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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft announces Windows 11, with a simplified UI, new Windows store, Start menu, Teams integrated into taskbar, and more, available free to Windows 10 users — A new version of Windows is officially on the way — Microsoft is officially confirming the name for the next release of Windows today: Windows 11.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft says it is bringing Android apps to Windows 11 through Amazon's app store — A surprise addition to Windows 11 — Microsoft is bringing Android apps to Windows 11. The software giant revealed its surprise Windows 11 addition during its special Windows event today.
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
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| Pradeep / MSPoweruser: |
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| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Google will delay plans to block third-party cookies from early 2022 to late 2023, to find ways to protect privacy without hurting ad-dependent publishers — Google has delayed a major privacy change to its Chrome browser, pushing back a plan to block third-party cookies until late 2023 …
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| Kate Rooney / CNBC: |
Andreessen Horowitz raises $2.2B for its third fund focused on crypto startups and cryptocurrencies — - The Silicon Valley venture capital firm just announced a new $2.2 billion cryptocurrency-focused fund. — “We believe that the next wave of computing innovation will be driven by crypto …
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Researchers discover four major vulnerabilities in Dell SupportAssist's BIOSConnect feature, letting hackers remotely execute code, affecting 129 Dell models — Security researchers have found four major security vulnerabilities in the BIOSConnect feature of Dell SupportAssist …
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| John D. McKinnon / Wall Street Journal: |
After debate, House committee approves five major antitrust bills, including regulations on user data portability and acquisitions of competitors — Tech companies to take the battle over the proposed new regulations and oversight to the House floor and Senate
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SiliconANGLE, Ars Technica, AppleInsider, Washington Post, Bloomberg, Politico, iMore, and International Business Times
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| Eva Mathews / Reuters: |
The Teamsters, one of the largest labor unions in the US, votes to support, fund, and supply resources to employees of Amazon in their unionization efforts — The International Brotherhood of Teamsters, a labor union in the United States and Canada, said on Thursday it has voted to formalize …
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Google and Jio Platforms announce JioPhone Next, an “affordable” phone running an optimized version of Android, launching in India on September 10; price TBD — Jio Platforms, run by India's richest man (Mukesh Ambani), and Google on Thursday unveiled the JioPhone Next …
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The Keyword, Official Google India Blog, PYMNTS.com, Livemint, XDA Developers, The Economic Times, TNW, Engadget, MSPoweruser, TechPP, Gizmodo, Zenger News, Moneycontrol, Android Central, The Verge, and fossbytes.com. Tweets: @sundarpichai
| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Amazon acquires Art19, a major podcast hosting and monetization platform, for an undisclosed sum — Art19 goes to Amazon Music — Amazon Music is getting more serious about its podcast endeavors. Today, the company announced that it's acquiring Art19, a major podcast hosting and monetization platform for an undisclosed sum.| Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg: |
Software design company Figma raises $200M at a valuation of $10B, quintupling its valuation since last year — Software design company Figma Inc. has raised fresh funding at a valuation of $10 billion, quintupling its pricetag since last year. The company, which allows customers …
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| Michael Potuck / 9to5Mac: |
Instagram starts to quietly roll out the option to publish posts from its website on desktop, but iPad is not supported — After we got a sneak peek at the feature last month, Instagram has quietly rolled out the option to create and publish posts from its website on desktop (but not on iPad).
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| Anthony Reuben / BBC: |
EE says it will add a £2 roaming charge in Europe for new customers starting January 2022, the first UK operator to reintroduce roaming charges after Brexit — Mobile operator EE will charge new UK customers extra to use their mobile phones in Europe from January.
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MacRumors, BBC, TalkAndroid.com, The Verge, and Neowin
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| Simon Clark / Wall Street Journal: |
Visa buys Sweden-based Tink, which offers open banking APIs used by more than 3,400 banks and financial institutions in Europe, for €1.8B — Tink would give Visa a foothold in open banking, which connects consumers to multiple financial institutions — Visa Inc. agreed to pay …
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Google extends its Open Source Vulnerabilities database to include vulnerability databases from major open source projects, including Python, Rust, Go, and DWF — Where does your enterprise stand on the AI adoption curve? Take our AI survey to find out. — Google today announced … | Jonathan Greig / ZDNet: |
Amazon launches AWS BugBust, a competition to let developers find and fix 1M+ bugs and reduce technical debt by $100M+; top ten will get AWS re:Invent tickets — Participants in AWS BugBust can win a free trip to AWS re:Invent 2021 in Las Vegas. — Amazon announced a new global competition …
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| Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC: |
BuzzFeed announces plans to go public via SPAC merger, targeting a $1.5B valuation, and will acquire digital publisher Complex Networks for $300M — BuzzFeed, a 15-year-old digital media company, announced Thursday it plans to go public via a merger with a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company.
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| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
Snap and Universal Music Group strike a licensing deal that lets users share songs in messages and posts; financial terms were not disclosed — - Move is latest tie-up between music companies and social media — Snap wants to become key place for artists to promote songs| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Filing: Wise, previously TransferWise, plans to go public on the London Stock Exchange via a direct listing in early July, reportedly at a $6B-$7B valuation — Following Wise's announcement earlier this month that it planned to go public by way of a direct listing on the LSE …
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| Zack Seward / CoinDesk: |
Crypto analytics startup Chainalysis raises $100M Series E led by Coatue at a $4.2B+ valuation, after raising $100M Series D in March at a $2B valuation — It's the firm's second $100 million raise this year. — Chainalysis is adding another $100 million in venture capital as crypto's role …
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| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Data infrastructure software maker Confluent closes up 25% on its first day of trading, after raising $828M in its US IPO — Covering venture capital, software and startups — In 2011, three LinkedIn employees — Jay Kreps, Neha Narkhede and Jun Rao — developed a technical tool to help … | Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
TCL says NxtWear G, its wearable external display for phones or laptops with USB-C DisplayPort tech, will go on sale in July, starting in Australia for ~$680 — Also on the way: multiscreen functionality for TCL phones and a smartwatch for kids — TCL says its wearable display will go on sale …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Sanity, which lets users repurpose and use content assets across a number of platforms, raises $39M Series B led by ICONIQ, bringing its total raised to $51.8M — Content is king, as the saying goes. But in actual fact, a lot of what companies do today with content, and thus the power of that content … | Sheridan Wall / MIT Technology Review: |
How job search sites such as LinkedIn, ZipRecruiter, and CareerBuilder are working to remove gender and racial bias from their AI-powered matching algorithms — ZipRecruiter, CareerBuilder, LinkedIn—most of the world's biggest job search sites use AI to match people with job openings.
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