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April Christina Curley, a Google recruiter focused on Black colleges, says she was fired in September and alleges a hostile work environment for Black people — - A Google employee, who said she was fired by the tech giant in September, claimed Monday that her manager told her that her way of speaking …
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Documents: Google's AI unit tightened control over its scientists' papers on “sensitive topics” and asked at least three to portray its tech in a positive light — OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's Google this year moved to tighten control over its scientists' papers by launching a …
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| Financial Times: |
China's market regulator announces antitrust investigations into Alibaba, first of its kind for a Chinese internet company, for alleged monopolistic practices — Probe into China's biggest tech group is one of the first of its kind for country's internet sector
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China's regulatory crackdown to limit the influence of Jack Ma, who has long cultivated the image of a rebel fighting the system, has been years in the making — When Jack Ma took to a Shanghai conference stage in October, China's most famous entrepreneur was on the brink of pulling off …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Source: Apple is planning to release an updated Apple TV with a focus on gaming, an updated remote, and a new processor next year — Hey everyone, it's Mark Gurman. I cover all things Apple Inc. at Bloomberg Technology and I'm the host of the new consumer tech segment Power Up on Bloomberg TV.
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Source: Square has held talks to acquire music streaming service Tidal, which Jay-Z acquired for $56M in early 2015 — - Streaming music platform has struggled to keep up with Spotify — Dorsey has met with Jay-Z multiple times during the pandemic — Square Inc., the digital-payment … | Zach Dorfman / Foreign Policy: |
US officials say Chinese tech companies, including Alibaba and Baidu, have been enlisted to process stolen US data for Chinese spy agencies to analyze — Beijing was giving China hawks in the United States plenty of ammunition. That same year, hackers working for China's People's Liberation Army … | John Harney / Bloomberg: |
| Kevin McLaughlin / The Information: |
Sources: Zoom has begun developing a web email service for businesses, and may trial it next year, and is also considering building a calendar app — Zoom Video Communications has had an astonishing rise in 2020, emerging as the go-to service for work meetings and family get-togethers during the pandemic.
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Nuro says it has been granted a permit to test and charge for its commercial autonomous delivery service by California's DMV, the first company to do so — Hours after announcing that it acquired self-driving truck startup Ike, Nuro revealed it's the first company to receive permission …
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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
SEC sues Ripple Labs, its CEO Brad Garlinghouse, and Chairman Chris Larsen, alleging they violated federal securities laws in selling XRP to retail consumers — The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) believes Ripple Labs violated federal securities laws in selling the XRP cryptocurrency to retail consumers.
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| Leo Kelion / BBC: |
DeepMind details MuZero, revealed in 2019 and following AlphaZero, which can master games without knowing the rules and is working on YouTube video compression — DeepMind's latest AI program can attain “superhuman performance” in tasks without needing to be given the rules.
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple's new privacy prompt to allow or deny tracking, originally meant to be introduced in Sept., has started to roll out for some iOS 14 users in certain apps — As a privacy measure, Apple will be requiring developers of iPhone and iPad apps to request permission from users to track …
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| Naomi Nix / Bloomberg: |
Oracle's top lobbyist says it gave presentations to officials in 12+ US states about Google tracking users, a potential factor in antitrust investigations — Software company has held 10-year grudge against search-engine giant — With great fanfare last week, 44 attorneys general hit Google … | Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Telegram debuts group voice chat as CEO Pavel Durov says it is nearing 500M MAUs and will launch an ad platform for public one-to-many channels next year — Instant messaging app Telegram is “approaching” 500 million users and plans to start generating revenue starting next year to keep the business afloat …
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| Drew FitzGerald / Wall Street Journal: |
FCC's ongoing 5G wireless licenses auction has fetched over $69.8B after three weeks, beating the $44.9B sale of 4G licenses in 2015, and will resume January 4 — FCC sale of wireless licenses has already hit new spending highs and the total could climb after a holiday break
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