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Engadget
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ZDNet
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Techmeme
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The Verge
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Slashdot
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ArsTechnica
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CNET
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The Register
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Medium: Technology
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Quartz: Tech
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MIT Technology Review
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NYTimes: Tech
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- Mark Zuckerberg is urged to scrap plans for an Instagram for children.
- Shares of TuSimple, a developer of autonomous trucks, fall sharply after I.P.O. before recovering.
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- Disney and ad-tech firms agree to privacy changes for children’s apps.
WSJ: Tech
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- Taiwan Drought Threatens to Make Chip Shortage Worse
- Autonomous-Truck Developer TuSimple Plans Driverless Road Test This Year
- AppLovin Shares Fall 19% in Market Debut
- Jeff Bezos Says Amazon Needs Better Vision for Employees, Defends Work
- Electric-Vehicle Startup XPeng Bets on the Tech That Tesla Rejects
- Cable Companies Emerge as Force in Cellphone Business
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- Beijing Targets Crowdfunded Medical-Care Industry
Washington Post: Technology
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- Wyden urges ban on sale of Americans’ personal data to ‘unfriendly’ foreign governments
- What’s not to like? Instagram lets users hide ‘like’ counts on posts.
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- ‘New Pokémon Snap’ developer discusses the game’s big changes from the original
Guardian: Tech UK
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- Advocates say kids’ Instagram product would ‘put young users at great risk’
- Amazon must ‘do a better job’ for its workers, says Jeff Bezos
- Instagram apologises for promoting weight-loss content to users with eating disorders
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BBC: Tech UK
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- Ocado in self-driving vans push with £10m stake in Oxbotica
- TB Joshua: YouTube blocks Nigerian preacher over gay cure claim
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- US imposes sanctions on Russia over cyber-attacks
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- William Amos: Canadian politician seen naked in work Zoom call
- Google Earth time-lapse feature winds clock back 37 years
- Google Earth time-lapses show a changing planet
Computing UK
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- US sanctions six tech firms for supporting Russian intelligence services
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- University of Hertfordshire cancels live online teaching following cyber attack
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- EU set to ban AI use for 'indiscriminate surveillance'
- US government to announce Russian sanctions in response to cyber attacks
- Irish regulator opens GDPR inquiry into Facebook data leak
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