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| | | | | Tuesday, December 03, 2019 ⢠By Anthony Ha |
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Happy Tuesday The holiday shopping season starts with a bang, the DHS proposes an expansion of facial recognition scans and Facebook is doing more to prevent discriminatory ad targeting. Here’s your Daily Crunch for December 3, 2019. |
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| Cyber Monday â the final day of the extended Thanksgiving weekend that traditionally kicks off holiday season spending â broke another e-commerce record: U.S. shoppers racked up a total of $9.2 billion in online sales, according to figures from Adobe. That said, there is an undercurrent of sluggishness. Following the pattern set during Thanksgiving and Black Friday, Adobe had predicted that spending would reach $9.4 billion â so the actual total fell a bit short. Read more |
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| In a filing, the department has proposed that all travelers â not just foreign nationals or visitors â will have to complete a facial recognition check before they are allowed to enter the U.S., and also to leave the country. Read more |
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| Under the terms of a settlement with the ACLU and other civil rights groups earlier this year, Facebook has been taking steps to prevent discriminatory ad targeting. Today, it’s expanding the enforcement of these rules beyond Facebook Ad Manager to encompass every other place where someone might buy ads on Facebook. Read more |
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| Amazon isn’t building its own quantum computer. Instead, itâs partnering with D-Wave, IonQ and Rigetti and making their systems available through its cloud. Read more |
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| The Twitter Privacy Center will host information about Twitterâs initiatives, announcements and new privacy products, as well as other communication about security incidents. The company says it wanted to create a centralized resource so it would be easier to find all the information about Twitterâs work in this area. Read more |
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| We interview Akshay Kothari, COO of work tools startup Notion, in which he discusses the company’s philosophy of staying small â as well as challenges to this strategy as competitors raise massive sums. (Extra Crunch membership required.) Read more |
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| It’s kind of crazy that we’re only getting a “Black Widow” movie now, but at least the cast â David Harbour! Florence Pugh! Rachel Weisz!! â looks amazing. Read more |
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