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Sources: production has ramped up for new 13" and 16" MacBook Pros and a new 13" MacBook Air with Apple Silicon chips but without other major design changes — - Company readies MacBook Pros, MacBook Air with in-house chips — Smaller Mac Pro and iMac with Apple chips also in development| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple announces November 10 event where Apple Silicon Macs are expected to debut; invites are titled “One more thing.” — Apple today announced a third fall 2020 event, which is set to be held on Tuesday, November 10 at 10:00 a.m. on the Apple Park campus in Cupertino, California.
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Walmart ends plans to use Bossa Nova robots to scan shelves, sources say after concerns about shoppers' reactions and seeing similar results from human workers — Retailer ends contract with robotics company after seeing similar results from workers grabbing online orders during pandemic
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How Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter plan to handle Election Day and the subsequent days, clamping down on falsehoods and highlighting accurate information — The sites are key conduits for communication and information. Here's how they plan to handle the challenges facing them before, on and after Tuesday.
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
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, @pomeranian99, @benwarduk, @rafe, @jaybeale, @brianroemmele, @craigmod, @lotterleben, @thomasfuchs, @dhh, @twostraws, @drfootleg, @stroughtonsmith, @tarasis, and @aallan
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
AWS introduces new GPU-equipped P4 instances, powered by Intel Cascade Lake processors and Nvidia's A100 Tensor Core GPUs, offering 2.5x DL performance over P3 — AWS today announced the launch of its newest GPU-equipped instances. Dubbed P4, these new instances are launching a decade …
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Sources: Quibi mulled options like a freemium model and had 450,000 subs paying $4.99/mo., far less than the 7.4M it targeted for its first year, when it closed — The instincts of Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman, who headed the start-up, proved wrong — When Jeffrey Katzenberg …
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| Danny Nelson / CoinDesk: |
SEC increases the limit dictating how much capital companies can raise before registering, a move that could result in a boon for security token offerings — The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has increased limits dictating how much capital companies can raise before registering …
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U.S. Securities …, Decrypt, Wall Street Journal, Crypto Briefing, and Crunchbase News
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Sources: UK's NHS COVID app, downloaded 19M times, had the wrong risk threshold and sent warnings to a “shockingly low” number of users about potential exposure — The wrong threshold had reportedly been set for the app and was not recording those who were close enough to transmit the virus.
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| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
PayPal reports Q3 revenue of $5.46B, up 25% YoY, as it adds 15.2M net new active accounts; Venmo's total processed payment volume rises 61% YoY to $44B — PayPal said it processed a record-setting $247 billion in total payment volume during the quarter. — PayPal on Monday delivered … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Spotify says it is testing a new service that lets artists and labels promote their tracks in users' recommendations while receiving a lower royalty rate — Spotify announced today it will begin to test a new service that gives artists more of a say in how their music is discovered on the Spotify platform.
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Spotify, The Verge, Billboard, The FADER, Music Business Worldwide, Music Ally, NME, Billboard, Engadget, DJMag.com, and Variety
Tweets: @gchorba, @investing_city, @12tonevideos, @hshaban, @sandofsky, @jsnell, and @lilaaron911
| Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: |
Bluetooth-based messaging app Bridgefy, which has become a popular app for protesters around the world, has launched end-to-end encrypted messaging — Offline-messaging app Bridgefy — which innovatively uses Bluetooth and Wi-fi — became known as the go-to app by thousands of protesters around …
Tweets: @federicoantoni and @martinralbrecht
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A review finds that less than half of 1,100 posts across Facebook and Instagram containing falsehoods debunked by third-party partners bore fact-checking labels — Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's CEO, has been back in Congress this week to talk about the need to reform how social-media platforms moderate content … | Washington Post: |
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