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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google says it has completed a global rollout of RCS and will start testing end-to-end encryption in Android Messages — In mid-2019, Google decided to take over and speed up the launch of RCS. A little over 17 months later, Google announced today that it has completed a global rollout of RCS …
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Nvidia's GeForce Now cloud gaming service launches in beta on iOS as a web app, bypassing Apple's App Store and letting iOS users play Fortnite — Nvidia joins Microsoft in bypassing Apple's App Store — Nvidia is joining its fellow cloud gaming providers in choosing to bypass Apple's App Store …
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The Official NVIDIA Blog, ZDNet, Android Police, Laptop Mag, AppleInsider, Fortune, Ars Technica, TechSpot, TouchArcade, Input, TechRadar, TechCrunch, Kotaku, SlashGear, Softpedia News, PCWorld, Reuters, MacRumors, HotHardware.com News, iDownloadBlog.com, KnowTechie, Thurrott, CNBC, Gizmodo, iPhone Hacks, and iClarified
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| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
Sources: state and federal investigators are preparing to bring antitrust charges against Facebook for buying rivals Instagram and WhatsApp — State and federal investigators are preparing to bring antitrust charges against Facebook that will challenge the tech giant's acquisition of two rivals …
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CNET, Reuters, Forbes, Social Media Today, New.blicio.us, and Silicon Valley Business …
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Facebook's Q3 transparency report: 0.1%-0.11% of what users see violates hate speech rules; 95% of hate speech takedowns are proactive, up from 24% in 2017 — Lawmakers and moderators criticized its policies this week — Facebook says it is proactively detecting more hate speech using artificial intelligence.
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| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
The M1 Macs are astonishingly good and Rosetta is the exemplification of “it just works”, but the iOS app experience ranges from terrible to OK, at best — Better necessarily implies different. — That's one of my favorite axioms. It's both intuitively and undeniably true.
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Roblox files S-1 for its IPO, reports $589M in revenue for the first nine months of 2020 on losses of $206M, 22.2B hours engaged, up 122% YoY, and 31.1M DAUs — Roblox, a Silicon Valley-based based social gaming platform for tweens and teens, on Thursday filed for a $1 billion initial public offering.
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| Damien Wilde / 9to5Google: |
Google says Stadia is coming to iOS as a Safari PWA within “several weeks” — Apple's tough enforcement of its App Store policies has led to a sad lack of a playable version of Google Stadia on iOS. That is set to change very soon as public testing of a dedicated progressive web app …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
BuzzFeed has agreed to acquire Verizon Media's HuffPost in a stock deal, as part of a larger agreement to syndicate content on each others' platforms — New-media companies have been exploring mergers as they try to jumpstart growth — BuzzFeed Inc. has agreed to acquire Verizon Media's HuffPost …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft Edge now has coupon and promo codes built in for online shopping — Edge also gets new PDF annotation and screenshot inking features — Microsoft is adding a new coupons feature to its Edge browser today. Coupons and promo codes will appear inside Edge as an alert when you're shopping online …
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| Sebastiaan de With / Halide: |
iPhone 12 Pro Max's camera achieves images of quality previously only seen in dedicated cameras that have sensors four times its size — At Halide HQ, we've been busily working away on a very deep, technical analysis of what's new in iPhone 12 cameras this year. All four of 'em.
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple defends its delayed IDFA changes in iOS 14, and slams Facebook, saying “its intent is to collect as much data as possible” on its users — Last month, a coalition of eight civil and human rights organizations penned an open letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook regarding …
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| Sheera Frenkel / New York Times: |
Report: election misinformation largely evaded YouTube's efforts to stop it, as 4,865 videos, viewed a combined 409M times, mentioned voter fraud — YouTube videos endorsing the false idea that there was widespread election fraud were viewed more than 138 million times on the week of Nov. 3 … | Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
The second-gen version of Echo Frames, Amazon's Alexa-enabled glasses that debuted last year for some customers, will be available generally on Dec. 10 for $250 — - Amazon on Thursday said it's making the Echo Frames available to the general public, after launching the device last year …
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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Fitbit rolls out OS 5.1 for Sense and Versa 3 smartwatches, with Google Assistant, voice-to-text, phone calls, and automatic blood oxygen readings — The latest Fitbit smartwatches offer a lot more when it comes to hardware, but on the software, they shipped a few of those features without taking full advantage of them.| Leika Kihara / Reuters: |
30+ major Japanese firms will begin experiments next year towards issuing a common, private digital currency to promote digitalization in the cash-loving nation — TOKYO (Reuters) - More than 30 major Japanese firms will begin experiments next year towards issuing a common …
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Cointelegraph, Cryptonews, coinspeaker.com, and Decrypt
| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Go SMS Pro, an Android messaging app with 100M+ installs, is exposing photos, videos, and other files sent privately by its users — Go SMS Pro, one of the most popular messaging apps for Android, is exposing photos, videos and other files sent privately by its users. Worse, the app maker has done nothing to fix the bug.
