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| Christine Fisher / Engadget: |
YouTube gives users a “don't recommend channel” option and a way to pick topics of interest for videos showing in Up Next or homepage, now on iOS and Android — No matter how advanced algorithms get, none will understand your YouTube viewing preferences better than you.| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
Shopify says users can now message its 820K+ merchants through Apple's iMessage-based Business Chat service, and adds support for Apple Pay — Apple's Business Chat is no longer an exclusive club for big companies like the Four Seasons Hotel and Burberry. Cupertino is expanding the service …
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Shopify PR, MacRumors, The Verge, iMore, Thurrott, Computerworld, TechCrunch, Cult of Mac, Marketing Land, iDownloadBlog.com, The Mac Observer, and iPhone in Canada Blog. Tweets: @shopify
| Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg: |
San Francisco Pride says Google can still participate in parade after ~100 Googlers petitioned it to drop Google as a sponsor over handling of LGBTQ+ issues — Almost 100 Google employees are urging the organizer of this weekend's San Francisco Pride parade to kick the company out of the celebration …
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Ban Google From Pride, Slate, Engadget, Fortune, The Verge, TechCrunch, Mercury News, CNET, The Hill, Business Insider, MSPoweruser, Newser, Mashable, and Cult of Mac
Tweets: @josheidelson, @gaywonk, @josheidelson, @gaywonk, @pinboard, @alistairmbarr, @gaywonk, @josheidelson, @josheidelson, @drixander, @josheidelson, and @hshaban
| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
ARM confirms that its lead CPU and system architect, Mike Filippo, has joined Apple; Filippo's LinkedIn says he began work in May out of Austin, Texas — Multiple reports have indicated that Apple plans to transition to its own ARM-based processors in Macs starting as early as 2020 …
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Engadget, Bloomberg, 9to5Mac, Apple Must, Cult of Mac, iPhone Hacks, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, and MacDailyNews. Tweets: @benbajarin
| Taylor Lorenz / The Atlantic: |
Social media verification scams are rampant because the verification process is opaque and arbitrary; platforms need to rebuild the whole system — Travis Hawley was scrolling through the comments sections of LeBron James's Instagram posts recently when he noticed some postings from other athletes.
Tweets: @taylorlorenz, @birdyword, @taylorlorenz, @taylorlorenz, @anildash, and @taylorlorenz
| Reuters: |
Chinese state-sponsored hackers, notably APT10, broke into eight IT service providers including HPE, IBM, and their client networks in a years-long invasion — Eight of the world's biggest technology service providers were hacked by Chinese cyber spies in an elaborate and years-long invasion, Reuters found.| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Instagram says it will roll out ads on its Explore page, visible when users tap on Explore posts, starting with an ad for IGTV today — Ads everywhere — Ads are coming to more places on Instagram. Today, the social media platform announced that it'll soon start placing ads within the Explore page …
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Instagram for Business, TechCrunch, CNN, Marketing Land, Thurrott, Engadget, Cult of Mac, Vox, Business Insider, CNBC, MSPoweruser, and iDownloadBlog.com. Tweets: @joshconstine
| Erin Griffith / New York Times: |
StockX, an online marketplace for sneakers, raises $110M Series C led by DST Global, General Atlantic, and GGV Capital and names Scott Cutler CEO — StockX is one of several online marketplaces that have turned resales of shoes into a big — and highly valued — business.
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FinSMEs, PR Newswire, Glossy, Crunchbase News, Forbes, PE Hub Blog, and TechCrunch
Tweets: @delrey and @cutlerscott
| Will Sommer / The Daily Beast: |
Reddit “quarantines” r/The_Donald, which has 750K+ subs, over threats made against cops and public figures; quarantines show a content warning upon visiting sub — Users allegedly threatened law enforcement ordered to find Republican senators in Oregon who went on the lam to duck voting for climate-change bill.
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The Verge, New York Times, TechCrunch, CNN, Gizmodo, The Seattle Times, Mashable, VICE, and Boing Boing
Tweets: @rmac18, @karlbode, @mattyglesias, @willsommer, @genepark, and @willsommer
| Wall Street Journal: |
Report: tests of ~10K firmware images from 500+ Huawei telecom devices found 55% had at least one vulnerability, much higher than that of its rivals — Top U.S. officials say research confirms fears of risks, but report stops short of accusing the company of deliberately building flaws into system
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Reuters, Wall Street Journal, and KrASIA
Tweets: @kate_okeeffe, @ericgeller, @josephmenn, @niubi, @kate_okeeffe, and @sentomcotton
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Image sharing platform Imgur says it has raised $20M from Coil, a micropayments tool that Imgur will build into its service ahead of a forthcoming premium tier — Meme creators have never gotten their fair share. Remixed and reshared across the web, their jokes props up social networks …
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PR Newswire, The Daily Dot, CoinDesk, and BitcoinExchangeGuide
Tweets: @balajis, @joshconstine, and @alexhern
| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Oppo demos an under-screen selfie camera with a display using a custom transparent material, plans to launch in a commercial phone “in the near future” — Coming to a commercial phone ‘in the near future’ — The past couple of years of smartphone design have been dominated …
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Engadget, The Next Web, 9to5Mac, Mashable, XDA Developers, Ars Technica, TechCrunch, ExtremeTech, Engadget 中文., BGR, Liliputing, PCWorld, Phandroid, Pocket-lint, Android Police, Cult of Mac, MSPoweruser, Pocketnow, TechSpot, Gizchina, Firstpost Tech, Android Central, VentureBeat, Gizmodo, 9to5Google, Inquirer, Digital Trends, and CNET
Tweets: @oppomobileindia and @oppo
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
EU opens formal antitrust investigation of Broadcom for suspected exclusivity practices and seeks an interim order to prevent anti-competitive behavior — The European Commission has opened a formal investigation into US chipmaker Broadcom which it suspects of restricting competition via … | Natt Garun / The Verge: |
Google says its location history auto-delete tool, which lets users pick either 3 or 18 months of data retention, is rolling out on mobile over next few weeks — On both Android and iOS — Google is now beginning to roll out its location history auto-delete feature after announcing … | Mark Sweney / The Guardian: |
Candy Crush Saga maker King touts to UK MPs that, of the game's 270M players, 9.2M play for 3-6 hours per day, and 432,000 play for six hours or more — Executive of maker King tells MPs he does not believe there is addiction problem — A top executive at the maker of the multibillion …
Tweets: @robaeprice
| Axios: |
Apple says it has acquired autonomous driving startup Drive.ai, hiring dozens of Drive.ai engineers and, per sources, taking over its autonomous cars — Apple bought Drive.ai, an autonomous driving startup once valued at $200 million, Apple confirmed to Axios on Tuesday, and has hired dozens of Drive.ai engineers.
