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| Sameer Samat / The Keyword: |
Google stops using dessert-themed names for Android to better worldwide accessibility and names Android Q Android 10, refreshes Android brand logo and color — Over the last decade, Android's open platform has created a thriving community of manufacturers and developers that reach a global audience with their devices and apps.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is planning to launch Pro iPhones with three-sensor camera systems for better low-light photos and video recording, new iPads, larger MacBook Pro — Apple Inc. is readying a clutch of new hardware for the coming weeks and months, including “Pro” iPhones, upgrades to iPads and its largest laptop in years.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google proposes new privacy and anti-fingerprinting controls aimed at making it harder for online marketers and advertisers to track users across the web — Google today announced a new long-term initiative that, if fully realized, will make it harder for online marketers and advertisers to track you across the web.| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
Assessing the impact of telecoms' poor privacy practices through the story of a woman stalked by a man who obtained her real-time location data from T-Mobile — Telecom giants are giving up customers' real-time location data to stalkers and bounty hunters. Now, Motherboard speaks to a victim.
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
SpotHero, which allows users to buy and sell parking spaces, raises $50M Series D led by Macquarie Capital, bringing its total raised to $118M — Chicago, Illinois-based parking inventory and booking startup SpotHero today announced that it's secured $50 million in a series D round led by Macquarie Capital …
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| Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter: |
Eminem's publisher Eight Mile Style sues Spotify claiming copyright infringement, challenges the constitutionality of the Music Modernization Act passed in 2018 — Eight Mile Style alleges “Lose Yourself” and many of the rapper's hits aren't licensed by the streamer. Now comes a suit eyeing Spotify's billions.
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| Stephan Kahl / Bloomberg: |
Numbrs, an app that enables users to manage existing bank accounts in one place, raises $40M at a $1B+ valuation, bringing its total raised to ~$200M — - Numbrs raises $40 million as it looks to expand beyond Germany — Company counts 50 indivuals and families among its investors| Stephen Hall / 9to5Google: |
Source: Google is planning an update to the Home Mini, called the Nest Mini, with a similar form factor, wall mount, improved sound, and 3.5mm jack — Google plans to launch a followup to 2017's Google Home Mini with a second-generation ‘Nest Mini,’ a reliable source tells 9to5Google.
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| Zoe Talamantes / Facebook Technology: |
A look at Oculus Insight, Facebook's technology that makes inside-out VR tracking on Oculus Quest and Rift S headsets possible — VR hardware was tethered to a PC — until one Facebook engineering team found a way to cut the cord — When Anna Kozminski joined Facebook as a software program manager …
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| Brian Merchant / Gizmodo: |
Investigation reveals popular on-demand massage app Zeel repeatedly ignored therapists' complaints about sexual harassment and inappropriate client behavior — When Ilene Antelman arrived at a client's Manhattan duplex in December of 2016, she was in a good mood.
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Remediant, which develops privileged account management software, raises $15M Series A led by Dell Technologies Capital and ForgePoint Capital — Remediant, a San Francisco- and Fort Worth-based provider of privileged account management software, today announced that it's raised $15 million …
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| Rani Molla / Vox: |
A snapshot of Amazon's financial history and why free cash flow, which Bezos called Amazon's “ultimate financial measure”, is always higher than its profits — It's all about investing in the future. — Amazon skeptics have long repeated a narrative about the e-commerce behemoth …
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Microsoft, Google, Alibaba, Baidu, IBM, ARM, Intel, Red Hat, and others form the Confidential Computing Consortium to promote better data security practices — A number of big-name tech companies — including Microsoft, Google, Alibaba, Red Hat, IBM, and Intel — are joining forces … | Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Samsung Galaxy Note10+ review: the screen is beautiful and handwriting recognition with S Pen is neat but software backslides into confusion and DeX is a mess — The most phone — How much would you pay to have a stylus in your phone? — That's the essential question for the Note 10 Plus.| Kashmir Hill / New York Times: |
Users whose accounts have been disabled by Facebook say the opaque review process, the endless wait, and the inability to contact an employee can be maddening — For a decade, Christopher Reeves, an Uber driver in Seattle, used Facebook for everything: talking with friends, communicating with fellow drivers, meeting singles.
Tweets: @mvzelenks, @robpegoraro, @kashhill, and @kashhill
| Mehreen Khan / Financial Times: |
The European Commission is planning regulation to impose strict limits on the use of facial recognition technology by companies and public authorities — Brussels is exploring ways to impose strict limits on the use of facial recognition technology in an attempt to stamp out creeping public surveillance of European citizens.| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
Big data analytics service Splunk to acquire cloud monitoring company SignalFx for $1.05B — The company announced the deal along with its second quarter financial results, which topped estimates. — Splunk delivered better-than-expected second quarter financial results and announced …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google officially rolls out a redesign for the Play Store, using its Material design language, and creates two distinct destinations for games and apps — After months of waiting and temporary appearances, the Play Store Material Theme redesign is now official on Android.
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| Danny Crichton / TechCrunch: |
Drop, which scans users' credit card purchases and offers personalized rewards, raises $44M Series B led by HOF Capital — Commerce and marketing are radically changing these days. Consumers are increasingly looking for brands they identify with, while at the same time …
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| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
Google, Mozilla, Apple to block root certificate issued by Kazakhstan which could be used to monitor users; Microsoft says cert not in its Trusted Root Program — Browser makers announced they would block the Kazakhstan government's root certificate, which was designed to spy on citizens' internet usage.
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| Ryan Calo / OneZero: |
The definition of hacking under US federal law needs to evolve to account for new technological developments such as adversarial machine learning — Using adversarial machine learning, researchers can trick machines — potentially with fatal consequences. But the legal system hasn't caught up.
Tweets: @techpolicylab
| Alnoor Peermohamed / The Economic Times: |
Amazon is bringing its online grocery store, Amazon Fresh, which will offer two-hour delivery, to India, starting with Bengaluru on August 23 — Customers will be able to choose from 5,000 fruits and vegetables, dairy, meat, ice-creams, and dry grocery like staples, packaged food, personal care and home care| Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: |
Knotel, a WeWork rival which uses a blockchain platform to make acquisition decisions and reduce costs, raises $400M Series C, bringing total raised to $560M — While some analysts are calling WeWork's IPO filing a “masterpiece of obfuscation,” the esteemed tech observer Professor Scott Galloway simply calls it “WeWTF.”
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| Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: |
Shanghai-based The CareVoice, which is building an end-to-end mobile platform for insurers to integrate their existing solutions, raises $10M Series A — The CareVoice, a Shanghai-based health insurance software startup with ambitions to expand throughout Asia, announced today that it has raised about $10 million in Series A funding.
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