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4:15 AM ET, November 20, 2015

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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
CNN global affairs correspondent Elise Labott suspended for two weeks after she tweeted opinion following US House Syrian refugee vote  —  UPDATED: CNN correspondent suspended over tweet about House vote  —  This post has been updated to reflect that Labott has been suspended.
Ben Sisario / New York Times:
Sources: Adele's new album, 25, won't be available on streaming services when it's released on Friday; Adele involved in decision  —  Adele Is Said to Reject Streaming for ‘25’  —  For weeks, the music industry has been awaiting the release of Adele's new album, “25,” with a mixture of excitement and anxiety.
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
Comcast adds Chicago to cities with access to Stream, its $15/month TV add-on for its internet subscribers; Seattle's next  —  Comcast launches streaming TV service that doesn't count against data caps  —  Stream TV for Internet-only customers available in Boston and Chicago.
Nick Corasaniti / New York Times:
Politico Hires Brad Dayspring, Veteran G.O.P. Operative, as Spokesman  —  Politico is expanding at an aggressive pace, with new outlets opening from Brussels to New Jersey.  And now they're hiring a communications expert with the same aggressive pedigree.  —  The growing news organization …
Vasudevan Sridharan / International Business Times:
Bangladesh: Government briefly shuts down internet and mobile services  —  Bangladesh briefly shut down internet and mobile chat services after the country's top court upheld the death sentences of two opposition leaders.  The services were restored after a 90-minute blackout.
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
A history of the City Room blog at The New York Times and how it helped bring digital speed and voice to the newsroom  —  How one blog helped spark The New York Times' digital evolution  —  Last month, The New York Times announced that it was formally shutting down City Room, the metro blog that it had been running since 2007.
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler praises T-Mobile's Binge On program, which exempts streaming video from data caps and downgrades resolution to reduce data usage  —  T-Mobile's data cap exemption for video gets FCC chairman's approval  —  Wheeler: T-Mobile zero-rating is “pro-competition” and “pro-innovation.”
Marti Benedetti / Crain's Detroit Business:
Crain adds daily business newsletters in Atlanta, Boston, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, and Washington, D.C.  —  Crain launches digital business publications in 9 U.S. cities  —  Crain Communications Inc. on Tuesday launched a series of personalized …
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Nuzzel hits 2.0 with new Discover section, no longer requires Twitter login, raises $1.7M funding round  —  Nuzzel Revamps Its Social News App And Raises $1.7M  —  Social news aggregator Nuzzel is unveiling version 2.0 of its website and app — a version that CEO Jonathan Abrams described as “Nuzzel for Everyone.”
Sneha Johari / MediaNama:
Sources: Times of India requires journalists to file three WhatsApp alerts, three online-first stories per week and three tweets per day, or face reduced pay  —  Times of India Group links journo salaries with breaking news on WhatsApp groups  —  The Times of India* group has created …
Ken Yeung / VentureBeat:
Zite will shut down on December 7, asks users to migrate data to Flipboard  —  If you're a user of the personal news magazine Zite, you're going to want to pay attention.  The app is being shuttered and all data should be migrated over to Flipboard before December 7.
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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
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Alex Heath / The Verge:
Meta details Llama 3: 8B- and 70B-parameter models, a focus on reducing false refusals, and an upcoming model trained on 15T+ tokens that has 400B+ parameters

David Pierce / The Verge:
Google announces a new Platforms and Devices team overseeing Pixel, Android, Chrome, Photos, and more, to integrate AI across its products, led by Rick Osterloh

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Microsoft researchers introduce VASA-1, an AI model that creates a realistic talking face video from a portrait photo and an audio file, in research preview
 
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