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Apple's head of global security Thomas Moyer indicted for trying to bribe Santa Clara sheriff's office with 200 iPads in return for concealed firearm permits — Defendants include Sheriff Laurie Smith's second-in-command — Four people, including top brass in the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Snap announces Spotlight, a vertically scrollable TikTok-like feed inside Snapchat, and will pay $1M every day to users who create the top Snaps through 2020 — After taking on TikTok with music-powered features last month, Snapchat this morning is officially launching a dedicated place within …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Twitter will now show a warning when someone tries to like a tweet labeled for misinformation, says such warnings decreased quote retweets of misinfo by 29% — The company already displays a warning when you try to retweet a labeled tweet — Ahead of the 2020 election …
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| Lauren Kaori Gurley / VICE: |
Internal reports detail how Amazon tracks labor, environmental movements in EU; Amazon confirms hiring union-busting Pinkerton agency to spy on warehouse staff — Dozens of leaked documents from Amazon's Global Security Operations Center reveal the company's reliance on Pinkerton operatives …
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| Bernard Meyer / CyberNews: |
Researchers find actively-exploited backdoors in low-cost Jetstream and Wavlink routers sold at Walmart, Amazon, and eBay — In a collaboration between CyberNews Sr. Information Security Researcher , Mantas Sasnauskas and researchers James Clee and Roni Carta, suspicious backdoors …
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| Renée DiResta / The Atlantic: |
Trump's clear election loss has splintered the right-wing online info ecosystem, forcing outlets, platforms, and commentators to choose reality or Trump — When Fox News called Arizona for Democrat Joe Biden shortly after the polls closed there on Election Night, right-wing social media erupted in fury.| Janko Roettgers / Protocol: |
Last month Intel quietly shut down Intel Studios, its 10,000-square-foot AR/VR volumetric capture stage in LA that opened in 2018 — Intel has pulled the plug on one of its most ambitious AR/VR projects to date: The company quietly shut down Intel Studios, a 10,000-square-foot volumetric capture stage in Los Angeles, last month.| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Kea, which is building an automated voice assistant for restaurants to process routine orders, raises $10M Series A led by Marbruck — Kea is a new startup giving restaurants an opportunity to upgrade one of the more old-fashioned ways that they take orders — over the phone.Thanks:@vscpr
| Tina Bellon / Reuters: |
Uber and Lyft awarded a federal contract by the GSA, estimated to be worth up to $810M over five years, to offer ride-sharing services to public agency workers — (Reuters) - Uber Technologies Inc and Lyft Inc have been awarded a federal contract worth up to $810 million to offer …
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The Hill, Gizmodo, SiliconANGLE, and The Verge
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| Todd Haselton / CNBC: |
Amazon says it is rolling out fitness-tracking features to its Echo Buds, letting users track the duration of a workout, estimated calories burned, and more — - Amazon announced on Monday that it's rolling out fitness-tracking features to its Echo Buds headphones.
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TechCrunch, The Verge, Gizmodo, Neowin, Android Central, SlashGear, and Engadget. Tweets: @gamblersuitcase
| Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
Boulevard, a spa management and payment platform, raises $27M Series B led by Index Ventures and Toba Capital — Boulevard, a spa management and payment platform, has raised $27 million in a new round of funding despite a business slowdown caused by the COVID0-19 pandemic.
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Paris-based GrAI Matter Labs, which is working to bring fastest AI per watt for edge computing with its GrAI One accelerator chip, raises $14M led by iBionext — GrAI Matter Labs, a pioneer of brain inspired ultra-low latency computing, today announced its latest financing round of $14 million.
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