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The Verge, Trustwave, Dark Reading, Threatpost, BleepingComputer, HackRead, The Hacker News, and The Mac Observer
Tweets: @adamsenft, @zackwhittaker, @zackwhittaker, and @zackwhittaker
| Julia Alexander / The Verge: |
YouTube says channels of all sizes may now see ads on them, though only creators big enough to qualify for its Partner Program will be paid any ad revenue — The company is rolling it out on a ‘limited number of videos’ — Starting today, YouTube will begin running ads on some creators' videos …
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Engadget, Forbes, Pocketnow, and Gizmodo
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Zapata Computing, which operates a platform for writing quantum computing software, raises $38M Series B led by Comcast Ventures, Pitango and Prelude Ventures — Zapata Computing has raised $38 million for its quantum computing enterprise software platform.| Dave Lee / Financial Times: |
Amazon is laying off dozens of R&D and manufacturing staff on its drone delivery project; source says company is seeking help from two external EU manufacturers — Restructuring comes as US tech giant turns to third parties to build component parts of long-awaited drone| Adrianne Jeffries / The Markup: |
Google says it will end preferential search rankings for AMP pages in the spring, but remains “fully committed” to the technology — Targeting Trump Fans, QAnon Ad Slips Through Facebook's Filters — How Private Is My Pay App?
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Tweets: @themarkup, @codepo8, @beep, @ow, @robinberjon, and @adrjeffries
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Aclima, which makes hyperlocal pollution maps for governments and others in partnership with Google StreetView, raises $40M Series B led by Clearvision Ventures — Aclima has raised $40 million to measure global pollution on a block-by-block level and use that data to combat climate change.| Steve Ranger / ZDNet: |
UK announces National Cyber Force, an interagency team that is separate from GCHQ's NCSC, to combat terrorism, organized crime, and hostile state activity — National Cyber Force will be made up of intelligence, cyber and military experts and aims to disrupt activity by hostile states or criminals.
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Financial Times, The Guardian, GOV.UK, Financial Times, TechCrunch, and GOV.UK. Thanks:@steveranger
| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Facebook's bug bounty program, now in its 10th year, paid out $1.98M in 2020 so far, on over 1,000 submissions — The vulnerability was found through the company's bug bounty program, now in its tenth year. — IT'S BEEN ALMOST a decade since Facebook started offering researchers cash rewards …
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ZDNet, About Facebook, and MyHealthyApple
Tweets: @lilyhnewman, @zackwhittaker, @viss, @natashenka, and @kimzetter
| Natasha Mascarenhas / TechCrunch: |
Transfr, a startup providing businesses with VR simulations for training workers, raises $12M Series A led by Firework Ventures — The coronavirus has displaced millions of workers across the country. In order to recover, companies must focus on re-skilling their workforces in a measured and sustainable way.| Charlie Osborne / ZDNet: |
Symantec says a hacking group believed to be Chinese government-sponsored has exploited the Zerologon vulnerability in companies worldwide since October 2019 — A massive campaign is underway around the globe, with automotive, pharmaceutical and engineering entities top targets.
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Ars Technica, SecurityWeek, Threatpost, infosecurity-magazine.com, and TechRadar
| Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology: |
In an internal memo, FTC exec director said the agency will cut costs, freeze hiring, and lower IT spending, even as Congress pushes for action against Big Tech — FTC executive director David Robbins tells staff the agency will cut its case costs, freeze hiring, and lower IT spending as its resources dry up
Tweets: @kantrowitz, @lam_barrett, and @kantrowitz
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