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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Blizzard says its decision over the Hearthstone controversy had nothing to do with China, reduces player's suspension to six months and restores his prize money — It claims the ban has nothing to do with China — Video game developer Blizzard Entertainment has finally broken its silence …
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Sources: in early 2018, Eddy Cue and Morgan Wandell, Apple's international TV lead, asked some Apple TV+ show creators to avoid portraying China in a poor light — We thought trade would bring Western values to China. Instead, it brought Chinese values to Apple.
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| Nicole Carpenter / Polygon: |
Gamers upset with Blizzard are protesting by turning Mei, a Chinese Overwatch character, into a pro-democracy symbol, to get Blizzard's games banned in China — Overwatch hero Mei is being turned into a symbol of resistance — People are furious after Blizzard Entertainment suspended …
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| Brian Fung / CNN: |
Elizabeth Warren targets Facebook's ad policy of exempting ads by politicians from third-party fact-checking by running a Facebook ad with a clear falsehood — Zuckerberg says legal battles during a Warren presidency would ‘suck’ — (CNN)A fresh series of Facebook ads this week …
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| New York Times: |
Sources: Bill Gates met Jeffrey Epstein on many occasions, beginning in 2011, after Epstein's conviction for sex crimes; Gates says it was an error in judgment — Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted sex offender who committed suicide in prison, managed to lure an astonishing array of rich, powerful and famous men into his orbit.| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Marketing docs for Pixel 4 and 4 XL confirm 5.7" and 6.3" displays, with 90Hz “Smooth Display”, 12MP and 16MP rear cameras, and Snapdragon 855 with 6GB of RAM — Despite the official announcement being on Tuesday, Best Buy in Canada has already listed the Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL for pre-order.
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Visa, Mastercard, eBay, and Stripe say they are exiting Facebook's Libra Association, following PayPal, which announced its withdrawal last week — - EBay, Visa, Mastercard and Stripe announced Friday they will no longer be part of Facebook's libra cryptocurrency project.
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| Tyler Hall / tyler.io: |
Apple's insistence on unnecessarily tying software releases to yearly hardware upgrades is a broken cycle for a services company; it needs to be more agile — This isn't the blog post intended to write. In fact, last night I drafted up one about my problems sending background push notifications with Amazon SNS (coming soon!).
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| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
Profile of PewDiePie covering his relationships with YouTube and mainstream media, as he tries to shed his reputation as a far-right sympathizer — The biggest YouTuber in the world has been accused of being a closet white nationalist and even inspiring mass shootings. He says it's all a misunderstanding.
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Boing Boing. Tweets: @kevinroose, @nytimes, @bernstein, @davechensky, @awallenstein, @emanuelmaiberg, and @robyncaplan
| U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission: |
SEC says it has obtained a temporary restraining order against Telegram's $1.7B TON cryptocurrency ICO — The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that it has filed an emergency action and obtained temporary restraining order against two offshore entities conducting an alleged unregistered …
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The Block, Engadget, CoinDesk, Bloomberg, CryptoGlobe, Coinspeaker, Trustnodes, Ethereum World News, Cointelegraph, Bitcoinist.com, The Verge, Decrypt, CNET, CryptoSlate, Axios, and Messari Crypto
Tweets: @nathanielpopper, @eliasimos, @kakurady, @katherineykwu, @arrington, @nictrades, @fullbeerbottle, and @alex
| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Profile of BoxGroup, one of New York's most prolific seed stage investment firms, which is taking outside investors for the first time for two new $82.5M funds — Covering venture capital, software and startups — When entrepreneur Zachariah Reitano learned that his sister had a serious illness in 2015 … Thanks:@alexrkonrad
| Dustin Gardiner / San Francisco Chronicle: |
California passes law, which goes into effect on Jan. 1, to block police from using facial recognition tech in body cams; OR and NH have passed similar laws — SACRAMENTO — Civil liberties advocates are declaring victory after California became the latest state to block police from using facial recognition technology in body cameras.
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