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Twitter executive Vijaya Gadde says the company is looking into how white nationalists and supremacists use the platform to determine if they should be banned — “Is it the right approach to deplatform these individuals? Is the right approach to try and engage with these individuals?
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Google introduces new policies to protect children and families downloading apps on Google Play, including mandating developers comply with content and ad rules — Google announced this morning a new set of developer policies aimed at providing additional protections for children …
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Android Developers Blog, Gizmodo, Financial Times, XDA Developers, 9to5Google, VentureBeat, Neowin, and Gamasutra. Tweets: @googleplaydev
| Susie Cagle / OneZero: |
As bars check IDs with PatronScan, its manufacturer, Servall Biometrics, touts a global database with 40K+ banned patrons, amid fears of enabling discrimination — PatronScan says it sells security. Privacy advocates worry it's selling mass surveillance.
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Apple's new website defending the App Store, following antitrust allegations, mostly serves to highlight its power and dominance while ignoring criticisms — Apple launched a new website as a response to critics like Spotify — As it faces both an antitrust lawsuit with huge implications …
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Tweets: @nickjshearer, @alexstamos, @benedictevans, @backlon, @hallstephenj, @reckless, @reckless, @herf, and @zmknox
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
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Business Insider, The Mac Observer, Mashable, Cult of Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, and iPhone Hacks
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Amazon announces 5.5-inch Echo Show 5 that's shipping in July for $89.99, launches new Alexa commands to delete what you just said or everything you said today — A direct challenge to the Google Nest Home Hub — Amazon is releasing a new Echo device today because apparently …
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Amazon.com, Inc., Washington Post, Gizmodo, CNET, Engadget, VentureBeat, Android Authority, USA Today, Android Police, Wired, Los Angeles Times, Voicebot, CNET, Business Insider, BetaNews, Techdirt, Bloomberg, GeekWire, GeekWire, TechHive, ZDNet, Engadget, Mashable, and Telegraph
Tweets: @reckless, @dcseifert, and @baxiabhishek
| Paul Mozur / New York Times: |
Huawei has filed a motion for summary judgement in its lawsuit against the US, in a bid to expedite an outcome without the costs and time of a full trial — SHANGHAI — Huawei is ramping up its legal challenge to American limits on purchases of its equipment, in a sign that it is doubling …
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Apple should be courageous and double down on Marzipan, retooling all of its first-party Mac apps with the cross platform framework and working out rough edges — Why Apple should go all in on iPad apps on the Mac — This year at its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) …
Tweets: @backlon, @waltmossberg, and @stevesi
| Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: |
Google says Chrome's current ad blocking capabilities will be restricted to enterprise users in coming changes to Chrome extensions, despite negative feedback — Back in January, Google announced a proposed change to Chrome's extensions system, called Manifest V3, that would stop current ad blockers from working efficiently.
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Brex, a startup that provides credit cards to tech startups, is in talks to secure new funding at a valuation of $2B+, up from a $1.1B valuation in October — - Fintech's new cash infusion comes just months after last round — Kleiner Perkins, Peter Thiel among startup's backers| Dara Kerr / CNET: |
Uber says it will now ban riders with significantly below-average ratings after giving them several opportunities to improve — Uber has long deactivated drivers who get low ratings. Now the ride-hailing company is turning the tables. — Uber announced Wednesday that those passengers …
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Tweets: @danluu, @mat, @matthewstoller, @noahpinion, and @kantrowitz
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Flipboard says hackers had access to its servers for 9+ months and stole some customers' info, including digital tokens linking profiles to 3rd-party services — Extent of the hack is unknown, but Flipboard said hackers had access to its systems for almost nine months.
