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What to expect at CES 2021

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These are Sony’s first 360-degree audio speakers. I also wonder just how much content is really going to support 360-degree audio. ? Sony’s 360-degree audio is coming to streaming video. ? Sony is going to start selling its Mandalorian-like virtual set displays. I’ll take two. These speakers look really interesting! We’ll see.

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Twitter is reinventing itself

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Kayvon Beykpour, head of consumer product, on the company’s new product plan Twitter recently announced that it’s going to be building a lot of new things into its product: there’s Twitter Spaces , which is a live audio feature very similar to the red-hot Clubhouse app. There are Twitter Fleets , which look like Snap and Instagram Stories.

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How Twitter is shifting the power balance from companies to their employees

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Last week, the worlds of technology and journalism were transfixed by a conflict that played out across across Instagram, Twitter, and the upstart audio-only social network Clubhouse. Governing. ? It could help state and local governments know when it’s safe to roll back shelter-in-place restrictions.

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A new lawsuit may force YouTube to own up to the mental health consequences of content moderation

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Governing. ? officials in the upcoming 2020 Presidential Election,” which he did by releasing edited audio tapes and other unsupported information that were then pushed in Western media. ? It took a lawsuit from contractors to get Facebook to acknowledge the harms of moderating extremist content. Jessica Guynn / USA Today ).

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TikTok’s success has made it a big target for regulators

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Yesterday we talked about the audio-only social network Clubhouse , which found itself at the center of controversy after failing to take action or even make a public comment after users began to experience harassment within the app. Governing. ? TikTok is registered in the Cayman Islands, for example. Maya Tribbitt / Bloomberg).

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Half of all Facebook moderators may develop mental health issues

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Last year I published some leaked audio from a Facebook all-hands meeting in which CEO Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged this range of experiences. Governing. ? The move escalates Silicon Valley’s battle with Washington at time when government officials are still threatening to break up large companies. But what is that percentage?

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TikTok’s biggest problem is outside its control

The Verge

At the root of this concern is that no matter what ByteDance says about TikTok’s independence from Chinese governance, ultimately it must do whatever the country’s brutal, repressive authoritarian regime demands. That makes it hard for high-risk users to feel entirely safe, no matter what the app does. What sort of data?

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