Cryptocurrency Controversies and IPO Delays in Silicon Valley

Twitter used your 2-Factor credentials to sell ads against you, the China/Hong Kong/tech controversies roll on, Mark Zuckerberg is going back to Washington, and the Nobel Prize for chemistry gives long overdue recognition to the most important technology innovation of our time.

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• Twitter says it unintentionally misused user data for advertising (Axios)
• Twitter says phone numbers users provided for security were ‘inadvertently’ used for ad purposes (The Washington Post)
• 'Protecting rioters': China warns Apple over app that tracks Hong Kong police (The Guardian)
• 'Call of Duty: Mobile' smashes records with 100 million downloads in first week (Reuters)
• Kuo: New iPad Pro and iPhone SE 2 in early 2020, followed by Apple AR headset collaboration with ‘third-party brands’ (9to5Mac)
• Mark Zuckerberg to testify before Congress on Facebook’s libra cryptocurrency (CNBC)
• Postmates’ new IPO delay says something bigger: Wall Street is turning against Silicon Valley (Recode)
• Smart fitness device Mirror launches one-on-one personal training (CNET)
• Nobel prize in chemistry awarded for work on lithium-ion batteries (The Guardian)

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