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| Hollywood Reporter: |
Inside's Apple steep learning curve with TV+ and Hollywood, as sources say the company already well outspent its projected $1B annual content budget — After a few false starts and a little offscreen drama, AppleTV+ finally makes its big debut with a slate of shows, Jennifer Aniston …
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
US, UK, and South Korea dismantle one of the largest child exploitation dark web sites, with 200K unique videos; over three dozen people have been arrested — The Justice Department says it's dismantled one of the largest child exploitation sites on the dark web.
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Interview with Google execs about Project Soli, the tech behind Pixel 4's Motion Sense radar, and why they think gesture-sensing is more than just a gimmick — Why does a phone need radar? — By now, you've heard: the new Google Pixel 4 has a tiny radar chip inside it, which allows you to swipe or wave your hand to do a few things.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
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Tweets: @epro, @benedictevans, @nisummers, and @chr1sa
| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Amazon says its consumer business has decommissioned its final Oracle database and migrated 75 petabytes in ~7,500 Oracle DBs to multiple AWS database services — AWS said that Amazon's consumer business has decommissioned its final Oracle database and migrated 75 petabytes of data … | Rob Merrick / The Independent: |
After delays, the UK government quietly drops its controversial plan to implement an age verification requirement for porn websites — The long-delayed measure - one of the first of its kind in any democratic country - had been plagued by legal and technical difficulties
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
LinkedIn launches Events, a new free tool to plan, announce, and invite people to meetups in the physical world, starting Oct. 17 in English-speaking countries — LinkedIn, the Microsoft-owned social network for the working world with around 650 million users, is known best as a place …
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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
As Works with Nest winds down, Google shares new initiatives to securely automate homes, including limited Home Routines and a Device Access opt-in program — ‘Works With Nest’ will be replaced by a tighter set of rules for partner devices — For years, home automation tech has been a nightmare for security and privacy.| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
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| Raymond Zhong / New York Times: |
Huawei says sales were $86B, up ~25% YoY with 185M+ smartphone shipments, up 26% YoY, between January and September 2019 — A recovery in quarterly revenue suggests that the Chinese tech giant is weathering the Trump administration's efforts to hobble it. — BEIJING — Huawei said on Wednesday … | Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed News: |
Investigation: US ad agency Ads Inc. ran a subscription-based Facebook scam whereby users rented their account to Ads Inc., which ran $50M in ads since 2016 — Asher Burke built his company, Ads Inc, on the back of one of the internet's most persistent, lucrative, and sophisticated scams — the subscription trap.
Tweets: @craigsilverman, @buzzfeeduk, @dgisserious, @buzzfeedben, @rmac18, @rschooley, @mat, and @tomgara
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
TikTok hires law firm K&L Gates to help it form a US content moderation committee, as current rules allow for a double standard on political speech — As TikTok continues its rapid U.S. growth, the company is being challenged to better explain its content moderation choices.
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Newsroom | TikTok, Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, Axios, Politico, The Hill, TechNode, and The Next Web. Tweets: @tonyromm
| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Twitter to restrict user interactions with world leaders' tweets that it deems violate its rules, letting users quote-tweet, but not retweet, like, reply, share — Twitter said it will restrict how users can interact with tweets from world leaders who break its rules.
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Tweets: @jason_kint, @fiie411, @tiffanycli, @marshablackburn, @edbott, @ross, @rmac18, @bjorn, @larakate, @msh3ridan, @momathree, @malwarejake, @mrprowestie, and @rmac18
| Theodore Schleifer / Vox: |
At the fourth Democratic debate, candidates quarreled over the power of Big Tech and remedies, with O'Rourke, Yang, and others critiquing Warren's plan — Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images — And it was all over the place. — Democrats running for president had their most vigorous debate yet …
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Tweets: @smashdawg, @ewarren, @julesjester, @corybooker, @nowthisnews, @pewresearch, @sivavaid, @manjusrii, @kamalaharris, @radiofreetom, @voxdotcom, @ewarren, @joshuadarr, and @zhirji28
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Pensando Systems, founded by former Cisco executives, emerges from stealth with $145M Series C led by HPE and Lightspeed for its custom data processing hardware — The Information revealed in a report roughly two years ago that Pensando Systems, formed by top former Cisco executives Mario Mazzola …
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| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Big data analytics service Databricks brings its open source Delta Lake project to the Linux Foundation — Databricks Inc.'s Delta Lake today became the latest open-source software project to fall under the banner of the Linux Foundation. — Delta Lake has rapidly gained momentum since …
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