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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple announces November 10 event where Apple Silicon Macs are expected to debut; invites are titled “One more thing.” — Apple today announced a third fall 2020 event, which is set to be held on Tuesday, November 10 at 10:00 a.m. on the Apple Park campus in Cupertino, California.
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Tweets: @l0vetodream, @zeenewsenglish, @jbenton, @stshank, @mkbhd, @tomwarren, and @rsgnl
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: production has ramped up for new 13" and 16" MacBook Pros and a new 13" MacBook Air with Apple Silicon chips but without other major design changes — - Company readies MacBook Pros, MacBook Air with in-house chips — Smaller Mac Pro and iMac with Apple chips also in development
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MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Computerworld, iPhone in Canada Blog, SlashGear, and Input
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Raspberry Pi launches Raspberry Pi 400, a compact keyboard with a built-in ARM-based computer, available today for $70 — Just add a screen and you've got yourself a PC — The Raspberry Pi Foundation has announced the Raspberry Pi 400, a compact keyboard with an ARM-based computer built in.
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Raspberry Pi Blog, Jeff Geerling, BBC, ZDNet, Financial Times, CNET, Engadget, TechRadar, Ubuntu, Android Authority, Tom's Hardware, Global Nerdy, Gizmodo, Decrypt, Tom's Hardware, CNX Software, PCWorld, HotHardware.com News, Tom's Guide, Neowin, Android Central, MakeUseOf, TechRepublic, SlashGear, Input, XDA Developers, About Chromebooks, MSPoweruser, Thurrott, PC Gamer, Redmond Pie, Game Rant, 9to5Toys, KnowTechie, BGR, The Mac Observer, Fast Company, iPhone in Canada Blog, The Tao of Mac, BetaNews, and WIRED UK
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| New York Times: |
How Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter plan to handle Election Day and the subsequent days, clamping down on falsehoods and highlighting accurate information — The sites are key conduits for communication and information. Here's how they plan to handle the challenges facing them before, on and after Tuesday.
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Axios, Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, TechCrunch, The Markup, BBC, Forbes, Axios, Android Headlines, Wired, The Daily Dot, Nieman Lab, Reuters, and Mashable
| Bloomberg: |
SoftBank confirms a series of departures from its Vision Fund, including its COO and four partners — A slew of SoftBank Vision Fund executives have left the almost $100 billion vehicle, best known for its bets on high profile startups including WeWork, Uber Technologies Inc. and Chinese ride-hailing company DiDi Chuxing.
Tweets: @sherman4949
| Columbia Journalism Review: |
A review finds that less than half of 1,100 posts across Facebook and Instagram containing falsehoods debunked by third-party partners bore fact-checking labels — Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's CEO, has been back in Congress this week to talk about the need to reform how social-media platforms moderate content … | Washington Post: |
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Quibi mulled options like a freemium model and had 450,000 subs paying $4.99/mo., far less than the 7.4M it targeted for its first year, when it closed — The instincts of Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman, who headed the start-up, proved wrong — When Jeffrey Katzenberg …
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| Jennifer Smith / Wall Street Journal: |
Coupa, which helps companies manage their business spending, acquires supply-chain planning company Llamasoft for ~$1.5B — The $1.5 billion acquisition is part of a greater focus on supply-chain management amid pandemic-driven upheaval, shortages — Coupa Software Inc. is buying supply …
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SiliconANGLE, ZDNet, TechCrunch, Coupa Software, and PYMNTS.com
| Wall Street Journal: |
Founders say changes to H-1B visa program will make qualifying tougher and compel employers to pay foreign workers drastically higher wages, starting at $208K — New restrictions intended to protect U.S. workers curb access to pool of highly skilled foreign labor| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Aeva, a lidar company started by two Apple veterans and backed by Porsche SE, is going public via SPAC merger, which will give it a post-deal valuation of $2.1B — Aeva, a Mountain View, Calif.-based lidar company started by two former Apple engineers and backed by Porsche SE …
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| Sky News: |
Sources: UK's NHS COVID app, downloaded 19M times, had the wrong risk threshold and sent warnings to a “shockingly low” number of users about potential exposure — The wrong threshold had reportedly been set for the app and was not recording those who were close enough to transmit the virus.| Juro Osawa / The Information: |
Sources: Alibaba is in advanced talks to invest nearly $300M in London-based online luxury fashion retailer Farfetch and potentially create a Chinese JV — Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba is in advanced discussions to invest nearly $300 million in London-based online luxury fashion retailer Farfetch … Sponsor Posts
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