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After meeting between leaders of Facebook, ADL, Free Press, NAACP, and Color Of Change, boycott organizers are unconvinced meaningful change will occur at FB — WASHINGTON — On Tuesday afternoon, leaders of four of the organizations coordinating the #StopHateForProfit advertising boycott met …
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| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Code in the second developer beta of iOS 14 reveals a hidden and unannounced feature in the Wallet app that would allow payments with QR codes using Apple Pay — Apple today released the second developer beta of iOS 14 with some small changes across the system.
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| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says the US is “looking at” banning TikTok and other Chinese social media apps amid rising tensions between US and China — - The U.S. is “looking at” banning TikTok and other Chinese social media apps, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Monday.
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Magic Leap hires Peggy Johnson, who led Microsoft's business development, as CEO, starting in August — Peggy Johnson, who led Microsoft's business development, will take over the struggling virtual reality start-up in August. — SAN FRANCISCO — Magic Leap said on Tuesday …
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| Jason Del Rey / Vox: |
Sources: Walmart+, a $98/year Amazon Prime rival, will launch in July, with same-day delivery, discounts at Walmart gas stations, reserved delivery slots, more — After announcing a number of improvements to its online shopping experience, Walmart is now taking aim at Amazon Prime membership.
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
TikTok says it will pull its app from Google Play and App Store in Hong Kong after a new security law, claiming it doesn't and wouldn't share data with China — TikTok said Monday night that it would pull its social video platform out of the Google and Apple app stores in Hong Kong amid …
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| Abdi Latif Dahir / New York Times: |
Alphabet's Loon starts providing internet service to Kenya in the first-ever commercial deployment of the tech, extending 4G LTE to a ~31K square-mile area — A commercial deal in Kenya marks the first application of balloon-powered internet in Africa, the region with the lowest percentage of internet users globally.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Prime Video launches user profiles globally, allowing six per account, giving access to a Watchlist, personalized recommendations, and viewing progress — Amazon's Prime Video is finally adding a feature that's long since become a standard for streaming video services: user profiles.
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Instagram will start letting users pin up to three comments on their posts, after testing the feature in May — To help users highlight positive replies and better moderate abusive ones — Instagram on Tuesday started the official rollout of its pinned comment feature …
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
ARM plans to spin off its two IoT businesses to its parent company SoftBank, in order to focus its efforts exclusively on the semiconductor IP business — Arm today announced plans to spinoff its two IoT business, a move that would effectively transfer the divisions under the broader umbrella …
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| Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider: |
Kuo: “AirPods 3” will adopt a more complex system-in-package chip solution, similar to AirPods Pro, replacing the surface mount tech used in current versions — Apple's next-generation in-ear AirPods product will move to a more complex system-in-package chip solution …
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Samsung announces its next Galaxy Unpacked event for August 5, to be held virtually, where the Galaxy Note 20 lineup and Galaxy Fold's successor are expected — Time for a new Galaxy Unpacked event — Samsung has announced that its next Galaxy Unpacked event will take place on Wednesday, August 5th, at 10AM ET.
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Tweets: @themrmobile and @harrymccracken
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Report: a group known as Keeper has breached at least 570 online e-commerce portals since 2017; 85% of the victims' sites were running Magento software — Hackers also accidentally leaked more than 184,000 stolen cards through an improperly secured backend server.| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
New HomePod beta software release lets users select default services for music, podcasts, and audiobooks; third-party devs will need to add support to be listed — Apple has provided HomePod beta software to a selection of AppleSeed testers, and today released a second version of the HomePod update alongside iOS 14 beta 2.
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Comcast plans to invest $2B in Peacock by 2021, expects it to generate $2.5B in revenue by 2024 with 30M-35M users, says users gravitate to its curated channels — In September 2019, Steve Burke, then NBCUniversal chief executive, called Matt Strauss, with a question: Would he take the wheel of the Peacock project?
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Phil Libin debuts Mmhmm, a Mac videoconference tool in invite-only beta that enables Weekend Update-style presentations with dynamic backgrounds — The next generation of videoconferencing is now in beta — The future of video chat will look more like Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update than it will Zoom.
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