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Booting WeChat from the App Store could hit global iPhone shipments hard — Cult of Mac

Booting WeChat out of the App Store could drive down worldwide iPhone shipments by up to 30% claims respected Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, writes...

Congress grills tech CEOs amid backdrop of coronavirus and economic struggles — CNBC

While investors appeared unconcerned, today’s hearing is probably the beginning of a long slog for all four companies, writes Matt Rosoff. Here is the link:...

Facebook adds $100 million to landmark facial recognition settlement payout — Fortune

Facebook has agreed to pay a total of $650 million in a landmark class action lawsuit over the company's unauthorized use of facial recognition,...

Q&A: Facebook’s CTO is at war with bad content, and AI is his best weapon — IEEE Spectrum

Mike Schroepfer explains Facebook’s AI strategy against hate speech and election interference, writes Tekla S. Perry. Here is the link: https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/qa-facebooks-cto-is-at-war-with-bad-content-and-ai-is-his-best-weapon

CMU, Facebook working on ‘common sense’ semantic navigation systems for robots

A "semantic" navigation system developed by Carnegie Mellon University and Facebook AI Research (FAIR) can concentrate on relationships between objects and room layouts, rather than also learning route planning.