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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google rolls out updates to Maps with a layer showing COVID-19 cases per 100,000 people, with labels to indicate trends, coming to 220 countries and territories — Google today announced an update to Google Maps that will bring a new COVID-19 layer to the service to help you better understand the number of cases in a given area.
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Tweets: @google, @sundarpichai, @haleighhoffman, @sanjg2k1, @gigastacey, and @califf001
| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Leaked audio recordings and internal posts show Mark Zuckerberg's balancing act, as employees demand a harder line against Trump but users want the opposite — In 2020, Facebook would be roiled by a global pandemic, internal protests over racial injustice, a deeply polarizing election …
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| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
DOJ, in a rare legislative proposal, asks Congress to adopt a law weakening Section 230, in an effort to hold Facebook, Google, and others liable for content — The administration called on state attorneys general to open their own investigation on the same day it unveiled a legislative proposal …
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Tweets: @bergmayer, @grummz, @wsj, @tvmohandaspai, @kantrowitz, @realjameswoods, @matthewstoller, @mrddmia, and @lauren_feiner
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 review: a big change for iPhones, with widgets, better notifications, and useful App Library, while iPad gets a more incremental update — It's time to blow up your iPhone's home screen — Apple spells out the significance of its new iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 updates right …
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Six Colors, TechCrunch, Polygon, iMore, 9to5Mac, The Next Web, AppleInsider, and Gizmodo
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| David Yaffe-Bellany / Bloomberg: |
ByteDance asks a US court for a preliminary injunction to prevent the US government from banning TikTok from app stores, as Trump's ban looms — - Chinese owner ByteDance seeks to block president's U.S. ban — Keeps legal iron in fire as Oracle, Walmart pact works its way
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| Bloomberg: |
Shopify says two “rogue members” of its support teams stole customer data from over 100 merchants; the company is working with the FBI to investigate — - Emails, names, addresses, order details may have been exposed — E-commerce platform is working with FBI on investigation
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Shopify Community, BleepingComputer, TechCrunch, ZDNet, Security Affairs, Dark Reading, New.blicio.us, Security Boulevard, Reuters, Ubergizmo, and Engadget
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Twitter says it will begin testing audio DMs soon, after introducing support for audio in tweets, starting in Brazil — Shout into my DMs — After rolling out audio tweets for iOS in June, Twitter is now experimenting with the idea of letting people record and send voice messages through direct messages.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources detail what went wrong at Magic Leap, which raised $3.5B and failed to build its much-hyped AR headset, with most blame placed on founder Rony Abovitz — The augmented reality startup was undone by profligate spending and its own hype. Investors finally lost patience when the pandemic struck.| Crystal Tse / Bloomberg: |
GoodRx, a price comparison service for prescription drugs at pharmacies, closes up 50%+ after its IPO, raising $1.14B and valuing the company at $19.4B — GoodRx Holdings Inc., which operates a telemedicine site and platform to track drug prices, rose as much as 50% in its trading debut … | Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Amazon launches “Climate Pledge Friendly” label in search results for more than 25K products that have one or more of 19 different sustainability certifications — The company is launching a new climate program for certified sustainable products
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Samsung unveils its Galaxy S20 FE, with a 6.5-inch display, Snapdragon 865, 120Hz refresh rate, starting at $699 for sub-6GHz model or $749 for mmWave 5G model — The ‘Fan Edition’ will be available October 2nd — Samsung already makes three different kinds of Galaxy S20 phones: a regular, a Plus, and an Ultra.
