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Facebook removes accounts, groups, and Pages tied to China that posted about US politics; the network was followed by fewer than 3K US accounts — The social media campaign was small but targeted all sides of the debate. Officials said Beijing had not decided whether to wade more directly in the American presidential race.
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| Ian Sherr / CNET: |
Interview with Satya Nadella and Phil Spencer on buying more game companies, investing in Xbox Game Pass, and Microsoft's rejected TikTok bid — In an interview, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Xbox head Phil Spencer discuss further acquisitions, how to keep making hits and what happened with TikTok.
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Microsoft says it will exclusively license OpenAI's GPT-3 language model, which will continue to be offered via the Azure-hosted API launched in June — Microsoft today announced that it will exclusively license GPT-3, one of the most powerful language understanding models in the world, from San Francisco-based AI startup OpenAI.
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Overview of the state of bundles in 2020 across Netflix, Disney, Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft — If the famous Jim Barksdale quote is to be believed — the one about there only being two ways to make money in business, bundling and unbundling — then I am long past due for a follow-up to 2017's The Great Unbundling.| Eugene Wei / Remains of the Day: |
How TikTok's UI, focused on just one auto-playing video at a time, generates clean user-driven data thanks to its “algorithm-friendly design” — In my previous post on TikTok I discussed why its For You Page algorithm is the connective tissue that makes TikTok work.
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| Janko Roettgers / Protocol: |
Samsung is launching its ad-supported streaming service Samsung TV Plus, available on Samsung TVs since 2016, on some of its latest mobile phones — Samsung is doubling down on free, ad-supported streaming: After turning Samsung TV Plus into a massive success story on smart TVs …
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| Joseph Keller / iMore: |
The Swift Project announces its language tools are now available for Windows 10 — Swift is taking flight on Windows. — What you need to know — Swift is seeing its initial release on Windows. — Developers can now download Swift toolchain images for Windows 10.| Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
Papa, which connects elderly Americans with virtual and physical companions, raises $18M Series B led by Comcast Ventures, bringing its total raised to $31M — The Miami-based startup Papa has raised an additional $18 million as it looks to expand its business connecting elderly Americans …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft debuts new Teams features, including virtual commute, Headspace integration, breakout rooms, and virtual coffee shops for meetings — Microsoft today announced a slew of Teams features available now, coming later this year, and even arriving in 2021.| Julia Alexander / The Verge: |
YouTube says it will use AI-powered moderation to automatically age-restrict certain content — AI moderation measures will be used to automatically age-restrict certain content — YouTube is rolling out more artificial intelligence-powered technology to catch more videos …
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| Danny Palmer / ZDNet: |
Authorities from the US, UK, Germany, Europol, and others arrest 179 during Operation DisrupTor, targeting the sale of illicit goods on the dark web — ‘Operation Disruptor’ involved agencies from nine countries and the seizure of over $6.5m in cash and cryptocurrencies as criminals warned law enforcement will track them down.
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| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Morgan Beller, one of the founders of Facebook's Libra digital currency, has left the company to become a partner at VC firm NFX — - One of the co-founders of Facebook's libra digital currency and Novi payments wallet has left the company before the release of either technology.
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An in-depth look at Mike Speiser's investment playbook at Sutter Hill Ventures, who as a founding investor incubated Snowflake Computing as an interim CEO — In Formula 1 racing, you can win a world championship as a driver with one team but then not even make the top 10 without that team's car and infrastructure.| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Google says it will pull the plug on paid Chrome extensions over the next year, after temporarily banning them due to fraudulent transactions — Earlier this year, Google announced some changes to the Chrome Web Store in an effort to curb malicious extensions.
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| Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: |
PagerDuty to buy Rundeck, whose open source software can help IT admins automatically fix issues, for $100M; Rundeck had raised $3M, according to Crunchbase — PagerDuty Inc. today said that it will spend about $100 million to acquire Rundeck Inc., the maker of a popular software tool … | Peter Slattery / OneZero : |
How Spotify's UX decisions have encouraged the growth of adjective-laden generic artist names, enabling a kind of SEO spam for music — The platform is filled with search-optimized spammers, and there's no end in sight — Welcome to The Cheater's Guide to Spotify, a series about the schemes …
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| Abram Brown / Forbes: |
Manticore, a Roblox-like startup that enables users to quickly build multi-player desktop games, raises $15M led by Epic, bringing its total raised to $60M — Manticore, a new gaming startup with software that enables users to quickly build high-resolution multi-player desktop games …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apptopia and Sensor Tower data shows Pinterest recently broke its daily download record as users sought inspiration for iOS 14 homescreen customization ideas — The excitement around the ability to customize your iPhone homescreen following the release of iOS 14 has been paying off for Pinterest.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google debuts Tables, a work-tracking tool to rival Airtable that can set task-based email reminders, send messages when forms are submitted, manage tasks, more — Google's in-house incubator Area 120 is today introducing a new work-tracking tool, Tables, which aims to make tracking projects more efficient by investing in automation.
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Sources: GoodRx, a price comparison app for prescription drugs at local pharmacies, raises $1.14B in its IPO at $33 per share, valuing the company ~$12.7B — GoodRx, a price comparison app for prescription drugs at local pharmacies, on Tuesday raised $1.14 billion in its IPO, Axios has learned.| Ryan Smith / AnandTech: |
Oracle announces updates to its Cloud Compute instances, including support for Nvidia's A100 accelerator, Arm-powered processors, and updated pricing schemes — When the name “Oracle” is thrown around, hardware isn't typically the first thing that comes to mind for most people.Sponsor Posts
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