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Salesforce buys Slack, Warner Bros' HBO Max deal, Ajit Pai, Timnit Gebru


  • Salesforce buys Slack for $27.7b.

  • Prop. 24 and the challenges of paying for privacy.

  • The Apple M1 chip is fast!

  • Apple gets fined in Italy for misleading iPhone claims.

  • Apple's Best of 2020 apps list is out.

  • Josh Elman, a venture capitalist, is hired by Apple.

  • AI scientist Timnit Gebru is fired by Google.

  • Facebook's Oversight Board announces its first cases.

  • COVID misinformation will be removed from Facebook.

  • Chris Krebs details foreign threat over vaccine IP.

  • Warner Media's vision of HBO Max.

  • Warner Bros' announces day and date release on HBO Max in 2021.

  • The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act is under threat.

  • resident Trump threatens changes to Section 230.

  • TikTok's December 4 deadline is not being enforced.

  • FCC Chairman Ajit Pai announces his plan to exit the department.

  • China's claim of Quantum Supremacy.

  • Arecibo Observatory footage that shows its collapse.

  • Lab-grown meat will go on sale for the first time.


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