Leo’s Twitter Updates for 2008-01-01

Turkish coffee and a flight to Aswan where we meet the Sun Boat IV. Sarkozy and Blair are in town, snarling the traffic. #
Happy 2008 to my friends in the US. It’s been a great year so far here in GMT +2! #

TikTok Accepts Deal Revisions as Trump Prepares to Review Proposal - The New York Times 18 September 2020

Social Gaming Startup Bunch Snags $20 Million Series A, Backing From Major Game Studios 17 September 2020

The grandest dream for Bunch is that it ends up like Discord, a chat app that’s also a social network. “There hasn’t been a social network created yet for casual gamers,” Bonatsos says. “For that kind of person, there is no real community.”

Mozilla wants your help to fix terrible YouTube recommendations - The Verge 17 September 2020

Mozilla will introduce a new browser extension, RegretsReporter, that aims to crowdsource research about users’ “regrettable recommendations,” to let users better understand how YouTube’s recommendation algorithm works and provide details about patterns it discovers.

Facebook's Infinite Office is a virtual office space for the WFH crowd | Engadget 17 September 2020

With Infinite Office, you can put on the headset and be transported to a virtual office space that you can make as big or small as you wish. You can also add multiple customizable screens, which mimics a multiple monitor setup. The company has already begun experiments that incorporates Infinite Office with Spatial, a collaborative […]

Oracle (ORCL) Would Get Access to TikTok Code Under Proposed Deal - Bloomberg 17 September 2020

Oracle Corp. will get full access to review TikTok’s source code and updates to make sure there are no back doors used by the company’s Chinese parent to gather data on the video-sharing app’s 100 million American users, according to people familiar with the matter.

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