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Monday, November 30, 2020
Redmi Note 9 4G China Model May Launch as Redmi 9 Power in India
Facebook, Google, More Tech Giants to Face Digital Tax in Canada in 2022
Facebook, Google Becoming 'Human Rights-Free Zones' in Vietnam: Amnesty
Amazon launches EC2 Mac instances bringing the Intel-based Mac mini to its cloud for $1.083 per hour billed by the second (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
Amazon launches EC2 Mac instances bringing the Intel-based Mac mini to its cloud for $1.083 per hour billed by the second — AWS today opened its re:Invent conference with a surprise announcement: the company is bringing the Mac mini to its cloud. These new EC2 Mac instances, as AWS calls them, are now available in preview.
How to share photos and videos from iPhone to any Android smartphone
Amazon, Apple Stay Away From New French Big Tech Initiative
Facebook Buys Online Customer Service Startup Kustomer
Bitcoin Jumps to All-Time High of Over $19,800 Amid Increased Demand
Donald Trump to add China's SMIC and CNOOC to defense blacklist: Sources
Britain bans new Huawei 5G kit installation from September 2021
Facebook to buy customer service startup Kustomer
Bitcoin surges to all-time record as 2020 rally powers on
Totum Labs, which is developing low earth orbit nanosatellites for global IoT connectivity, raises $13M Series A led by Heroic Ventures and Space Capital (Nickie Louise/TechStartups.com)
Nickie Louise / TechStartups.com:
Totum Labs, which is developing low earth orbit nanosatellites for global IoT connectivity, raises $13M Series A led by Heroic Ventures and Space Capital — Totum Labs, a San Diego, CA-based tech startup that is revolutionalizing wireless technology by enabling low-cost, global …
Mursion, which offers VR training to practice human skills, such as emotional intelligence, in the workplace, announces $20M Series B led by Leeds Illuminate (Lee Clifford/Fortune)
Lee Clifford / Fortune:
Mursion, which offers VR training to practice human skills, such as emotional intelligence, in the workplace, announces $20M Series B led by Leeds Illuminate — Hugo is furious. — He's sitting across from me, arms crossed, face scowling, exuding bad energy. Sitting next to him is Maia.
S&P Global has agreed to acquire IHS Markit for about $44B in an all-stock deal, which would merge two of the largest providers of financial data and analysis (Wall Street Journal)
Wall Street Journal:
S&P Global has agreed to acquire IHS Markit for about $44B in an all-stock deal, which would merge two of the largest providers of financial data and analysis — Landmark deal would combine two of the largest providers of data to Wall Street — S&P Global Inc. agreed to acquire IHS Markit Ltd …
Sources: Gitlab is letting employees sell equity in a secondary share sale that values the company over $6B, up from a valuation of $2.7B in September 2019 (Ari Levy/CNBC)
Ari Levy / CNBC:
Sources: Gitlab is letting employees sell equity in a secondary share sale that values the company over $6B, up from a valuation of $2.7B in September 2019 — - GitLab competes with GitHub, which Microsoft acquired in 2018 for $7.5 billion. — The company had originally aimed to go public …
Facebook to launch Facebook News in the UK in Jan. 2021, says it will pay publishers for news not already on its platform; most big UK publishers have signed up (Jim Waterson/The Guardian)
Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
Facebook to launch Facebook News in the UK in Jan. 2021, says it will pay publishers for news not already on its platform; most big UK publishers have signed up — Social network agrees deal with mainstream outlets in face of government crackdown on its dominance of advertising
How to Watch Lunar Eclipse 2020 Live
Spotify Is Reportedly Testing Stories With Playlists, Artists
Samsung Could Soon Launch 'Galaxy Buds Pro' True Wireless Earphones
Flipkart's Flipstart Days Sale to Start Tomorrow, With Deals of Up to 80 Percent Off
Sunday, November 29, 2020
BigBasket lost 80% of workforce within 2 days of lockdown, bounced back with resilience: CEO
Britain bans new Huawei 5G kit installation from September 2021
Amazon Cyber Monday Sale Brings Up to 50 Percent Off on International Brands
Moto G 5G With 5,000mAh Battery, Triple Rear Camera Launched in India
Samsung Launches Level U2 Neckband Earbuds With 12mm Drivers
Nokia 5.4 Launch, Alleged Specifications And Price Tipped
Mulan, Pixar's Soul, Euphoria, and More on Disney+ Hotstar in December
Oppo Reno 5 Pro 5G Appears on HDR10+ Certification Site
ZTE Blade V2021 5G With Triple Rear Camera Launching on December 2
Xiaomi Mi 11 Series Tipped to Arrive in January
Britain Bans New Huawei 5G Kit Installation from September 2021
Trump to Add Chinese Chipmaker SMIC to Defense Blacklist: Sources
A look at crowdsourced public safety apps growing amid rising violence in Brazil; Fogo Cruzado, which warns of shootings in RÃo and Recife, has 250K+ downloads (Raphael Tsavkko Garcia/MIT Technology ...)
