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September 10, 2020, 2:50 PM

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Ashley Carman / The Verge:
Facebook is piloting Campus, a section specifically designed for college students to interact with peers at their school, at 30 universities around the US  —  A place for college students to talk about school  —  Facebook is getting back to its roots today with the launch of a new product called Campus …
Dieter Bohn / The Verge:
Microsoft Surface Duo review: has thin, beautiful hardware, good battery life, and runs two apps at once well, but software is too buggy and the camera is bad  —  All the right ideas — but spoiled by buggy software and a bad camera  —  Microsoft's Surface Duo aspires to be something different from any other gadget you've used.
Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google:
Apple Music's 3.4.0 beta APK contains a reference to Apple One, likely the name of the rumored Apple subscription bundle  —  Back in June, our colleagues at 9to5Mac discovered in the iOS 13.5 beta that Apple was planning to bundle their services into a single subscription.
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet:
A Bluetooth vulnerability in standards 4.0 through 5.0 lets attackers gain access to authenticated services; patch is not yet available  —  All devices using the Bluetooth standard 4.0 through 5.0 are vulnerable.  Patches not immediately available.  —  The organizations behind …
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat:
Portland, Oregon unanimously adopted ordinances banning the use of facial recognition tech by city agencies, including the police, and by private businesses  —  The Portland, Oregon City Council today unanimously voted to adopt two of the strongest bans of facial recognition technologies …
Marshall Cohen / CNN:
Twitter expands election misinfo policies, prohibiting misleading claims about results, “inciting unlawful conduct” to prevent peaceful transfer of power, more  —  Washington (CNN Business)Twitter announced Thursday that it is expanding its policies against election-related misinformation …
Bijan Stephen / The Verge:
Tyler “Ninja” Blevins, who left Twitch for an exclusive deal with Mixer last August, is back on Twitch, exclusively, in a multiyear deal with the site  —  He's got an exclusive, multiyear deal  —  Ninja's back on Twitch, exclusively, in a multiyear deal with the site.
Reuters:
Chainalysis: cryptocurrency transfers of under $10,000 to and from Africa jumped more than 55% in a year to reach $316M in June  —  LAGOS/LONDON (Reuters) - Four months ago, Abolaji Odunjo made a fundamental change to his business selling mobile phones in a bustling street market in Lagos: He started paying his suppliers in bitcoin.
Biz Carson / Protocol:
Eric Ries' Silicon Valley-based Long-Term Stock Exchange opens for trading, nine years after “The Lean Startup” author first proposed it  —  A new stock exchange backed by Silicon Valley heavyweights is opening for business Wednesday.  The Long-Term Stock Exchange can now trade …
Arielle Pardes / Wired:
Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma suggests that the way social media surfaces and amplifies the worst of humanity is our greatest existential threat today  —  The Social Dilemma argues that humanity's greatest existential threat is not climate change, but Facebook.
Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat:
Orchard, which enables virtual home buying and selling, raises $69M Series C led by Revolution Growth, bringing its total raised to $138M  —  Orchard has raised $69 million in venture capital to continue the development of its machine learning technology that aims to make buying a home less complicated.
Chris Welch / The Verge:
Bose announces $279 QuietComfort Earbuds, with 11 levels of noise cancellation, and $179 Sports Earbuds, both available on September 29th, with preorders today  —  The QuietComfort Earbuds offer 11 levels of noise cancellation  —  Bose is ready to reenter the competitive true wireless earbuds market with two new products.
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Russell Brandom / The Verge:
SEC filing: former NSA director Keith Alexander is joining Amazon's board of directors  —  Alexander was the public face of US surveillance during the Snowden leaks  —  Gen. Keith Alexander is joining Amazon's board of directors, the company revealed in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing today.
Oliver Haslam / iMore:
Epic says Apple is disabling Sign In with Apple for Fortnite on Sept. 11 and impacted users should update their account email address and password now  —  What you need to know  — Epic has tweeted to warn users that Apple is going to block Sign in with Apple for Fortnite.
Yi-Ling Liu / Wired:
To evade government censorship, Chinese internet users have repurposed GitHub as a COVID-19 archive for news articles, medical journals, and personal accounts  —  As coronavirus news was increasingly trapped behind the Great Firewall, the programming platform became a refuge from censorship.
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: ByteDance is continuing its months-long talks with the US, now with greater urgency, about deals to let TikTok avoid a full sale of its US operations  —  It isn't clear whether any alternative would satisfy President Trump's concerns about Chinese-owned video-sharing app

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