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| Daisuke Wakabayashi / New York Times: |
With Netflix, Spotify, and others bypassing Google's 30% cut of IAPs, Google now says all Play Store apps must use its billing system, giving a year to comply — Some companies like Netflix and Spotify had avoided making the payment when people paid for something inside their apps.
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| Brian Armstrong / The Coinbase Blog: |
Coinbase publishes a “clarification” of its mission, stating it won't take on activism outside of its focus or debate causes or political candidates internally — There have been a lot of difficult events in the world this year: a global pandemic, shelter in place, social unrest …
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| Channel 4 News: |
A leak of data used by Trump's 2016 campaign, spanning 5,000+ files and ~5TB, details ~200M Americans, with a “Deterrence” label applied to 3.5M Black Americans — 3.5 million Black Americans were profiled and categorised as ‘Deterrence’ by Trump campaign - voters they wanted to stay home on election day
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| Malcolm Owen / AppleInsider: |
Judge proposes a jury trial for the Apple vs Epic case, likely to start in July 2021, while seemingly pushing back on some of Epic's key points in the hearing — During Monday's hearing for Epic and Apple's legal battle over the App Store and “Fortnite,” the judge suggested that the public's opinion …
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Roku launches $130 Streambar, which combines a compact soundbar with a 4K and HDR streaming device, shipping in mid-October — A 14-inch soundbar with 4K / HDR streaming — A year after Roku announced its Smart Soundbar, the company is back with the Streambar, which combines a compact soundbar with a 4K / HDR streaming device.
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Roku launches a redesigned $100 Ultra with Dolby Vision, shipping in Oct., with plans to add AirPlay 2 and HomeKit support to some 4K Roku models later in 2020 — Roku is launching a redesigned version of its top-of-the-line Ultra player and announced plans to introduce a new standalone app for its free Roku Channel later this year.| Chris Duckett / ZDNet: |
Microsoft is investigating an authentication error impacting multiple Microsoft 365 services, including Office, Teams, Power Platform, and Dynamic365 — Microsoft continuing to look into the problem after roll back fails to solve issue. — Microsoft is currently looking into an authentication error hitting its Office 365 systems.
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| Tawnell D. Hobbs / Wall Street Journal: |
After Las Vegas-area school officials refuse to pay a ransom, hackers publish information on students, including social security numbers and grades — Clark County in Nevada is largest known school district hit by hackers during Covid-19 pandemic — A hacker published documents containing …
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| Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
Former Amazon exec and her family settle with SEC over insider trading scheme that led to profits of $1.4M, agree to penalties of $1M+ and to pay back profits — A senior manager in Amazon's tax department ran an insider trading scheme in which she, along with her husband and father-in-law …
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| Jess Joho / Mashable: |
A look back at HOTorNOT, created in 2000 by two UC Berkeley grads on a lark, which was one of the first popular sites to let users create a public profile — The forgotten joke website influenced YouTube, Twitter, Tinder, and so much more — Before MySpace, before Facebook, before Twitter …
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| Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: DuckDuckGo failed to win Google's Q4 auction for placement on Android's default search engine choice screen in big EU countries — DuckDuckGo is among search engines that lost most auctions to appear in system Google built to comply with a 2018 EU antitrust decision| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Uber wins legal fight to regain London license as a judge overturned a ban by the city's transport regulator TfL — - Transport for London stripped Uber of its license for a second time last year, citing a “pattern of failures” that had put passengers at risk.
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| Kris Holt / Engadget: |
Dell announces updated XPS 13 and XPS 13 2-in-1 with Intel's Tiger Lake CPUs, Thunderbolt 4, and more, shipping on Sept. 30 starting at $999 — Dell is upgrading several of its XPS laptops with 11th-generation Intel processors. The refreshed XPS 13 2-in-1, XPS 13 and XPS 13 Developer Edition …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon launches Personal Shopper for men's fashion for $4.99 per month, expanding on its similar offering for women rivalling Stitch Fix — Amazon is introducing a personal shopping service for men's fashion. The service, now available to Prime members, is an expansion of the existing Personal Shopper …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google says it's working on making it easier for Android users to install and use third-party app stores, starting with Android 12 next year — Google today announced it will make it easier to install and use third-party app stores with the release of Android 12 next year.
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