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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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