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President Trump says he will act as soon as Saturday to ban TikTok from the United States — - President Donald Trump on Friday told reporters he will act as soon as Saturday to ban Chinese-owned video app TikTok from the United States. — President Donald Trump on Friday told reporters …
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| New York Times: |
Sources: Microsoft is in talks to acquire TikTok — The talks come as TikTok's ownership by a Chinese company is under scrutiny by the White House and lawmakers. — SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft is in talks to acquire TikTok, the Chinese-owned video app, according to a person with knowledge …
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| Ryan Hughes / WFLA-TV: |
A Florida state attorney files 30 felony charges against a 17-year old who was arrested in Tampa in connection with the July 15 Twitter hack — TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) - A Tampa teenager is in jail, accused of being the “mastermind” behind a hack on the social media website Twitter …
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| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
DOJ announces charges against two other suspects in the Twitter hack, including a 19-year-old in UK and a 22-year-old in Orlando, Florida — The arrest comes after hackers hijacked some of the most high profile accounts on the social network by leveraging an internal Twitter tool. — Joseph Cox
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft to end support for all third-party Cortana skills on September 7 and drop support for the dedicated Cortana apps on iOS and Android in early 2021 — Microsoft is continuing to focus its Cortana digital assistant on productivity scenarios by phasing out Cortana Skills starting …
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Nvidia in talks to buy Arm in a cash-and-stock deal that would value it at more than the $32B SoftBank paid to buy the UK chip designer in 2016 — US chipmaker seeks cash-and-stock purchase of UK chip designer from its Japanese owner — US chip company Nvidia is in talks to buy …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple acquires Mobeewave, whose app lets shoppers tap their credit card or phone on a smartphone to make a payment; one source says the deal is worth ~$100M — - Apple acquires Canada's Mobeewave for about $100 million — Apple Inc. has acquired Mobeewave Inc., a startup with technology …
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| Dave Burke / The Keyword: |
Google updates its Exposure Notification API with interoperability between countries, ability for apps to work without turning on location in Android 11, more — In May, we partnered with Apple to launch the Exposure Notifications System (ENS) and made it available to public health authorities around … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Cyrus Mistry, group product manager for Chrome OS, talks about how and why Windows apps are arriving on Chrome OS via a partnership with Parallels — Google revealed earlier this year that it's planning to support Windows applications on Chromebooks thanks to a partnership with Parallels.
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Tweets: @tomwarren, @stevesi, and @ekozlov
| Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC: |
Apple surpasses Saudi Aramco to become the world's most valuable company after its shares closed up 10.47%, giving it a market valuation of $1.84T — - Apple is now the world's most valuable company. — It surpassed Saudi Aramco. — Apple's strong fiscal third quarter earnings, released Thursday, boosted its stock.
Tweets: @mrinaldesai, @protocol, @kantrowitz, @iansherr, and @nebuer42
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook confirms it will begin rolling out official music videos across its platform in the US, and introduce a new Music destination within Facebook Watch — Facebook today confirmed it will begin rolling out official music videos across its platform in the U.S., as TechCrunch first reported …
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| Julia Alexander / The Verge: |
Netflix is rolling out playback speed controls of up to 0.5x slower and 1.5x faster on Android devices and is set to begin testing the option for iOS — Stream up to 0.5 times slower or 1.5 times faster — Netflix is letting people choose the speed at which they want to watch something …
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| Kim Lyons / The Verge: |
YouTube plans to discontinue its community captions feature on September 28 due to lack of use and spam abuse; critics contend it will stifle accessibility — The feature, which YouTube says was underutilized, will be discontinued in September — YouTube plans to discontinue …
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Tweets: @mmithsgolden, @teamyoutube, @teamyoutube, @robertoblake, @tromano, @hoe_doyan, and @realbisqwit
| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
William English, who alongside Douglas Engelbart built the first computer with a mouse and showed it at “The Mother of All Demos”, dies at 91 — He was one of the computing pioneers who “showed what a computer interface could — and should — look like,” a colleague said.
Tweets: @markhachman
| Sarah Kessler / OneZero : |
Companies are increasingly using employee survey data, from services like Perceptyx that offer a “union vulnerability index”, to predict and squash organizing — Employee survey platforms allow employers to sort groups of employees by the departments, locations, and demographics most likely to unionize| Mike Schulman / The Keyword: |
Google updates its “Why this ad” feature, now “About this ad”, to show verified names of advertisers and is testing “trust tokens” to replace 3rd-party cookies — Vice President, Ads Privacy and Safety — Privacy is core to our work at Google …
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| Christine Hall / Crunchbase News: |
Lemonaid Health, which offers an on-demand service for accessing health care online, raises $33M Series B, bringing its total raised to $55M — Interest in telemedicine continues to increase, and Lemonaid Health raised an oversubscribed $33 million Series B round of funding to develop … | Kislay Verma: |
When companies have too many smaller teams, slicing problems too thinly, they face high coordination costs as teams become too dependent on each other — “The two pizza team” paradigm has become really popular in the context of organizing software teams. The idea is to have small …
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