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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: @sundarpichai, @haleighhoffman, @sanjg2k1, @roshanamn, @califf001, @sub8u, @gigastacey, and @google
| Sam Shead / CNBC: |
The Facebook Oversight Board has confirmed that 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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.| 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| 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.| 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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| 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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| 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 … | 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.
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| Jeff Stone / CyberScoop: |
How Arkady Bukh, a New York-based immigrant from the former Soviet bloc, emerged as the go-to defense lawyer for the cybercrime underworld — Sergey Pavlovich needed a fixer. The 32-year-old ex-con was living in Moscow in 2015 after serving nearly eight years behind bars in Belarus …
Tweets: @jeffstone500, @snlyngaas, @iblametom, @jgamblin, @jscros, @underworld_pod, and @shanvav. Thanks:@jwarminsky
| 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
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