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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
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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Tweets: @alexsalvinews, @fmanjoo, and @caseynewton
| 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.| 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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| Reuters: |
Two former Twitter employees say more than 1,000 staff and contractors had access to internal tools to change account settings and ownership as of early 2020 — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - More than a thousand Twitter employees and contractors as of earlier this year had access to internal tools …
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| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
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Tweets: @twittersupport, @riana_crypto, and @leokelion
| 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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| 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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| 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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Tweets: @whatthebit, @parkerortolani, and @hallstephenj
| 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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Tweets: @repdancrenshaw, @ewong, @grimmcyber, and @ncscgov
| Cary Spivak / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: |
Headphone maker Koss sues Apple, Bose, and three other companies for patent infringement — Koss Corp. is charging five competitors, including Apple Inc. and Bose Corp, with patent infringement, saying the firms took its patented technology for use in their own products.
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Patently Apple, AppleInsider, Digital Trends, MacDailyNews, 9to5Mac, Law360, MSN, iMore, World IP Review, and Bloomberg Law
| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
From December 2018 to May of this year, Russia's GRU hacker group known as APT 28 or Fancy Bear has carried out a broad campaign against a range of US targets — A previously unreported Fancy Bear campaign persisted for well over a year—and indicates that the notorious group has broadened its focus.
Tweets: @fireeye, @anthomsec, @wired, @a_greenberg, @robertmlee, @issielapowsky, @780thc, and @dragosinc
| Paddy Baker / CoinDesk: |
Bitcoin Suisse, a Switzerland-based crypto lending and staking services startup, raises $48M Series A at a valuation of around $327M — Bitcoin Suisse has raised more than CHF 45 million (~$48 million) in its first-ever funding round. — The Series A was for 16.4% of total equity …
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Bitcoin Suisse, Coinspeaker, Cryptonews, and The Block
| 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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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Following a possible ransomware attack, Garmin starts shutting down its website, Garmin Connect, and some production lines in Asia, plans for multi-day recovery — Smartwatch and wearable maker Garmin planning multi-day maintenance window to deal with ransomware incident.
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Android Police, BleepingComputer, BBC, The Guardian, Graham Cluley, Android Central, Gizmodo, Lifehacker, Dark Reading, Security Boulevard, The Independent, HackRead, The Verge, Softpedia News, Engadget, ComputerWeekly.com, Tom's Guide, TechSpot, SlashGear, MacRumors, Fossbytes, The Hacker News, iTnews, Digital Trends, PYMNTS.com, CNET, infosecurity-magazine.com, and SiliconANGLE
Tweets: @garmin, @northmantrader, @selenalarson, @jonathanhaynes, @jp_koning, @donie, and @gigigraciette
| Jeanne Whalen / Washington Post: |
US officials unveil a plan to build a quantum Internet, existing alongside our current one, which uses the laws of quantum mechanics to share info more securely — The new network would sit alongside the existing Web, offering a more secure way to send and process information
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CircleID and Protocol
Tweets: @hshaban, @sethdavishoops, @jonmasters, @natasharothwell, and @michaelsbrett
| Christine Hall / Crunchbase News: |
FreightWaves, a media streaming network and data provider for the global freight market, raises $37M in two rounds of funding bringing the total raised to $75M — FreightWaves, a daily media streaming network and data provider for the global freight market, said Friday it has raised $37 million in two rounds of funding.| The Information: |
Sources: Google's internal Android Lockbox project collects usage data from non-Google apps to inform product strategy; Google says data obtained via public API — When YouTube was planning the rollout of its rival to TikTok in India earlier this month, employees turned to a valuable source …
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New York Times, Ars Technica, 9to5Google, MSPoweruser, The Verge, Android Headlines, Wccftech, CNET, Android Central, and Android Authority
Tweets: @drbarnard, @shiraovide, @aaronwall, @venkatananth, @jason_kint, @samidhas, @timbray, @dhh, and @parismartineau
| Murray Stassen / Music Business Worldwide: |
TikTok and the National Music Publishers' Association sign licensing agreement that suggests TikTok has agreed to pay for unlicensed past use of members' works — TikTok and the US-based National Music Publishers' Association (NMPA) have inked a multi-year licensing agreement.Sponsor Posts
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