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Telegram says it faced a massive DDoS attack originating from China coinciding with protests in Hong Kong, where organizers used the app to evade surveillance — The popular encrypted messaging service Telegram is once again being hit with a distributed denial of service (DDoS) …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Facebook has signed up 12+ companies, including Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, and Uber, to back the cryptocurrency it plans to unveil next week — Visa, Mastercard, PayPal and Uber are among firms that will invest around $10 million each in consortium that will govern digital coin
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google's Area 120 incubator launches Game Builder, a sandbox for people without programming skills to create 3D games, available free on Steam for Mac and PC — Area 120 is “Google's workshop for experimental projects,” and its latest prototype is Game Builder.
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| Paresh Dave / Reuters: |
Sources: in Karan Bhatia's first year as Google's policy lead, he's encouraged relationship building with governments, cut some contract lobbyists, and more — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's Google is trying to plug a surge of public scrutiny around the world by overhauling …
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Hands-on with Microsoft's xCloud and Google Stadia: they both work and they're both impressive, but they have different aims, so they are hard to compare — xCloud and Stadia are at vastly different stages of development, and aren't even directly competing right now| Corbin Davenport / Android Police: |
Huawei seems to be showing lock screen ads on the P30 Pro, P20, Honor 10, P20 Pro, and others when the built-in magazine background images are used — Advertising has a time and a place, and the place is never on the lock screen of a smartphone you paid a lot of money for.
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| Julia Alexander / The Verge: |
At E3, console makers and game publishers, including Ubisoft, Microsoft, and Google, touted subscription services as they race to become the “Netflix for games” — The race to become “Netflix for Games” is on — With the first details coming out around the next Xbox and PlayStation …
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| Christina Farr / CNBC: |
Sources: GE Ventures has been shopping itself for several months, looking for a buyer for its portfolio of more than 100 startups — KEY POINTS — GE Ventures is looking for a buyer for its portfolio of more than 100 start-ups, according to people familiar with the matter …
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| Reuters: |
Parler, a right-wing social site, had ~200K signups this week, reportedly Saudi Arabians frustrated at Twitter's policies; CEO says it doubled its total users — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A surge of about 200,000 users believed to be from Saudi Arabia who are frustrated at what they say is censorship …
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| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
VMware says it is buying Avi Networks, a startup that helps companies with application delivery in the cloud, which has raised $115M, per Crunchbase — VMware has been trying to reinvent itself from a company that helps you build and manage virtual machines in your data center to one that helps …
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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Interview with Google's Mark Risher, who leads Google's Identity and Account Security teams, about new single sign-on options, including Apple's, and more — Apple shook up the world of logins last week, offering a new single sign-on (or SSO) tool aimed at collecting and sharing as little data as possible.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Yubico says it will replace some security keys used by US government and others due to a bug that reduces the randomness of cryptographic keys generated — Yubico staff discovers bug in YubiKey FIPS Series keys; offers replacements for affected customers. — Yubico said today it plans … | Nicole Hemsoth / The Next Platform: |
Mythic, an AI inference processor startup developing analog compute-in-memory tech, raises $30M Series B1, bringing the total raised to $86M — There are two trends converging in AI inference and so far, only a small number of companies are enmeshed. — The first trend takes us … | Emily McCormick / Yahoo Finance: |
Freelance services marketplace Fiverr closes up 89% on its first day of trading after raising $111M in its IPO — FVRR) stock rose above its initial public offering price after opening for trading Thursday, as investors scooped up shares of the latest gig-economy tech firm to hit the public markets.| Federico Viticci / MacStories: |
Initial impressions of iPadOS: new multitasking features are powerful but will take time to get used to, and Safari's desktop-class browsing is impressive — When I published my Beyond the Tablet story a few weeks ago, I was optimistic we'd get a handful of iPad-related features and optimizations at WWDC.| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Binance says it is setting up a US trading platform in partnership with FinCEN-registered BAM Trading Services, but offers no timeline for its launch — Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange by volume, is launching a U.S. division. — The Malta-based company said Thursday … | Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Verizon launches $99.99 Smart Locator, a tracking device with Bluetooth, GPS, WPS, and LTE, with one year of free service and $3/month thereafter — More powerful than a Tile, but way more expensive — Verizon today launched sales of the $99.99 Verizon Smart Locator … | Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Kickstarter announces new recommendations and rules to discourage creators from using exaggerated claims about a product, launches a tool to flag exaggerations — No more exaggerating — Kickstarter is asking creators to stop claiming that their projects are “the world's best,” … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
With iOS 13, iPhones will be able to read NFC-enabled passports and other government IDs as well as write to NFC tags — NFC — the technology that helps to power Apple Pay as well other clever features for iOS apps like Launch Center Pro's tappable stickers - is getting a big upgrade with the launch of iOS 13, due out this fall.
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The Verge, iPhone in Canada Blog, Computerworld, O'Grady's PowerPage, The Next Web, PYMNTS.com, Ata Distance, and Appleosophy. Tweets: @publicservlab
| Taylor Lorenz / The Atlantic: |
Profile of Depop, a person-to-person platform for selling clothes that is popular with teens and borrows from eBay and Instagram — A crowd of teenagers waited in the sticky summer heat outside a storefront in New York's SoHo neighborhood last Friday night.
Tweets: @taylorlorenz, @taylorlorenz, @taylorlorenz, @derfleck, and @taylorlorenz
| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
Google has quietly removed the Google Play Movies & TV app from its Daydream VR platform, instead directing users to its YouTube VR app — Senior Silicon Valley Correspondent @https://twitter.com/jank0 FOLLOW — Google has quietly removed the Google Play Movies & TV app from its Daydream VR platform.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
UK-based digital bank Monzo launches in the US, says it doesn't have its own US banking license and won't be lending US customers money — Monzo's mobile-only bank has helped revolutionize British spending — British mobile-only bank Monzo is making its way across the pond to the US today.
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Monzo, TechCrunch, Engadget, PYMNTS.com, CNET, Quartz, Digital Trends, Yahoo Finance, CNBC, Forbes, and Telegraph
| Gordon Gottsegen / Built In Chicago: |
Spring Labs, which uses blockchain to offer data sharing, fraud prevention, and other services to help financial institutions fight fraud, raises $23M Series A — Financial information is extremely sensitive. If bad actors get their hands on it, they can potentially ruin your life.
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PR Newswire, The Block, and PYMNTS.com
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