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Susan Wojcicki talks about the crises that have engulfed YouTube recently, the power of its platform, and being a working parent of five — As the crisis-hit video site struggles to stem the flow of extreme content, the CEO talks about her role as the internet's gatekeeper| Mishaal Rahman / XDA Developers: |
Huawei announces its first device running Harmony OS, an Honor Vision smart TV launching on August 15 — Companies that have traditionally been known for their smartphones are venturing into the smart TV business. Xiaomi has been in this game for some time now, while OnePlus is also gearing up to launch its own smart screen product.| Richard Lai / Engadget: |
Huawei unveils HarmonyOS, a microkernel-based, distributed OS, which Huawei says is an alternative to Android in case it can no longer use Google's OS — Huawei's long-rumored Android alternative, Hongmeng, is finally official. At today's Huawei Developer Conference … | April Glaser / Slate: |
There is a growing sentiment among Stanford's CS students to resist working at tech companies like Palantir that they feel are unethical — Palantir is about a 15-minute walk from Stanford University. That stone's-throw convenience helped one morning in June when a group of Stanford students perched … | April Glaser / Slate: |
Telegram has become a haven for white supremacists, violent men's groups, anti-PC agitators, and others who fear alleged censorship by big tech companies — The alleged shooter's manifesto was everywhere in the hours after the El Paso, Texas, Walmart shooting on Saturday.| Nick Heath / ZDNet: |
Interview with Python creator Guido van Rossum on Python's creation in the 1980s, its evolution, draw for developers, and future — Frustrated by programming language shortcomings, Guido van Rossum created Python. With the language now used by millions, Nick Heath talks to van Rossum about Python's past and explores what's next.| The Block: |
China's central bank official says its digital currency, CBDC, is “ready”, and will not rely entirely on a pure blockchain architecture — Mu Changchun, Deputy Chief in the Payment and Settlement Division of the People's Bank of China (PBOC,) stated that the CBDC prototype exists … | Blake Montgomery / The Atlantic: |
Profile of Amazon Publishing, which puts out around 1,100 titles a year and, like Prime Video, exists to reinforce Prime memberships — What does the e-commerce giant want with the notoriously fickle world of publishing? To own your every reading decision. — Have you read Victoria Helen Stone's False Step?| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
FCC filing reveals Sonos is working on its first-ever Bluetooth speaker — The long-awaited portable Sonos speaker could arrive this fall — One of two devices recently filed by Sonos with the FCC is a portable Bluetooth speaker, The Verge can confirm. In the filing for product model S17 … | Joel Stein / Bloomberg: |
A reporter describes trying to regain privacy by hiding from Silicon Valley using a slew of location-altering, signal silencing, face-masking gadgets — As the spy gear piles up on my desk, my 10-year-old son asks me what my mission is. “I'm hiding,” I whisper, pointing in the direction I think is north … | Sheri Fink / New York Times: |
Interviews and documents show that One Concern, which wants to use AI to help emergency responders in disasters, dangerously exaggerated its tools' abilities — Major cities are turning to a Silicon Valley start-up to help save lives in an emergency. But some fear its promise has been dangerously exaggerated.| Kate Clark / TechCrunch: |
Squad, an eight-month-old video chat and screen sharing app making a safe space for its 450K users, raises a $5M seed round; 70% of its users are teenage girls — Why CEO Esther Crawford is rewriting the playbook for social startups — When we go online to communicate, hang out or play …
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Shopify's new AI commerce stack — Their VP of Product digs into just-launched products to help entrepreneurs and developers build with the latest AI and tech.
Why eIDAS 2.0 might be the EU's boldest digital move yet — eIDAS: The first building block of digital trust More than a decade ago, the EU introduced the eIDAS regulation (Regulation [EU] No 910/2014) …
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
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