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Facebook to display “related articles” for popular stories, including ones flagged as false by fact checkers, to combat misinformation, after months of testing — Social-media giant will display related articles to limit the damage of false news without censoring posts| Joseph Cox / Motherboard: |
Marcus Hutchins, who helped stop WannaCry's spread, detained by FBI after attending Def Con; friend says his location, condition, and charges are unknown — On Wednesday, US authorities detained a researcher who goes by the handle MalwareTech, best known for stopping the spread of the WannaCry ransomware virus.
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Inside Patreon, which has 50K active creators, 1M+ patrons, is set to process $150M in 2017, and supports a myriad of people that otherwise may not get funding — In 2013, Peter Hollens was an aspiring a cappella singer surviving, in his words, by living on ramen in someone else's house.
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Greylock COO Tom Frangione out, source says due to “inappropriate” consensual relationship, just weeks after partner Reid Hoffman proposed a “Decency Pledge” — Tom Frangione has stepped down as chief operating officer of Greylock Partners, after the Silicon Valley …
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| Steven Levy / Wired: |
How Apple developed new Bluetooth Low Energy Audio tech to stream audio directly from iOS devices to hearing aids and cochlear implants — My conversation with Mathias Bahnmueller started as pretty much all my phone interviews do. “Can you hear me?” he asked, and I replied affirmatively.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google says it will rank better-performing apps, like those that use less battery or crash less often, higher in the Play Store — Google today announced it's rolling out a change to its Play Store so that better-performing apps - meaning those that experience fewer crashes and those that don't drain … | Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Uber expands Uber Freight beyond Texas to California, Arizona, Chicago, Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina and updates driver's app — Uber Freight, the on-demand trucking service created by Uber and introduced earlier this year, is expanding from its initial market of Texas to areas in California … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook confirms it's testing Stories on desktop, with a wider rollout expected soon — Great news, folks. Facebook Stories, the shameless Snapchat clone that sits above the News Feed on Facebook's mobile app, is now rolling out to Facebook's desktop site.
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| John Herrman / New York Times: |
YouTube has emerged as the new conservative talk radio for a younger generation of right-wing extremists like Paul Joseph Watson and Stefan Molyneux — In June, Zack Exley, a political organizer and a fellow at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, published a report on …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Small business loan platform Kabbage raises $250M Series F from SoftBank, bringing its total raised to $500M — Kabbage, a company with some 115,000 customers and $3.5 billion in loans that has built an automated platform for lending money to small businesses and individuals using a large set …
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Reuters, Bloomberg, Financial Times, CNBC, Business Insider, Crowdfund Insider, Financial Times, and Seeking Alpha. Thanks:@ingridlunden
| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Strategy Analytics: Xiaomi was top wearables vendor in Q2 with 3.7M units, up 23% YoY, Fitbit was 2nd with 3.4M units, Apple was 3rd with 2.8M units, up 56% YoY — Apple shipped an estimated 2.8 million Apple Watch units in the June quarter, an increase of 56 percent from an estimated 1.8 million shipments …
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Business Wire, TechCrunch, Engadget, Cult of Mac, Patently Apple, Fortune, AppAdvice.com, and 9to5Mac
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Smash.gg raises $11M for esports tournament platform, led by Spark Capital with participation from Accel Partners and Horizon Ventures — Smash.gg has raised $11 million to help local esports fans create their own tournaments. — The idea is to enable organized esports competitions …
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