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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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| 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.
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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: |
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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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Facebook says it will stop selling Oculus Go, ending app submissions for it in December, and vows to no longer make headsets that only track head rotation — Facebook will stop selling Oculus Go this year as the company sharpens its focus on fully positionally tracked VR headsets like Oculus Quest.| Olaf Storbeck / Financial Times: |
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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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.| Tracy Young / Tracy writes: |
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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| 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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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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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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| Henry T. Casey / Tom's Guide: |
Apple announces iPadOS 14 with widgets, improvements for Pencil like handwriting recognition, a new universal search bar, and more — Everything you need to know about iPadOS 14 — iPadOS 14 has arrived and remakes the home screen and supercharges the Apple Pencil.
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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 … | 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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Mastercard to buy Finicity, a fintech providing open banking APIs and more, for $825M, with $160M in earn-outs pending performance targets being met — Mastercard Inc. has signed a deal to buy Finicity, the Salt Lake City, Utah provider of real-time access to financial data, for $825 million, Mastercard announced on Tuesday (June 23).| 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.| 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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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Apple details watchOS 7: sleep tracking, new watch faces and Face Sharing feature, new workouts including dance, hand washing detection, and more — Apple is previewing watchOS 7, the new software update coming to Apple Watch later this year. The update includes new watch faces, workout types, and sleep tracking.
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