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How Facebook leadership weakened initiatives to clean up misinformation, sidelining AI experts, because doing so would undermine Zuckerberg's desire for growth — Joaquin Quiñonero Candela, a director of AI at Facebook, was apologizing to his audience.
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Citizen Browser project's Split Screen tool shows Facebook's different News Feeds for Trump and Biden voters, based on data from 2,500+ users across the US — Facebook's recommendation algorithm shows different news, groups, and hashtags to different users. But who sees what?
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Mike Winkelmann, the digital artist known as Beeple, sold an NFT of his work for $69M, through a first-of-its-kind auction at Christie's — Through a first-of-its-kind auction at Christie's — Until October, the most Mike Winkelmann — the digital artist known as Beeple — had ever sold a print for was $100.
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| Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: |
Kuo: all four iPhone 13 models will feature larger batteries with higher capacities, making them heavier than iPhone 12 models — Apple appears to be improving the iPhone's battery life with the iPhone 13 lineup, using a number of design changes, bigger batteries, and efficiency improvements.
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| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Crypto lending and borrowing service BlockFi raises $350M Series D at a valuation of $3B, bringing its total raised to around $450M — If there were any doubt about a cryptocurrency boom, we need look no further than at the explosion of growth of certain companies in the space.
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| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Facebook is making in-stream ads available on one-minute videos and is testing ads that look like stickers in Stories — Ads integrated into content — Facebook introduced Stories to its platform four years ago, mostly as a way to encourage people to post content that wasn't highly produced or necessarily photogenic.
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| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Google says it will soon let users add missing roads and realign, rename, or delete incorrect ones in Maps simply by “drawing” on them — Missing road? You can plot it yourself. — SHARE All sharing options — If you've ever been frustrated by a road simply not existing on Google Maps …
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| Bloomberg: |
Three former employees say that 100+ employees at Verkada could view the camera feeds of its thousands of customers via widely used super admin accounts — - Former employee said issue was raised with Verkada executives — Hackers gained access to 150,000 customer camera feeds
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| Matt Day / Bloomberg: |
Amazon has opened 11 Amazon Fresh stores around the US, with plans for at least 28 more — As many businesses struggled to survive the pandemic, Amazon.com Inc. was quietly building a national grocery chain. — The first Amazon Fresh store opened to the public in Los Angeles in September.| Asha Barbaschow / ZDNet: |
Australia's government has put out a call for submissions on internet browser defaults, following its media bargaining code, with a focus on Apple and Google — The ACCC is concerned with the choice of browser options afforded to Australians. — With the News Media Bargaining Code out of the way … | Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
House and Senate Democrats announce a $94B proposal to make broadband internet access more accessible and affordable — Thirty House and Senate Democrats unveiled a new $94 billion proposal Thursday to make broadband Internet access more accessible and affordable nationwide …
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Google says it will give an option to Google Pay users to share transaction data with the company to make personalized offers, starting next week — Three and a half years after launching Google Pay in India, the Android-maker is paving the way to tap its users' transaction data for monetization purposes … | Vittoria Elliott / Rest of World: |
Experts say Russia accidentally blocked domains with the characters “t.co”, like Microsoft.com, as well as some government websites, while slowing down Twitter — Reminder: Internet censorship can have unintended consequences. — Russian internet users began noticing something strange … | Reuters: |
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| Stephen Warwick / iMore: |
Twitter says it is testing displaying large images, instead of cropped previews, on iOS and Android and will add support for 4K photo uploads — “Sometimes it's better said with a picture or a video.” — What you need to know — Twitter is testing new features that will let you see a single image in full on your timeline.
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| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Icertis, which develops enterprise contract management software, raises $80M Series E at a valuation of $2.8B, bringing its total raised to $280M — Icertis has raised a new $80 million investment round, pushing its valuation to $2.8 billion, up from $1.1 billion in 2019.| Chris Metinko / Crunchbase News: |
Cowbell Cyber, which uses AI to assess risk and offer cyber insurance to companies with less than $1B in revenue, raises $20M Series A — Pleasanton, California-based Cowbell Cyber raised a $20 million Series A as more small and medium-sized enterprises look for insurance against the growing number of cyberattacks.| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: China is considering a record fine, exceeding Qualcomm's $975M fine, against Alibaba, which may face softer treatment if it distances from Jack Ma — E-commerce company to face softer treatment than its Ant affiliate, provided it distances itself from founder Jack Ma
Tweets: @sofiamcfarland, @lingling_wei, and @birdyword
| Damien Wilde / 9to5Google: |
Oppo unveils Find X3 Pro with Snapdragon 888, 6.7" 120Hz display, 12GB RAM, 50 MP ultrawide camera, and a 3MP “microlens” for microscope style macro shots — The covers have now been lifted from the Oppo Find X3 series with three models — X3 Lite, X3 Neo, and X3 Pro …
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Android Authority, Android Police, CNBC, Bloomberg, TalkAndroid.com, TechRadar, CNET, SlashGear, Pricebaba.com Daily, TechPP, t3.com, The Verge, Tom's Guide, and Engadget. Tweets: @rdrv3
| Justin Bariso / Inc.com: |
Google's new efforts to help job seekers include three new certificate programs and a Search feature that lets people find jobs for their education level — This morning, Google is announcing the next steps in its plan to disrupt the world of education, including the launch of new certificate programs …
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Adobe rolls out a version of Photoshop optimized for Apple Silicon, claiming a 1.5X performance improvement over most Photoshop tasks on Intel Macs — Adobe says there are a ton of speed and performance gains — Lightroom was the first Adobe creative app to make the leap to Apple Silicon …
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PCMag, PetaPixel, Adobe Blog, The Next Web, ZDNet, XDA Developers, Pocketnow, Ubergizmo, and TechRadar
Tweets: @karlconrad, @campuscodi, @mattmoniz, @stalman, @karlconrad, @metz123, @reneritchie, and @om
| Ashley Gold / Axios: |
YouTube says it has taken down 30,000 videos that made false or misleading claims about COVID-19 vaccines over the last six months — YouTube has taken down more than 30,000 videos that made misleading or false claims about COVID-19 vaccines over the last six months, YouTube spokesperson Elena Hernandez … | Robert Williams / Marketing Dive: |
Reddit signs its first enterprise partnership with a media agency, Omnicom, whose advertiser clients will have greater access to the site's data and insights — Reddit signed its first-ever enterprise partnership agreement with a media agency, teaming with Omnicom Media Group (OMG) …
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Spain says it has reached an agreement with trade unions and business associations over labor reforms that reclassify delivery couriers as employees — Spain's government has reached an agreement with trade unions and business associations over labor reforms that will see delivery platform …
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