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Sources: Apple is planning to announce a shift to its own Arm-based processors in Mac computers, replacing chips from Intel, as early as this month at WWDC — - Company readies Macs for next year without Intel processors — Apple is holding virtual version of WWDC event week of June 22
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Google Maps to show COVID-19 related travel alerts and local restrictions, as well as crowdedness predictions — Product Management Director, Google Maps — Getting from A to B can be more complicated these days. Because of COVID-19, it's increasingly important to know how crowded …
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
In a letter to members of Congress, IBM says it's exiting the general-purpose facial recognition business and opposes the use of such tech for mass surveillance — In a letter to members of Congress on Monday, IBM said it is existing the general-purpose facial recognition business …
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An obscure Indian firm provided hacking services to help spy on 10K+ email accounts over seven years, in one of the largest spy-for-hire operations ever exposed — LONDON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A little-known Indian IT firm offered its hacking services to help clients spy … | Jim Waterson / The Guardian: |
MSN's AI editor confused a mixed-race member of the band Little Mix with another and staff were told to delete articles about the mix-up should the AI find them — Firm's plan to replace editors with AI backfires after wrong image of musician is published — Microsoft's decision …
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Cox says it has slowed Internet speeds for entire neighborhoods to punish users with “excessive usage” — Cox warns customers to lower usage, imposes 10Mbps upload limit on “gigabit” plan. — Cox Communications is lowering Internet upload speeds in entire neighborhoods to stop …
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| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
Nextdoor's reliance on untrained volunteer moderators has raised concerns over censorship and targeting of people of color, an issue amplified by recent events — Kalkidan G. moved to Rancho Santa Fe because it was one of the nicer neighborhoods in San Diego.
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Yugabyte, maker of the open source, cloud-native YougabyteDB distributed database, raises $30M Series B led by 8VC, bringing its total raised to $55M — Ope- source relational database company Yugabyte Inc. is in the mood for expansion after landing a new $30 million funding round announced today.| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Deep dive on how Google Meet's AI-powered noise cancellation works as it begins rolling out to customers — Google is turning on AI-powered noise cancellation in Google Meet today. Like Microsoft Teams' upcoming noise suppression functionality, the feature leverages supervised learning …
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Amazon sues former AWS VP of product marketing Brian Hall, alleging his new role at Google Cloud violates a non-compete agreement — A lawsuit filed by Amazon against Brian Hall, former Amazon Web Services vice president of product marketing, alleges that his new role at Google Cloud violates …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
DNAnexus, which provides cloud-based analytics software for genomics and other clinical big data projects, raises $100M Series G — DNAnexus, which provides a cloud platform for governments, universities, doctors, and pharmaceutical companies to tap into DNA and other clinical datasets …
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Twitch has had a “sudden influx of DMCA takedown requests for clips” from 2017 to 2019, as creators bemoan the three strike rule and lack of bulk deletion tools — There has been a flurry of takedown requests in the last few days — Over the last few days …
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Reflecting on DuckDuckGo's rise as the privacy-focused search engine and the possibility of increased market share because of EU regulatory pressure — In July 2018, Google was fined €4.34 billion for limiting search on Android phones. Almost two years later, its rivals claim little … | Reuters: |
Online used car seller Vroom raises $467.5M in its US IPO after pricing its shares at $22, above the initially marketed range of $18-$20 — (Reuters) - Online used car seller Vroom Inc raised $467.5 million in its U.S. initial public offering, the company said on Monday …
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Honda says a cyberattack on its network forced it to suspend global production and give many staffers a day off; some vehicle factories remain closed — Japanese manufacturer forced to suspend global operations for a day following disruption — Japanese carmaker Honda said on Tuesday …
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