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AI CAN READ!
TECH FIRMS RACE
TO SMARTEN
UP THINKING
MACHINES
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APPLE WILL GIVE USERS CONTROL OVER SLOWDOWN OF OLDER iPHONES 08
GET YOUR STUFF AND GO: AMAZON OPENS STORE WITH NO CASHIERS 50
MAYBE NEXT TIME: CITIES SEE FAILED AMAZON BIDS AS TRIAL RUNS 80
BETTER THAN HOLOGRAMS: A NEW 3-D PROJECTION INTO THIN AIR 154
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Many people believed Apple was purposefully
undermining the performance of older iPhones
to drive sales of its newer and more expensive
devices. Apple insisted it was simply trying to
extend the lives of older iPhones, but issued an
apology last month and promised to replace
batteries in affected devices at a discounted
price of $50.
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EU FINES QUALCOMM FOR PAYING
APPLE TO USE ITS MICROCHIPS
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to connect to cellular networks. Over most of
that period, Qualcomm accounted for over 90
percent of the market.
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TESLA PROPOSES
BIG PAYOUT IF
MUSK MEETS
LOFTY GOALS
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The pay package, developed over the last six
months by Tesla’s board, still needs the approval
of Tesla shareholders, who will vote on it at a
special meeting in late March. Musk and his
brother Kimbal, who is a Tesla board member,
will recuse themselves from the vote.
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The company, which bought solar panel maker
SolarCity Corp. in 2016, also plans to expand its
solar panel and energy storage businesses. Tesla
is making solar panels and roof tiles at its factory
in Buffalo, New York, which will help the company
blunt any impact from President Donald Trump’s
recent 30-percent tariff on imported solar panels
and cell modules.
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In order to vest shares when milestones are
reached, Musk must stay on as CEO or serve
as both executive chairman and chief product
officer. That would give Tesla the option of
hiring a different CEO. Tesla said while it doesn’t
currently intend for Musk to step away from
the CEO role, the terms allow him to potentially
focus his attention on key products and strategy.
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Musk has never made a salary at Tesla, which
is unusual but not unheard of for a CEO. Ford
Motor Co. Executive Chairman Bill Ford didn’t
take a salary or bonus for five years starting
in 2005 when the company’s fortunes were
sagging. Oracle Corp.’s Larry Ellison has a $1
salary but takes home millions in stock awards.
And Steve Jobs took home $1 per year when he
was Apple’s CEO from 1997 to 2011.
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NETFLIX’S
SUCCESS TURNS
NET NEUTRALITY
INTO AN
AFTERTHOUGHT
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“Netflix’s fortress is so strong now that net
neutrality has become background noise for
them,” says GBH Insights analyst Daniel Ives.
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“Our goal is to entertain people,” Netflix wrote in
its earnings commentary . “We are thrilled to be
able to do that at great scale.”
NETFLIX NEUTRALITY
When it was smaller, Netflix worried that
internet providers might throw obstacles in
its way to protect the cable businesses many
of them owned. Those pay-TV bundles have
been losing subscribers for years, thanks in
part to consumers opting for Netflix and other
streaming services.
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TV networks, has incorporated the video service
into its set-top boxes. That makes Netflix as easy
to watch as any other cable channel. Other cable
providers have since followed suit.
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MONTANA
MANDATES
‘NET NEUTRALITY’
FOR STATE
CONTRACTS
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Commission members said the repeal was
needed to ensure the government maintains
a “light touch” in its oversight of the internet.
But critics such as Bullock contend change will
hurt consumers and make it harder for startup
companies to enter the market.
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by March 1 to put the order into effect, and he
invited governors and lawmakers across the
United States to duplicate his action.
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NY DECREES NET NEUTRALITY FOR
WEB FIRMS WITH STATE CONTRACTS
Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo enacted the
policy through executive order, following a
similar move by Montana Gov. Steve Bullock.
Several states are considering how to respond
after the Federal Communications Commission
last month repealed its net neutrality policy.
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Referees were assisted for the first time by high-
tech aids at a World Cup in 2014 when goal-
line technology was used. That system sees a
message instantly flash on referees’ watches
saying only whether the ball crossed the line.
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IFAB’s research showed one “clear and obvious
error” in every three games for decisions
involving goals, penalty awards, red cards, and
mistaken identity.
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GET YOUR
STUFF AND GO:
AMAZON OPENS
STORE WITH
NO CASHIERS
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Amazon employees have been testing the
store, at the bottom floor of the company’s
Seattle headquarters, for about a year.
