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November 28, 2023, 4:15 AM

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Shira Ovide / Washington Post:
Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE:
Ben Schoon / 9to5Google:
Google says it is investigating an issue caused by Google Drive's desktop app, after users' reports in recent days that some of their files have disappeared  —  Over the past few days, quite a few Google Drive users have noticed files go missing, and now Google is confirming that it is looking …
Kellen / Droid Life:
YouTube rolls out Playables, which lets users play games on mobile and desktop with no need to download, for Premium users, available until March 28, 2024  —  YouTube Premium's benefits expanded this holiday week with the addition of Playables into the app.
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: fast-fashion giant Shein confidentially files for a US IPO, potentially in 2024, with Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, and Morgan Stanley as underwriters  —  The Chinese company was valued at $66 billion earlier this year  —  Shein, the China-founded online fashion company that won …
David Heaney / UploadVR:
Finland-based Varjo launches the XR-4, a $3,990 mixed reality headset aimed at businesses, touting a 120-degree field of view, 4K displays, and more  —  Varjo just announced the XR-4 series, its latest range of ultra high end PC-based headsets for enterprise and governments.
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Mozaic, whose API helps creators split and automate payments with collaborators, raised a $20M Series A from Volition Capital, taking its total funding to $27M+  —  Creators often work with different collaborators for different projects.  And splitting payments with others is one of the biggest challenges for creators.
Samantha Cole / 404 Media:
Big names like Kelsey Hightower pull out of the DevTernity conference after allegations its founder made fake profiles of female speakers to boost diversity  —  The founder of a software developer conference has been accused of creating fake female speakers to bolster diversity numbers …
Sarah Zheng / Bloomberg:
SenseTime's shares fell as much as 9.7% in Hong Kong, after a short seller accused the AI company of inflating its revenue; SenseTime refutes the allegations  —  - Report is ‘without merit’, Shanghai-based AI developer says  — Company is building a ChatGPT-like conversation bot for China
Hannah Lang / Reuters:
A US judge rules ex-Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao cannot leave the US until a court considers whether he should remain through his sentencing hearing in February  —  Former Binance chief Changpeng Zhao cannot leave the United States for the time being, a federal judge said on Monday …
Jeff John Roberts / Fortune:
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
The European Commission says Amazon's $1.4B iRobot acquisition may restrict competition; Amazon says it's working to address the EC's concerns; IRBT drops 18%+  —  EU antitrust regulators said on Monday Amazon's (AMZN.O) $1.4 billion acquisition of robot vacuum maker iRobot (IRBT.O) …
Samidha Sharma / The Economic Times:
Q&A with Jeff Dean, chief scientist of Google DeepMind and Google Research, on Bard's launch, the Gemini LLM, DeepMind-Brain merger, AI misinformation, and more  —  In an interview with ETtech, Jeff Dean, chief scientist, Google DeepMind and Google Research, spoke about playing catch …

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