Chinese Chipmaker SMIC Added by Trump Administration to Defence Blacklist

The Trump administration added China's top chipmaker, SMIC, to a blacklist of alleged Chinese military companies, a move likely to escalate tensions with Beijing before President-elect Joe Biden takes... https://ift.tt/3gckqT5

Facebook Faces Lawsuit for Favouring Immigrants Over US Workers

Facebook was sued by the Trump administration, accusing it of discriminating against American workers by favouring immigrant applicants for thousands of high-paying jobs. https://ift.tt/2JIQstO

Facebook Bans False Claims About COVID-19 Vaccines

Facebook said it would remove false claims about COVID-19 vaccines that have been debunked by public health experts, following a similar announcement by YouTube in October. https://ift.tt/2VxdJBI

Facebook Changing 'Race-Blind' Hate Speech Policy: Report

Facebook is revising its hate speech algorithms to prioritise slurs against Blacks, Muslims, and others that have historically faced discrimination. https://ift.tt/3lFAqhq

Digital health startup Everlywell has raised $175M Series D at a $1.3B valuation to expand its virtual care options, after a $25M funding round in February (Darrell Etherington/TechCrunch)

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Digital health startup Everlywell has raised $175M Series D at a $1.3B valuation to expand its virtual care options, after a $25M funding round in February  —  Digital health startup Everlywell has raised a $175 million Series D funding round, following relatively fast on the heels …

14 apps, gadgets and services Google killed in 2020

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Review: Disney's Mulan Is Not Bold - or Smart - Enough

Disney's new Mulan movie is a marketing tool for China, and a wasted opportunity in how it treats Gong Li's new anti-hero character. Mulan release date is December 4 on Disney+ Hotstar. Yifei Liu,... https://ift.tt/2VxMkiY

In an internal email, Google's head of AI says that Gebru threatened to resign unless she was told which colleagues deemed her draft paper as unpublishable (Reuters)

Reuters:
In an internal email, Google's head of AI says that Gebru threatened to resign unless she was told which colleagues deemed her draft paper as unpublishable  —  OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) - A top Google scientist on ethical artificial intelligence says she was fired after criticizing …

Twitter starts applying its Synthetic and Manipulated Media policy in India, as it labels a video tweeted by BJP's head of social media as "manipulated media" (Pranav Dixit/BuzzFeed News)

Pranav Dixit / BuzzFeed News:
Twitter starts applying its Synthetic and Manipulated Media policy in India, as it labels a video tweeted by BJP's head of social media as “manipulated media”  —  Critics have been asking American tech companies to apply the same standards to the rest of the world as they do to the US.

JD Health, the digital health care unit of JD.com, has raised $3.5B in a Hong Kong IPO; the company is expected to start trading on December 8 (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)

Arjun Kharpal / CNBC:
JD Health, the digital health care unit of JD.com, has raised $3.5B in a Hong Kong IPO; the company is expected to start trading on December 8  —  - JD Health, the health-care unit of Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com, is gearing up for a Hong Kong initial public offering (IPO).

White House issues another executive order aiming to guide federal development of AI, focusing on nine principles to build public trust in the technology (Campbell Kwan/ZDNet)

Campbell Kwan / ZDNet:
White House issues another executive order aiming to guide federal development of AI, focusing on nine principles to build public trust in the technology  —  This time, the order is focused on promoting the use of trustworthy artificial intelligence by the government.

Despite Microsoft's present-day sales power, a wave of product-focused enterprise companies inspired by Slack and its peers will ultimately disrupt the giant (M.G. Siegler/500ish)

M.G. Siegler / 500ish:
Despite Microsoft's present-day sales power, a wave of product-focused enterprise companies inspired by Slack and its peers will ultimately disrupt the giant  —  A quick rebuttal on the Slackforce Slacklash  —  Look, it's late.  And everyone is happy enough so there's no pressing need to weigh in here.

Sources: the DOJ is in talks with Huawei's CFO Meng Wanzhou that would allow her to return to China in exchange for admitting wrongdoing in ongoing case (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal:
Sources: the DOJ is in talks with Huawei's CFO Meng Wanzhou that would allow her to return to China in exchange for admitting wrongdoing in ongoing case  —  Justice Department is discussing an arrangement that would allow her to return to China in exchange for admitting wrongdoing

The DOD has added China's largest chipmaker SMIC to its blacklist of alleged Chinese military companies (Reuters)

Reuters:
The DOD has added China's largest chipmaker SMIC to its blacklist of alleged Chinese military companies  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration on Thursday added China's top chipmaker SMIC and oil giant CNOOC to a blacklist of alleged Chinese military companies …

Singapore Approves Sale of No-Kill Lab-Grown Meat in World First

Singapore has given US startup Eat Just the greenlight to sell its lab-grown chicken meat, in what the firm says is the world's first regulatory approval for so-called clean meat that does not come... https://ift.tt/2JmD4vP