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An ex-employee who worked at Microsoft for two years before joining the Mixer team in 2018 accuses management for failing to address alleged racism at Mixer — Over the weekend, former Mixer employee Milan Lee shared a blog describing his experiences with racism while working … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft to shut Mixer on July 22, move partners and gamers to Facebook Gaming, sell domain names and trademarks to Facebook but retain IP rights to Mixer tech — It's a strategic move for the future of xCloud — Microsoft is closing its Mixer service on July 22nd and plans to move existing partners over to Facebook Gaming.
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Apple says it will let developers appeal specific App Store guideline violations and that it will no longer delay bug fixes for guidelines disputes — The company also says it will no longer hold up bug fixes over App Store disputes — Apple today announced two major changes …
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| Nathaniel Popper / New York Times: |
Small businesses complain about Square withholding 20%-30% of their customers' payments, which it said it was doing to protect against risky transactions — Small businesses say the Twitter chief's other company is holding on to 30 percent of their customers' payments during the pandemic.| BuzzFeed News: |
Trump's new executive order will suspend H-1B, J-1, and H-2B visas, be in effect until the end of the year, and not immediately affect workers already in the US — BuzzFeed News has reporters around the world bringing you trustworthy stories about the impact of the coronavirus.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Apple says it's moving to its own Apple Silicon chips for Macs over the next two years, promising better performance, with “Rosetta 2” for app compatibility — Apple's first ARM-based Mac will be available later this year — Apple is officially moving to its own silicon chips for some of its Mac hardware.
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| Dana Mattioli / Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon unveils a Climate Pledge Fund, which will invest an initial $2B in startups building sustainable technologies — Tech giant plans to invest in transportation, energy, food and other industries — Amazon. AMZN 2.36% com Inc. is launching a $2 billion internal venture-capital fund focused …
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Former Wirecard CEO Markus Braun has been arrested on suspicion of false accounting and market manipulation — Prosecutors accuse him of inflating German fintech company's balance sheet and revenues — Wirecard's former chief executive Markus Braun has been arrested on suspicion …
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Facebook continues its VR game studio acquisition spree, acquiring Ready at Dawn Studios, behind the Lone Echo series of Oculus games, for an undisclosed price — Facebook has been on a game studio acquisition spree over the past year, buying up developers behind some of the most popular VR titles.
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Former CEO of PlanGrid, a construction software provider that was acquired by Autodesk, details her experiences of being a female founder — Not a lot is written about being a female founder and CEO. I used to believe that my journey as a startup founder was the same as any other founder's experience …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple introduces App Clips, launched via a visual code or NFC, intended for small, on-demand apps that can include support for Apple Pay, coming in iOS — At Apple's all-virtual Worldwide Developers Conference, the company introduced several new iOS features designed to help you clean up the mess of icons on your iPhone's homescreen.| Henry T. Casey / Tom's Guide: |
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| Isaac McIntyre / Dexerto: |
Twitch pledges to make platform “safer for everyone” in response to numerous sexual abuse allegations recently leveled at a handful of high-profile streamers — Published: {{day}}/{{monthNameShort}}/{{year}} {{hourTwoDigit}}:{{minuteTwoDigit}} — Updated: {{day}}/{{monthNameShort} …
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| Don Clark / New York Times: |
Japanese supercomputer Fugaku is rated as the world's fastest, carrying out 2.8x more calculations/second than the second fastest, an IBM system at Oak Ridge — In the race for the most powerful computers, Fugaku, a Japanese supercomputer, recently beat American and Chinese machines.
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| Zoe Schiffer / The Verge: |
In a letter to Sundar Pichai circulating since last week, 1,650+ Google employees are demanding that Google end its contracts with police forces across the US — Over 1,650 workers have signed an open letter to Sundar Pichai — Over 1,650 Google employees have signed an open letter …
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Nylas, which provides email, calendar, and contact APIs for app developers, has raised $25M Series B co-led by 8VC and Round13 — Nylas, which provides email, calendar, and contact APIs for developers looking to build their own apps, has raised $25 million in a series B round of funding.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Rasa, which is building an open-source framework to build AI chatbots, raises $26M Series B led by Andreessen Horowitz — As chatbots and other AI-based services like interactive voice apps continue to become more ubiquitous, a startup that's built software to help create and — critically …
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| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
China launches its final satellite to complete its global navigation system Beidou, which is a rival to the widely used, US-government owned GPS system — - China sent the last satellite to space on Tuesday to complete its global navigation system that will help wean it off U.S. technology in this area.| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Third Wave Automation, a startup adding automation tech to forklifts that hopes to augment, instead of replace, humans, emerges from stealth with $15M — Third Wave Automation, a startup developing autonomous forklift technology, today emerged from stealth with $15 million in equity financing.
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| Karin Matussek / Bloomberg: |
A previously-suspended German antitrust order against Facebook gets reinstated amid pending lawsuit, after a judge says Facebook abuses its dominant position — Facebook Inc. suffered a setback at Germany's highest civil court in its fight against a fierce attack on its business model by the nation's antitrust watchdog.| Mark Wilson / Fast Company: |
Segway, the two-wheeled, self-balancing vehicle known for the hype it generated in the early 2000s, ends production as the company lays off most of its staff — Steve Jobs said it would be bigger than the PC. Some dubbed it the most hyped product since the Apple Macintosh.| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
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