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China's border guards close to Xinjiang install Android malware on tourists' devices that scans for 70K+ files and downloads texts, calendar entries, phone logs — The malware downloads a tourist's text messages, calendar entries, and phone logs, as well as scans the device for over 70,000 different files.| Mike Davidson / Mike Industries: |
Superhuman, an email app that raised $33M in June, adds read receipt tracking pixels to outgoing mail and doesn't let users stop image loading on incoming mail — Over the past 25 years, email has weaved itself into the daily fabric of life. Our inboxes contain everything from very personal letters …
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Sources: PE firm KKR acquires Canadian software company Corel, which bought virtualization software company Parallels in Dec., in a deal reportedly worth $1B+ — Only six months after snapping up virtualization specialist Parallels, Canadian software company Corel is itself getting acquired.| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
House subcommittee sends letter requesting Facebook halt Libra's development until Congress and regulators can investigate potential risks to the global economy — ‘These vulnerabilities could be exploited and obscured by bad actors’ — House Democrats are requesting Facebook halt development …
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In a letter to Senator Chris Coons, Amazon says it keeps Alexa transcripts and voice recordings indefinitely, only removing them if manually deleted by users — If you have hangups about Amazon and privacy on its smart assistant, Alexa, you're not alone. Even after Amazon sent answers …
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Uber Eats launches Dine-In, which lets users order food before going to a restaurant and then eat it there, in Austin, Dallas, Phoenix, San Diego, and more — Tired of cleaning up after take-out or getting hangry waiting at your table in restaurants? Well Uber Eats is barging into the dine-in business.
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UK says it began an investigation into TikTok's data privacy practices for young users shortly after the FTC fined the app $5.7M for child privacy violations — TikTok is under investigation in the UK for how it handles the safety and privacy of young users.
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200+ companies, including Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft, have called on SCOTUS to allow existing sex discrimination laws to cover LGBTQ workers — More than 200 large businesses, including most of the big technology companies, are calling on the Supreme Court to find … | James B. Cutchin / Los Angeles Times: |
Grubhub denies allegations that it created websites for restaurant partners without their permission, says the service was included in their contracts — It looked like the perfect David and Goliath story. A tech giant was secretly buying up large swaths of the internet …
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Xiaomi announces Mimoji as part of its CC9 phone series launch, a feature that appears very similar to Apple's Memoji — Apple's Memoji may have become the more popular 3D avatar feature for smartphones, but Xiaomi wants people to know that its similarly-named version — Mimoji — came first … | Mehedi Hassan / Thurrott: |
Microsoft rolls out a Your Phone update in Windows 10 allowing users to receive and manage Android notifications on a PC; complete rollout expected by July 9 — Microsoft is rolling out a new update to the Your Phone experience in Windows 10. The company is enabling a major new feature for the app.
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Facebook open sources DLRM, a deep learning recommendation model that can be used for benchmarking the speed and accuracy performance of recommendation engines — Facebook today announced the open source release of Deep Learning Recommendation Model (DLRM), a state-of-the-art AI model …
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Google Lens launches the ability to identify select local art in San Francisco, in partnership with art-cataloging startup Wescover — Ever ponder the meaning of a portrait or painting hanging on the wall of your favorite coffee shop? Thanks to Google Lens, Google's AI-powered search …
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Nvidia unveils new RTX Super series of graphics cards with more power for the same price as RTX; 2060 Super, 2070 Super launch July 9; 2080 Super on July 23 — 2060 Super, 2070 Super launch July 9; 2080 Super launches July 23. — The rumors are true: nine months after the launch …
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Metronome says its MET tokens can now be moved between Ethereum and Ethereum Classic blockchains, a feature that started rolling out last week — MET token holders now have the option to choose their blockchain, a feature that was first announced a year ago at launch but only rolled out last week.| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE: |
Behind Google's Jigsaw unit, where current and former employees describe a toxic workplace environment, mismanagement, high turnover, and ignored HR complaints — Google's internet freedom moonshot has gotten glowing attention for its ambitious projects. But current and former employees …
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