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YouTube TV is raising its monthly rate to $65 from $50, due to “the rising cost of content”; some ViacomCBS channels are becoming available on the service today — YouTube TV is getting another price hike, making its live TV streaming service less competitive with the cable TV services it aims to replace.
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Facebook says it removed 220 FB groups and 95 Instagram accounts dedicated to “Boogaloo”, weeks after feds said Boogaloo members planned murder of agent on FB — Facebook announced Tuesday that it is removing groups dedicated to the Boogaloo extremist movement one month …
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| Billy Steele / Engadget: |
Spotify expands its Premium Duo plan, which allows ad-free streaming for two people for $12.99 per month, to 55 markets including the US — Streaming services have been offering family plans for years. While the terms and prices may change, the basic premise is the same …
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Sources: Apple has shifted the strategy of its Arcade gaming service, canceling contracts for some titles in development and seeking games with more engagement — - Company ends contracts for multiple future Arcade titles — Apple seeks games with stronger engagement to hook users
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft unveils initiatives to upskill workers amid the “COVID-19 economy” including cash grants, affordable skill certificates, and a learning app in Teams — Microsoft has announced a slew of new initiatives designed to open up access to new digital skills, including cash grants …
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| Nikkei Asian Review: |
Sources: Apple is facing production delays of up to 1-2 months for its 5G iPhone range and will likely not need to postpone the launch until 2021 — US tech titan to make more older handsets to offset coronavirus disruption — TAIPEI/PALO ALTO, U.S. — Apple is pushing its suppliers …
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| Sebastian Sinclair / CoinDesk: |
Cloud computing blockchain startup Dfinity opens platform to outside devs, debuts a decentralized TikTok-like service, CanCan, written in under 1K lines of code — Decentralized cloud computing startup Dfinity has announced its “Internet Computer” is now open to third-party developers.
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| Abram Brown / Forbes: |
Chat app Discord raises $100M led by Index Ventures at a $3.5B valuation, up from $2.05B 18 months ago, and says it has ~100M MAUs, up 50% YoY — By shutting out white supremacists and reinventing itself to be more accessible, Discord has added millions of more diverse users—teachers …
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| Kelsey Sutton / Adweek: |
Bozoma Saint John, veteran of Uber, Apple, and Pepsi-Cola, is joining Netflix as CMO, succeeding Jackie Lee-Joe, who joined Netflix a year ago — Marketing heavy hitter succeeds Jackie Lee-Joe after just a year — Marketing powerhouse Bozoma Saint John is joining the streaming giant Netflix as chief marketing officer.
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| Bloomberg: |
India's app ban may present a model for other countries in Europe and Southeast Asia that seek to curtail China's access to their residents' data — - Move shows the increasingly fractured nature of tech industry — Chinese firms may find themselves excluded from key markets
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
US Cybercom warns foreign state-backed hackers will likely abuse a recently discovered SAML vulnerability that allows unauthorized network admin logins — The window of opportunity to fix critical security bug is rapidly closing. — Foreign hackers backed by a well-resourced government … | Zoe Schiffer / The Verge: |
Leaked memo: Verily is suspending spot bonuses through 2020 and redirecting the money to diversity and inclusion programs — The move frustrated employees who said it implied the initiatives aren't worthy of their own investment — Verily Life Sciences, the Alphabet-owned healthcare company …
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| Jade Macmillan / ABC: |
The Australian government announces AU$1.35B will be used over the next decade to boost cyberdefense capabilities against a surge in state-backed cyberattacks — The Federal Government wants to create more than 500 new jobs in its highly secretive cyber intelligence agency as part … | Arielle Pardes / Wired: |
The 👁👄👁 stunt, a hyped beta of a fake app, exploited Silicon Valley's fixation on shiny new things, but raised $200K for charities — Last weekend, the stunt aimed to use Silicon Valley's love of shiny new things for charity. The result left people wondering about the memeification of movements.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google shares details on upcoming Sheets features that automatically clean up and complete data, through formula suggestions and more — Google today announced a couple of updates to Google Sheets that will make building spreadsheets and analyzing data in them a little bit easier.
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9to5Google, Ubergizmo, Engadget, VentureBeat, XDA Developers, Android Authority, and Silicon Valley Business …. Tweets: @brianroemmele
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Researchers found 25 Android apps, downloaded 2.3M+ times, stealing Facebook credentials through a phishing page overlay; Google has now removed them — The malicious apps were downloaded more than 2.34 million times. — Google has removed this month 25 Android applications …
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| Rachel Lerman / Washington Post: |
California will enforce its digital privacy law, which went into effect on January 1, starting today, despite industry calls for delay because of the pandemic — Measure took effect in January, with a six-month grace period — California's privacy law, often called the broadest law …
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| Andrew Liszewski / Gizmodo: |
Researchers from Disney and ETH Zurich detail innovations in creating movie-quality face-swapping technology — In a few short years, neural-network-powered automated face swaps have gone from being mildly convincing to eerily believable. But through new research from Disney … | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Elementary Robotics, which develops tools to automate industrial tasks, announces $12.7M Series A funding to deploy its automation products at scale — Elementary Robotics, a robotics company developing tools to automate industrial tasks, today announced it has raised a $12.7 million round.
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FinSMEs, Forbes, PR Newswire, Los Angeles Business Journal, TechCrunch, socalTECH.com, dot.LA, and The Robot Report. Tweets: @toyota_ai_vc
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
UK government plans to begin allowing rental e-scooter trials on roads from Saturday, in a bid to ease pressure on public transport during the pandemic — In light of COVID-19 and social distancing regulations, the UK has been working on making it easier for people to get from point A to B …
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| Katie Roof / Bloomberg: |
B Capital, a VC firm co-founded by Eduardo Saverin that invests in companies in enterprise tech, fintech, and more, has closed its second fund at $820M — - 38-year-old billionaire founded B Capital about five years ago — Boston Consulting Group is an investor and strategic partnerSponsor Posts
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