US-Mexico border — After years of backlash over controversial government work, Google technology will be used to aid the Trump administration's efforts …
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Business Insider. Tweets: @lhfang, @samfbiddle, @thedailymao, @evan_greer, @aaschapiro, @laikenjordahl, @emeryjohnr, @mer__edith, @noahpinion, and @ethicalgooglers
| Sam Shead / CNBC: |
TikTok says it will do more to tackle coded language and symbols that promote hate speech, after reports found viral anti-Semitic videos — - TikTok has pledged to do more to tackle hateful content and behavior on its platform. — The commitment comes after reports that TikTok has a Nazi problem and a White supremacy problem.
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TikTok, CNET, Business Insider, and NBC News
| Faiz Siddiqui / Washington Post: |
Elon Musk says Tesla is rolling out a Full Self-Driving “beta” in an “extremely slow and cautious” way; critics remain worried about Tesla's bet against lidar — Even iPhones have lidar now, but not the cars Tesla hopes to one day make autonomous.
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Electrek, The Verge, Benzinga, Car and Driver, Futurism, Roadshow, Business Insider, Reuters, and Mashable. Tweets: @tim_stevens
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Anyscale, which offers tools to securely and efficiently run apps built with the Ray open source distributed programming framework, raises $40M Series B — The world of distributed computing took on a new profile this year when Folding@home, a 20-year-old distributed computing project … | Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Israeli startup Mine, which helps users control their data, raises $9.5M Series A led by Google's Gradient Ventures and has helped send 1.3M deletion requests — TechCrunch readers probably know that privacy regulations like Europe's GDPR and California's CCPA give them additional rights around …
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CTech, VentureBeat, and Globes Online
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JPMorgan launches QuickAccept, a smartphone card reader and payments service for SMBs providing instant deposits of POS transactions for free, unlike Square — - JPMorgan's new QuickAccept service lets businesses take card payments within minutes, either through a mobile app or a contactless card reader …
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CNN, Barron's Online, Business Wire, The Motley Fool, Associated Press, PYMNTS.com, and coinspeaker.com
Tweets: @hugh_son, @themarkcooke, @nicolelpinto, @tmfjmo, and @sarthakgh
| Jared Newman / Fast Company: |
Descript, which offers a simple podcast editing tool, expands into video editing, letting users edit videos by rearranging a transcript — For the past few years, Descript has offered an intuitive way to edit podcasts, letting you cut, paste, and delete from a written transcript to modify the corresponding audio.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Chinese tech companies including Huawei have expressed strong concerns to local regulators about Nvidia's proposed acquisition of Arm — - China is unlikely to grant its unconditional blessing — Arm may become another flashpoint in the U.S.-China tech war
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