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Review of Apple's Fitness+ subscription service: a relatively good deal compared to rivals, with plenty of workouts, but requiring a Watch might put people off — The $10-a-month app takes on at-home fitness for a competitive price but with an expensive catch
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple releases iOS 14.3 and macOS Big Sur 11.1 and launches its app privacy labels across all of its App Stores — At Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference in June, the company announced it would soon require developers to disclose their app's privacy practices to customers via new … | Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple releases iOS 14.3 with ProRAW for iPhone 12 Pro, Fitness+, support for AirPods Max and launching App Clips by scanning Apple's App Clip Codes, and more — Apple will release iOS 14.3 and iPadOS 14.3 to all users today. The update includes new features such as Apple ProRAW for iPhone 12 Pro users …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Google says Gmail, YouTube, Google Docs, and other Google services suffered a worldwide outage for about an hour for a majority of users on Monday — Update: It looks like services are slowly starting to come back again. We've contacted Google for a statement about what happened.| Reuters: |
Sources: state-sponsored hackers accessed US DHS internal communications as part of the campaign that penetrated US Treasury and Commerce departments — A team of sophisticated hackers believed to be working for the Russian government won access to internal communications at the U.S. Department …
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SolarWinds: under 18,000 customers were compromised between March and June via an update to its Orion software, leading to DHS, Treasury, Commerce Dept. hacks — LONDON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. IT company SolarWinds said on Monday that up to 18,000 of its customers had downloaded …
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| Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal: |
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| Samantha Cole / VICE: |
Pornhub says it has removed all videos from unverified accounts from its platform; the number of hosted videos dropped from 13.5M to 7.2M — After changing its policies to ban unverified uploaders and Mastercard and Visa's decision to drop the platform entirely, Pornhub has removed millions of videos.| Erin Griffith / New York Times: |
Pinterest to pay $22.5M to settle a gender discrimination suit brought by ex-COO Françoise Brougher, who said she was fired after speaking up about mistreatment — The suit had been brought by Françoise Brougher, Pinterest's former chief operating officer, who said she was fired after speaking up about mistreatment.
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
FTC orders Amazon, ByteDance, Discord, Facebook and WhatsApp, Reddit, Snap, Twitter, and YouTube to share info on how they collect and use their users' data — - The Federal Trade Commission is requiring nine tech companies to share information about how they collect and use data from their users, the agency announced Monday.
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| Daisuke Wakabayashi / New York Times: |
Internal memo: Google now plans to have employees return to office in September 2021 and is testing a flexible model of three days in office, two days WFH — The Silicon Valley company now plans to have employees return to the office in September. It will be different when they get there.
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| Edward Ludlow / Bloomberg: |
Amazon's Zoox unveils an autonomous electric robotaxi that can hold four passengers and run for a claimed 16 hours on a single charge, with a launch date TBC — - Vehicle seats four and can run for 16 hours before recharging — CEO says Zoox may eventually build package delivery vehicles
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| New York Times: |
In H1 2020, Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft spent ~$23M on EU lobbying, equal to what they declared for all of 2019 and up from ~$8.3M in 2014 — Silicon Valley is building a powerful influence industry in Brussels, which has “never seen this kind of money” spent this way.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook launches Collab, a TikTok-inspired music making app, on iOS in the US, after announcing a beta version in May — Collab, Facebook's experimental app for making collaborative music videos, is today launching out of private beta testing with a public release on the App Store.
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App Store, New Product Experimentation …, The Verge, Pocket-lint, Social Media Today, and Engadget. Tweets: @alexvoica
| Kim Lyons / The Verge: |
Following their Prop 22 victory, Uber and Lyft unveil new benefits for CA drivers on their platforms, like guaranteed minimum earnings and health care stipends — The companies will provide guaranteed minimum wages and health care subsidies — Following their victory last month in California …
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