Raphael Tsavkko Garcia / MIT Technology Review:
A look at crowdsourced public safety apps growing amid rising violence in Brazil; Fogo Cruzado, which warns of shootings in RÃo and Recife, has 250K+ downloads — Shootouts are common in Brazil's cities. Apps have sprung up to tell people about spots to avoid—and to put political pressure on authorities.
Motorola Moto G 5G India Launch Confirmed for November 30
JD Digits, JD.com's big data unit, unveils its plans to build an AI-powered smart city "operating system" for China's smart city project in Xiongan, China (Masha Borak/South China Morning Post)
Masha Borak / South China Morning Post:
JD Digits, JD.com's big data unit, unveils its plans to build an AI-powered smart city “operating system” for China's smart city project in Xiongan, China — JD Digits, the e-commerce giant's big data arm, is building up a smart city operating system that uses artificial intelligence Alibaba …
Torbaaz, Mank, Bhaag Beanie Bhaag, and More on Netflix in December
Interview with former director of US CISA Chris Krebs on being fired by Trump via tweet, why paper ballots are key to ensuring election security, and more (Scott Pelley/CBS News)
Scott Pelley / CBS News:
Interview with former director of US CISA Chris Krebs on being fired by Trump via tweet, why paper ballots are key to ensuring election security, and more — Chris Krebs, a lifelong Republican, was put in charge of the agency handling election security by President Trump two years ago.
UK-based Primer, an ex-PayPal staff fintech that aims to help merchants future proof and consolidate their payment stack, raises a £14M Series A led by Accel (Steve O'Hear/TechCrunch)
Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch:
UK-based Primer, an ex-PayPal staff fintech that aims to help merchants future proof and consolidate their payment stack, raises a £14M Series A led by Accel — Primer, the U.K. fintech that wants to help merchants consolidate their payments stack and easily support new payment methods in the future …
The UK will ban the installation of new Huawei 5G network equipment starting September 2021 and pledges $333M to diversify its 5G supply chain (Thomas Seal/Bloomberg)
Thomas Seal / Bloomberg:
The UK will ban the installation of new Huawei 5G network equipment starting September 2021 and pledges $333M to diversify its 5G supply chain — - Britain set to impose security law on mobile network operators — White House pushed allies to exclude Chinese tech giant Huawei
How students in a remote part of Pakistan mobilized during the pandemic to demand better internet from the military-run unit controlling it (Alizeh Kohari/Rest of World)
Alizeh Kohari / Rest of World:
How students in a remote part of Pakistan mobilized during the pandemic to demand better internet from the military-run unit controlling it — Pakistan's government uses the internet as a means of exerting control — and in a remote part of the country, citizens are starting to fight back.
Experts say Facebook's implementation of its ban on selling historical artifacts eliminates evidence of crimes and hinders the tracking of art traffickers (Zoe Schiffer/The Verge)
Zoe Schiffer / The Verge:
Experts say Facebook's implementation of its ban on selling historical artifacts eliminates evidence of crimes and hinders the tracking of art traffickers — A ban on selling stolen artifacts is having unintended consequences — On October 24th, 2020, an art trafficker in Darnah, Libya posted a series of unusual ads.
As China gets more expensive and US politics less predictable, Foxconn, Pegatron, and others are increasing production in places like India, Vietnam, and Mexico (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)
Debby Wu / Bloomberg:
As China gets more expensive and US politics less predictable, Foxconn, Pegatron, and others are increasing production in places like India, Vietnam, and Mexico — - Foxconn eyes Vietnam for some production of iPads and MacBooks — Pegatron is in the process of readying an iPhone site in India
A look at Cartel TikTok, viral videos showcasing drug cartel culture, that experts say is a propaganda tool designed to mask the violence and attract recruits (Oscar Lopez/New York Times)
Oscar Lopez / New York Times:
A look at Cartel TikTok, viral videos showcasing drug cartel culture, that experts say is a propaganda tool designed to mask the violence and attract recruits — Mexico is set to shatter another murder record, but that grim reality is nowhere to be seen on the TikTok videos that go viral by showcasing drug cartel culture.