Amazon.com Inc. said it uses computer vision,
machine learning algorithms and sensors to
figure out what people are grabbing off its
store shelves.
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putting them in incorrect spots. The app was still
able to tally up his items correctly.
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APPLE’S HOMEPOD IS ON THE HORIZON
Apple’s $349 HomePod is now available to
preorder and the wireless speaker will be in
stores on February 9. The HomePod will be on
sale in US, UK and Australia and will rollout to
France and Germany in the spring. Apple will
finally compete with the likes of Google Home
and Amazon’s Echo as they bring out their
own smart speaker. Apple is promoting it as a
speaker primarily and an assistant second. This is
a speaker that could transform how you listen to
music at home as it claims to analyze the room
to deliver exceptional quality. It will also allow
you to make lists, write emails, send messages
and ask the weather, but how will it compare
with others on the market?
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Apple received FCC approval for the iPhone X
on October 4 and was able to release the phone
on November 3, and the HomePod’s release has
followed a similar pattern. We can finally get our
hands on the speaker in early February.
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APPLE TO COMPETE WITH GOOGLE
HOME AND AMAZON’S ECHO
When the HomePod is released, the battle of
the smart speakers will truly commence. Smart
speakers were all the rage in 2017, and it is only
now that Apple is finally catching up. All the
leading smart speakers will tell you the news,
how much traffic there is, and whether you will
need an umbrella, but how do they differ and
which gets you the most for your money?
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directly to your TV. The Echo definitely beats
Google Home when it comes to sound quality,
however, while Apple’s HomePod hasn’t had
much time to prove itself yet, it is already
being voted as having the best sound quality
of the three. Many have commented that
Google Home is a little base heavy, while the
Echo can be paired with any Apple or Android
smartphone with Bluetooth casting, its sound
quality does not come close to Apple’s product.
Apple claims their speaker “senses the room
and tunes the music”. They claim the smart
speaker can analyse the acoustics of any room
and will adjust the sound accordingly.
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REVOLUTIONISING MUSIC
Critics say the sound quality of Google’s
HomePod easily beats Amazon’s Echo and
Google Home, and this is only to be expected,
given the price. How accurate Apple’s claim is
that it can analyze the acoustics of any room
and adjust the sound accordingly is still yet
to be determined. However, their claim that the
speaker can hear you over the music no matter
how far away you are and how loud the music is
has proved true.
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While Amazon and Google both focus on the
smart side of their assistant, it is the sound
quality that Apple is emphasizing. They are
marketing it as a speaker first and foremost,
choosing to reiterate the quality of the sound.
The speaker, of course, works with Apple Music
and users can not only ask it to play a specific
song but can also ask a series of questions
including when the song was recorded, who it is
by and who the drummer was.
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Apple HomePod Special Event in 8 minutes
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A DEDICATED A8 CHIP
You might be wondering what powers this
speaker to give it such a powerful sound. It is
the dedicated A8 chip that analyses and delivers
outstanding sound quality. Apple claims this
chip is the most powerful processor to ever
be found in a speaker. It is the same chip that
appeared in the iPhone 6 in 2014, and while
this is not the latest Apple has released, it is
undoubtedly the most powerful to ever have
featured in a speaker. The HomePod is equipped
with a 4in, upward-facing woofer and seven
beam-forming tweeters. These each come with
their own amplifier.
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deliver ultimate sound quality. However, this
feature might not be available with initial launch
and may require a future software update.
Overall, Apple has done a good job creating a
speaker that really does fill the room with sound.
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FACEBOOK
TO EMPHASIZE
‘TRUSTWORTHY’
NEWS VIA
USER SURVEYS
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Zuckerberg has said his goal for this year is to fix
Facebook , whether by protecting against foreign
interference and abuse or by making users feel
better about how they spend time on Facebook.
Image: Konstantin
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Zuckerberg says that some news organizations
“are only broadly trusted by their readers or
watchers, and others are broadly trusted across
society even by those who don’t follow them
directly.” But this is complicated.
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“This exercise showed us new ways to showcase
our city that we are already using to attract other
businesses,” Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland said.
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Maryland; Nashville, Tennessee; Newark, New
Jersey; Northern Virginia; and Raleigh, North
Carolina. Toronto also is on the list.
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economic development organization was part
of the team making the pitch for Grand Rapids.
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COMMERCIAL
ROCKET FROM
NEW ZEALAND
DEPLOYS SMALL
SATELLITES
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Company CEO and founder Peter Beck, a New
Zealander, said the launch marks the beginning
of a new era in commercial access to space. He
said that deploying customer payloads on a
second test flight “is almost unprecedented.”
