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Raspberry Pi launches Raspberry Pi 400, a compact keyboard with a built-in ARM-based computer, available today for $70 — Just add a screen and you've got yourself a PC — The Raspberry Pi Foundation has announced the Raspberry Pi 400, a compact keyboard with an ARM-based computer built in.
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Tweets: @raspberry_pi, @benwarduk, @brianroemmele, @drfootleg, @aallan, and @tarasis
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Huawei is working on plans for a dedicated chip plant in Shanghai that aims to produce 28nm chips by the end of 2021 and 20nm chips by late 2022 — Shanghai facility aimed at breaking Chinese company's dependence on American technology — Huawei is working on plans …
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Engadget, Telecoms.com, NextPit, Tech in Asia, Gizmodo Australia, MediaNama, Android Authority, Android Central, Huawei Central, TheStreet, Forbes, caixinglobal.com, Slashdot, and Bloomberg
Tweets: @daniele_manca, @chinabeigebook, @shivamvahia, @chadbown, @yuanfenyang, @dankwone, and @markoff
| Washington Post: |
Sources: Facebook skirted its own rules to give conservatives, including a pro-Trump super PAC and Donald Trump Jr., preferential treatment on rules enforcement — From a pro-Trump super PAC to the president's eldest son, conservatives have blown past Facebook's fact-checking guardrails, with few consequences.
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| David Pierce / Protocol: |
A profile of Discord, which lies at the center of the gaming world with 100M+ MAUs, as it pushes to turn into a communication tool for everyone, not just gamers — Most longtime Discord users have a similar origin story. They liked playing video games, and liked playing with their friends … | Mark Graham / Internet Archive Blogs: |
The Internet Archive starts adding banners on some Wayback Machine pages with links that provide contextual information from fact-checking organizations — Fact checking organizations and origin websites sometimes have information about pages archived in the Wayback Machine.
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Firstpost Tech, Gizmodo, Engadget, and Reclaim The Net
| Tom Krazit / Protocol: |
Profile of Google Cloud's Kelsey Hightower, a respected figure in cloud computing and one of the few prominent Black men in enterprise infrastructure tech — Peter Idah had met Kelsey Hightower before. But this time, he brought his son. — It was March 2016, and the Kubernetes jamboree …
Tweets: @kelseyhightower, @apbhatnagar, @marktechson, @vicnastea, @cyberomin, @jeffdean, @kstewart, @mamund, @tomkrazit, and @jbeda
| Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: |
Zego, which provides real-time communication tools for enterprises and runs a Zoom-style videoconferencing service called TalkLine, raises $50M led by Tencent — - Zego offers real-time voice, video technology solutions — Rival Agora raised $350 million in U.S. listing this year| Rita Liao / TechCrunch: |
Tencent claims it crossed a record 100M DAUs on its mobile game Honor of Kings, which has an unusually high women player base of around 50% — At its five-year anniversary gala graced by celebrities, esports stars and orchestras, Tencent's mobile game Honor of Kings said it has crossed 100 million daily active users.
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| Lauren Goode / Wired: |
How Massachusetts' ballot proposal requiring carmakers to install standardized, open data-sharing platforms on cars with telematics may shape right to repair — Question 1 would amend the state's right-to-repair law and expand access to car data. But big automakers are pushing back.
Tweets: @mikaljakubal, @gadgetlab, @waltmossberg, and @laurengoode
| Sarah E. Needleman / Wall Street Journal: |
PitchBook: gaming industry had $10.3B in M&A deals and $1.7B in investments so far this year, compared with $7.8B in M&A and $1.7B in investments for 2019 — With little else to do, Americans are spending record amounts of money on videogames. New players are taking up the habit …
Tweets: @reggie
| Will Oremus / OneZero : |
Social media platforms made progress since the 2016 election in addressing the most blatant abuses, but the misinfo issues may be endemic to their core product — 2016, everyone from Russian agents to British political consultants to Macedonian teenagers to randos in the American suburbs …
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New York Times and Human Rights Watch
| Eric Bellman / Wall Street Journal: |
Online study company Chegg says its subscribers grew 69% YoY to 3.7M in the last quarter, as many parents from the US turn to online tutors, many from India — Coronavirus pandemic is boosting India's education-technology industry; 'We get that one-on-one attention they need and it's affordable'
Tweets: @tokyowoods, @rmantri, @aadilbrar, @wsj, @rohanv, and @indemtel
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