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Microsoft says a standalone, non-subscription version of Office will be released in the second half of 2021 for both Windows and Mac — Microsoft will release a new perpetual release of Microsoft Office in the second half of 2021. The new perpetual release only appears in a single sentence …
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| Sarah E. Needleman / Wall Street Journal: |
Epic, Spotify, Match Group, and others form the Coalition for App Fairness to pressure Apple and other app store owners to make changes to marketplace rules — The Coalition for App Fairness is seeking legal and regulatory means to address how Apple, other app marketplace operators work with developers
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| The Verge: |
Live blog of Amazon's Echo and Alexa event — Alexa, show me some hardware — It's September, and that means it's hardware season. Amazon makes a lot of it: Echo speakers, Ring doorbells, Eero routers, and weird stuff like smart rings and boxes that are streaming DVR add-ons for the Fire TV.
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Amazon announces redesigned spherical Echo devices, including $99 Echo, $60 Echo Dot with Clock, and $50 Echo Dot, with on-board speech analysis — It'll cost $99 — Amazon has announced the fourth-generation version of its main Echo smart speaker, bringing a new spherical design and better sound performance.
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| Sam Shead / CNBC: |
Facebook's Oversight Board says it expects to start before the election, in mid to late October, after criticism for a perceived lack of action — - The independent Facebook OverSight Board has confirmed to CNBC that it plans to launch ahead of U.S. election in November.
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| Brian Fung / CNN: |
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| Wired: |
A look at Twitter's hack on July 15, the drastic changes it made in the immediate aftermath, and its plans to prevent an Election Day meltdown — On July 15, Twitter melted down. On Election Day, that's not an option. — JULY 15 WAS, at first, just another day for Parag Agrawal, the chief technology officer of Twitter.| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Zoom canceled a talk by a Palestinian hijacker at SFSU after threats of criminal liability for “material support”; YouTube, Facebook also stopped the talk — Facebook and YouTube also apparently intervened — Zoom has canceled a webinar due to be held at San Francisco State University … | Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
EU releases a proposal for regulating crypto assets and stablecoins as part of its new Digital Finance Package — Valentus Capital, a private equity investment firm based in the U.S., is planning to raise $50 million for its first fund via a token sale. — The token offering is expected …
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| John Herrman / New York Times: |
TikTok users in the US are experiencing something long familiar to much of the world: a flourishing online social space existentially threatened by politics — Banned apps, nefarious theories, trade wars, voiceless users. The case of TikTok isn't news to most of the world.
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| David Yaffe-Bellany / Bloomberg: |
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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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| Paul Ford / Wired: |
The software industry makes amazing software tools for itself, while doctors, academics, and scientists are stuck using bad software — The software industry makes amazing tools for itself, while doctors and scientists are stuck with old code. Tech needs to quit hacking and start listening.
Tweets: @terronk, @nxthompson, and @backchnnl
| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Ring says it will offer e2e encryption for video feeds by the end of this year and will let Ring owners disable the controversial Neighbors feature — The company will also allow Ring owners to disable the controversial Neighbors feature from the mobile app| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Deliveroo has begun preliminary talks to explore the possibility of an IPO in 2021 — - Amazon-backed company eyes potential listing in 2021 — Food delivery companies have held up during virus pandemic — U.K. food-delivery startup Deliveroo has begun preliminary talks … | Danny Crichton / TechCrunch: |
NUVIA, which makes energy-efficient chips for data centers and enterprises, raises $240M Series B led by Mithril Capital — Climate change is on everyone's minds these days, what with the outer Bay Area on fire, orange skies above San Francisco, and a hurricane season that is bearing …
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| Jennifer Elias / CNBC: |
Sundar Pichai says Google is planning “hybrid” models for future work, to allow partial work from home as 62% of employees want to have that flexibility — - Most Google employees want to return to the office at some point, but not every day, according to a recent Google survey …
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Messy launches of PS5 and the new Xbox showed Sony and Microsoft once again failing at pre-orders, partly driven by the need to create a narrative of scarcity — Microsoft's Xbox Series X and Series S preorders went live on Tuesday, capping a rough week of product rollouts …
Tweets: @tugboatbread and @gartenberg
| Financial Times: |
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek says he will invest €1B in European tech startups over the next decade, focused on “moonshots” in ML, biotech, and other sectors — Streaming company's chief to channel funding into early-stage start-ups over next decade| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Ripjar, which develops AI-based software to detect financial crime, raises $36.8M Series B led by Long Ridge Equity Partners — Financial crime as a wider category of cybercrime continues to be one of the most potent of online threats, covering nefarious actives as diverse as fraud, money laundering and funding terrorism.| Christine Hall / Crunchbase News: |
Greenlight, which offers parent-managed, fee-free debit cards for up to five children for $5 per month, raises $215M Series C at a valuation of $1.2B — Greenlight Financial Technology helps parents teach children how to save with its app and debit card products.
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| 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.
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Tweets: @rowlsmanthorpe, @dr_ellie, @alfredwkng, @lbcnews, @brixton_ben26, @wireduk, @mattburgess1, and @charlottejee
| 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.| 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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Tweets: @glenngabe and @karahurst
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Facebook details Dynabench, a platform for AI data collection and benchmarking that uses both humans and AI models to create challenging test data sets — Facebook today introduced Dynabench, a platform for AI data collection and benchmarking that uses humans and models “in the loop” to create challenging test data sets.
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MIT Technology Review, Wired, Facebook AI, and Engadget
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Spotify and Chernin Entertainment agree to a multi-year partnership for Chernin to develop movies and TV shows based on Spotify's podcasts — More Spotify podcasts could soon become TV shows or movies thanks to a new, multi-year partnership announced today between the streaming music provider … | Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Whitebox, which manages e-commerce logistics and fulfillment across marketplaces, raises $18M Series B led by Noro-Moseley Partners, after $5M Series A in 2019 — Whitebox, a startup that manages e-commerce logistics and fulfillment for a variety for brands, has raised $18 million in Series B funding.| Biz Carson / Protocol: |
Marc Bodnick launches Telepath, a “kinder” social network with Reddit's subreddit topic structure, Twitter's in-the-moment feel, and Snapchat's ephemerality — Former Quora execs are prioritizing moderation over user numbers for their new social network.
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