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Apple says it will remove all 181 vaping-related apps from its App Store, after experts attribute a variety of lung injuries and fatalities to e-cigarettes — Amid growing health concerns over e-cigarettes, Apple will remove all 181 vaping-related apps from its mobile App Store this morning, Axios has learned.
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Email: Sundar Pichai says Google is scaling back weekly all-hands “TGIF” meetings to once a month; meetings will focus only “on product and business strategy” — CEO announced changes to TGIF meeting in an email — Google's weekly town halls, internally known as …
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Twitter bans political ads globally, will allow some “cause-based” ads with limited targeting and promotion of issue-related fact-based reporting from news orgs — - Twitter laid out the framework for its new policy on political ads, which bans certain advertisers and has stricter rules for issue ads.
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Source: NIH and Google planned to release a dataset of 100K chest X-rays in 2017, but scrapped the project after finding personal info on some images — Fumbled project with NIH highlights potential pitfalls of Google's ambitions with sensitive health data
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The Supreme Court says it will hear Google's appeal in the copyright lawsuit brought by Oracle over Java APIs — - The Supreme Court said on Friday that it will hear a dispute between tech giants Oracle and Google in a blockbuster case that could lead to billions of dollars in fines and shape copyright law in the internet era.
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Hulu to raise its Hulu + Live TV price by 22%, from $44.99/month to $54.99/month, for all subscribers starting on December 18 — Hulu is implementing its second price increase in less than a year for its Hulu With Live TV product — with the base package of 60-plus live channels increasing 22%, to $54.99 per month.
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Sources: John Legere has no plans to leave T-Mobile and take the CEO job at WeWork — - T-Mobile CEO John Legere isn't planning to take the CEO job at WeWork according to people familiar with the matter. — WeWork, which is being taken over by SoftBank, is considering a number of people for the CEO role.
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NUVIA, founded by three former Apple chip execs, raises $53M Series A from Dell and others to develop a new CPU for data center servers — (Reuters) - Three of Apple Inc's former top semiconductor executives in charge of iPhone chips have founded a startup to design processors for data centers …
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In a Reddit AMA, Google demos Stadia, which is set to launch on Nov. 19 but without key features like Family Sharing, Buddy Passes, Stadia Connect, and more — In a run-up to the November 19th Stadia launch, Google did a Reddit AMA showing how game casting will work for the streaming service.| Jason Ronald / Xbox Wire: |
Microsoft rolls out its November 2019 Xbox Update with support for Google Assistant in English, improved gamertags, text-based content filters, and more — November is here and that means friends, family, food and plenty of gaming in between. Thanks to your feedback …
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Germany passed a law on Thursday that could force Apple to open up the iPhone's NFC chip to rival mobile payment platforms in the country — BERLIN (Reuters) - Apple said on Friday moves in Germany to force it to open up its Apple Pay mobile payments system to rivals could hurt data protection … | The Information: |
Sources: after exploring partnerships with banks in 2018 to offer an Amazon-branded checking account, Amazon scrapped those plans in their early stages — This week, Google confirmed that it will soon offer checking accounts to its users. But one of the company's biggest rivals—Amazon …
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Let's Do This, a platform that lists ~30K races and provides personalized recommendations for participants in events like marathons, raises $15M Series A — Back in September, endurance events marketplace Let's Do This (a YC alumni) raised a $5m seed round from a number of US investors …
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Microsoft hires former AG Eric Holder to determine if AnyVision complies with the ethical principles stipulated during the facial recognition company's Series A — According to five sources, AnyVision's technology has powered a secret military surveillance project that has monitored Palestinians in the West Bank.| TechCrunch: |
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