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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple announces November 10 event where Apple Silicon Macs are expected to debut; invites are titled “One more thing.” — Apple today announced a third fall 2020 event, which is set to be held on Tuesday, November 10 at 10:00 a.m. on the Apple Park campus in Cupertino, California.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: production has ramped up for new 13" and 16" MacBook Pros and a new 13" MacBook Air with Apple Silicon chips but without other major design changes — - Company readies MacBook Pros, MacBook Air with in-house chips — Smaller Mac Pro and iMac with Apple chips also in development
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MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Computerworld, iPhone in Canada Blog, SlashGear, and Input
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Raspberry Pi launches Raspberry Pi 400, a compact keyboard with a built-in ARM-based computer, available today for $70 — Just add a screen and you've got yourself a PC — The Raspberry Pi Foundation has announced the Raspberry Pi 400, a compact keyboard with an ARM-based computer built in.
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| New York Times: |
How Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter plan to handle Election Day and the subsequent days, clamping down on falsehoods and highlighting accurate information — The sites are key conduits for communication and information. Here's how they plan to handle the challenges facing them before, on and after Tuesday.
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Axios, Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, TechCrunch, Forbes, BBC, The Markup, Axios, Android Headlines, Wired, The Daily Dot, Nieman Lab, Reuters, and Mashable
| Bloomberg: |
SoftBank confirms a series of departures from its Vision Fund, including its COO and four partners — A slew of SoftBank Vision Fund executives have left the almost $100 billion vehicle, best known for its bets on high profile startups including WeWork, Uber Technologies Inc. and Chinese ride-hailing company DiDi Chuxing.
Tweets: @sherman4949
| Columbia Journalism Review: |
A review finds that less than half of 1,100 posts across Facebook and Instagram containing falsehoods debunked by third-party partners bore fact-checking labels — Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's CEO, has been back in Congress this week to talk about the need to reform how social-media platforms moderate content … | Washington Post: |
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Spotify says it is testing a new service that lets artists and labels promote their tracks in users' recommendations while receiving a lower royalty rate — Spotify announced today it will begin to test a new service that gives artists more of a say in how their music is discovered on the Spotify platform.| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Quibi mulled options like a freemium model and had 450,000 subs paying $4.99/mo., far less than the 7.4M it targeted for its first year, when it closed — The instincts of Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman, who headed the start-up, proved wrong — When Jeffrey Katzenberg …
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Business Insider. Tweets: @benmullin, @wsj, @nicholasadeleon, @benmullin, @asharma, @benmullin, @benyt, and @jyarow
| Jennifer Smith / Wall Street Journal: |
Coupa, which helps companies manage their business spending, acquires supply-chain planning company Llamasoft for ~$1.5B — The $1.5 billion acquisition is part of a greater focus on supply-chain management amid pandemic-driven upheaval, shortages — Coupa Software Inc. is buying supply …
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SiliconANGLE, ZDNet, TechCrunch, Coupa Software, and PYMNTS.com
| Sky News: |
Sources: UK's NHS COVID app, downloaded 19M times, had the wrong risk threshold and sent warnings to a “shockingly low” number of users about potential exposure — The wrong threshold had reportedly been set for the app and was not recording those who were close enough to transmit the virus.| Wall Street Journal: |
Founders say changes to H-1B visa program will make qualifying tougher and compel employers to pay foreign workers drastically higher wages, starting at $208K — New restrictions intended to protect U.S. workers curb access to pool of highly skilled foreign labor| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Aeva, a lidar company started by two Apple veterans and backed by Porsche SE, is going public via SPAC merger, which will give it a post-deal valuation of $2.1B — Aeva, a Mountain View, Calif.-based lidar company started by two former Apple engineers and backed by Porsche SE …
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