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| Nick Parker / The Official Microsoft Blog: |
Microsoft outlines its vision for a modern OS that has invisible background updates, security by default, always connected, supports multiple form factors, more — Today, at Computex in Taipei, Microsoft executives Roanne Sones, CVP OS Platforms and Rodney Clark, VP IoT Sales …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Google says Gmail's confidential mode, announced last April, will become available to G Suite customers on June 25 — Gmail's confidential mode — the privacy-preserving email feature Google unveiled last April — launched in beta roughly three months ago, and the Mountain View company today announced …
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G Suite Updates Blog, The Verge, CNET, 9to5Google, and BleepingComputer
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google says it is rolling out the ability for Google Maps to show speed limits and speed cameras in over 40 countries — Google Maps is gaining some features previously exclusive to Google's navigation app, Waze. The company confirmed it's rolling out the ability for Google Maps users to see speed limits …
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Gizmodo, ZDNet, Thurrott, Mashable, Digital Information World, and Firstpost Tech
| Julia Carrie Wong / The Guardian: |
Members of Google's Pygmalion team, responsible for Assistant's linguistic analysis, allege that subcontractors were routinely pressured into unpaid overtime — Interpreting a spoken request isn't magic, rather it has taken a team of underpaid, subcontracted linguists to make the technology possible
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Wired, Digital Information World, and Inquirer
Tweets: @kantrowitz, @bentarnoff, @cszabla, @juliacarriew, @juliacarriew, @techworkersco, @jessesheidlower, @bxchen, and @juliacarriew
| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Palo Alto Networks to buy container security startup Twistlock, which had raised $63M+, for $410M, and serverless security startup PureSec, which raised $10M — At KubeCon last week in Barcelona, container security was a hot topic, so it shouldn't come as a surprise that Palo Alto Networks announced today …
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GeekWire, Globes Online, PR Newswire, and CRN
| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Following Google's announcement of Google Pay support last week, New York City subway riders will be able to pay with Apple Pay starting Friday — If you frequent the New York City subway's 4, 5, 6 line, you've probably seen the new terminals at a variety of stations like Union Square and Grand Central.
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CNN, MacRumors, Yahoo Finance, CNET, PCWorld, KnowTechie, The Mac Observer, Redmond Pie, CNBC, Cult of Mac, BuzzFeed News, 9to5Mac, Mashable, and Appleosophy
Tweets: @stevekopack and @mdudas
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Dropbox increases Plus plan storage from 1TB to 2TB, raises the price from $10 to $12 per month, and adds Rewind and Smart Sync features — Dropbox has doubled the storage space for its Plus users from 1TB to 2TB, added Rewind and Smart Sync features, and increased the price from $10 per month to $12 per month.
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Work in Progress, Work in Progress, Thurrott, iPhone in Canada Blog, and Engadget
| Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat: |
In-flight internet provider Gogo says it plans to deploy in-flight 5G in 2021 that will service smaller aircraft on routes in the contiguous US and Canada — In-flight internet provider Gogo plans to deploy an air-to-ground 5G network for aviation, the company said today …
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Gogo Press Room, The Verge, ZDNet, SlashGear, and The Points Guy
| Aaron Mak / Slate: |
An inside look at Donald Trump's Wikipedia entry, one of the most popular pages on the internet, where editors fight a brutal, petty battle over every word — It's one of the most popular pages on the internet. But behind the scenes, editors are fighting a brutal, petty battle over every word.
Tweets: @katie_rayford, @dabeard, @abenedikt, @katherinemiller, and @kelseyhalliday
| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
iRobot announces a pair of new cleaning robots, the $1,299 Roomba s9+ and $499 Braava Jet m6, that can work together to clean houses — A job shared in a job halved — iRobot has a pair of new cleaning robots, the Roomba s9+ and Braava Jet m6, that can work in tandem to vacuum, mop, and dust your house.
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TechCrunch, Engadget, Ars Technica, ROS Index, CNET, ZDNet, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo
| Tom Krazit / GeekWire: |
Salesforce announces Salesforce Blockchain, letting companies more easily build distributed ledgers with Salesforce data, currently in private preview — Salesforce Blockchain will allow companies to build blockchain-based distributed ledgers that integrate with their Salesforce data using …
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TechCrunch, ZDNet, TechRepublic, ZDNet, The Block, and VentureBeat
Tweets: @agnotology42 and @ron_miller
| Bloomberg: |
Source: DOJ officials want T-Mobile and Sprint to lay the groundwork for a new wireless carrier with its own network as a condition to clear their $26.5B merger — - Antitrust officials seek additional carrier with own network — T-Mobile mulling possible fixes to satisfy Justice Department
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| Kate Clark / TechCrunch: |
CrowdStrike outlines IPO terms, seeking to sell 18M shares at $19 to $23, which at the mid-point would raise $378M at a $4B+ valuation — CrowdStrike, in preparation for its Nasdaq initial public offering, has inked plans to sell 18 million shares at between $19 and $23 apiece.
Tweets: @elissabeth and @techjournalist
| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Logz.io, which develops open source-based logging tools for companies, raises $52M Series D led by General Catalyst, bringing its total raised to nearly $100M — Logz.io announced a $52 million Series D investment today. The round was led by General Catalyst.
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