Microsoft says it will acquire ZeniMax Media and its game publisher Bethesda Softworks for $7.5B in cash; Bethesda develops Fallout, DOOM, Quake, and others
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ByteDance asserts it will maintain majority ownership and control over TikTok Global and will not transfer source code or technology to Oracle and Walmart
Chinese company contradicts assertions of Donald Trump, Oracle and Walmart — ByteDance said on Monday that it would maintain majority ownership …
US delays TikTok ban by a week, as company says Oracle and Walmart may take 20% stake in TikTok Global's pre-IPO round, host US user data and computer systems
or crazy volatile? Or if monetization goes slower than expected? Jason Keath / @jasonkeath : Walmart (and Oracle) still somehow won out as a partial owner ok TikTok (in principle) at 7.5%. Another imp...
Trump says he wants the $5B pledged from the companies making the new US-based TikTok venture put toward teaching US children “the real history of our country”
President Donald Trump said Saturday he wants $5 billion from companies creating a new U.S.-based TikTok venture …
Trump says he has approved Oracle's bid for the US operations of TikTok “in concept”
Twitter says it will investigate after users find its preview of a photo, with a Black person and a white person, more frequently displayed the white person
The first look a Twitter user gets at a tweet might be an unintentionally racially biased one. — Twitter said Sunday …
Trump says he would not approve a TikTok deal unless ByteDance ceded its control, after ByteDance said it would retain an 80% stake
President Trump on Monday said that he would not approve a deal for TikTok if its Chinese owner did not fully sell its interest in the product …
Cryptocurrency exchange Kraken says it's launching a bank under a new regulatory framework in Wyoming, reducing its reliance on third-party providers
Uniswap has officially gone live with its governance token, dubbed UNI. — One billion tokens have been minted, according to a blog post …
US judge in California issues a preliminary injunction halting Commerce Department's order banning downloads of WeChat from Sunday
one with a deal, the other with a judge's help Edvard Pettersson / Bloomberg : Trump's WeChat Curbs Halted by Judge on Free Speech Concerns David Shepardson / Reuters : Wall Street Journal : WeChat B...
Facebook estimates it has helped 2.5M people register to vote so far, up from 2M people in 2016 and 2018, as it pushes to register 4M people
The company's goal is to help 4 million people register to vote — Facebook estimates it has helped 2.5 million people register to vote …
As the TikTok deal and Huawei imbroglio show, US is no longer on the leading edge of technology in many key strategic markets, and is falling further behind
It used to be “easy” to tell the American and Chinese economies apart. One was innovative, one made clones.
How “Huang's Law”, gains in AI chip performance even faster than Moore's Law, moves data processing from the cloud to the edge and may explain Nvidia's Arm deal
The rule that the same dollar buys twice the computing power every 18 months is no longer true, but a new law …Tweets:@pstasiatech,@eghosao,@octonion,@donal888,@paul_vucity,@mims,@bosefina,@daveg, and...
Facebook says it will let people claim ownership of images and issue takedown requests across Facebook and Instagram, starting with select partners
The days of reposting images on Instagram might be over — Facebook is going to let people take more control over the images they own and where they end up.
Amazon says Echo and Tile devices will become Bluetooth bridges for Sidewalk, its low-bandwidth, long-range wireless protocol, later this year
Last year, Amazon announced its Sidewalk network, a new low-bandwidth, long-distance wireless protocol it developed to help connect smart devices inside and …
Mobile gaming startup Playco raises $100M Series A at a $1B+ valuation led by Josh Buckley and Sequoia Capital and will launch its first game later in 2020
Playco is a new mobile gaming startup created by Game Closure co-founder Michael Carter and Zynga co-founder Justin Waldron …
Indian mobile gaming and esports app Mobile Premier League raises $90M Series C, source says at a $375M-$400M valuation, bringing its total raise to $130.5M
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Starting Oct. 1, all new source code repositories on GitHub will be named “main” instead of “master” as part of company's effort to abandon non-inclusive terms
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Alibaba and Tencent affiliates eye China's booming auto repair business by building brick-and-mortar garage chains that are linked to their e-commerce platforms
now it's the auto industry's turn.” @Trefor1 @raffaelehuang https://www.wsj.com/... @wsj : China's aging car fleet is huge and will soon start needing significant repairs. Chinese tech companies want ...
Microsoft's Phil Spencer and members of the design team talk about Xbox Series X and S, redesigning the controller to accommodate small hand sizes, and more
Mark Wilson / Fast Company :
Disinformation campaigns require significant human effort but will soon be far easier and cheaper to undertake with AI tech like GPT-3
Renée DiResta / The Atlantic : Tweets: @michikokakutani , @jeffreygoldberg , and @adriennelaf Tweets: Michiko Kakutani / @michikokakutani : The Supply of Disinformation Will Soon Be Infinite: Disinfo...
Interviews with 36+ experts, insiders, and researchers: Facebook, Google, Lime, Zoom, and others fail to assess the risks of new products, focusing on profits
ne spring day in 2014, Susan Benesch arrived at Facebook's headquarters in Menlo Park and was ushered into a glass-walled conference room. Tweets: @schemaly , @medium , @dlberes , and @mvzelenks . Tha...
Facebook and Twitter fail to differentiate “coordinated behavior” from standard political campaign practices, leading to unclear and inconsistent moderation
How Nvidia's bets on gaming and AI transformed it from a niche player in the high-end graphics market in the mid-90s into the most valuable US chip company
Asa Fitch / Wall Street Journal :
After losing out to Apple and Google on smartphones, Facebook's big bets on VR and AR can be seen as attempting to control the next big hardware platforms
Ina Fried / Axios : Tweets: @deepakmohoni and @mattnavarra Tweets: Deepak Mohoni / @deepakmohoni : Behind Facebook's giant bet on hardware Facebook's foray into virtual and augmented reality, which i...
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