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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google is partnering with USGS and creating a worldwide, Android phone-powered opt-in earthquake alert system using phone accelerometers — Google is creating a worldwide, Android phone-powered earthquake alert system. The first part of that system is rolling out today.
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| Sam Rutherford / Gizmodo: |
Google announces new features in its computer vision Lookout app, like document scanning, an Android Auto refresh, and Bedtime mode is no longer Pixel-exclusive — Ahead of the upcoming official release of Android 11, Google is pushing out a few updates to all Android phones …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft commits to launching the Xbox Series X in the month of November and will delay Halo Infinite until 2021 — Halo Infinite will not be available until 2021 — Microsoft is committing to launching its next-generation Xbox Series X console in November.
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| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
Mozilla says it plans to lay off around 250 employees and is closing the company's current operations in Taipei, Taiwan — The changes come as the Mozilla Corporation looks to invest in more revenue-generating projects like its recently announced VPN. — Joseph Cox
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| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Facebook says it removed 22.5M posts for violating hate speech policies in Q2, up 2x from Q1, and that 95% of the violations were caught using automated systems — - Hate speech removal has jumped nearly 10-fold since 2018 — Facebook to undergo third party audit for content in 2021
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Twitter says it is now letting anyone limit who can reply to their tweets to just those that follow the author or just the accounts that are tagged in the tweet — Twitter may describe itself as the town square, but that doesn't mean you have to talk to everyone walking past your seat at the cafe.
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| Kashmir Hill / New York Times: |
Clearview AI has hired pre-eminent First Amendment lawyer Floyd Abrams, who plans to assert a free-speech right to disseminate publicly available photos — Clearview AI has hired Floyd Abrams, a top lawyer, to help fight claims that selling its data to law enforcement agencies violates privacy laws.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Airbnb plans to confidentially file for IPO this month, a step toward a potential listing before the end of the year — Shares in the home-sharing platform could begin trading by year-end — Airbnb Inc. is close to filing to go public in a move that would underscore a surprising rebound … | Wall Street Journal: |
Analysis: TikTok used an Android security hole to collect MAC addresses, possibly for ad tracking, without an ability to opt out; the practice ended in November — The tactic, which experts in mobile-phone security said was concealed through an unusual added layer of encryption, appears to have violated Google policies| Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter: |
US judge sides with Google in a lawsuit brought by Genius, which alleged that Google scraped lyrics in violation of copyright law — Google may have been caught “redhanded,” but a federal judge rules that Genius hasn't alleged any viable claims not be preempted by copyright law.
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| Bloomberg Law: |
US appeals court throws out a 2019 antitrust ruling against Qualcomm and its licensing practices in a case brought by the FTC — Listen — Qualcomm Inc. persuaded a U.S. appeals court to set aside a 2019 ruling that cast a pall over its licensing business and threatened to upend the smartphone industry.
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| Dani Kass / Law360: |
A Texas federal jury said Apple should pay PanOptis and related companies $506M+ for willfully infringing patents covering 4G LTE technology — In the country's first in-person jury trial over patents since the COVID-19 pandemic led to nationwide court closures, a Texas federal jury on Tuesday …
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| Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC: |
Walmart partners with Instacart to test offering same-day delivery, starting in four markets across California and Oklahoma — - The partnership is currently in a pilot phase in four markets across California and Oklahoma. — The move cements Instacart's hold over the online grocery delivery market.
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Filing breaks down Microsoft's revenue by product line and shows it made 15 acquisitions for a total amount of $2.4B in FY 2020, down from $9B the previous year — Microsoft may be toying with the idea of buying Tik-Tok, but more than ever, its bread-and-butter is basic cloud services and server software for businesses.| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
MicroStrategy buys ~$250M in bitcoin, becoming the first publicly traded company to buy the currency as part of its capital allocation strategy — MicroStrategy, the Nasdaq-listed business intelligence company, has become the first publicly-traded company to buy bitcoin as part of its capital allocation strategy.
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Tweets: @winklevoss, @bgarlinghouse, @bitcoin, @1crypticpoet, @fintechfrank, and @tylerwinklevoss. Thanks:@saniyamore
| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
LinkedIn says it has sold presentation-sharing service SlideShare to Scribd, which will take over its operation on September 24 — SlideShare has a new owner, with LinkedIn selling the presentation-sharing service to Scribd for an undisclosed price. — According to LinkedIn …
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Tweets: @scribd, @sameerpatel, @jboutelle, @jaycuthrell, and @rashmi
| Sam Nussey / Reuters: |
SoftBank reports quarterly net profit of ~$12B, up 12% YoY, and a $2.8B gain in Vision Fund; by July, Vision Fund's $75.2B in investments was worth $71.5B — TOKYO (Reuters) - SoftBank Group Corp broke with tradition on Tuesday and declined to disclose operating profit in its quarterly results …
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| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
Sources: about a month before BigCommerce's successful IPO, Intuit offered to buy the company for $1.5B — - Intuit offered to buy BigCommerce for $1.5 billion about a month before the e-commerce software company's IPO. — BigCommerce opted to go public instead, and the stock jumped over 200% in its debut last week.| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
HMD Global, maker of Nokia-branded phones, raises $230M Series A2 from strategic investors including Google, Nokia, and Qualcomm — Its latest cash injection is notable both for its size (HMD claims it as the third largest funding round in Europe this year); and the profile …
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| Samuel Axon / Ars Technica: |
Parallels Desktop 16 adds support for Big Sur, 3D in Metal, and zoom and rotate gestures on multitouch trackpads, and claims 20% faster DirectX performance — Windows on Apple Silicon is still a question mark, though. — Parallels Desktop 16 launched on the Mac today.
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MacRumors, 9to5Mac, ZDNet, BetaNews, iPhone in Canada Blog, and Thurrott
Tweets: @appleinsider and @dsilverman
| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Pinterest says it is expanding its skin tone search tool, which uses machine vision to sort beauty-related pins and debuted in US in 2018, to five more markets — Users can filter by skin tone to get more relevant results — Pinterest is upgrading its skin tone search feature … | Lauren Clark / Official Google India Blog: |
Google rolls out virtual business cards for Google Search in India with links to user's website, social media profiles and, optionally, phone number and email — If you search for famous people on Google, it's easy to find information about well-known personalities: search their names … Sponsor Posts
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