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Kevin Mayer left Disney in June to join TikTok as CEO but in a letter to the employees, Mayer said that he is leaving the company due to recent changes in the political environment. “In recent weeks, as the political environment has sharply changed, it is with a heavy heart that I wanted to let you all know that I have decided to leave the company,” Mayer said

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Trump’s official campaign app had to reset its rating after being trolled by TikTokers An effort by TikTok users to troll President Trump’s official campaign app with thousands of one-star reviews appears to have had an impact — if not the impact the pranksters had wanted. In July, Bloomberg reported TikTok activists were flocking to the Official Trump 2020 app on the U.S. App Store to fill it with negativereviews.

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Adobe released a new version of its Lightroom app for iOS this week and it unfortunately has caused some users to permanently lose their photos and presets. An update has been released since fixing the issue but Adobe says there’s no way to help those already affected by the flaw to recover lost images and data. Update:

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Universal Filmed Entertainment Group has its head in the cloud — and now it’s going to push its production teams there. The goal is to let creatives collaborate more easily and efficiently across geographic regions and with outside vendors, said Michael Wise, CTO of Universal Filmed Entertainment Group. A key reason Universal Filmed Entertainment picked Microsoft Azure is the roster of industry partners it has lined up.

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Google is assisting -- in its own way -- with fighting the wildfires currently ravaging California. On Thursday, Google announced in an official blog post written by Vice President of Engineering and Crisis Response global lead Yossi Matias that it has added features to its Maps and Search services to help users track the location and severity of the fires.

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Last year Apple surprised many by beefing up the capacities of the batteries used with the iPhone 11 line. However, a new report issued by TF International analyst Ming-Chi Kuo contains some interesting news. More precisely, Kuo says that Apple could cut 40% to 50% off of the average unit cost of the batteries needed for this year's handsets.

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From a couple thousand feet up in Microsoft’s new Flight Simulator 2020, real-world mapping data from Bing Maps unfurls from the horizon. Hong Kong is a strip of urbanity snaking around the coast. A baseball field outside Yokohama, Japan, forms a chalk pastel smudge.

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Google Pixel 5 leaked specs reveal Snapdragon 765G, 90Hz display, wide-angle camera, and 8GB RAM We may earn a commission for purchases made using our links. The Google Pixel 5 is also expected to feature a dual-camera setup like the Pixel 4, but instead of a secondary telephoto camera, Android Central believes the secondary camera will be a wide-angle lens.

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New Google Chrome features are on their way to solve the browser's unfortunate tendency to hog your device's memory and drain its battery. Introduced earlier this month, the feature revolves around the introduction of a "battery-savings" tag.

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Between renders and dummy units, we have a very good idea what the 5G Apple iPhone 12 family looks like. In the old days, dummy units were made for carriers to put on their shelves so that consumers could get an idea about the size and looks of an upcoming handset.

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The first look at Fitbit’s new smartwatches, the Versa 3 and Sense, have leaked, courtesy of WinFuture, showing off the upcoming fitness tracking-focused devices. There are, however, some immediate changes that 9to5 Google pointed out. The Versa 3 also has “icons for what appear to be voice controls, location/GPS, and water resistance of 50M.”

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Users can now generate QR codes that’ll be scannable from any supporting, third-party camera apps. The idea is that businesses can print their QR code and have customers scan it to open their Instagram account easily. While Nametags might have worked for this purpose, QR codes make it easier for people to scan and make them less reliant on taking out the Instagram camera to access information.

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The apparent prices and release dates for the PlayStation 5 Blu-ray model, PlayStation 5 Digital Edition, Xbox Series X, and Xbox Series S have been shared online. According to Serrano, Microsoft will be first to release its next-gen consoles, with the Xbox Series S stealing the limelight on Thursday, November 5, immediately followed by the main event on Friday, November 6 with the launch of the Xbox Series X.

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You can now send audio messages to your contacts through Google Assistant. We briefly tested out the new feature and got a prompt to send an audio message to a contact through SMS (Google Messages) or WhatsApp. Assistant is already adept at transcribing text and even translating text for international communications.

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NEW YORK, United States — After some initial resistance, fashion brands spent the end of 2019 and early 2020 cosying up to TikTok and its creators. As for budget, Instagram is generally the more costly platform for brands to reach new consumers, either through paid posts or through influencer partnerships.

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The Moto G 5G Plus proves to be a solid mid-range phone in our test. In other Snapdragon 765G smartphones like the Xiaomi Mi 10 Lit and OnePlus Nord, the Adreno 620 offers enough graphics performance to play demanding games relatively smoothly even on high graphical settings - but this is not the case with the Moto G 5G Plus.

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A number of Xcode projects have been found to contain malware that can attack Safari and other browsers, security researchers have revealed, with the discovery of XCSSET malware making its way into Mac software projects through largely unknown means. It is unclear exactly how the code is being injected into the project at this time.

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SpaceX Starlink Speedtest results are early but impressive

Elon Musk’s companies have had their fair share of highs and lows in the public’s eyes but SpaceX may have lately taken the lion’s share of goodwill thanks to a series of successful launches and tests of its rockets and crew capsule.

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A number of vulnerabilities have been revealed in Amazon's Alexa, highlighting the need for providers of smart home platforms, such as Apple's HomeKit, to maintain security as part of the service. It could even be possible for an attacker to install a skill to eavesdrop into conversations near an Echo device.

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President Donald Trump’s executive order banning American use of WeChat, the most popular app in China, takes effect next month, but some in China are already turning to an American app renowned for its privacy protections. Downloads for Signal, an encrypted chat app that privacy advocates generally regard as best-in-class for everyday use, are spiking in China, a spokesperson for the app said Friday

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US President Donald Trump issued executive orders to ban US transactions with Chinese companies Tencent and Bytedance, parent companies of WeChat, and TikTok respectively. The ban will take effect in 45 days and may attract retaliation from Beijing. While the scope of the ban remains unclear, the executive orders said that after 45 days, Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross “shall identify the transactions” that will be subjected to the prohibition

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Facebook took down a video President Trump posted to his account Wednesday, citing its rules against false claims about the coronavirus. The post in question was a video clip from a Fox News segment from Wednesday morning in which the president makes the unsubstantiated claim that children are “almost immune” to COVID-19

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The US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo said in a statement that Chinese apps like TikTok and WeChat pose "significant threats to the personal data of American citizens". Wednesday's announcement marks a further deterioration in relations between Washington and Beijing. President Donald Trump hinted at a potential ban on apps like TikTok in order to safeguard the security of American users

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Google’s Fitbit deal will undergo a full investigation from the European Union. Reuters reports that the EU will announce a full-scale investigation into the Google/Fitbit deal next week. In a statement reiterating its previous comments, a Google spokesperson said that the deal is about the devices, not the data, and how Fitbit will help Google better compete in the wearable space.

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Apple CEO Tim Cook defended the company’s App Store commission structure in his sworn testimony before the House Antitrust Subcommittee on Wednesday. He claimed the majority of the apps pay no commission at all, with others paying either 15 or 30 percent, based on the specifics of their particular situation

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