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| 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, The Verge, CNET, The Hill, Engadget, Business Insider, Mashable, Cult of Mac, and The Next Web
Tweets: @josheidelson, @gaywonk, @josheidelson, @gaywonk, @pinboard, @alistairmbarr, @drixander, @hshaban, @gaywonk, @josheidelson, @josheidelson, and @josheidelson
| 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's pressreleases, MacRumors, iMore, Thurrott, Computerworld, TechCrunch, Marketing Land, iDownloadBlog.com, The Mac Observer, and iPhone in Canada Blog. Tweets: @shopify
| 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, TechCrunch, PR Newswire, Crunchbase News, Glossy, Forbes, and PE Hub Blog
Tweets: @delrey and @cutlerscott
| 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
| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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.| 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.
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| 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, The Block, and Reuters
Tweets: @nathanielpopper, @dealbook, @nikhileshde, @mayazi, @robaeprice, @nathanielpopper, and @kyletorpey
| 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, XDA Developers, Ars Technica, TechCrunch, The Next Web, 9to5Mac, PCWorld, Gizmodo, Engadget 中文., Liliputing, Phandroid, Pocket-lint, Android Police, Cult of Mac, Digital Trends, MSPoweruser, Mashable, BGR, Pocketnow, TechSpot, CNET, Gizchina, Firstpost Tech, Android Central, VentureBeat, 9to5Google, and Inquirer
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 … | 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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Tweets: @ericgeller, @kate_okeeffe, @josephmenn, @niubi, @kate_okeeffe, and @sentomcotton
| 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, Observer, OnMSFT.com, ZDNet, The Register, CNN, Fossbytes, Redmond Pie, ExtremeTech, and TalkAndroid.com
Tweets: @arstechnica, @terrajobst, @rachaelrad, @harrymccracken, @tomwarren, and @firstadopter
| 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: @dnvolz, @jakelaperruque, and @maggienyt
| Yaacov Benmeleh / Bloomberg: |
Sources: UK's largest supermarket Tesco has partnered with Israeli startup Trigo Vision to work on cashierless stores, as competition with Amazon heats up — Tesco Plc has turned to an Israeli startup for help as it looks to become the next major food retailer to remove cashiers from some of its stores.
Tweets: @caro_milanesi and @business
| Ben Sisario / New York Times: |
Classical music has been an awkward fit for major streaming platforms because their metadata schemes and algorithms are mostly designed to favor pop music — When Roopa Kalyanaraman Marcello, a classical music aficionado in Brooklyn, asked her Amazon Echo for some music recently …
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Financial Times. Tweets: @stevelohr, @larrysmiller, @nytimesmusic, @dada_drummer, @matthausk, @gjrietveld, @zoecello, @mikehuppe, and @bruce_2b
| 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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The Hindu BusinessLine, Livemint, Business Insider, and BloombergQuint
| 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.
Tweets: @genepark and @willsommer
| 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 … | Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: |
A look at Facebook's and Twitter's plans to combat disinformation ahead of the Democratic presidential debates on Wednesday and Thursday — Ctrl + N — Silicon Valley will face its first big test of its readiness to fight disinformation in the 2020 campaign when the Democratic presidential debates kick off tonight.| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Researchers have discovered OSX/Linker malware exploiting an unpatched macOS flaw that would allow a malicious binary to bypass the Gatekeeper scanning process — Researchers find new OSX/Linker malware abusing still-unpatched macOS Gatekeeper bypass. — Mac malware developers have jumped … | Agam Shah / Wall Street Journal: |
MLPerf, a consortium of 40 tech companies including Facebook and Google, releases a set of benchmarks for evaluating the performance of AI tools — Metrics cover AI performance in image recognition, object detection and voice translation — A consortium of tech companies …
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| 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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Business Insider, GameSpot, Kotaku, and GamesIndustry.biz
Tweets: @kifleswing, @hcheadle, and @vice
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