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| Sue Dremann / Palo Alto Online: |
Apple's head of global security Thomas Moyer indicted for trying to bribe Santa Clara sheriff's office with 200 iPads in return for concealed firearm permits — Defendants include Sheriff Laurie Smith's second-in-command — Four people, including top brass in the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Twitter will now show a warning when someone tries to like a tweet labeled for misinformation, says such warnings decreased quote retweets of misinfo by 29% — The company already displays a warning when you try to retweet a labeled tweet — Ahead of the 2020 election …
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| Lauren Kaori Gurley / VICE: |
Internal reports detail how Amazon tracks labor, environmental movements in EU; Amazon confirms hiring union-busting Pinkerton agency to spy on warehouse staff — Dozens of leaked documents from Amazon's Global Security Operations Center reveal the company's reliance on Pinkerton operatives …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Snap announces Spotlight, a vertically scrollable TikTok-like feed inside Snapchat, and will pay $1M every day to users who create the top Snaps through 2020 — After taking on TikTok with music-powered features last month, Snapchat this morning is officially launching a dedicated place within …
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| Rachel Monroe / The Atlantic: |
Behind the rise of TikTok's teen stars, content houses, and the D'Amelios, who this year have focused on establishing themselves as the first family of TikTok — Collab day at Clubhouse Beverly Hills was scheduled to start at 2 p.m., but that time came and went and the mansion was still as sleepy as a college dorm on Saturday morning.
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| Patrick Moorhead / Forbes: |
Apple's M1 Macs are impressive but some may want to pass on them for now due to incompatibility or stability issues with apps like Matlab, Parallels, and Docker — I've read the first batch of Apple MacBook Pro 13" M1 reviews from the Apple-chosen first reviewers and you'd be hard to find anything negative about the new laptop.
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| Washington Post: |
Many of Parler's biggest cheerleaders, who repeatedly denounce the incumbent social networks, are more active on Twitter and Facebook than Parler — The pro-Trump Internet can't stop talking about their exodus from Big Tech. But very few of them have actually abandoned their long-time social media homes.
Tweets: @halsinger and @venkatananth
| Renée DiResta / The Atlantic: |
Trump's clear election loss has splintered the right-wing online info ecosystem, forcing outlets, platforms, and commentators to choose reality or Trump — When Fox News called Arizona for Democrat Joe Biden shortly after the polls closed there on Election Night, right-wing social media erupted in fury.| Janko Roettgers / Protocol: |
Last month Intel quietly shut down Intel Studios, its 10,000-square-foot AR/VR volumetric capture stage in LA that opened in 2018 — Intel has pulled the plug on one of its most ambitious AR/VR projects to date: The company quietly shut down Intel Studios, a 10,000-square-foot volumetric capture stage in Los Angeles, last month.
Tweets: @hugocguerra, @xrandrew, and @scobleizer
| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Google Pay will no longer support send/receive money functionality from web app, starting January 2021, also adds 1.5% fee on instant transfers via debit card — The new Google Pay app brings a ton of new functionality and makes some big promises, but it also has a couple of big caveats that weren't widely known on launch day.
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Firstpost Tech, TechRadar, and BGR India
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Q&A: CEO Jensen Huang on the antitrust environment as Nvidia attempts to acquire Arm, PC vs. next-gen consoles, and Nvidia's gaming and datacenter businesses — Nvidia had another stellar quarter, reporting revenues of $4.73 billion for its third fiscal quarter ended October 25, up 57% from a year earlier.| Tina Bellon / Reuters: |
Uber and Lyft awarded a federal contract by the GSA, estimated to be worth up to $810M over five years, to offer ride-sharing services to public agency workers — (Reuters) - Uber Technologies Inc and Lyft Inc have been awarded a federal contract worth up to $810 million to offer …
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