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Google partnered with Ascension, the 2nd-largest US health-care system, to analyze personal health info of millions, sources say as part of Project Nightingale — Search giant is amassing health records from Ascension facilities in 21 states; patients not yet informed
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Microsoft says it will honor California's digital privacy law throughout the US; source: CCPA offers special treatment to “service providers” like Microsoft — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp said in a blog post on Monday that it would honor California's privacy law …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple to debut a new 3D sensor module in an iPad Pro coming in H1'20 and higher-end 2020 iPhones, to be followed by a AR/VR headset and AR glasses — - Company designs new 3-D system as hub for range of AR devices — Next iPad, iPhone to have 3-D system, followed by two headsets
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Instagram debuts Reels, a TikTok-style video remix feature, which lets you make 15-second video clips set to music and share them as Stories, in Brazil — Instagram is launching a video-music remix feature to — finally fight back against Chinese social rival TikTok.
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| Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed News: |
Source: Twitter suggests it will allow political ads that spread awareness about issues like climate change, not ads mentioning a specific policy or candidate — Representatives from Twitter met with advertisers last week to discuss the specifics of what might be — and won't be — included in its ban on political advertising.| Cherlynn Low / Engadget: |
Snap Spectacles 3 review: stylish design, sturdy build, comfortable fit, clever and fun 3D filters, convenient video capture, but expensive, not water resistant — In case you've forgotten, Snap makes video-recording sunglasses called Spectacles. The first two iterations didn't do very well … | Taylor Lorenz / New York Times: |
A look at @BallerBusters, an Instagram account that calls out people who pretend to be wealthier than they are to hawk dubious mentorship or online classes — It's easy to look successful on Instagram. Now, getting caught out is easy too. — In February, an Instagram account called …
Tweets: @nytimes, @nytimesbusiness, @taylorlorenz, @taylorlorenz, and @taylorlorenz
| Michael Hayes / OneZero: |
How some police departments in the US conduct facial recognition searches on behalf of other jurisdictions, boosting access to the tech and evading local laws — “Do not mention FITlist.” — ver the last decade, large police forces in Washington state like the Seattle Police Department … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter shares draft of its new deepfakes policy for public input through Nov. 27, says it won't ban deepfakes but will label them and warn users before sharing — Twitter last month said it was introducing a new policy to help fight deepfakes and other “manipulated media” that involve photos …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook is rolling out a new option called Shortcuts Bar Settings that lets users remove certain tabs in the app's navigation bar and silence notification dots — Are those red notification dots on your Facebook home screen driving you crazy? Sick of Facebook Marketplace wasting your screen space?
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| Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
UK's Balderton Capital has raised a new $400M fund to back EU tech startups at the Series A stage; the VC had closed a similar Series A fund in 2017 at $375M — Balderton Capital, one of the so-called “big four” early-stage VC firms in London (the others being Accel, Atomico and Index) …
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| Gregory Scruggs / Reuters: |
Amazon's record $1.5M effort to fill Seattle's city council with pro-business candidates fails, reviving chances of tax hikes on the city's tech firms — SEATTLE (Reuters) - Seattle voters, in a rebuke to heavy corporate campaign spending by Amazon.com, have kept progressives firmly in control …
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Tweets: @gdebenedetti, @arrington, and @michaelscherer
| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Review of the redesigned Dell XPS 13 2-in-1: spacious keyboard and trackpad with a 16:10 13.4" display and fast performance, but it is not practical as a tablet — The latest XPS 13 2-in-1 rights the wrongs of its predecessor and is even better than the standard XPS 13Sponsor Posts
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UiPath:
UiPath Unveils 10 Innovations that Will Shape the Agentic Future — Orchestration engine, API workflows and agentic testing among key features of new UiPath Platform™ for agentic automation, launched at UiPath DevCon 2025
UiPath Unveils 10 Innovations that Will Shape the Agentic Future — Orchestration engine, API workflows and agentic testing among key features of new UiPath Platform™ for agentic automation, launched at UiPath DevCon 2025
Zoho:
New in Zoho Payroll USA: Multi-state payroll and more — Running payroll shouldn't get harder as your business grows. Whether you've expanded into new states or built a team with unique needs …
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