Apple removes app from the App Store that tracked Hong Kong police and protests after pressure from China, says it “violates our guidelines and local laws”
SAN FRANCISCO — Apple removed an app on Wednesday that enabled protesters in Hong Kong to track police …
Blizzard is facing an intense backlash after banning a player over Hong Kong pro-democracy comments, with some fans boycotting its games
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Chinese state media warns Apple over app that tracks Hong Kong police, says Apple's approval of the app made it an “accomplice” in the protests
and critics say they bent to Beijing Charlotte Henry / The Mac Observer : Apple Backtracks and Removes Hong Kong Protest App Wei Shi / Telecoms.com : Apple U-turns again to pull HK map app under press...
[Thread] Former World of Warcraft developer lead denounces Blizzard, says Chinese investment in game companies is silencing voices for freedom and democracy
This hurts. But until Blizzard reverses their decision on @blitzchungHS I am giving up playing Classic WoW, which I helped make and helped convince Blizzard to relaunch. There will be no Mark of Kern ...
CFTC chairman says ether is a commodity, and thus falls under the jurisdiction of the CFTC, anticipates ether futures trading on US markets in the near future
Last December, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) — issued a public call for feedback to “better inform …
Google removed a game from the Play store that allowed players to role-play as Hong Kong protesters, says it violated rules related to “sensitive events”
HKmap.live raised concerns of endangering law enforcement and residents; ‘The Revolution of Our Times,’ violated rules related to sensitive events,' Google says
As China exports its domestic standards, the US should treat China's leveraging of market access into self-censorship by US companies as trade violations
A single tweet … Reuters : TikTok's Musical.ly deal needs U.S. national security review: senator Tony Xu / TechNode : US official presses for review of Bytedance's Musical.ly acquisition Jon Fingas / ...
Shooting in Halle, Germany was livestreamed on Twitch; ~5 people watched the 35-minute video live and about 2,200 watched before it was removed in ~30 minutes
09 October 2019, Saxony-Anhalt, Landsberg: Police officers walk along a hedge with machine guns in their hands near Wiedersdorf/Landsberg.
Grammarly, which provides AI-based grammar and spell-checking tools, raises $90M led by General Catalyst at a $1B+ valuation, bringing its total raised to $200M
While attention continues to be focused on the rise and growing sophistication of voice-based interfaces …
Sources: workers in India and Romania review clips captured by customers' Amazon Cloud Cams, which are then used to train AI algorithms to detect threats
In a promotional video, Amazon.com Inc. says its Cloud Cam home security camera provides “everything you need to monitor your home, day or night.”
The IRS publishes its first guidance in five years for calculating taxes owed on cryptocurrency holdings, clearing up how hard forks should be treated
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Facebook refuses Biden campaign's request to take down a misleading Trump campaign ad, rejected by CNN, reigniting a debate about Facebook and political speech
including ones that air the same lies that TV stations won't. Here's an example of an ad that Facebook let Trump run despite being obviously untrue: https://popular.info/... pic.twitter.com/2X2S95Ep0...
UNICEF's Office of Innovation launches crypto fund for bitcoin and ether donations, becoming the first UN agency to hold and make transactions in cryptocurrency
When Christina Lomazzo was a teenager, she used to hop back and forth across the U.S. Canada border for fun.
Facebook's choice to allow political ads with misinformation, while making ad details public, is not a perfect decision but it is a sensible and democratic one
It's a problem that needs more than a technical solution — If you see an ad on Facebook, should the contents of that ad be true?
Waymo sends members of its early rider program an email saying they could be matched with a fully driverless car soon, and if so, the Waymo app will notify them
Waymo, the autonomous vehicle business under Alphabet, sent an email to customers of its ride-hailing app that their next trip might …
Apple starts selling Microsoft's Xbox Wireless Controller on its online store for the first time
Apple has added the Xbox Wireless Controller to Apple.com, although the accessory is currently unavailable to purchase at the time of writing. Apple sells a few different gaming controllers …
Intel says it is discontinuing its Kaby Lake-G processors that used AMD graphics
Intel announced today that it had discontinued its Kaby Lake-G processors. The Kaby Lake-G processors arrived in 2017 with much fanfare and a bit of confusion, largely because the chips used …
Sweden-based Einride, which is developing autonomous, electric pods for logistics companies and supermarkets, raises $25M Series A
Einride today announced it has raised $25 million to continue development of its self-driving electric shipping vehicles and begin targeting international markets.
Clari, which develops an end-to-end sales analytics and forecasting platform for enterprises, raises $60M Series D led by Sapphire Ventures
Clari, a startup developing an end-to-end sales analytics and forecasting platform for enterprises, today announced that it's raised $60 million …
Leaked email from GitHub CEO shows the company will renew its $200K contract with ICE, despite stated opposition to child separation policies
seems fair that you'd protest selling software to ICE, but should Microsoft pull their Office 365 license too? Do you want a word processing software vendor making judgements about what words are proc...
Survey of 4,272 US adults shows patchy knowledge on tech issues: many answered correctly on cookies and phishing, few knew about 2FA, https, or private browsing
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Kuo: iPhone SE 2 and new iPad Pro models are coming in Q1'20; MacBooks with new keyboard and an Apple AR headset in partnership with third-party brands in Q2'20
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House Financial Services Committee says Mark Zuckerberg will testify on October 23 as part of a hearing on Libra and more
Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to three scientists for their work in developing lithium-ion batteries, which sparked the portable technology revolution
Nicola Davis / The Guardian :
OECD countries unveil proposals to tax giant multinationals, especially tech giants, after months of negotiations, cracking down on the use of tax havens
Financial Times :
Analysis of Latin America's VC activity shows $2.6B has been invested across 160 deals in 2019 so far, up from $500M during the whole of 2016
First half of 2019: $2.6B across 160 transactions —All of 2018: just under $2B across 463 transactions https://news.crunchbase.com/ ... Thiago Teodoro / @tmmteo : $2.6B raised in the first half of the...
Microsoft study finds 42% of teens concerned by their parents posting about them online, 66% report being victim to online risks like credit fraud, sexual abuse
Jacqueline Beauchere / Microsoft on the Issues : Tweets: @securenu and @emkingma Tweets: Northeastern Ois / @securenu : Hey Parents, put down the phone, your kids dont want you to share on social med...
Twitter says it has unintentionally used some email addresses and phone numbers provided for account security purposes for ad targeting
Ina Fried / Axios :
India's National Crime Records Bureau is inviting bids to create a national automated facial recognition system, raising concerns among privacy activists
Pranav Dixit / BuzzFeed News : Tweets: @atulacharya Tweets: Atul Acharya / @atulacharya : 🤷🏻♂️ Dystopian Contagion is going strong. First 🇨🇳 China, 🇫🇷 France, UK (?). Now 🇮🇳 India wants its own #Fac...
Revel, a shared electric moped startup operating in DC and NYC, raises $27.6M Series A led by Ibex Investors, wants to expand to about 10 cities by mid-2020
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Pinterest makes its Progressive Web App available as a Pinterest Lite app download on Google Play in Peru, Argentina, Colombia, Chile, and Mexico
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
A look at Google's product inclusion team, tasked with making sure its products are without bias related to race, gender, sexual orientations, or disabilities
Danielle Abril / Fortune :
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