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Sources: Coinbase is exploring going public via a direct listing as early as this year; Coinbase was last valued at $8B+ in 2018 — Anirban Sen, Joshua Franklin, Anna Irrera — (Reuters) - Coinbase Inc has started plans for a stock market listing that could come as early as this year …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
WhatsApp Business adds support for QR codes, allows businesses to create and share links to their catalogs to post elsewhere, and says it has 50M users — The global COVID-19 health pandemic has raised the stakes for businesses when it comes to using digital channels to connect with customers …
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WhatsApp, About Facebook, 9to5Mac, Wall Street Journal, PYMNTS.com, and Pocketnow. Thanks:@ingridlunden
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Hands-on with iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 as they launch in public beta with a new home screen with widgets on the iPhone, a Scribble feature for Apple Pencil, more — There are so many new features that it's hard to keep track — In anticipation of today's release of the public betas of iOS 14 …
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Tweets: @twostraws, @dcseifert, @stephenlrose, and @backlon
| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Epic Games releases an iOS app, called Live Link Face, enabling the recording of facial expressions directly into the Unreal Engine — Using Apple's ARKit and the iPhone's TrueDepth camera — A newly released iOS app from Epic Games lets developers record facial expressions …
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
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| Alfred Ng / CNET: |
UK and Australian data privacy offices say they are opening a joint investigation of Clearview AI — The facial recognition company is being scrutinized over its database of 3 billion photos. — The governments of the UK and Australia are investigating a facial recognition company …
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ico.org.uk, Financial Times, Associated Press, PYMNTS.com, Engadget, iTnews, CNBC, infosecurity-magazine.com, and Bloomberg
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| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
Police are buying access to hacked data, including passwords, IP addresses, and more to help with investigations in an end-run around the usual legal processes — The sale is “an end-run around the usual legal processes.” — Joseph Cox — Hackers break into websites, steal information …
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Telecoms.com. Tweets: @josephfcox, @josephfcox, @gossithedog, @doctorow, @adam_k_levin, @josephfcox, @evan_greer, and @sallyshin
| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Sensor Tower: of the ~910K users that signed up for Quibi's 3-month free trial in April, only 8%, ~72K, converted to a paid subscription after the trial ended — The struggling streaming video platform has a not-so-great conversion rate — Streaming service Quibi only managed to convert …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Microsoft details Kernel Data Protection, upcoming Windows 10 tech that it says blocks malware from modifying OS memory by making parts of the kernel read-only — New KDP security feature is currently being tested with Windows 10 Insider builds. — Microsoft has published today …
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| Nico Grant / Bloomberg: |
Google scrapped a campus security system asking employees to check colleagues' badges, sources say after complaints Black and Latinx workers were singled out — - Company encouraged staff to check colleagues' ID badges — System scrapped after workers complained to CEO Sundar Pichai
Tweets: @mikeisaac, @mikeisaac, @alistairmbarr, @johnath, @hypervisible, and @tri_becca90
| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
In a first, the CENTRE Consortium has blocked an Ethereum address holding $100K USDC stablecoin in response to a law enforcement request — The CENTRE Consortium blacklisted a USDC address in response to a law enforcement request, freezing $100,000 worth of the stablecoin, a spokesperson said Wednesday.
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| Bloomberg: |
Elon Musk claims Tesla is “very close” to developing fully autonomous vehicles despite Tesla's “Full Self Driving” feature not living up to its name since 2016 — - The billionaire says it'll have basics worked out this year — Tesla's in an industry race to develop fully self-driven cars
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
TikTok says it took down 49M+ videos globally for content violations during H2 2019 and again claims it received no takedown requests from China — TikTok's second transparency report offers more details on video removals — TikTok took down more than 49 million videos from users across …
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| Noel Randewich / Reuters: |
Nvidia surpasses Intel as the most valuable US chipmaker, with a market cap of $248B+ as its stock has surged 68% in 2020 — (Reuters) - Nvidia (NVDA.O) has overtaken Intel (INTC.O) for the first time as the most valuable U.S. chipmaker. — In a semiconductor industry milestone …
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TechSpot, Bloomberg, ExtremeTech, The Next Web, Seeking Alpha, and Tom's Hardware
Tweets: @varunkrish and @amittm
| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Apple says it remains “committed to the future of Thunderbolt and will support it in Macs with Apple silicon” — Apple silicon will still work with Intel's port standard — Apple is moving away from Intel's chipsets in favor of its new, custom-designed ARM chips …
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MacRumors, Tom's Hardware, Laptop Mag, Pocket-lint, Neowin, IT Management, iPhone Hacks, Wccftech, Ubergizmo, Pixel Envy, iDownloadBlog.com, and Digital Trends
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| Pranav Dixit / BuzzFeed News: |
Amid India-China tensions, Zoom fights xenophobic rumors on social media that it is Chinese-owned, scrambling to remind Indian users that it is a US company — After the Indian government banned 59 apps owned by Chinese firms last week, the videoconferencing app Zoom is fighting xenophobic rumors … | Andy Maxwell / TorrentFreak: |
EU court rules that online platforms like YouTube need not hand over to rights holders the email or IP addresses of users who upload pirated content — A judgment handed down by the EU Court of Justice this morning has found that online platforms, including YouTube, do not have to hand … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Open source database startup MariaDB adds $25M extension to its $27M Series C, bringing total raised to $125M+, says it's doubled its last valuation of ~$354M — Cloud services continue to be a key component of how organisations remain operational even as so much else … | Sam Biddle / The Intercept: |
Sources: Dataminr, an official Twitter partner, relayed tweets and other social media posts about BLM protests directly to police, contrary to earlier claims — Leveraging close ties to Twitter, controversial artificial intelligence startup Dataminr helped law enforcement digitally monitor …
Tweets: @samfbiddle, @martinsfp, @emmaroller, @aaschapiro, @cfarivar, @alibreland, @kaludiasays, @rdpullins, @samfbiddle, @samfbiddle, @samfbiddle, @samfbiddle, and @samfbiddle
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