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How online sellers, including Amazon and GOAT, are using AI to spot counterfeit goods, with the help of authentication startups like Entrupy (Jackie Snow/Wall Street Journal)

Jackie Snow / Wall Street Journal: How online sellers, including Amazon and GOAT, are using AI to spot counterfeit goods, with the help of authentication startups like Entrupy  —  When Olivia Matthaei, a consignment store sales clerk, needs to check whether a designer handbag is authentic, she knows the drill. How online sellers, including Amazon

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Interview with Bill Gates on COVID-19, Trump, last week's antitrust meeting, Mark Zuckerberg, misinformation, and the "poison chalice" of the TikTok deal (Steven Levy/Wired)

Steven Levy / Wired: Interview with Bill Gates on COVID-19, Trump, last week’s antitrust meeting, Mark Zuckerberg, misinformation, and the “poison chalice” of the TikTok deal  —  The techie-turned-philanthropist on vaccines, Trump, and why social media is “a poisoned chalice.” Interview with Bill Gates on COVID-19, Trump, last week's antitrust meeting, Mark Zuckerberg, misinformation, and

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Intelligence agencies don't see TikTok as a major security issue, see the claimed risks as largely theoretical, and view companies like Huawei as larger threats (New York Times)

New York Times: Intelligence agencies don’t see TikTok as a major security issue, see the claimed risks as largely theoretical, and view companies like Huawei as larger threats  —  Even as the White House moves against the Chinese social media app, the intelligence agencies do not see it as a major issue along the lines

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Toshiba, which started making laptops in 1985, has formally exited the laptop business, after Sharp acquired Toshiba's final shares in Dynabook (Simon Sharwood/The Register)

Simon Sharwood / The Register: Toshiba, which started making laptops in 1985, has formally exited the laptop business, after Sharp acquired Toshiba’s final shares in Dynabook  —  Last Dynabook shares shuffled off to new owner Sharp  —  Toshiba has made laptops since 1985 and claims to have been the first to make a mass-market computer

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