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Reuters, Mercury News, Fast Company, iMore, The Verge, 9to5Mac, Observer, Vox, The Mac Observer, Gizmodo, The Robot Report, Pocket-lint, Patently Apple, TechSpot, Digital Trends, MacRumors, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, TechNode, iPhone Hacks, Telegraph, CNBC, TechCrunch, Engadget, GeekWire, AppleInsider, Business Insider, iDownloadBlog.com, MACお宝 …, VentureBeat, SlashGear, Crunchbase News, Cult of Mac, and iPhone in Canada Blog
Tweets: @jonsakoda, @meliarobin, @danprimack, @matthewhughes, @inafried, @axios, and @inafried. Thanks:@inafried
| Nathaniel Popper / New York Times: |
Executives at seven of Facebook's Libra partners say the companies have only signed nonbinding agreements and have not yet paid to join the Libra Association — SAN FRANCISCO — One of the biggest selling points of Facebook's ambitious plans for its new cryptocurrency, Libra …
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Wired, InsideBitcoins.com, The Next Web, Coinspeaker, The Block, and Reuters
Tweets: @dealbook, @nikhileshde, @nathanielpopper, @mayazi, @robaeprice, @nathanielpopper, and @kyletorpey
| Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: the NSA collected metadata about calls and text messages that it wasn't authorized to obtain last October, in a second such incident — The National Security Agency collected records about U.S. calls and text messages that it wasn't authorized to obtain last year, in a second such incident …
Tweets: @chronic, @dnvolz, @jakelaperruque, and @maggienyt
| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Bill Gates says his “greatest mistake” was Microsoft losing the platform opportunity to Android on mobile, in an interview at VC firm Village Global — Gates calls Microsoft's smartphones failure a “$400 billion” loss. — Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates recently gave …
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The Verge, Engadget, XDA Developers, CNBC, AppleInsider, Digit, Trusted Reviews, Business Standard, The Register, Observer, OnMSFT.com, ZDNet, CNN, and Fossbytes
Tweets: @arstechnica, @terrajobst, @rachaelrad, @harrymccracken, @tomwarren, and @firstadopter
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Bangalore-based Unacademy, which runs a platform that helps Indian students prepare for exams, raises $50M Series D from Steadview Capital and others — Big money continues to flow in India's growing education market. Bangalore-based Unacademy, which operates an online learning platform …
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Livemint, The Hindu BusinessLine, Business Insider, and BloombergQuint
| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Subscription e-book and audiobook service Scribd introduces Snapshots, bite-sized distillations of nonfiction books' key points — Subscription e-book and audiobook service Scribd is unveiling a new content type that it calls a Snapshot — a distillation of a nonfiction book's key points … | New York Times: |
Sources: US tech companies, including Intel and Micron, have found ways to sell millions of dollars of products to Huawei despite the Trump administration's ban — SHANGHAI — A number of the United States' biggest chip makers have sold millions of dollars of products to Huawei despite …
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Tom's Hardware, Axios, Bloomberg, Windows Central, OnMSFT.com, Light Reading, Business Insider, BBC, Android Authority, Telecoms.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, MSPoweruser, Reuters, TechNode, KrASIA, Android Central, CNET, SiliconANGLE, Digital Trends, Gizmodo, and TechSpot
Tweets: @msbshoshani, @matthewstoller, @shaunrein, @econgeopoltech, @chadbown, @nytimesbusiness, @paulmozur, and @davidjoachim
| Karl Bode / VICE: |
In a joint letter, Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo tell the Trump administration that proposed Chinese tariffs would harm the game industry and cost gamers $840M — US consumers will pay a total of $840 million more for consoles than they would without Chinese tariffs, the companies warn.
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GeekWire, CNET, Business Insider, TechCrunch, Polygon, VG247, GameSpot, Kotaku, and GamesIndustry.biz
Tweets: @kifleswing, @hcheadle, and @vice
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