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Apple says it has temporarily disabled the Apple Watch Walkie Talkie app, due to a vulnerability that could allow iPhone eavesdropping, while it works on a fix — Apple has disabled the Apple Watch Walkie Talkie app due to an unspecified vulnerability that could allow a person to listen …
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Apple pushes silent Mac update to remove the hidden web server in the Zoom app that could let websites add a user to a video call without their permission — Apple has released a silent update for Mac users removing a vulnerable component in Zoom, the popular video conferencing app …
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Amazon says it will spend $700M to retrain 100K, or about a third of its US employees, by 2025, acknowledging the impact of technology and automation on jobs — Amazon is embarking on a $700 million effort to retrain its U.S. workforce, in a high-profile acknowledgment of the impact …
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| Tom Simonite / Wired: |
Belgian broadcaster obtains 1,000+ Google Assistant audio clips from a Google contractor, some of which seem to be recorded inadvertently and may violate GDPR — GOOGLE, AMAZON, AND Apple say their AI-powered virtual assistants make it easier to get things done on smartphones or at home.
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| Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times: |
Sources: Amazon Music Unlimited's subscribers grew ~70% in the past year, compared to ~25% for Spotify; in April Amazon had 32M+ music subscribers in total — Amazon is adding subscribers to its music-streaming service at a faster rate than rivals such as Spotify, Apple and Google … | Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider: |
Kuo: Apple's 2020 iPhone will include a smaller TrueDepth camera, reducing the size of the notch, and a rear-facing camera with a seven-piece lens system — Apple is expected to significantly decrease the size of iPhone's TrueDepth “notch” in 2020, modifying or potentially removing …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
OneTrust, which builds tools to help companies navigate data protection and privacy policies, raises $200M Series A led by Insight Partners at a $1.3B valuation — GDPR, and the newer California Consumer Privacy Act, have given a legal bite to ongoing developments in online privacy and data protection …
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FinSMEs, VentureBeat, and Yahoo Finance
| Meagan Simpson / BetaKit: |
Montreal-founded Sonder, an Airbnb competitor offering apartments-as-hotel rooms, raises $210M Series D at a $1B+ valuation — Montreal-founded Sonder (formerly Flatbook) has raised a $210 million USD ($274 million CAD) Series D funding round, surpassing a valuation of $1 billion.| Frank Chaparro / The Block: |
SEC approves the first-ever regulated token offering, letting blockchain startup Blockstack offer $28M in tokens under Regulation A+, an alternative to IPOs — The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) gave blockchain startup Blockstack the go-ahead today to conduct a $28 million digital …
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Wall Street Journal, Blockstack Blog, CoinDesk, Coinspeaker, Blockonomi, SiliconANGLE, Cointelegraph, Crowdfund Insider, ALTCOIN MAGAZINE, and Messari Crypto
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Sources: McAfee is in talks with bankers for an IPO listing as soon as this year, seeking to raise $1B at a $5B+ valuation — Cybersecurity-software company's IPO could raise at least $1 billion — Cybersecurity-software company McAfee LLC is planning to return to the public markets …
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Tweets: @skuranda, @wsjmarkets, and @thekenyeung
| Ana Swanson / New York Times: |
Trump administration to investigate whether a proposed French tax on big US tech companies amounts to an unfair trade practice that's punishable with tariffs — WASHINGTON — The Trump administration said on Wednesday that it would investigate whether a French plan to impose a tax … | E. Tammy Kim / New Yorker: |
A look at the practice of personalized learning, an individual-comes-first approach usually aided by tech, and how it is applied in many Rhode Island schools — Untangling the mixed record of the latest big-fix educational trend promoted by Silicon Valley.
Tweets: @nancyflanagan, @dintersmith, @newyorker, @douglevin, @benjaminjriley, @jay_eitner, @chrisburkeshay, and @etammykim
| Alex Heath / The Information: |
Sources: Facebook is looking to buy game studios and has signed deals for exclusive VR versions of Assassin's Creed and more to bolster its Oculus ecosystem — Facebook is looking to buy game studios and ink exclusive deals for virtual reality versions of well-known games to bolster …
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KnowTechie, The Verge, The Verge, Firstpost Tech, GamesIndustry.biz, MSPoweruser, Road to VR, TechSpot, Engadget, VRFocus, IGN, Destructoid, Financial Times, Neowin, PC Gamer, and UploadVR
Tweets: @alexeheath, @thekenyeung, @eringriffith, and @alexeheath
| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
CBP agents' and other closed Facebook Groups show how Facebook algorithms help racists, conspiracy theorists, and others find each other and recruit newbies — When private spaces bring bad actors together — It's been four months now since Facebook announced its intention to invest …
Tweets: @privacyproject, @tpcarney, and @adam_k_levin
| Ryan Gallagher / The Intercept: |
A US nonprofit org founded by Google and IBM is working with a company helping China's government secretly monitor phone and internet activity of 200M people — An American organization founded by tech giants Google and IBM is working with a company that is helping China's authoritarian …
Tweets: @petecirwin, @baldingsworld, @niubi, @rj_gallagher, @rj_gallagher, @rj_gallagher, @rj_gallagher, and @rj_gallagher
| Amrita Khalid / Engadget: |
Google adds 60 new supported languages to its Translate camera tool, including Arabic, Hindi, and Vietnamese, rolling out over the coming weeks — Google Translate's instant camera feature will now make translating a foreign street sign as easy as aiming your phone — even if your native language isn't English.
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The Keyword, The Next Web, Android Central, The Verge, VentureBeat, Android Police, Android Authority, 9to5Google, and MSPoweruser. Tweets: @unhedgedchatter
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Signavio, which offers tools for business process automation, raises $177M led by Apax Digital, sources say at a $400M valuation — Robotic Process Automation has been the name of the game in enterprise software lately — with organizations using advances in machine learning algorithms …
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VentureBeat, PE Hub Blog, and Signavio
| Isabel Woodford / The Block: |
Near, which is developing a sharded, proof-of-stake protocol for making dApps, raises $12.1M Series A led by Metastable and Accomplice — If you haven't heard of NEAR, it may be time to familiarise yourself. — The blockchain-building firm has secured $12.1 million in its Series …
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