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ads. As it adapts to a slowing TV market, NBC
is continuing some digital efforts from Rio and
expanding others to meet viewers wherever
they are — whether in front of a TV or not.
For the first time, it’s selling ads for the game
that will only appear on its app or website.
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Korea, which follow a Summer Olympics in Rio two
years ago that disappointed in some ways.
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NBC will stream the opening ceremony at 6 a.m.
Eastern on Feb. 9, but only for cable customers.
A delayed version will air on prime time. And
it’s not yet clear whether exciting medal-round
events will be shown at the best time for NBC’s
ratings, said Kantar Media chief research officer
Jon Swallen. NBC just says that all figure skating,
alpine skiing and freestyle snowboard finals will
be aired live in either prime time or what it calls
“prime-time plus,” which stretches from 11:30
p.m. until 2 a.m. Eastern.
GOING DIGITAL
As it did during the Rio Olympics, NBC has
again partnered with BuzzFeed to make videos
on Snapchat, a messaging app popular with
millennials. These will include behind-the-
scenes videos posted by Snapchat users, clips of
athletes and Olympics venues shot by BuzzFeed,
and snippets of NBC’s own Olympics coverage.
NBC’s revenue from its Snapchat deal is in the
tens of millions, said an NBC Sports spokesman.
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Compatibility: OS X 10.10 or later
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by Hany Abu-Assad
Genre: Drama
Released: 2017
Price: $9.99
144 Ratings
Trailer
Movies
&TV Shows
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The Mountain
Between Us
FIVE FACTS:
1. Much of the film was shot in Canada, on
the border of Alberta and British Columbia.
2. Both Michael Fassbender and Margot
Robbie dropped out of the movie, followed
by Charlie Hunnam and Rosamund Pike. Idris
Elba and Kate Winslet were eventually cast in
the leading roles.
3. Filming was delayed a few days so Kate
Winslet could attend Alan Rickman’s funeral.
4. In an interview, the director said the high
altitude caused the actors to faint due to
lack of oxygen.
5. Kate Winslet wouldn’t let her stunt double
fall through the ice for her, stating that when
you sign up for a part, you have to play the
whole part.
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“We Don’t Have A Choice”
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Happy Death Day
FIVE FACTS:
1. In one scene, Tree walks across the
campus quad completely naked. This had
to be filmed quickly as they were filming
on a real college campus and couldn’t
risk students witnessing the scene and
taking photos.
2. Originally, the film was going to be called
Half to Death.
3. Christopher Landon thinks too many
horror films take themselves too seriously
and argues that fear and humor work
well together.
4. The original mask for the killer, designed
by Tony Gardner, was a pig but this had been
used in the Saw movies.
5. While testing out the killer’s baby mask,
director Christopher Landon scared a worker
in his office while testing out the baby mask.
Trailer
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by Christopher Landon
Genre: Thriller
Released: 2017
Price: $14.99
139 Ratings
Rotten Tomatoes
71 %
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Happy Death Day Movie Clip
Tree Gets Attacked (2017)
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“From Now On” with Hugh Jackman
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Music
The Greatest
Showman
Various Artists
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“Come Alive” Live Performance
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Hallelujah Nights
LANCO
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“Hallelujah Nights”
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“Trouble Maker”
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WILD RIDE:
‘JUMANJI’ HOLDS
ON TO TOP SPOT
AT BOX OFFICE
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The top 20 movies at U.S. and Canadian theaters
Friday through Monday, followed by distribution
studio, gross, number of theater locations,
average receipts per location, total gross and
number of weeks in release, as compiled
Monday by comScore:
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6. “Paddington 2,” Warner Bros.,
$8,009,129, 3,702 locations,
$2,163 average, $24,810,362, 2 weeks.
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11. “Proud Mary,” Sony, $3,568,996,
2,125 locations, $1,680 average,
$16,850,600, 2 weeks.
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16. “The Shape Of Water,” Fox
Searchlight, $2,186,311,
853 locations, $2,563 average,
$30,195,358, 8 weeks.
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‘HOBBIT’ DIRECTOR
PETER JACKSON
MAKING WWI
DOCUMENTARY
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AI CAN READ!
TECH FIRMS RACE
TO SMARTEN
UP THINKING
MACHINES
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Research teams at Microsoft and Chinese tech
company Alibaba reached what they described
as a milestone earlier this month when their AI
systems outperformed the estimated human
score on a reading comprehension test. It was
the latest demonstration of rapid advances
that have improved search engines and
voice assistants and that are finding broader
applications in health care and other fields.