South African telecom regulator to charge operators for emergency spectrum
Google, Temasek, and Bain & Company report: investments in Indonesia's tech sector in the first half of 2020 totaled $2.8B, up 55% from the same period in 2019 (Mercedes Ruehl/Financial Times)
Mercedes Ruehl / Financial Times:
Google, Temasek, and Bain & Company report: investments in Indonesia's tech sector in the first half of 2020 totaled $2.8B, up 55% from the same period in 2019 — Sharp spike in investment in south-east Asia's largest economy after New Delhi closes its doors
Report: China accounted for 23% of cross-border data flows in 2019, nearly twice the share of the US, which ranked second with 12%, followed by the UK and India (Nikkei Asia)
Nikkei Asia:
Report: China accounted for 23% of cross-border data flows in 2019, nearly twice the share of the US, which ranked second with 12%, followed by the UK and India — Asian ‘data sphere’ gives the country twice the information flows of the US — People view laptop computers from Chinese tech firm Huawei at an expo in Beijing.
Pandemic has deepened the digital education divide in India, where ~38% of households with students had no smartphone in the house, according to a recent survey (Wall Street Journal)
Wall Street Journal:
Pandemic has deepened the digital education divide in India, where ~38% of households with students had no smartphone in the house, according to a recent survey — Children across India are struggling to keep up because they don't have the tech tools for online classes
Reliance JioPages browser updated with new tools, here’s how to use them
Saturday, November 28, 2020
Profile of Christine Su, Twitter's senior PM for conversational safety, who is a queer Asian-American "activist-entrepreneur" with an MBA and MA in agriculture (Anna Kramer/Protocol)
Anna Kramer / Protocol:
Profile of Christine Su, Twitter's senior PM for conversational safety, who is a queer Asian-American “activist-entrepreneur” with an MBA and MA in agriculture — About six months ago, Twitter quietly hired someone to become the head of product for conversational safety on the platform.
A report on student grades from Virginia reveals that online learning has led to a sharp drop in students' academic performance (Hannah Natanson/Washington Post)
Hannah Natanson / Washington Post:
A report on student grades from Virginia reveals that online learning has led to a sharp drop in students' academic performance — A report on student grades from one of the nation's largest school districts offers some of the first concrete evidence that online learning is forcing …
As Facebook and Google continue to ban political ads, Republican super PACs are spending millions on other platforms that offer no advertiser transparency (Issie Lapowsky/Protocol)
Issie Lapowsky / Protocol:
As Facebook and Google continue to ban political ads, Republican super PACs are spending millions on other platforms that offer no advertiser transparency — Facebook and Google are still banning political ads on their platforms, but that hasn't stopped Republican super PACs from spending millions …
From Tenet to Durgamati, What to Watch in December
How Reach Vet, an AI-based system used in clinical practice by the US Department of Veterans Affairs, helps identify veterans at high risk of suicide (Benedict Carey/New York Times)
Benedict Carey / New York Times:
How Reach Vet, an AI-based system used in clinical practice by the US Department of Veterans Affairs, helps identify veterans at high risk of suicide — The Department of Veterans Affairs has turned to machine-learning to help identify vets at risk of taking their own lives.
HMBradley, a Santa Monica-based banking startup which offers up to 3% interest on savings accounts, raises $18.25M Series A led by Acrew Capital (Christine Hall/Crunchbase News)
Christine Hall / Crunchbase News:
HMBradley, a Santa Monica-based banking startup which offers up to 3% interest on savings accounts, raises $18.25M Series A led by Acrew Capital — As consumers look for ways to make their money earn more money, digital banking platform HMBradley is developing programs to reward savers.
Interviews with tech leaders on Tony Hsieh's legacy, his student life at Harvard, his unconventional business approach, and the culture he built at Zappos (Alex Konrad/Forbes)
Alex Konrad / Forbes:
Interviews with tech leaders on Tony Hsieh's legacy, his student life at Harvard, his unconventional business approach, and the culture he built at Zappos — Tony Hsieh, bestselling author and longtime former CEO of ecommerce pioneer Zappos.com, died at age 46 on Friday.
Big Tech threatens democracy and one solution may be to take away their role as gatekeepers of content and let users choose the information presented to them (Foreign Affairs)
Foreign Affairs:
Big Tech threatens democracy and one solution may be to take away their role as gatekeepers of content and let users choose the information presented to them — Among the many transformations taking place in the U.S. economy, none is more salient than the growth of gigantic Internet platforms.
Google says it plans to counter Japan's FTC over claims that it hobbles rivals in search; a source says Japan's FTC sent a cease-and-desist order to Google (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg : Google says it plans to counter Japan's FTC over claims that it hobbles rivals in search; a source says Japan's FTC s...
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Jake Offenhartz / Gothamist : Since October, the NYPD has deployed a quadruped robot called Spot to a handful of crime scenes and hostage...
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