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| David Pierce / Protocol: |
Shortly after Basecamp debuted its email service, HEY, it says its next iOS app update was rejected because Apple wasn't getting its cut of subscription revenue — Right around the time the team at Basecamp was launching their Hey email service to the public on Monday, Zach Waugh …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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European Commission, Axios, iMore, Wall Street Journal, VentureBeat, Inc42 Media, The Digital Reader, Appleosophy, The Overspill, Axios, and Bloomberg
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| Mark Zuckerberg / USA Today: |
Facebook launches Voting Information Center for accurate election information and tools for voter registration, aims to help register 4M people via its apps — The 2020 election is going to be unlike any other. It was already going to be a heated campaign, and that was before the pandemic …
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About Facebook, TechCrunch, Axios, The Verge, Vox, The Next Web, Silicon Republic, CNET, NBC News, Neowin, Digital Trends, The Verge, Social Media Today, and The Guardian
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| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Facebook will allow some US users to turn off political ads starting Wednesday and says the feature will be available to all US users over the next few weeks — - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday announced the social network will allow its users to turn off seeing political ads.
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| Aaron Holmes / Business Insider: |
Google cracks down on The Federalist and ZeroHedge for violating policies on race-related content and may permanently suspend their access to Google Ads revenue — - Google is cracking down on two right-wing outlets, ZeroHedge and The Federalist, for violating its policies on race-related content.
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Techdirt, CNBC, Search Engine Journal, Reclaim The Net, Adweek, Forbes, and Variety
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| Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
Graphika report details a Russia-based influence campaign, known as Secondary Infektion, that ran over 6 years and 300 sites, but failed to win a large audience — Group known as Secondary Infektion used multiple languages, burner accounts to circumvent attempts to detect it
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Boston Dynamics says Spot, its quadruped robot, is now available to businesses in the US as part of a developer kit for $74,500 — Boston Dynamics today opened commercial sales of Spot, its quadruped robot that can climb stairs and traverse rough terrain. Businesses can purchase …
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| Bloomberg: |
Being a Black CEO in Silicon Valley can be humiliating, from being advised to have a white wingman in meetings, to being judged on a different rubric by VCs — Will Hayes has grown accustomed to an awkward start to business meetings. On numerous occasions, venture capitalists would confuse Hayes … | Andrew Hayward / Decrypt: |
Robert Farkas, co-founder of Centra Tech, a celebrity-backed crypto startup, pled guilty to securities and wire fraud after raising $25M+ in a fraudulent ICO — Robert Joseph Farkas, the co-founder of crypto startup Centra Tech, which raised more than $25 million in an initial coin offering …
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U.S. Department of Justice, Cointelegraph, Bloomberg, and SiliconANGLE. Tweets: @flyingheadofbtc
| Janko Roettgers / Protocol: |
Bose is shutting down its AR program, saying its technology couldn't be commercialized as planned, with current AR apps ceasing to function within 30 days — Bose has become the latest company to throw in the towel on immersive computing, shutting down its ambitious Bose AR program.| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
San Francisco's district attorney sues DoorDash for allegedly misclassifying workers as contractors instead of employees despite California's AB5 law — The largest food delivery service in the US is accused of misclassifying workers — DoorDash, the high-flying food delivery startup …
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Mission Local, TechCrunch, Eater SF, LAW.com, Business Insider, Engadget, and San Francisco Chronicle
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| Washington Post: |
CIA report: security was so lax at the time of the Vault 7 breach that if WikiLeaks hadn't published its trove, CIA may have never known they were compromised — The theft of top-secret computer hacking tools from the CIA in 2016 was the result of a workplace culture in which the agency's …
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Ars Technica, Wall Street Journal, The Daily Dot, and CyberScoop
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Researchers disclose 19 flaws in a TCP/IP library, first released in 1997, found in many IoT products; patches are available but unlikely to be widely applied — Security researchers disclose 19 vulnerabilities impacting a TCP/IP library found at the base of many IoT products.
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Wired, JSOF, US-CERT, SC Media, SiliconANGLE, and Dark Reading
Tweets: @mikedecesare, @a_greenberg, and @reverseics
| Ian Allison / CoinDesk: |
ConsenSys launches a pilot “staking-as-a-service” tool, with customers including Binance, ahead of proof-of-stake tech being rolled out with Ethereum 2.0 — Ethereum development house ConsenSys is being backed by heavy hitters like Binance and Huobi to test its new …
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ConsenSys, SludgeFeed, Crypto Briefing, Cointelegraph, and ihodl.com
Tweets: @coindesk, @vladzamfir, @thevladcostea, @sightpm, and @koeppelmann
| Bloomberg: |
Apple's head of diversity and inclusion Christie Smith, who joined Apple in 2017, is leaving — - Apple VP of Diversity and Inclusion Smith had joined in 2017 — Company planning $100 million initiative to promote equality — Apple Inc.'s head of diversity and inclusion Christie Smith is leaving the iPhone company.| Matt Day / Bloomberg: |
Amazon says it is deploying AI-powered software called Distance Assistant in warehouses that tells workers if they are too close to colleagues — - Workers failing to keep safe distance will be circled in red — Robotics engineer likens technology to highway speed checkers
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The Verge, CNBC, The Amazon Blog, and CNBC
Tweets: @aaronmiri, @siddhss5, @hypervisible, @amazonnews, and @_msw_
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Oracle reports Q4 revenue of $10.44B, down 6% YoY, missing expectations of $10.65B, cloud and on-premises license revenue fell 22% to $1.96B — - Revenue declined more than the company had predicted in the quarter — The company won business from video-calling software provider Zoom in the quarter.
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MarketWatch, Barron's Online, and ZDNet
Tweets: @jordannovet, @danielnewmanuv, @lamonicabuzz, and @jordannovet
| David Cohen / Adweek: |
LinkedIn outlines steps to address racial inequality within the company and on its site, following CEO's apology for employees' Black Lives Matter comments — Internally, the professional network is focused on diversity, inclusion, retention and development
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Nearly a week after its removal from Google's Play Store, Chinese TikTok clone Zynn has been removed from Apple's App Store following claims of stolen videos — The app was taken off Google's Play Store last week following reports of plagiarism — Zynn, the Chinese video sharing app that's …
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TechCrunch and Business Insider
| Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat: |
Helsinki-based Swappie, an iPhone-only refurb marketplace with its own refurbishment factory, has raised $40M to expand across Europe — Swappie has raised $40 million in venture capital to expand its refurbished iPhone marketplace across Europe, where sales of used consumer electronics continue to surge.
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft details efforts to increase Azure durability amid pandemic by increasing submarine cable bandwidth, server scaling changes, capacity forecasting, more — Microsoft has been making lots of under-the-covers changes to how it runs its cloud services, including Azure-based Teams, to meet demand during the COVID-19 pandemic.Sponsor Posts
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