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Sources: Trump is planning to sign an executive order Thursday that could threaten punishment for Facebook, Google, and Twitter over content moderation — The president is expected to sign the order on Thursday — President Trump is preparing to sign an executive order Thursday that could roll …
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Zuckerberg on Twitter fact-checking Trump: private companies, especially platform companies, shouldn't be the arbiters of truth — Mark Zuckerberg on Twitter fact-checking Trump: Private companies shouldn't be the arbiter of truth — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has called out Twitter …
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Twitter adds fact-checking labels to hundreds of tweets, even as the Trump administration prepares an EO aiming to curtail Section 230 protections — Twitter continued fact-checking posts even as President Trump threatened to limit protections for social media companies.| Ryan Broderick / BuzzFeed News: |
After Twitter labeled Trump's tweets, Trump, his campaign, and Fox News target Twitter's Site Integrity lead Yoel Roth; Roth works on manipulation and bots — “It's unfortunate to see individual employees targeted for company decisions — Right-wing media and Trump supporters are targeting …
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| Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: |
Google announces Google Page Experience, an algorithm ranking pages based on user experience, with factors like page speed and HTTPS, arriving in 2021 or later — This new ranking factor won't be live until 2021, at the earliest. Here is what you need to know.
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| Michael McWhertor / Polygon: |
Microsoft says the Xbox Series X will support “thousands” of Xbox, Xbox 360, and Xbox One games at launch, doubling the fps in some cases — Thousands of games will be supported on the next-gen Xbox — Microsoft's next-generation Xbox will launch with support for “thousand of games” …
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| Jeffrey Dastin / Reuters: |
Amazon says it plans to offer permanent jobs to about 125,000 US warehouse workers, representing 70% of those it hired temporarily to meet pandemic demand — (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) plans to offer permanent jobs to about 70% of the U.S. workforce it has hired temporarily …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple confirms it has acquired Ontario-based Inductiv, which develops AI to automate identifying and correcting errors in data — - Inductiv engineering team joined iPhone maker in recent weeks — Apple has acquired over a dozen AI-related companies for Siri
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Qualcomm announces its first chips with support for Wi-Fi 6E; chips for routers are shipping now while chips for phones will ship in the second half of 2020 — For phones and routers — Qualcomm is announcing its first chips with support for Wi-Fi 6E, the brand-new version of Wi-Fi …
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Arizona AG sues Google for allegedly collecting Android user location data even when users had turned digital tracking off — Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich sued Google on Wednesday, alleging the tech giant violated its users' privacy by collecting information about their whereabouts …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
YouTube launches Video Chapters, letting creators add timestamps to their videos, for all users across iOS, Android, and desktop — If you've ever found yourself scrubbing your way through a long YouTube video to get to the “good” part, you'll appreciate the new feature YouTube is launching today: Video Chapters.
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Nuro's driverless delivery robots will deliver medication from a CVS pharmacy in Houston to its customers at no extra charge, in a pilot starting in June — This represents a shift in Nuro's typical operations — Nuro, the autonomous vehicle startup founded by two ex-Google engineers …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Google's Threat Analysis Group says it saw new activity from some Indian “hack-for-hire” firms in Q1 2020, which spoofed WHO Gmail accounts for spearfishing — Google also discloses seven coordinated political influence campaigns that took place on its platforms during Q1 2020.
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Hulu is testing Watch Party, a social feature that lets viewers watch titles together virtually and chat in groups of up to eight people — With millions of Americans still under quarantine orders, Hulu is introducing a way for subscribers to sit together on the couch — virtually — to stream TV shows and movies at the same time.
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| Ginny Marvin / Marketing Land: |
Google says Discovery ads, which are eligible to serve across YouTube Home and Watch Next feeds, Gmail, and the Discover feed, are now available globally — Discovery campaigns are available to all advertisers globally. — Google introduced two big image-driven ad tests at its Google Marketing Live event last year.
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| David Jeans / Forbes: |
Gatsby, which provides a suite of tools for website and app development, raises $28M Series B led by Index Ventures, at a $200M+ valuation — At a time when the Covid-19 pandemic is forcing businesses to reinforce their online presence, one website-building startup aiming to rival companies ranging …
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