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The next jobs report is set to be released on Friday: expect the government to announce that 185,000 new jobs were created in September, with the unemployment rate ticking down to 3.8%.
Remember: The margin of error on the jobs number is very large — if 185,000 jobs were genuinely created in September, then the best we'll be able to say with 95% confidence is that it's somewhere between 70,000 and 300,000.
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Growing security and privacy concerns over Chinese-owned short-video app TikTok have given a lift to alternatives like Byte and Dubsmash, which have seen spikes in downloads from smartphone users recently, according to data from SensorTower.
Why it matters: If TikTok's meteoric rise in popularity among U.S. youth gets slowed by rising tensions with China, or ended by a threatened ban by the Trump administration, American teens will still have to get their hits of meme-laden video somewhere.
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Alarmed at the prospect of relying on Chinese-made drones for public safety and monitoring critical industries, U.S. investors and the federal government are newly backing a domestic drone industry of hardware and software companies.
The big picture: The moves come as the industry continues to be led by DJI, a Chinese hardware maker — and as concerns grow both in China and the U.S. about reliance on the other country's technology.
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One of the country's oldest and most established media companies is starting to look more like a Hollywood studio than a traditional newspaper.
Driving the news: The New York Times has 10 scripted TV show projects in development, as well as 3 feature documentaries coming out this year and several other documentary projects in development and production, executives tell Axios.