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The European Commission opens two antitrust investigations into Apple's App Store and Apple Pay practices — Both investigations begin today — The European Commission is opening two antitrust investigations into Apple's App Store and Apple Pay practices today.
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Report finds 11% of people under-25 use Instagram for news compared with 12% for Twitter, predicts Instagram will overtake Twitter next year as a news source — Photo-sharing app Instagram is set to overtake Twitter as a news source, research suggests. — The 2020 Reuters Institute Digital …
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| Frank Jordans / Associated Press: |
Germany launches a coronavirus contact tracing app on iOS and Android, says it cost €20M to develop and will require €2.5M- €3.5M per month to operate — BERLIN (AP) — Germany launched a coronavirus tracing app Tuesday that officials say is so secure even government ministers can use it.
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| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
Instagram says that, amid concerns it may “shadowban” Black voices, it will review harassment and verification rules, and check for bias in recommendations — Instagram's top executive says the company will review its harassment and verification policies, as well as how the app recommends content …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Dropbox launches a password manager, a secure vault for storing documents like birth certificates, a backup service, and a family plan — The company announced a bunch of new updates today — Dropbox is launching a bunch of new features today, many of which are security-focused … | Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
New York AG asks Apple and Google to ensure that coronavirus contact tracing apps on iOS and Android do not collect sensitive personal health information — Both Apple and Google are having a hard time regulating all the third-party COVID-19 contact tracing apps that popped up on their app stores recently …
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| Hiroyuki Nishimura / Nikkei Asian Review: |
China proposes an East Asian digital currency based on the Chinese yuan, Japanese yen, South Korean won, and the Hong Kong dollar — Beijing backs private-sector-led East Asia digital money in challenge to US — TOKYO — Global competition for supremacy in digital currencies has entered …
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| Olivia Solon / NBC News: |
Dozens of Tunisian, Syrian, and Palestinian activists and journalists say their Facebook accounts have been deactivated recently on the pretext of terrorism — “Facebook doesn't care. It closes our accounts on the pretext of terrorism. We are against terrorism and violence," one journalist said.
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| Washington Post: |
CIA report: security was so lax at the time of the Vault 7 breach, that if WikiLeaks hadn't published said files, CIA may have never known they were compromised — The theft of top-secret computer hacking tools from the CIA in 2016 was the result of a workplace culture in which the agency's …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
How location-tracking firms, once under fire from privacy activists, are now being used by officials to monitor the movements of people during the pandemic — Location-tracking companies were under fire from privacy advocates, but now officials are using them to monitor populations as the economy reopens| George Anadiotis / ZDNet: |
Streamlit, an open-source Python app framework geared toward data scientists, raises $21M Series A co-led by Gradient Ventures and GGV Capital — Streamlit wants to be for data science what business intelligence tools have been for databases: a quick way to get to results, without bothering much with the details
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft moves its Windows 10 Insider Program from rings to channels, to focus more on release quality rather than frequency of builds — For the last few years, Microsoft has given Windows enthusiasts the ability to opt in to early release “rings,” with the choice to pick between “fast” …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Epic Games, which owns Fortnite, Unreal Engine, and Houseparty, is close to raising $750M at a ~$17B valuation, with investors including T. Rowe, KKR — - Epic owns Fortnite video game, Unreal Engine and Houseparty — T. Rowe, KKR, Baillie Gifford to participate in round
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| Cecilia D'Anastasio / Wired: |
Chess on Twitch has taken off as professional chess streamers, like GM Hikaru Nakamura, have embraced legions of streaming personalities discovering the game — Hikaru Nakamura is the top-ranked blitz chess player in the world—and his channel has seen a meteoric rise as he coaches streamers in the ancient game.
Tweets: @wired, @fide_chess, and @theeconomist
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple says its App Store facilitated $519B in commerce globally in 2019, citing a study from Analysis Group — Amid increasing antitrust scrutiny by U.S. regulators, Apple announced an update on its App Store ecosystem. While the company normally shares some App Store metrics during its WWDC keynote …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Zycada, which is developing bot-based tech to speed up e-commerce sites, emerges from stealth with $19M led by Khosla Ventures — Shopping cart abandonment — when a person shopping online moves away from a site or mobile app before completing a sale — remains one of the biggest hurdles to e-commerce … | David Pierce / Protocol: |
Basecamp debuts Hey, an email service for $99/year that tries to reimagine email, blocks tracking pixels, but needs its own client and can't import old email — David Heinemeier Hansson, the co-founder and CTO of Basecamp, is trying very hard to not say “I told you so.”
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| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Cameo launches Cameo Live, where people can, instead of a prerecorded shoutout, book a 10-minute Zoom call with celebrities — Jeremy Piven charges $15K for 10 minutes — Cameo has a new way for fans to interact with celebrities: Zoom calls. The company launched a video call option over the weekend …
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