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| Jay Greene / Washington Post: |
Microsoft says it will not sell facial recognition tech to police departments until there is a federal law regulating its use — The software giant will ban police use of its controversial facial-recognition systems, as the company awaits regulatory rules for how law-enforcement agencies deploy the technology.
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| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
Amazon says it will ban police from using Rekognition for one year, as Congress “appears ready” to place stronger regulations on facial recognition tech — - Amazon said on Wednesday that it's putting in place a one-year moratorium on police use of Rekognition.
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| Michael Potuck / 9to5Mac: |
Tim Cook announces Apple's Racial Equity and Justice Initiative with a $100M commitment, led by VP of Environment, Policy, and Social Initiatives Lisa Jackson — Tim Cook has just announced a new major commitment from Apple to support the fight for racial equality and justice …
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| Cecilia Kang / New York Times: |
Biden campaign steps up its criticism of Facebook, with an open letter to Zuckerberg and petition asking it to strengthen rules on misinformation and more — The campaign will urge its supporters to push the social media giant to strengthen its rules against misinformation and harmful comments.| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple confirms the schedule for its all-virtual WWDC 2020, including Special Event Keynote on June 22 at 10am PT — Ahead of WWDC 2020 kicking off on June 22, Apple today has offered additional details on this year's schedule. Apple has confirmed that the all-virtual WWDC will include a keynote address …
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| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Snap says more than 75% of its 170M+ DAUs access AR features daily and updates its AR platform with voice search, geography-specific Local Lenses, and SnapML — Snapchat's augmented reality dreams might be starting to look a bit more realistic. — The company has been subtly improving …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: EU plans to file formal antitrust charges against Amazon for scooping up data from third-party sellers and using that info to compete against them — Charges are set to accuse Amazon of scooping up data from third-party sellers and using that information to compete against them
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| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Apple pulls podcast apps Pocket Casts and Castro from the App Store in China after the government determined they can be used to access “illegal” content — Pocket Casts and Castro are gone from China's App Store — Apple has removed Pocket Casts, the popular iOS and Android podcast client, from the App Store in China.
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Adobe launches Photoshop Camera, which uses its Sensei AI to suggest filters, on iOS and on recent Pixel, Galaxy, and OnePlus phones — Another way for Adobe to introduce people to Photoshop — Adobe is launching a new app today called Photoshop Camera that's filled with a bunch …
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| Axios: |
Sources: Facebook is establishing a venture arm to invest in startups and has hired a head of investments for the New Product Experimentation team — Facebook has been hiring seasoned tech investors to help lead a new “multi-million dollar” investment fund within its experimental apps team, Axios has learned.
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Chris Cox is returning to Facebook as its chief product officer, a year after quitting over differences with Mark Zuckerberg over the company's direction — The longtime executive had quit in 2019 after a difference of opinion over the company's direction — A year after quitting the company … | Margaret Harding McGill / Axios: |
Source: at the request of the Trump administration, Sen. Josh Hawley is working on new legislation targeting Section 230 protections — At the request of the Trump administration, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) is working on new legislation targeting the tech industry's liability shield, a source familiar with the effort told Axios.| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
The Technology Coalition, including Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Twitter, announces Project Protect, a five-point plan to combat online child sexual abuse — - The Technology Coalition is a group backed by the likes of Google, Facebook and Microsoft. Its aim is to combat online sexual abuse.
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| Cyrus Farivar / NBC News: |
California regulatory agency for transportation formally rules that it considers Uber and Lyft drivers as employees of those companies under AB5 state law — OAKLAND, Calif. —The California Public Utilities Commission, the state government body responsible for licensing and regulating …
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| CNBC: |
Instacart raises $225M led by DST Global and General Catalyst, valuing the company at $13.7B, up from $8B in 2018 — - Amid surging demand for grocery delivery, Instacart has raised $225 million, led by DST Global and General Catalyst. — The round increases its valuation to nearly $14 billion …
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| Ashlee Vance / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI launches its first commercially available product, an API that can perform a broad set of language tasks, like translation or writing a news story — Over the past few months, OpenAI has vacuumed an incredible amount of data into its artificial intelligence language systems.| Jennifer A Dlouhy / Bloomberg: |
EPA orders Amazon and eBay to stop selling or distributing 70 products, including sprays, lanyards, and other gear sometimes touted as killing COVID-19 — - Products include pesticide-coated lanyards and sprays — E-commerce marketplaces new focus of stepped-up enforcement| Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica: |
Researchers detail security issues in OmniBallot, a web-based system used across US for blank ballot delivery, ballot marking, and (optionally) online voting — Elections in five states have used or plan to use OmniBallot's online voting tech. — OmniBallot is election software that is used …
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MIT, Slashdot, Cointelegraph, Internet Policy Research Initiative at MIT, and Business Insider. Tweets: @binarybits
| Bloomberg: |
Just Eat Takeaway confirms it is acquiring Grubhub in an all-stock deal; the deal has an equity value of $7.3B — - Deal creates one of world's largest food-delivery companies — Dutch company offered to pay $75.15 per share for Grubhub — Europe's Just Eat Takeaway.com NV agreed …
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Postman, which helps developers build, test, and iterate their APIs, raises $150M Series C led by Insight Partners at a $2B valuation — Postman, a collaborative platform where developers can build, test, and iterate their application programming interfaces (APIs), has raised $150 million …
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FinSMEs, The Economic Times, VCCircle, Business Standard, Inc42 Media, Moneycontrol, Analytics India Magazine, TechCrunch, and The Financial Express
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| Sarah McBride / Bloomberg: |
Now-defunct VC firm Binary Capital settles a 2017 harassment and discrimination lawsuit filed by former principal Ann Lai; the firm did not admit to wrongdoing — Now-defunct venture capital firm Binary Capital and its founders are settling a 2017 harassment and discrimination lawsuit brought …
Tweets: @mcbridesg and @bizcarson
| Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: |
Meditation app Headspace raises an additional $47.7M, bringing its Series C round from February to $100.7M in equity funding — The Orange Dot, better known as Headspace, has closed on $47.7 million in equity funding, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.Thanks:@bayareawriter
| Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian / Axios: |
US-based Chinese activists say Zoom closed their paid account after event commemorating Tiananmen; Zoom says it was complying with local law, has reactivated it — The U.S. video-conferencing company Zoom closed the account of a group of prominent U.S.-based Chinese activists after they held …
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