NBCUniversal's streaming service Peacock launches on Roku devices across the US; Roku's stock is up 15%+ (Todd Spangler/Variety)

Todd Spangler / Variety: NBCUniversal's streaming service Peacock launches on Roku devices across the US; Roku's stock is up 15%+  —  Roku today is launching Peacock, nearly 10 weeks after the NBCUniversal streamer made its U.S. debut.  —  The availability of the Peacock app on Roku devices and Roku-enabled TVs comes …

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Amazon says Echo and Tile devices will become Bluetooth bridges for Sidewalk, its low-bandwidth, long-range wireless protocol, later this year (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: 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 …

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Trump says he would not approve a TikTok deal unless ByteDance ceded its control, after ByteDance said it would retain an 80% stake (David McCabe/New York Times)

David McCabe / New York Times: 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 …

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Interviews with 36+ experts, insiders, and researchers: Facebook, Google, Lime, Zoom, and others fail to assess the risks of new products, focusing on profits (OneZero )

OneZero : 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.

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Facebook says it will let people claim ownership of images and issue takedown requests across Facebook and Instagram, starting with select partners (Ashley Carman/The Verge)

Ashley Carman / The Verge: 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.

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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 (Microsoft)

Microsoft: 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  —  Iconic games portfolio, publishing expertise, and world-class talent accelerates growth in Microsoft's Gaming business

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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 (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: 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 …

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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)

Renée DiResta / The Atlantic: Disinformation campaigns require significant human effort but will soon be far easier and cheaper to undertake with AI tech like GPT-3  —  Someday soon, the reading public will miss the days when a bit of detective work could identify completely fictitious authors.  Consider the case of “Alice Donovan.”

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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 (Danny Crichton/TechCrunch)

Danny Crichton / TechCrunch: 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.

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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 (Financial Times)

Financial Times: 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 …

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