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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google releases Android 11 Beta 1 for Pixel phones, with updates to messaging notifications, ability for message threads to pop out in bubbles, and more — The Android 11 beta is available now for Pixel phones — Today, Google is releasing the Android 11 beta for Pixel phones.
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Tweets: @android, @campuscodi, @suka_hiroaki, and @backlon
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Just Eat Takeaway is nearing an all-stock deal to acquire Grubhub that could be finalized as early as Wednesday, after Uber-Grubhub talks stalled — Uber's board is planning to meet Wednesday and may officially pull the plug on Grubhub talks then — Grubhub Inc. GRUB -1.74% …
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| Bradley Chambers / 9to5Mac: |
Apple says it will discontinue iBooks Author, which will no longer be updated, in July 2020 and iTunes U, its educational resources portal, at the end of 2021 — I have previously written about my frustration With iBooks Author and iTunes U, and Apple has now announced both of these products …
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE: |
Sources detail Facebook's extraordinary efforts to help the FBI track down a repeat child predator, paying a cybersecurity firm six figures for a Tails zero-day — For years, a California man systematically harassed and terrorized young girls using chat apps, email, and Facebook.
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9to5Mac and Engadget
Tweets: @lorenzofb, @bcrypt, @kimzetter, @kimzetter, @lorenzofb, @kimzetter, and @iblametom
| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Reddit names Y Combinator CEO and Justin.tv founder Michael Seibel as Alexis Ohanian's replacement — Ohanian stepped down last week, asking the board to replace him with a black candidate — Reddit has named Y Combinator CEO Michael Seibel to its board of directors.
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Tweets: @skamille, @ericajoy, @alexisohanian, @reddit, @aaron_epstein, @seyitaylor, and @ericajoy
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple says in a memo that its main campus will re-open on June 15 for select employees, with most waiting several months at least before going back — Apple Inc. told staff at its main Silicon Valley headquarters that the first phase of a plan to return to the office will begin on June 15 …
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Tweets: @alistairmbarr and @markgurman
| Isobel Asher Hamilton / Business Insider: |
Following its apparent exit from the facial recognition business, experts say IBM only ruling out “general purpose” development could act as a loophole — Foto: Matthew Horwood/Getty Images A man holds a leaflet during a protest against the use of police facial recognition in Wales.
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| Sarah Emerson / OneZero : |
Facebook acknowledges banning hundreds of anti-racist skinheads for allegedly violating its community standards, apparently conflating them with neo-Nazi groups — ‘They wanted to see my ID before they would give me my account back’ — Hundreds of anti-racist skinheads are reporting …
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Tweets: @sarahnemerson, @guyro, @ozm, @jilliancyork, @jason_koebler, @jeffbercovici, @rmac18, @dlberes, @philnelson, @bcmerchant, @mikeisaac, @slpng_giants, and @sarahnemerson. Thanks:@dlberes
| New York Times: |
Many top Chinese-educated AI researchers work at US companies, which could lose their edge as Trump moves to limit Chinese access to advanced American research — New research shows scientists educated in China help American firms and schools dominate the cutting-edge field.
Tweets: @paulmozur, @paulmozur, @paulmozur, @paulmozur, @paulmozur, @ericfish85, @jchengwsj, and @nytimes
| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
Amazon, Facebook, and Google have been covertly funding a range of political groups to fight back against US antitrust action, pushing positive polling and more — The tech giants have funded a bevy of political groups, including those producing positive polling, and engaged …
Tweets: @tonyromm, @caseynewton, and @noahbookbinder
| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Intel details its 3D-stacked Lakefield chips, designed for ultraportable, foldable, and dual-screen devices, in a bid to compete with ARM and Qualcomm — Intel is ready to take on ARM and Qualcomm — Intel's 3D-stacked Lakefield processors are finally getting an official debut after months of previews …
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| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Amid protests, a movement swells to update widely-used tech terms for hard drives, camera flashes, and databases, like whitelist/blacklist and master/slave — During Black Lives Matter protests, a movement grows to update terms used with hard drives, camera flashes and databases.
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Tweets: @leahculver, @mattocko, @houlihan_rick, @alexjamesfitz, @simonw, @prosaicview, @jessesheidlower, and @stshank
| Hadas Gold / CNN: |
Facebook says it is lifting its blanket ban on ads for face masks, introduced in the early weeks of the pandemic; ads for medical face masks will remain banned — London (CNN Business)Facebook announced Wednesday that it will lift the blanket ban on advertisements for face masks …
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Tweets: @robleathern, @robleathern, and @robleathern
| Jared Newman / Fast Company: |
Roku is prominently promoting OAN Encore, an offshoot of OANN with the same news and commentary, on The Roku Channel, as Trump promotes conspiracies from OANN — One America News Network isn't just an app on Roku streaming devices. It's receiving a huge platform as part of Roku's business model.| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
Apple's rumored shift to its own CPUs for Mac may parallel the 2005 transition to Intel and brings up similar questions of emulation, developer transition kits — Mark Gurman: … I'm not sure what the hedging is about there, other than the fact that anything reported about anyone's future plans could, in theory, change.
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Tweets: @sonnydickson, @jefflaporte, and @stroughtonsmith
| Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
Tech giants like Salesforce and Facebook, longtime advocates of open workspaces, are reopening with new rules, banning elevator conversations, communal snacks — Companies like Salesforce created workplaces with all the comforts of home. But now they may feel more like hospitals.
Tweets: @coreymintz, @pink94109, and @r0h1n
| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Hands-on with Huawei's P40 Pro Plus, launching internationally later this month without Google services: focus on the camera is undermined by Google's absence — - Huawei is challenging Samsung in the smartphone photography department. But Samsung has something Huawei can't offer.| Tom Krazit / Protocol: |
Profile of Bret Arsenault, Microsoft's CISO, who is working on an ambitious project to make its 150K+ employees ditch their passwords by early next year — Bret Arsenault doesn't like cheese. — But for Microsoft's chief information security officer, a distaste for dairy produce isn't born …
Tweets: @karynelevy, @protocol, @williamslauram, @quinnypig, @protocol, @protocol, and @tomkrazit
| Natalie Jarvey / Hollywood Reporter: |
Interactive storytelling app Whatifi launches on iOS with $10M led by a16z and participation of former Netflix CFO David Wells, Max Levchin, and others — Andreessen Horowitz and former Netflix CFO David Wells are among the startup's investors. — Jaanus Juss has been staging interactive plays … | Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Two Texas men face a $225M FCC fine and a lawsuit from multiple AGs after making billions of robocalls over two years; calls targeted Do Not Call registry — Two men embodying the zenith of human villainy have admitted to making approximately a billion robocalls in the first few months of 2019 alone …
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Federal Communications …, Ars Technica, TechSpot, Android Police, Texas Attorney General, Telecompetitor, and Engadget. Tweets: @fcc
| Katherine Davis / AmericanInno: |
Consumer-focused fintech startup M1 Finance, which offers a no-fee investing app, raises $33M Series B and says it has added $650M+ in consumer deposits in 2020 — Chicago fintech startup M1 Finance, which is giving people a new way to invest their money, has spent much of the pandemic fundraising …
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| Tre Vayne / OneZero : |
Black Lives Matter supporters are using YouTube's AdSense tools to generate donations, uploading lengthy videos with frequent ads and donating any revenue — In — the early 2010s, in the wake of the Moldovan parliamentary election protests and Occupy Wall Street, digital observers coined the term …
Tweets: @ozm, @mvzelenks, @zoeamira, and @backburnbaby
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