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June 9, 2019, 5:12 PM

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Joe Otterson / Variety:

Quibi to launch on April 6 2020 with a $7.99/mo ad-free tier and a $4.99/mo tier with pre-roll ads, will pay costs plus 20% for up to $6M/hour to show creators — Quibi founder Jeffrey Katzenberg and CEO Meg Whitman offered an in-depth look at their new short-form video service during …

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Matt Simon / Wired:

Inside an Amazon sorting facility, where humans work alongside mobile robots, known as drives, fueling Amazon's push toward widespread same-day delivery — THEY CALL ME the Master of Robots—or at least they should. I grab a flat package, hold its barcode under a red laser dot, and place it on a small orange robot.

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

FAQ on how Sign In with Apple works based on information at WWDC, including details about two-factor authentication support and private email relay service — One of the bigger security announcements from Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference this week is Apple's new requirement …

More: Digital Trends and MacDailyNews

Russell Brandom / The Verge:

Apple's sign-in button, built for a post-Cambridge Analytica world, is a sign of how much tech infrastructure needs to be rebuilt as privacy expectations change — Protection against developers, not hackers — In 2019, Facebook isn't just a homepage; it's a passport.

Tweets: @peterpur and @natisho

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Xbox Game Pass for PC will be available for $4.99/month with access to at least 10 games during beta, according to Microsoft's website ahead of its E3 event — A beta might be launching today — Microsoft has published its Xbox Game Pass for PC pricing ahead of the company's E3 event later today.

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Tweets: @tomwarren, @twthereddragon, and @verge

Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch:

Autonomous truck startup Starsky Robotics runs a traditional freight business, with 36 trucks and using about half of its staff, to learn the basics of trucking — The fleet includes 36 regular trucks and three autonomous ones — More than three years ago, self-driving trucks startup Starsky Robotics …

Kevin Roose / New York Times:

How 12,000+ videos watched by a young man on YouTube since 2015 first pulled him into a far-right rabbit hole and more recently into a left-wing universe — Over years of reporting on internet culture, I've heard countless versions of Mr. Cain's story: an aimless young man — usually white …

Alex Sherman / CNBC:

WarnerMedia CEO talks about the challenges of integrating the three silos of Time Warner to achieve his goal of 70M subs for AT&T's upcoming streaming service — KEY POINTS — AT&T pays more than $100 billion for Time Warner, leaving it with a debt load that one analyst describes as “terrifying.”

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Andrew Myers / Stanford News:

Researchers have developed an algorithm that allows video editors to modify human speech in “talking head” videos by altering text in transcripts — A new algorithm allows video editors to modify talking head videos as if they were editing text - copying, pasting, or adding and deleting words.

More: The Next Web. Tweets: @chrisdiehl, @mg, @shoq, @nickbilton, and @pkedrosky

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Microsoft launches Xbox Elite Wireless Controller Series 2 with USB-C, Bluetooth, new adjustable tension thumbsticks, new trigger grips, and shorter hair locks — Microsoft is launching a new version of its popular Xbox Elite controller today at E3 2019. It's the Xbox Elite Wireless Controller Series 2 …

Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:

iOS 13 shows a pop-up with a map of location data an app has tracked and its reasons for needing the data, when asking permission for background location access — Apple continued its strong focus on privacy with the announcement of iOS 13 this week. The update includes several new privacy features …

More: Engadget, MSPoweruser, and Geek News Central

Tweets: @jedisct1, @r0h1n, and @adam_k_levin

Reuters:

In a communique, G20 finance ministers agreed on Saturday to compile common rules to close loopholes global tech companies use to reduce their corporate taxes — FUKUOKA, Japan (Reuters) - Group of 20 finance ministers agreed on Saturday to compile common rules to close loopholes used …

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Sara Fischer / Axios:

Source: Bari Weiss is planning to create a masthead for CBS News as part of a broader overhaul of standards and procedures

Todd Spangler / Variety:

Trump says Stephen Colbert is a “pathetic trainwreck” and “CBS should, ‘put him to sleep,’ NOW”; earlier CBS aired the Kennedy Center Honors, hosted by Trump

Lorcan Lovett / Nieman Reports:

A look at the state of independent media in Myanmar, which lost US and Swedish funding this year and where subscriptions aren't a dependable source of revenue

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Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet:

Researchers find that only 4,183 security flaws from a total of 76K vulnerabilities discovered between 2009 and 2018 had been exploited in the wild

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Tweets: @daniel_bilar, @campuscodi, and @threatintel

MedCity News:

Carbon Health, which provides video and message-based virtual care through an app in addition to in-person care at seven Bay Area clinics, raises $30M Series B

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Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch:

Former Unity VP Anne Evans has filed a lawsuit against the company for retaliation and wrongful termination, alleging CEO John Riccitiello sexually harassed her

More: VentureBeat. Tweets: @ekp

Paul Sawers / VentureBeat:

London-based Realeyes, which uses AI to let brands like AT&T and Mars gauge emotions of consumers through their facial expressions, raises $12.4M Series B

Tweets: @mikebutcher

Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch:

Luminous Computing, which aims to build a photonic chip, raises $9M seed round led by Bill Gates, with Dara Khosrowshahi, Travis Kalanick, others participating

Shira Ovide / Bloomberg:

How MTN and Orange, two of the biggest mobile carriers in Africa, are trying to expand internet access in the continent by selling ~$20 phones powered by KaiOS

Tweets: @trevornoren, @whiteafrican, and @shiraovide

Earlier Picks

Todd Spangler / Variety:

FloSports, a $150/year live and on-demand streaming service focusing on niche sports, raises $47M Series C led by Discovery, bringing the total raised to $75M

More: Reuters

Brian Barrett / Wired:

Google details the root cause behind the recent outage that caused Google Cloud to lose a third of its traffic, which affected Snapchat and YouTube among others

Tweets: @jessfraz

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Amazon VP Sean Scott talks about how his team built the Scout delivery robot, which is currently in field testing, how Scout finds its way around, and more

More: The Verge

Kate Conger / New York Times:

Sources: China summoned US and global tech giants to warn of dire consequences if they cooperate with Trump bans, hinting US companies should lobby against bans

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Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet:

Some European mobile traffic was rerouted through China Telecom due to a BGP leak at a Swiss colocation company which was accused of a similar mistake in 2018

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