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| Corin Faife / The Markup: |
Study of 58 Facebook users' feeds in Georgia found partisan content elbowed out traditional news sites after Facebook reversed its political ad ban — Ahead of crucial senate runoffs, Facebook reversed its political ad ban, and the impact was visible on users' feeds
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Trump signs an executive order banning transactions with Ant Group's Alipay, Tencent's WeChat Pay and QQ, and five other Chinese payment apps — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order banning transactions with eight Chinese software applications, including Ant Group's Alipay.
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Sources: after NYSE said it wouldn't delist China Mobile, China Telecom, and China Unicom, it now mulls reverting to original plan following Mnuchin criticism — - Possible reversal follows Mnuchin call to NYSE's Cunningham — Exchange's surprise announcement caught White House off guard| Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review: |
OpenAI introduces two new GPT-3 models: CLIP, which classifies images into categories from arbitrary text, and DALL·E, which can generate images from text — OpenAI has extended GPT-3 with two new models that combine NLP with image recognition to give its AI a better understanding of everyday concepts.
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| Matt Day / Bloomberg: |
Amazon says it is buying 11 used Boeing 767-300 planes from Delta and WestJet, the first time the company has purchased aircraft for its air cargo operation — - Retailer will buy 11 767-300 planes from Delta, WestJet — Amazon expects fleet to have more than 85 jets by end of 2022
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Verizon says that it will indefinitely delay the shutdown of its 3G network, after pushing the shutdown from the end of 2019 to the end of 2020 — Verizon has backtracked on its plan to turn off its 3G network by the end of 2020. — In response to questions from Light Reading …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Source: Tile is aiming to launch a new tracker this year that includes ultra wideband technology and will add the ability to find items in AR in its app — Tile is preparing to introduce a new product this year that will serve as a rival to Apple's long-awaited AirTags and other lost-item trackers coming … | Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
FBI, CISA, and ODNI, with support from NSA, say an APT “likely Russian in origin” is responsible for all or most of the recently discovered hacks of US agencies — Joint statement from the FBI, CISA, ODNI, and NSA says SolarWinds hack was “likely Russian in origin.”
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Cameo hires new CTO, CFO, COO, CPO and says it sold 1.3M personalized videos in 2020, had ~$100M in video transactions, and 150 personalities earned $100K+/year — Cameo, the app that lets fans pay for personalized videos from celebrities, has hired a slew of new C-suite executives from media …
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| Daphne Leprince-Ringuet / ZDNet: |
As Brexit progresses, 81K .eu domains registered by 50,000 UK citizens are suspended, with three months given to transfer domains or demonstrate EU citizenship — The UK lost its right to a .eu website when it left the European bloc, leaving many domain name owners in limbo.| Lingling Wei / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: China's regulators aim to force Ant Group, which owns Alipay, to share its consumer-credit data with China's central bank or an entity controlled by it — Request is part of Beijing's crackdown on what it believes is Ant's unfair advantage over other lenders
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| Saniya More / The Block: |
Square says US FinCEN's proposed cryptocurrency regulation will inhibit widespread adoption of cryptocurrencies and hinder current law enforcement efforts — Square is the latest company to go public with its opposition to proposed rulemaking from the U.S. Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN).
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Qualcomm announces CEO Steve Mollenkopf is retiring and current president, Cristiano Amon, will take over on June 30 — - Qualcomm CEO Steve Mollenkopf is retiring this year, the company just announced. — The company has recently emerged from a thicket of challenges including business model scrutiny …
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
CIRP: iPhone 12 mini made up 6% of total iPhone sales in US during Oct. and Nov., while the 6.1" iPhone 12 garnered 27% and 12 Pro and 12 Pro Max each took ~20% — A new report from Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP) today seen by 9to5Mac highlights the continued success of the iPhone 12 lineup.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
UK-based autonomous vehicle startup Oxbotica raises $47M Series B led by BP Ventures, bringing total raised to $80M, to deploy its tech in industrial use cases — While the world continues to await the arrival of safe, reliable and cost-effective self-driving cars, one of the pioneers … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google plans to add privacy labels across its iOS app catalog this week or next, after a report claimed none of Google's iOS apps has been updated since Dec. 7 — Contrary to reports, Google is not delaying updates to its iOS apps because it doesn't want to comply with Apple's recently announced App Store Privacy Labels policy.
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CNBC, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Slashdot, BGR, TechSpot, MacRumors, BGR, AppleInsider, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, Apple Terminal, iMore, Thurrott, and iPhone Hacks
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
iLobby raises $100M from Insight Partners to help enterprises manage on-site visitors, including mail management that uses AI to streamline package handling — Enterprise-focused visitor management software provider iLobby has raised $100 million in a round of funding from Insight Partners.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Hackers breached Ho Mobile, an Italian telco owned by Vodafone, stealing 2.5M customers' personal info; Ho offers to replace SIM cards of affected customers — Hackers stole the personal data for 2.5 million Ho Mobile subscribers. — Ho Mobile, an Italian mobile operator, owned by Vodafone … Sponsor Posts
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