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| Abhiman Biswas / Pricebaba.com Daily: |
Leaked renders of the Google Pixel 5 show dual rear cameras, punch-hole front camera, and a fingerprint sensor on the back — Google launched the successor to last year's Pixel 3a, the Pixel 4a earlier this month. At the time, the company announced that the Pixel 4a 5G and Pixel 5 would be released this fall.
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Epic to host a Fortnite tournament on Aug. 23 where players can win anti-Apple prizes, encourages iOS users to switch and tweet to Apple using #FreeFortnite — Fortnite-maker Epic Games and Apple are currently embroiled in a public battle over Apple's App Store policies …
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| Danny Crichton / TechCrunch: |
Leaked Palantir S-1 shows the company had 2019 revenue of $742M, up ~25% YoY, and a net loss of $580M, about the same as in 2018 — Palantir filed an S-1 confidentially to the SEC in early July, but we have so far been waiting for the final doc to be published for weeks now with nary a murmur.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: up to 80% of Palantir shares will be subject to a lockup period until February 2021, making it more like a traditional IPO — - Investors won't be able to sell all their shares right away — Lockup provision makes direct listing more like typical IPO
Tweets: @eringriffith, @katie_roof, @adamnash, and @ericnewcomer
| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Kuo: Apple is looking to offset cost of new 5G tech in iPhone 12 by using a simpler battery board design that will be 40%-50% cheaper than the one in iPhone 11 — Apple is looking to put a pricing squeeze on component suppliers for the upcoming iPhone 12 lineup to help offset increased costs … | Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Jeff Wilke, Amazon's CEO of Worldwide Consumer, will retire from the company in 2021; senior VP of retail operations Dave Clark will succeed him — - Jeff Wilke, CEO of Amazon's worldwide consumer business, will retire from his role in the first quarter of 2021, Amazon said Friday.
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| New York Times: |
Sources: Facebook is exploring steps like a “kill switch” to shut off political ads after the election, if Trump attempts to dispute the results using Facebook — The world's biggest social network is working out what steps to take should President Trump use its platform to dispute the vote.| New York Times: |
A look at Democratic VP candidate Kamala Harris' deep ties to Big Tech, fostered during years in California, as critics say she did little to curb their power — Silicon Valley has enthusiastically backed Ms. Harris since she first ran for state attorney general in California a decade ago.
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| Business Insider: |
Facebook confirms its chief marketing officer Antonio Lucio is stepping down after nearly two years — - Facebook chief marketing officer Antonio Lucio is stepping down from his role at the company. — Employees were notified Friday in a post on Facebook's internal message board, a source told Business Insider.| Casey Newton / The Interface: |
Facebook says it's piloting an effort to closely watch posts that rapidly gain millions of views to ensure they don't violate community standards — Earlier this week, I wrote about how platforms proved they can stop a piece of health-related misinformation in its tracks.| Meir Orbach / CTech: |
Sources: Apple quietly acquired Israeli AR and computer vision startup Camerai over a year ago for several tens of millions of dollars — The AR and computer vision company was purchased a year and a half ago, an example of the tech giant's strategy of silently buying up small tech companies
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Facebook says its new tools can help AI learn how to plan routes, look around physical environments, listen to what's happening, and build memories of 3D spaces — Facebook says it's progressing toward assistants capable of interacting with and understanding the physical world as well as people do.
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| Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: |
Craft, which uses data from thousands of financial and alternative sources to improve visibility in complex supply chains, raises $10M Series A — During the COVID-19 pandemic supply chains have suddenly become hot. Who knew that would ever happen? The race to secure PPE, ventilators … | Reuters: |
Indian parliamentary panel has summoned Facebook executives on Sept. 2 to question them on regulation of political content on the platform following controversy — NEW DELHI (Reuters) - An Indian parliamentary committee will question Facebook (FB.O) executives on how the social media giant …
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| Sam Machkovech / Ars Technica: |
Facebook's move to require Oculus devices be linked to a Facebook login sets a dangerous precedent and deserves fierce scrutiny in light of antitrust probes — Opinion: No device should require a Facebook login—so what is Oculus doing? — On Tuesday, Facebook found another … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: Trump administration is signaling that US companies can continue to use WeChat in China, and intends to prohibit downloads of WeChat in US app stores — - Move follows lobbying push by U.S. companies to curtail ban — Technical details of partial ban still being hammered out
Tweets: @sbanjo, @mhbergen, @salehamohsin, and @jendeben
| Kate Conger / New York Times: |
Former Uber CSO Joe Sullivan charged with obstruction of justice for trying to conceal the 2016 data breach of millions of users and drivers from FTC officials — Joe Sullivan, who led Uber's security team through the company's most tumultuous period, was fired by the company's newly installed chief executive in 2017.
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