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Monday's antitrust hearing featuring CEOs of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google has been postponed due to memorial services for Rep. John Lewis; new date TBA — - The highly anticipated antitrust hearing featuring CEOs from Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google has been officially postponed.
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| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
References to the TrueDepth camera found in macOS Big Sur beta 3 suggest Apple is working on bringing Face ID to Macs — Some iPhone and iPad models features Face ID, which allows users to unlock the device through advanced facial recognition. While Face ID is not yet available on any Mac …
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| Ian Sherr / CNET: |
NBA says it will install 17-foot tall screens on game courts to serve as digital “stands” filled with 300 remote fans using the Together mode in Microsoft Teams — The basketball organization said it'll install massive 17-foot tall screens on each game court to serve as digital “stands” filled with 300 fans.
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers say the Android version of DJI Go 4, installed 1M+ times, covertly collected a range of sensitive user data and sent it to servers in mainland China — DJI Go 4, installed more than 1 million times, can execute arbitrary code. — The Android version of DJI Go 4 …
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| Crystal Tse / Bloomberg: |
Dragoneer Growth Opportunities, Dragoneer's SPAC to focus on software, internet, retail and health-care tech, files for a US IPO, aiming to raise $600M — - Dragoneer has had bets on Alibaba, Datadog, Uber and Slack — Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan picked to lead offering| Writankar Mukherjee / The Economic Times: |
Apple has started making its flagship iPhone 11 at the Foxconn plant near Chennai, the first time it has manufactured a top-of-the-line model in India — The company hasn't cut prices as it also sells iPhone 11 handsets made in China in India but industry executives said that could be an option later on.| Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
The EFF and 17 other advocacy organizations urge US court to rule that Trump's appointee to the OTF violated the law by ousting OTF's president and the board — Government Attempts Takeover of Private, Independent Nonprofit Protecting Internet Freedom — San Francisco—The Electronic …
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
A companion app confirms Samsung's new bean-shaped earbuds will be called Galaxy Buds Live with support for active noise cancellation and other features — More details on Samsung's new headphones straight from its own app — We've seen plenty of pictures of Samsung's new bean-shaped earbuds …
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| Reed Albergotti / Washington Post: |
Leaked doc: while Apple will let third-party devices connect to Find My app, customers will be barred from using other competing services simultaneously — Opening the “Find My” feature to other companies was seen as an olive branch to developers. But Apple threatened legal action if developers talked about the software.
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| Kaitlyn Tiffany / The Atlantic: |
A look at Randonautica, an app that generates random coordinates that users can explore, and has been downloaded 6M times since the beginning of April — It took me a week to find a plastic water bottle full of what could only be pee. — That was after the abandoned house taped off …
Tweets: @theatlantic
| Aroon Deep / MediaNama: |
Flipkart buys Walmart's Indian wholesale arm and launches Flipkart Wholesale, an e-commerce service for small traders, to compete with JioMart — Flipkart has launched Flipkart Wholesale, an e-commerce platform for small retailers and kirana shops, the company announced on Thursday.
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Wall Street Journal, Hindustan Times, The Economic Times, Entrackr, Indian Opinion News, FlipKart Group, Moneycontrol, Livemint, Arkansas Online, TheQuint, ZDNet, NDTV.com, DNA India, and TechCrunch
Tweets: @jensmithwsj, @sanjay2869, and @cmroberson06
| Daisuke Wakabayashi / New York Times: |
Documents and sources: the Global Antitrust Institute, which trains regulators to take a hands-off approach to antitrust, is funded by Google, Amazon, Qualcomm — Google, Amazon and Qualcomm finance a George Mason University institute teaching a hands-off approach to antitrust regulators and judges.
Tweets: @matthewstoller, @rondeibert, @econ_marshall, @ericliptonnyt, and @ddayen
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