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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
WeWork co-founder Adam Neumann is resigning as CEO, will be nonexecutive chairman of We Co.; source: his voting shares will be reduced in power from 10:1 to 3:1 — - WeWork CEO Adam Neumann will step down but retain his seat as nonexecutive chairman, the company says.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook says it doesn't fact-check politicians' speech or block their content, generally assuming it is newsworthy, even if it violates Facebook policies — Facebook confirms it won't fact-check politicians' speech or block their content if it's newsworthy even if it violates the site's hatespeech rules or other policies.
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| Alex Hern / The Guardian: |
Leaked TikTok content moderation guidelines reveal how it censors videos mentioning Tiananmen Square, Tibetan independence, or Falun Gong — Leak spells out how social media app advances China's foreign policy aims — TikTok, the popular Chinese-owned social network …
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| Jia Tolentino / New Yorker: |
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| CBS Pittsburgh: |
Google contract workers in Pittsburgh, employed by IT services provider HCL, vote to join the United Steelworkers union in a 49 vs 24 vote — PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - About 80 contracted Google employees voted to join the United Steelworkers union. — The workers voted in favor of unionization …
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| Tim Baysinger / The Wrap: |
Comscore settles with SEC on charges the firm and its ex-CEO made false statements, engaging in a fraudulent scheme to overstate revenue by ~$50M from 2014-2016 — Media analytics firm is accused of overstating revenue by $50 million, making false statements about performance
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| Michael Muchmore / PCMag: |
Adobe launches Fresco, an iPad app for painting that supports oil, watercolor, and vectors, with a limited version available for non-Creative Cloud users — Adobe today announced the availability of its much-anticipated iPad drawing app, Fresco, which supports the Apple Pencil and uses AI …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft opens registrations for public preview of Project xCloud, coming in October to US, UK, and Korea, starting with Android devices — Available in the coming weeks in the US, UK, and Korea — Microsoft is starting to accept registrations for its upcoming Project xCloud game streaming preview.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Report: analysis of ~2,000 malware samples attributed to Russian state-sponsored hacking groups shows that the groups rarely share code with one another — A first-of-its-kind research project highlights the connections between nearly 2,000 samples of Russian APT malware.
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Apple says a bug in iOS 13 and iPadOS may grant “full access” to third-party keyboards by mistake, says it's working on a fix — Apple is warning users of an iOS bug involving third-party keyboards. — In a brief advisory posted Tuesday, the tech giant said the bug impacts …
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| Christina Farr / CNBC: |
Amazon launches Amazon Care, a virtual primary care clinic with an option for nurses to visit employees in the home, as a pilot for employees in Seattle — - Amazon just launched Amazon Care, a virtual primary care clinic with an option for nurses to visit employees in the home.
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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
After many years in the lab, Boston Dynamics will begin selectively leasing its four-legged robot Spot, which can keep its balance under extreme circumstances — A new leasing program is putting dozens of robots to work in the real world — Boston Dynamics is letting its first major robot out of the lab.
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Built-in Google Assistant is no longer exclusive to “Made by Google” Chrome OS devices, begins rolling out to more Chromebooks — Google Assistant first debuted on the Pixelbook in 2017 and later came to the Pixel Slate last year. The smart assistant is now coming to non-Made by Google Chromebooks starting today.
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| Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat: |
Paris-based BlaBlaCar, which has raised $335M and has 80M members, 25M of which are in Russia, to acquire Busfor, Russia's largest bus platform — The mobility revolution sweeping through Europe is reshaping just about every facet of how people on the continent travel.| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Azure Sentinel, Microsoft's cloud-based security information and event management service, hits general availability, with prices starting at $2.46 per GB — Pricing starts at $2.46 per gigabyte (GB) of ingested data. — Microsoft today took Azure Sentinel out of public preview …
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| Anna Wiener / New Yorker: |
An excerpt from “Uncanny Valley”, a memoir on the aspiration, ambivalence, and disillusionment of Silicon Valley startup culture — Life in Silicon Valley during the dawn of the unicorns. — Depending on whom you ask, 2012 represented the apex, the inflection point …
Tweets: @laurenzcollins, @tmytrn, @oteghauwagba, @devapriyaroy, @laurengoode, @newyorker, and @triketora
| Rachel Premack / Business Insider: |
Amazon's suspended 3rd-party sellers say they aren't receiving 30-day suspension notice that Amazon agreed to as part of a German antitrust settlement in July — - Amazon signed a pledge on August 16 with its third-party sellers that it would give a 30-day suspension notice before permanently removing them from the platform.
Tweets: @rrpre
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
AI-based accounts payable platform Tipalti raises $76M Series D led by Zeev Ventures and joined by Dick Costolo and Adam Bain's 01 Advisors, among others — Accounting is one of the cornerstones to building a business, but for most companies, getting it right is more of a necessity than it is one of their core competencies.| BBC: |
EU's top court rules that Google does not have to apply “right to be forgotten” globally — Europe's top court has ruled that Google does not have to apply the right to be forgotten globally. — It means that firm only needs to remove references to articles and other material …
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| Florian Faes / Slator: |
Lisbon-based Unbabel, a service which combines human and machine translation in 70+ languages and has Microsoft and Facebook as clients, raises $60M in Series C — Tech-enabled language service provider (LSP) Unbabel has become the language industry's most lavishly funded startup to date.
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