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Organizers announce that this year's Game Developers Conference has been postponed from March to summer amid COVID-19 concerns — Sony, EA, Activision Blizzard, Unity, and Epic Games have all withdrawn due to COVID-19 concerns — This year's Game Developers Conference has been postponed …
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Apple disables the iOS developer account of Clearview AI for using the Developer Enterprise Program to distribute its app among its reported 2,200+ customers — Apple has disabled the iOS application of Clearview AI — the facial recognition company that claims to have amassed a database …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Elliott Management has taken a “sizable” stake in Twitter, nominated four directors to Twitter's board, and seeks to replace CEO Jack Dorsey — - Elliott has nominated four directors for Twitter's board — Hedge fund has had ‘constructive discussions’ with company
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| Nicole Wetsman / The Verge: |
Amazon restricts employee travel in US, Google restricts travel to Italy, Iran, Japan, and South Korea as a Google employee in Zurich is diagnosed with COVID-19 — A Google employee in Switzerland has a confirmed case of the virus — Google is preventing employees from traveling to Italy …
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| Sean Endicott / Windows Central: |
Microsoft adds productivity features to Cortana, drops consumer skills including music, connected home, and third-party skills in the upcoming Windows 10 update — Cortana is converting to a productivity assistant, meaning Cortana skills are on the way out. — What you need to know
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Tweets: @jezcorden, @maryjofoley, and @zacbowden
| DL Cade / PetaPixel: |
Facebook says its 3D Photos feature, which retroactively converts 2D photos to 3D using neural nets, now works on photos taken with single-lens cameras — Facebook just expanded 3D photo posting to phones that don't actually capture depth data. Using the magic of machine learning …
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Bernie Sanders introduces a bill that would tax stock options at vesting, not at exercise, for those making $130K+ and vesting $100K+ worth of stock per year — 'Sens. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) and Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) introduced legislation that would tax nonqualified stock options at vesting …
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| Margaret Harding McGill / Axios: |
FCC proposes fines of $91M for T-Mobile, $57M for AT&T, $48M for Verizon, and $12M for Sprint for sharing customers' location information with outside parties — The Federal Communications Commission proposed fines totaling more than $200 million against the nation's biggest wireless carriers …
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Tweets: @josephfcox, @fcc, and @josephfcox
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook to start rolling out a redesign for Messenger next week that removes the Discover tab, reorients the People tab around Stories, and hides chat bots — Chat bots were central to Facebook Messenger's strategy three years ago. Now they're being hidden from view in the app along with games and businesses.
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| Josh Dzieza / The Verge: |
In warehouses, call centers, and elsewhere, intelligent machines are managing humans, and they're making work more stressful, grueling, and dangerous — In warehouses, call centers, and other sectors, intelligent machines are managing humans, and they're making work more stressful, grueling, and dangerous
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Wired. Tweets: @gregpak, @bigzaphod, @janelytv, @gothamgirlblue, @mattdpearce, and @iainthomson
| Business Insider: |
Investigation: several staff members of the Chan-Zuckerberg family office have made allegations of assault, sexual harassment, and more, against other staff — Presidencia de la República Mexicana; Anthony Quintano; Kauai Police Department; Samantha Lee/Business Insider
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| Bloomberg: |
TikTok, with 145M US downloads, claims Chipotle-sponsored #boorito hashtag had 3.9B views; Captiv8: hashtag campaigns cost ~$150K, homescreen takeover $50K/day — Popular creators are paid to promote hashtags as mobile video app develops more targeting tools for advertisersSponsor Posts
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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
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