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Sources: Apple is working on a magnetically attached battery pack for iPhone 12 that would wirelessly charge the handset — - Accessory has faced development issues related to software — Wireless charging unit may be popular with frequent users — Apple Inc. is working …
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| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
UK Supreme Court rules that Uber drivers should be classified as workers not independent contractors, concluding an almost five-year legal battle — - The U.K.'s Supreme Court upheld a ruling that Uber's drivers should be classified as workers rather than independent contractors.
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Sources: Apple is in talks with suppliers for next-gen lidar sensors for self-driving cars, that will be considered cutting edge four to five years from now — - Vetting of laser sensor vendors is developmental milestone — iPhone maker has several years of work ahead on autonomous car
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| Wolfie Zhao / The Block: |
Bitcoin's market capitalization passes $1T as its price surges above $56K — Bitcoin's market capitalization has crossed the $1 trillion milestone for the first time after over a decade's development as it gains increasing mainstream attention. — Bitcoin's price set new record highs …
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| Amir Efrati / The Information: |
Sources: LinkedIn is developing a new service called Marketplaces to let its 740M users find and book freelancers, with plans to launch as soon as September — LinkedIn is developing a new service called Marketplaces to let its 740 million users find and book freelancers …
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| Rich Stanton / PC Gamer: |
Court filings: Apple is asking Valve to provide extensive sales data for about 600 games on Steam, as part of Epic lawsuit; Valve has rejected the demand — These lawyers are getting steamed up. — A new court filing has revealed that, as part of the ongoing legal battle between Apple and Epic Games …
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| Jason Scott / Bloomberg: |
Australian Treasurer Josh Frydenberg says he will hold talks with Zuckerberg to “see if there's a pathway forward”, but says news legislation will go ahead — - ‘The world is watching us very closely,’ says Treasurer — News content law expected to pass through parliament next week
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Sources: IBM is exploring a sale of its IBM Watson Health business, which has roughly $1B in annual revenue and isn't currently profitable — Business has roughly $1 billion in revenue and isn't profitable, sources say — International Business Machines Corp. is exploring a potential sale …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Researchers say Brave browser's Tor mode was sending queries for .onion domains to public internet DNS resolvers rather than Tor nodes; the bug is now fixed — DNS leak leaves footprints in DNS server logs for a Brave user's Tor traffic. — The Tor mode included with the Brave web browser allows users … | Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google releases Android 12 developer preview, available for Pixel devices, with under-the-hood changes adding security, support for more media formats, and more — The big, consumer-facing changes will come later this year — Google is releasing a developer preview for the next version of Android … | Nikkei Asia: |
Sources: Huawei notifies suppliers that it plans to order components for 70M to 80M smartphones this year, down over 60% from the 189M it shipped last year — China's largest handset maker suffers from US sanctions Biden appears to back — TOKYO — Huawei Technologies has notified … | Ina Fried / Axios: |
Report: Google's AI Chief Jeff Dean apologizes in an email after Timnit Gebru's exit, saying his team should have managed the situation “with more sensitivity” — Google told employees Friday it has wrapped up its investigation into the ouster of prominent AI researcher Timnit Gebru.| Bloomberg: |
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An early analysis of Birdwatch, Twitter's crowdsourced fact-checking pilot with about 1,000 users, shows partisan rhetoric and a lack of source citations — A Poynter analysis found that less than half of Birdwatch users include sources and many fact-checking notes contain partisan rhetoric.
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Engadget and Input
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EU regulators start the process of approving data-sharing arrangements with the UK, adopting a pair of “adequacy decisions” endorsing UK privacy protections — - EU commission announcement paves way for ‘adequacy decisions’ — EU readies measures in case of any ‘problematic development’
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