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Uber buys food delivery service Postmates for $2.65B in an all-stock deal — - Uber agreed to buy Postmates, the fourth-largest U.S. delivery food service, for $2.65 billion in stock. — Uber had attempted to acquire GrubHub last month but talks failed.
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Facebook, Telegram, and Twitter say they have suspended requests for user data from Hong Kong police, following a new national security law by China — The social network said it would review the city's punitive new national security law, a rare public questioning of Chinese policy by a large American tech company.| Benjamin Wallace / Vulture: |
Inside Quibi's implosion, aided by the divisive management styles of Katzenberg and Whitman, compounded by a failure to understand its digital-native audience — The Emmy race has begun! Vulture is taking a close look at the contenders until nomination-round voting closes on July 13.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Instagram expands its TikTok rival, Reels, to India in the wake of the country's ban on Chinese apps — In the wake of India's decision to ban TikTok and dozens of other Chinese apps over privacy concerns, Instagram has expanded its TikTok rival, known as Reels, in the region.| Gene Park / Washington Post: |
AAA games for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X will likely be priced at $69.99, the first rise since 2005, when Activision released COD: 2 for $59.99 — Video games have been $60 for as long as many of you can remember, but price listings for the upcoming “NBA 2K21” titles for PlayStation 5 …
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SCOTUS strikes down a law amended in 2015 to allow robocalls by debt collectors — Collectors of US-backed debt no longer allowed to make robocalls to cell phones. — The US Supreme Court today struck down a provision in US law that let debt collectors make robocalls to cell phones … | Rebecca Heilweil / Vox: |
Even if government use of facial recognition tech is regulated more strictly, issues will remain due to the ubiquity of the same tech in consumer devices — A growing number of gadgets are scanning your face. — Facial recognition is having a reckoning.
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| Aislinn Keely / The Block: |
Investment firm Arca has registered the Ethereum token-based Arca US Treasury Fund with the SEC, after seeking approval nine times over two years — Digital asset-focused investment firm Arca has obtained a registration with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) …
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| Benedict Carey / New York Times: |
Researchers demonstrate an algorithm that could predict COVID-19 outbreaks based on data from Google, Twitter, smartphones, and other streams — Researchers have developed a model that uses social-media and search data to forecast outbreaks of Covid-19 well before they occur.| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Ex-Yahoo engineer sentenced to five years of probation and home confinement for hacking into 6,000+ Yahoo Mail accounts to search for sexually explicit content — Hacker sentenced to five years probation, with home confinement condition. — A former Yahoo engineer was sentenced to five years …
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| William Clowes / Bloomberg: |
A Nigerian man with 2.4M Instagram followers, who allegedly conspired to use hacked email accounts to trick others into sending money, was extradited to the US — A Nigerian social-media celebrity was extradited to the U.S. from Dubai to face fraud charges.
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| Margaret Harding McGill / Axios: |
US government's Lifeline broadband subsidy program only serves under one-fifth of the 38M qualified households, with some blaming FCC's Ajit Pai — The federal government's main program to keep lower income people connected is only serving one-fifth of the people it could help …
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