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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
European Parliament votes against controversial Article 11 and Article 13 copyright reform proposals, meaning they will now be open for debate and amendments — A 318-278 majority of MEPs in the European Parliament has voted to reopen debate around a controversial digital copyright reform proposal …
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TorrentFreak, VentureBeat, Wall Street Journal, The Verge, Business Insider, Reuters, WIRED UK, Politico, CNBC, Yahoo, Silicon Republic, Fortune, and BBC
Tweets: @senficon, @eff, @jimmy_wales, @superglaze, @jtemperton, and @kostasrossoglou
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Wikipedia redirected all of its Italian, Spanish, and Polish pages to a statement protesting July 5 EU Parliament initial vote on changes to copyright law — Wikipedia's Italian and Spanish language versions have temporarily shut off access to their respective versions of the free online encyclopedia …
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VentureBeat, CNET, Business Insider, SiliconANGLE, Personanondata, Engadget, BBC, WikiTribune, Silicon Republic, The Local, The Register, and Gizmodo
Tweets: @eu_commission, @creativecommons, @jimmy_wales, @senficon, @_am1t, @maxniederhofer, @martinsfp, @s8mb, @cameliaboban, @raju, and @martinsfp
| Elias Biryabarema / Reuters: |
Uganda president defends new 5 cent/day tax for citizens wanting to access platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and WhatsApp, says social media is used for “lying” — KAMPALA (Reuters) - Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has defended the country's new social media tax …
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Associated Press, Quartz, BBC, The Observer, Forbes, Daily Nation, SlashGear, newvision.co.ug, and Turning on your world
| Catalin Cimpanu / BleepingComputer: |
German privacy-focused organizations Zwiebelfreunde, a nonprofit that runs Tor relay servers, and Chaos Computer Club say police raided their offices and homes — Two privacy-focused organizations have accused today German police of carrying out raids at their offices and members' private homes …
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torservers.net blog, ZDNet, Chaos Computer Club Updates, and Naked Security
Tweets: @arachnochist, @josephfcox, @chaosupdates, @zackwhittaker, and @ramyraoof
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Baidu announces it's partnering with Mobileye on its Project Apollo autonomous driving project, which now has over 115 partners — Chinese tech behemoth Baidu is ramping up production of its self-driving car platform. Today at the 2018 Baidu Create developer conference in Beijing …
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The Next Web, VentureBeat, Bloomberg, GlobeNewswire News Room, Engadget, The Verge, BBC, Intel Newsroom, and CNET
| Matthew Townsend / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Amazon plans to send a physical holiday toy catalog to millions of US households this year as it incorporates traditional retailers' strategies — - Move is part of push to gain market share of defunct toy chain — Printed toy guide to be mailed and handed out at Whole Foods
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CNET, The Verge, Engadget, Fortune, Gizmodo, International Business Times, and GeekWire. Tweets: @technology
| Abrar Al-Heeti / CNET: |
Updated California law now requires businesses to set clear auto-renewal terms for digital subscriptions and allow customers to cancel online — A California law that went into effect July 1 is aimed at making it easier for customers to cancel their subscriptions online.
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TechCrunch, Nieman Lab, and The National Law Review
| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
VW unveils WE vehicle on-demand service, starting with car sharing, then other transport modes like scooters, launching next year in Germany, globally from 2020 — Volkswagen Group is launching a car-sharing service called WE that only uses electric vehicles, following the lead of rivals … | Morgan Meaker / WIRED UK: |
Led by Germany and Denmark, EU countries are expanding laws that enable immigration officials to extract data from asylum seekers' phones — European leaders need to bring immigration numbers down, and metadata on smartphones could be just what they need to start sending migrants back| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Some AI experts say fully autonomous cars may be further away than expected and that it may be years before self-driving systems can reliably avoid accidents — If you believe the CEOs, a fully autonomous car could be only months away. In 2015, Elon Musk predicted a fully autonomous Tesla by 2018; so did Google.| Shadma Shaikh / FactorDaily: |
Inside NewsDog, a Tencent-backed Chinese app aimed at entertainment, regional content, and money generating schemes, with 50M Indian users and ~200M DAUs total — “You will never find any other app on Playstore that makes a millionaire within two clicks," details a video on YouTube channel Technical Boss.
Tweets: @factordaily, @pankajontech, and @shadmashaikh
| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
Under its new rules, Facebook reveals some details of the political ads about the SCOTUS nomination, but the money behind some groups buying ads remains opaque — Even before President Trump's new Supreme Court nominee is announced, a fight over the choice is raging on social media.
Tweets: @dabeard, @profgalloway, @nytimes, @nytimesbusiness, @kevinroose, and @facebook
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