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DOJ and 11 state AGs, all Republican, file a suit alleging that Google acted anticompetitively to preserve monopolies in search and search advertising — Lawsuit follows lengthy investigation and seeks to break company's grip over search traffic — The Justice Department filed …
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| Kent Walker / The Keyword: |
Google calls DOJ's case deeply flawed: “People use Google because they choose to, not because they're forced to, or because they can't find alternatives” — Google Search has put the world's information at the fingertips of over a billion people.
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
iPhone 12 review: has an excellent camera, display, and design, promising MagSafe ecosystem, but battery life is inferior to iPhone 11's and it's more expensive — It's the one you should get unless you're waiting for the Max or mini — More than most years, there are a lot of things that are new in the iPhone 12.
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
iPhone 12 Pro review: has an excellent camera and performance, Dolby Vision video is great, 5G can be very fast, but battery life is inferior to iPhone 11 Pro — 5G, LIDAR, MagSafe — the new iPhone 12 Pro has a lot of things you won't be able to do much with right now
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft partners with SpaceX for satellite-powered internet connectivity on Azure and debuts Azure Space, a set of products for the space-related cloud market — Microsoft is using its ‘Amazon is your competitor’ playbook to try to win over more satellite partners and customers.
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| Bloomberg: |
Intel agrees to sell its NAND memory unit to SK Hynix for about $9B; the acquisition includes Intel's solid-state drive, NAND flash, and wafer businesses — - U.S. chipmaker has fallen behind in a chip manufacturing race — Intel Corp. agreed to sell its Nand memory unit …
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Researchers find a Telegram bot that takes a person's photo and turns it into a fake nude; by July, 100K+ images of women had been transformed, shared publicly — Bots have been used to create more than 100,000 images — Researchers have discovered a “deepfake ecosystem” …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Adobe debuts improvements to Creative Cloud, with Neural Filters in Photoshop, Illustrator coming to iPad, Adobe Fresco coming to iPhone, and more — Adobe holds an annual MAX conference each year, and this year's event is free for everyone for the first time because it is being held virtually rather than in person.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Instagram adds a new way for creators to make money by rolling out premium badges for fans on Instagram Live — Instagram is today introducing a new way for creators to make money. The company is now rolling out badges in Instagram Live to an initial group of over 50,000 creators … | Reuters: |
Major founder-led tech companies have seen their share prices double in 2020 vs. 7.8% gain for the S&P 500, while outperforming non-founder led tech companies — (Reuters) - Technology companies led by their founders have been the standout winners in share price performance and profit growth this year …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Handshake, a diversity-focused LinkedIn for college students, raises $80M Series D led by GGV, source says at a $550M-$600M valuation — College graduates this year (and perhaps in the near-term) have been looking for work in what is one of the most challenging job markets in a decade due …
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UK and US say Russian military intelligence services were planning a cyberattack on the Olympics and Paralympics in Tokyo, originally scheduled for this summer — Patrick Wintour in London, Julian Borger in Washington — Russian military intelligence services were planning a cyber-attack …
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| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
New mathematical model-based research suggests that exposing US social media users to viewpoints different than their own furthers political polarization — Mathematicians are teaming up with political scientists to create models of how social media divides us, and results suggest at least …
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
GravityRAT malware, known for checking the CPU temperature of Windows PCs to detect virtual machines or sandboxes, now also targets Android and macOS devices — GravityRAT, a malware strain known for checking the CPU temperature of Windows computers to detect virtual machines or sandboxes …
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Adobe is adding its “content authenticity” tool to the latest Photoshop beta, to help users build trustworthy attribution directly into a picture — It's designed for crediting artists and fighting misinformation — Adobe will let some Adobe Creative Cloud customers try a tool …
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| Isabelle Lee / Bloomberg: |
Retool, which helps companies make internal apps faster, raises $50M led by Sequoia, valuing it at $925M, with GitHub CEO and Stripe founders among investors — - Startup helps companies build internal applications faster — Customers include Amazon, Mercedes, Phillips, Progressive
Tweets: @isabelletanlee and @schreier
| Corbin Davenport / Android Police: |
Google confirms it's discontinuing Nest Secure, a home security system it introduced in 2017, but will continue to support existing users — Google released the Nest Guard in 2017 as a simple security system with motion sensors and a keypad, but it never received an upgrade, even as other Nest devices were updated again and again.
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