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- Oracle has reportedly entered the race to buy TikTok's US operations, competing with rival Microsoft for the viral app as Trump's deadline looms>$4. $4 reported Oracle has been working with US investors, including General Atlantic and Sequoia Capital, who own a stake in TikTok already.
- $4. If granted by a judge, the restraining order would legally stop Apple from "removing, de-listing, refusing to list or otherwise making unavailable the app 'Fortnite,' including any update thereof."
- $4. The algorithm has been widely criticized for hurting bright students at disadvantaged schools, costing them life-changing places at top colleges.
- $4. Facebook's search algorithm was found to "actively promote" Holocaust denial content to users who had previously interacted with similar content.
- $4. Rackspace helps companies migrate their data to Amazon Web Services, and the investment would strengthen the ties between the two companies.
- $4. The draft regulation would force Facebook and Google to pay news publishers for their content.
- $4. The additional challenge of COVID-19 may make the prospect of profitability even more remote, even after the trio have raised a collective $1.9 billion from investors.
- $4. Whitman previously ran for governor of California as a Republican and she is one of several current and former Republicans who oppose Trump billed to speak at the DNC.
- $4. The former Brooklyn Nets owner said he expected "explosive growth" in the virtual reality market over the next decade.
- $4. University of California, Berkeley student Liam Porr created several blog posts using OpenAI's GPT-3 text generator and several people subscribed to his account, believing he wrote the posts himself.
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