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Documents: Google's AI unit tightened control over its scientists' papers on “sensitive topics” and asked at least three to portray its tech in a positive light — OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's Google this year moved to tighten control over its scientists' papers by launching a …
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SEC sues Ripple Labs, its CEO Brad Garlinghouse, and Chairman Chris Larsen, alleging they violated federal securities laws in selling XRP to retail consumers — The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) believes Ripple Labs violated federal securities laws in selling the XRP cryptocurrency to retail consumers.
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Sources: Zoom has begun developing a web email service for businesses, and may trial it next year, and is also considering building a calendar app — Zoom Video Communications has had an astonishing rise in 2020, emerging as the go-to service for work meetings and family get-togethers during the pandemic.
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Q&A with an anonymous AWS cybersecurity engineer on why AWS is easy to migrate to but difficult to leave, how the pandemic compounded AWS' advantages, and more — Amazon is on a mission to own the infrastructure of our lives. The second-largest private employer in the United States after Walmart … | Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Telegram debuts group voice chat as CEO Pavel Durov says it is nearing 500M MAUs and will launch an ad platform for public one-to-many channels next year — Instant messaging app Telegram is “approaching” 500 million users and plans to start generating revenue starting next year to keep the business afloat …
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DHS has issued an advisory to US businesses, warning of data security risks with using communication equipment and services from China-linked companies — - Homeland Security warns of trade secret, competition risks — Advisory comes after hack that Trump advisers blame on Russia| Bloomberg: |
Profile of YouTube's top creator of 2020, 22-year-old MrBeast, who has 48M+ subscribers, 4B views a year, ~50 employees, and spends $300K per video on average — Jimmy Donaldson, aka MrBeast, was the top creator on YouTube this year. Now he wants to sell you hamburgers.| Leo Kelion / BBC: |
DeepMind details MuZero, revealed in 2019 and following AlphaZero, which can master games without knowing the rules and is working on YouTube video compression — DeepMind's latest AI program can attain “superhuman performance” in tasks without needing to be given the rules.
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| Drew FitzGerald / Wall Street Journal: |
FCC's ongoing 5G wireless licenses auction has fetched over $66.4B after three weeks, beating the $44.9B sale of 4G licenses in 2015, and will resume January 4 — FCC sale of wireless licenses has already hit new spending highs and the total could climb after a holiday break
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| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Certificate authority Let's Encrypt says it has found a workaround that will extend older Android phones' compatibility with its certificates by three years — When you haven't been updated since 2016, expiring certificates are a problem. — Things were touch-and-go for a while …
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Clubhouse is testing an invite-only Creator Pilot Program, with over 40 members, as the service hits 600,000 registered users — Tech investors have warmed to the idea that being a content creator is a legitimate form of business. — Nearly every social media platform has turned its top users into stars … | Rachel Sandler / Forbes: |
NY Governor signs a bill to suspend the use of facial recognition and other biometric ID tech in schools until July 2022, the first such regulation in the US — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a bill Tuesday temporarily banning the use of facial recognition in schools, making it the first state to take such a step.
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| Tim Higgins / Wall Street Journal: |
Memo: Apple gave developers of paid games and those with IAP a deadline of Dec. 31 to submit proof of a license or risk removal from the App Store in China — Thousands of games face removal in state as Beijing steps up policing of content — Apple Inc. is booting thousands of videogame apps …
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai says GDPR shows that “regulation can get it wrong” and “we are still a small part of the overall information ecosystem” — For Google, the Techlash arrived with a vengeance last week. After years of mounting angst about the power of Big Tech …
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| Simon Sharwood / The Register: |
After 11 years, Australia declares its national broadband network is “built and fully operational” with 11.86M premises wired, leaving 35K not yet connected — Those 35,000 connections that aren't built? Celebrate the 11.86 million that were, says Minister
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| Alex Gallagher / NME: |
The COVID-19 relief bill passed by Congress includes the Felony Streaming Bill, which makes illegal streaming for profit a felony, with up to 10 years jail time — Targeting illegal for-profit streaming providers, not individual users — The US Congress has passed a COVID-19 stimulus bill …
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| Ruti Levy / Haaretz: |
Sources: Israeli content recommendation company Taboola is in talks to merge with ION group's SPAC that raised $259M in October — Israeli online content-recommendation company Taboola may be the perfect match for ION, that raised $260m to merge with private firm valued at over a billion dollars| Rachel Reichenbach / rainylune: |
Small business owner shares conversation with an Instagram media expert, who told her the algorithm favors Reels, consistency, and using all post types — Back in November, Instagram reached out to me and asked me to schedule a call with them so a media expert from the Instagram Partnerships team …
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| Bloomberg: |
Xiaomi's market value tops $100B, the valuation that sources said it had originally eyed for its 2018 IPO — - Stock surge follows strong sales, Hang Seng Index inclusion — Shares have nearly tripled in 2020 after post-IPO struggles — Xiaomi Corp. founder Lei Jun can finally rejoice …
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| Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: |
Hong Kong-based on-demand delivery startup Lalamove raises $515M Series E led by Sequoia Capital China, bringing its total raised to $976.5M — Lalamove will extend its network to cover more small Chinese cities after raising $515 million in Series E funding, the on-demand logistics company announced on its site.
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