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- Twitter regrets blocking the Hunter Biden story. CEO Jack Dorsey said the "straight blocking of URLs was wrong", after Republicans cried anti-conservative bias.
- Bill Gates thinks Big Tech is better prepared for antitrust. Gates said he didn't do enough to develop relationships in Washington DC.
- Ex-Facebook exec Palmer Luckey reportedly held a fundraiser for Trump. Luckey is thought to have hosted the fundraiser at his and his wife's home in Southern California on Sunday.
- Silicon Valley is exhausted. A new survey from anonymous workplace chat app Blind found that 68% of tech workers feel more burned out than they did when they worked at an office.
- Larry Ellison donated $250,000 to a pro-Lindsey Graham super PAC. The Oracle founder made the donation the day TikTok's tie-up with the cloud software firm was announced.
- Microsoft helped identify ocean trash with machine learning. The Ocean Cleanup is a nonprofit that designs technology to clean up plastic from the ocean, and participated in a Microsoft hackathon.
- MessageBird's CEO says Europe is catching up to the US. Robert Vis, whose firm just hit a $3 billion valuation, told Business Insider that Europe has increasing capital and talent was no longer emigrating abroad.
- Former TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer is investing in tech. Mayer was quietly revealed Tuesday as a participant in a $1.5 million seed-funding round for Moment House, a new platform designed for artists to host ticketed concerts and live events.
- Influencer contracts now have clauses for coronavirus. Force majeure clauses are also being expanded to include app closures amid fears of a ban on TikTok, according to analysis by Business Insider.
- Google can identify a song from your humming. A user can hum,whistle, or sing for 10-15 seconds, and then Google's technology takes the song's melody and turns it into a numbers-based sequence.
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