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Telegram adds group video calls, screen sharing, noise suppression, animated backgrounds, tablet and desktop support with side panel and split-screen view, more — Telegram for iOS received a major update this week. After months of teasing and testing, Group Video Calls is finally available …
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| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Microsoft engineer says users will be able to sideload Android Apps on Windows 11 — Many questions about how the feature will work remain, however — According to an engineer at Microsoft, Windows 11 users will have the ability to sideload Android apps onto the operating system …
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| Avram Piltch / Tom's Hardware: |
Microsoft says Windows 11 requires a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) chip, excluding a significant number of Windows 10 computers from upgrading to the new OS — Even some three year old computers may not be able to run the OS. — Traditionally, we think of Windows as the operating system …
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| Joseph Menn / Reuters: |
Microsoft says an attacker gained access to one of its customer service agents and launched attacks against customers in a probe of suspected SolarWinds hackers — Microsoft (MSFT.O) said on Friday an attacker had won access to one of its customer-service agents and then used information …
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| Jackson Ryan / CNET: |
Inside the intense debate among Wikipedia editors to include the coronavirus lab leak theory on COVID-19 pages, as the theory has gained more media attention — Building a better encyclopedia requires consensus and neutrality, but behind the scenes, editors wrangle with the pandemic's most contentious question.
Tweets: @jeskillings, @evelyndouek, @dctrjack, @raju, and @dvanboom
| ProPublica: |
Analysis finds thousands of videos of Uyghurs denying abuses against their community on Twitter and YouTube as part of an elaborate Chinese influence campaign — Co-published with The New York Times … Recently, the owner of a small store in western China came across some remarks by Mike Pompeo, the former U.S. secretary of state.
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| Bloomberg: |
Tesla to issue a software fix to 285K+ cars in China, after regulator finds its autopilot can get activated automatically, which may lead to sudden acceleration — - Acceleration risk forces an upgrade for 285,000 vehicles — The software fix in many instances will be made online
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| New York Times: |
Katie Haun, a co-chair of a16z's crypto fund, talks about the geopolitics of blockchain, risk, regulation, outlook for the crypto industry, and the fund's focus — Katie Haun, a co-chair of Andreessen Horowitz's new $2.2 billion crypto fund, is betting that the blockchain will be as big as the internet.
Tweets: @jess, @unhedgedchatter, @laurashin, and @rachaelrad
| AlleyWatch: |
Rasgo, a GitHub-like repository which helps data scientists explore, clean, join, and transform data sets for machine learning models, raises $20M Series A — Data science is highly coveted and championed because its use extracts insights that transform data into tangible value.
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ShipHero, an e-commerce software and fulfillment provider, raises $50M from Riverwood Capital to expand its fulfillment network, at a $225M post-money valuation — ShipHero's SaaS and e-comm 3PL businesses complement each other.
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Amazon's AWS acquires encrypted messaging service Wickr, says it will continue operating the service and offer it to AWS customers — Amazon's cloud services giant Amazon Web Services (AWS) is getting into the encrypted messaging business. The company has just announced …
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| Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: |
Mozilla launches Rally, a Firefox plugin that lets users share browsing data with researchers studying the web, starting with researchers from Princeton — By this point in the internet's history, most of us have come to terms with the fact that accessing the web involves giving up information …
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