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| Napier Lopez / The Next Web: |
Todoist rolls out Kanban-style Boards as an optional view, similar to Trello — Todoist today officially introduced a feature that could significantly change how people use the popular task-management app: Boards. It basically works a lot like Trello, but built right into Todoist.| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
NHS COVID-19, a contact tracing app created by the UK government, launches in England and Wales with Exposure Notification API from Apple and Google — NHS COVID-19, a contact tracing app created by the UK government, is rolling out to residents of England and Wales as of today, with the app available from the iOS App Store.| Sahil Patel / Wall Street Journal: |
GOAT Group, operator of online sneaker marketplace GOAT, has raised $100M Series E from D1 Capital Partners, source says at a $1.75B valuation — New funding round values the company at $1.75 billion, according to a person familiar with the deal — Goat Group, best known for its online marketplace …
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PYMNTS.com, Business Insider, and TechCrunch
Tweets: @alexisohanian, @mdudas, @dannyrimer, @sizpatel, and @indexventures
| Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg: |
SEC filing: Peter Thiel and Richard Li have created a SPAC called Bridgetown Holdings Ltd., targeting SE Asia investment, and are seeking to raise $575M via IPO — - Bridgetown also backed by Richard Li's Pacific Century — SPAC aims to raise $575 million, according to filing
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| Kaitlyn Tiffany / The Atlantic: |
Reddit, one of QAnon's original hubs, has no meaningful QAnon presence now, although Reddit says it hasn't made a concerted effort to remove the conspiracy — Two years ago, most Americans knew nothing about QAnon, the ever-growing, diffuse, and violent movement devoted to a loosely connected set …
Tweets: @kait_tiffany, @theatlantic, @paulbisceglio, and @adriennelaf
| Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
Online fitness coaching app Freeletics raises $25M Series B led by JAZZ Venture Partners and Causeway Media Partners, following a $45M Series A in 2018 — Freeletics, the “AI-powered” fitness coaching app, has closed $25 million in Series B funding. Leading the round is U.S.-based JAZZ Venture Partners … | Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
CrowdStrike has agreed to acquire Preempt Security, a provider of zero trust and conditional access tech for enterprise threat management, for about $96M — The company said it plans to use the deal to bolster its Falcon platform with conditional access technology.| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Sling TV launches Sling Watch Party, the first co-watching feature from a pay-TV provider, in beta on Chrome for laptops and desktops only — Sling Watch Party is available now in beta on Chrome — Sling TV is joining the quarantine-era watch party bandwagon with a unique edge … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Instagram updates Reels with longer videos, an extended timer, and better editing tools, after reports the TikTok competitor is failing to gain traction — Instagram is today rolling out a few changes to its TikTok competitor, Reels, after early reviews of the feature criticized its design …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Adobe debuts Liquid Mode, an update for Acrobat Reader that uses AI to reformat PDFs for easier reading on smaller screens, coming first to mobile and Chrome OS — Adobe today announced an update for Acrobat Reader that leverages Sensei, the company's machine learning platform …
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| Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: |
Google says developers can now use its open source UI framework Flutter to develop Windows apps, currently in alpha, with support for Windows 7 and newer — While Flutter first made its name for making it easy to create apps for iOS and Android, the app development framework has since grown …
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Flutter, Thurrott, Neowin, MSPoweruser, ZDNet, Windows Central, SiliconANGLE, and VentureBeat
| Brian Fung / CNN: |
Avaaz analysis: Facebook has allowed hundreds of misleading super PAC ads, primarily spreading misinformation about Biden and USPS, with 10M+ views collectively — (CNN Business)Facebook has allowed political advertisers to target hundreds of misleading ads about Joe Biden and the US Postal Service …
Tweets: @b_fung, @oliverdarcy, and @marshallcohen
| Sophia Kunthara / Crunchbase News: |
Next Insurance, which offers digital insurance products to small businesses, raises $250M Series D at $2B+ valuation led by CapitalG and Munich Re — Next Insurance, which aims to be the go-to insurance provider for any small business, has raised $250 million in a Series D round.
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Silicon Valley Business …, PR Newswire, Law360, FinSMEs, FinLedger, and Crowdfund Insider
| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Tesla sues the Trump administration to end tariffs on imports of Chinese parts that are used in Tesla's Autopilot 3.0 hardware, enabling “Full Self-Driving” — Tesla is suing the Trump Administration over tariffs on a computer chip and other parts it imports from China … | Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Google expands Google Cloud's Chronicle cybersecurity analysis tools with threat detection and alerts — Google is officially expanding its Chronicle cybersecurity platform into the threat detection realm, with the promise to bring “Google-scale threat analysis” to enterprises.
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