ERROR! ERROR!
“We are still a long way from computers
being able to read and comprehend
general text in the same way that humans
can,” said Kevin Scott, Microsoft’s chief
technology officer, in a LinkedIn post that
also commended the achievement by the
company’s Beijing-based researchers.
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A person’s careful reading of the Wikipedia
passage would have discovered the right
answer, but the computer tripped up on the
word “most” and didn’t understand that seven
is bigger than four.
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Image: Jeff Chiu
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LIMITS OF UNDERSTANDING Computers are getting better at the statistical
intuition that allows them to scan text and find
The tech industry’s collection and digitization
what seems relevant, but they still struggle with
of huge troves of data, combined with new sets
the logical reasoning that comes naturally to
of algorithms and more powerful computing,
people. (And they are often hopeless when it
has helped inject new energy into a machine-
comes to deciphering the subtle wink-and-nod
learning field that’s been around for more than
trickery of a clever puzzle.) Many of the common
half a century. But computers are still “far off”
ways of measuring artificial intelligence are in
from truly understanding what they’re reading,
some ways teaching to the test, Littman said.
said Michael Littman, a Brown University
computer science professor who has tasked “It strikes me for the kind of problem that they’re
computers to solve crossword puzzles. solving that it’s not possible to do better than
people, because people are defining what’s
correct,” Littman said of the Stanford benchmark.
“The impressive thing here is they met human
performance, not that they’ve exceeded it.”
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SPACEWALKING
ASTRONAUTS GIVE
NEW HAND TO
ROBOT ARM
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second new hand will go on the opposite end of
the 58-foot arm, able to move like an inchworm
by grabbing hold of special fixtures.
Online: NASA
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CHRISTA
MCAULIFFE’S LOST
LESSONS FINALLY
TAUGHT IN SPACE
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Astronauts Joe Acaba and Ricky Arnold will
perform some of McAuliffe’s lessons over the
next several months. Acaba shared the news
during a TV linkup last week with students at
her alma mater, Framingham State University
near Boston.
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Acaba returns to Earth at the end of February.
Arnold flies up in March. NASA is billing their
back-to-back missions as “A Year of Education
on Station.”
Online:
NASA: tinyurl.com/yearofeducation
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BETTER THAN HOLOGRAMS:
A NEW 3-D PROJECTION
INTO THIN AIR
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One of the enduring sci-fi moments of the
big screen — R2-D2 beaming a 3-D image of
Princess Leia into thin air in “Star Wars” — is
closer to reality thanks to the smallest of screens:
dust-like particles.
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different science fiction movie that gave him the
idea: The scene in the movie “Iron Man” when
the Tony Stark character dons a holographic
glove. That couldn’t happen in real life because
Stark’s arm would disrupt the image.
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Pictures in the air: 3D printing with light
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SOLAR INDUSTRY
ON EDGE AS
TRUMP WEIGHS
TARIFFS ON PANELS
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A consultant for SolarWorld said tariffs on
imports could create up to 45,000 U.S. jobs,
assuming that domestic capacity grows, and
installation jobs would also increase. But U.S.
manufacturing of solar cells employed only
about 1,300 people at its recent peak in 2012,
according to the trade commission.
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In the New Mexico desert, Albuquerque-
based Affordable Solar is working on a $45
million solar farm to help power a massive
new data center for Facebook. The company’s
president, Kevin Bassalleck, said tariffs would
hurt homegrown companies that make racks,
tracking systems and electronics that are
part of a power system. He said jobs at those
companies are hard to outsource.
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UK REGULATOR
SAYS FOX
TAKEOVER OF
SKY NOT IN
PUBLIC INTEREST
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The findings of the Competition and Markets
Authority will be finalized by May 1, when the
regulator will send its report to the government,
which will make a final ruling on the Sky deal.
That decision may ultimately be a moot point
because the Walt Disney Co.’s $52.4 billion bid for
most of Fox would give Disney — not Murdoch
— full ownership of Sky.
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The authority recognized that the completion
of Disney’s bid for Fox would weaken concerns
about media plurality, because Disney would
own Sky. But the authority said there was no way
to guarantee when or if Disney’s takeover of Fox
will be completed so the British government’s
review of the Sky merger must go forward.
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harassment and hush money at his companies,”
Alex Wilks, Campaign Director, Avaaz. “In the
coming weeks they’ll hear from citizens, victims
and whistleblowers to show them they got
this wrong.”
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