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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Valve announces Steam Deck, its long-rumored Switch-like handheld gaming device with a 7" touchscreen display, available in December from $399 — It starts at $399 — Valve just announced the Steam Deck, its long-rumored Switch-like handheld gaming device. It will begin shipping in December.
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| Frank Bajak / Associated Press: |
US announces anti-ransomware measures, including rewards of up to $10M for information about foreign state-sanctioned hackers targeting critical infrastructure — BOSTON (AP) — The State Department will offer rewards up to $10 million for information leading to the identification … | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE: |
Microsoft and Citizen Lab say government hackers from several countries have used spyware from Israeli vendor Candiru that uses two 0-day exploits in Windows — Microsoft and Citizen Lab found a new kind of spyware made by the mysterious Israeli vendor Candiru, and targeting someone in Europe based on their political beliefs.
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The Citizen Lab, Microsoft On the Issues, The Guardian, Washington Post, The Register, Microsoft Security Blog, CNBC, Financial Times, SecurityWeek, and The Record
| Dave Gershgorn / The Verge: |
The maker of a new documentary about Anthony Bourdain says he used AI to re-create Bourdain's voice and synthesized the audio of three quotes from the TV host — ‘We can have a documentary-ethics panel about it later’ — In a new documentary, Roadrunner, about the life and tragic death …
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New Yorker, Engadget, The Wrap, BGR, New York Post, Variety, Tech Policy Press, The Week, IndieWire, /Film, and Mediaite
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| David Priest / CNET: |
Facebook Messenger adds Soundmojis, which add audible expressions to emoji, accessible through a loudspeaker icon — Messenger chats are about to get louder. … Facebook on Thursday launched “Soundmojis” for its Messenger app. The new feature adds the audible expressions to emoji …
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Emojipedia, About Facebook, Messenger News, Pocket-lint, and Cult of Mac
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| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Dorsey says Square is creating a new business line with the aim of helping devs build decentralized financial services products, primarily focused on Bitcoin — Square Inc. is creating a new business line to help developers build financial services products focused on Bitcoin …
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Protocol, The Verge, PYMNTS.com, Financial Times, MarketWatch, NewsBTC, CryptoGlobe, and CoinDesk
Tweets: @jack, @petermccormack, @danheld, @autismcapital, and @jeffbooth
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Intel is exploring a deal to buy GlobalFoundries, valuing the company at about $30B; GlobalFoundries itself says it isn't aware of any talks — GlobalFoundries, owned by an investment arm of the Abu Dhabi government, has been planning an IPO — Intel Corp. is exploring a deal …
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| Kellen Browning / New York Times: |
Some tech workers who quit the Bay Area during the pandemic are trickling back, as Twitter reopens its SF HQ and, along with Google, plans to expand in the area — Critics said the pandemic would make the industry flee San Francisco and its southern neighbor, Silicon Valley.
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| Ted Johnson / Deadline: |
White House says it is alerting Facebook about posts that spread COVID-19 misinfo; US surgeon general calls on social media companies to tackle health misinfo — As the rate of Covid-19 vaccination slows and cases rise again, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy called on tech platforms …
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Tweets: @acyn, @cbsnews, @ggreenwald, @willoremus, @surgeon_general, @tomcottonar, @surgeon_general, @benedictevans, @greg_price11, @abcpolitics, @drdenagrayson, @columbiabugle, @doctorow, @jj_rochester, @kjp46, @hawleymo, @arneduncan, @meganfoxwriter, @bgmasters, @ggreenwald, @louisianagov, @wutangkids, @mtgreenee, @benedictevans, @evelyndouek, @jordanschachtel, @ryanafournier, @doctorow, @mtaibbi, @sacca, @kmunoz46, @thechrisbuskirk, @kevinroose, @drleanawen, @arkloster, @ggreenwald, @pturnermd, @gopleader, @doctorow, @dylanbyers, @knightfdn, @aslavitt, @ggreenwald, @sabrevaya, @surgeon_general, @jackposobiec, and @maziehirono
| Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: |
Facebook says it stopped a campaign by Iranian hackers, targeting about 200 defense and aerospace personnel, primarily from the US, using fake online personas — Social media group says fake online personas were created to trick victims into clicking malicious links
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| Jennifer Broxmeyer / About Facebook: |
Facebook publishes its first quarterly Oversight Board update, noting it fully or partially implemented 14 of 18 board recommendations across 6 cases in Q1 2021 — When we launched the Oversight Board, we committed to consider and transparently respond to all of the board's recommendations.
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| Kate Rooney / CNBC: |
PayPal increases weekly cryptocurrency purchase limit fivefold to $100,000 and scraps its annual purchase limit of $50,000 — - PayPal users can now buy $100,000 of bitcoin and other digital assets per week, up from a previous limit of $20,000. — PayPal is also scrapping its annual purchase limit of $50,000.
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| Sara Ashley O'Brien / CNN: |
Lyft says it will restart its shared rides option starting July 19 in Chicago, Denver, and Philadelphia, after pausing the service last year due to the pandemic — (CNN Business)Shared rides were a key part of how the founders of Uber and Lyft envisioned disrupting transportation.
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| Canalys: |
Global smartphone shipments grew 12% YoY in Q2, with Xiaomi up 83% to take a 17% share and pushing past Apple to reach the second place for the first time ever — In Q2 2021, global smartphone shipments increased 12%, as vaccines rolled out around the world, and the new normal for economies and citizens started to take shape.
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Bloomberg, 9to5Mac, XDA Developers, SlashGear, Canalys.com, Forbes, and MacRumors
Tweets: @xiaomi and @greengart
| Wall Street Journal: |
TSMC says it expects shortage of chips used in cars to start easing in the next few months but broader semiconductor shortage could persist until 2022 — A dearth of semiconductors has stymied manufacturing activity in the auto industry — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. …
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Nikkei Asia, Taiwan Semiconductor …, The Verge, and Reuters
Tweets: @jchengwsj, @jensmithwsj, and @sharp_writing
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Scribd is in talks to go public as soon as this year, via an IPO in Q4 or through a merger with a SPAC, and could be valued at about $1B — Scribd Inc., an online platform for e-books, podcasts and audio books, is in discussions to go public as soon as this year, according to people with knowledge of the matter.| Antonio Regalado / MIT Technology Review: |
Facebook discontinues a project to build an interface that uses brain signals to type, will instead focus on a wrist controller for VR that reads muscle signals — The spring of 2017 may be remembered as the coming-out party for Big Tech's campaign to get inside your head.
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Facebook Technology, SiliconANGLE, Social Media Today, SlashGear, and OneZero
Tweets: @boztank, @tsimonite, @ucsf, @patrickmineault, @techreview, @abebab, @marcocantamessa, @tomgara, and @willoremus
| José Adorno / 9to5Mac: |
Report: iPhone 12 line accounted for 63% of US iPhone sales in Q3; the iPhone 12 Pro Max had a 23% share while the iPhone 12 mini had a 5% share — A new report by Consumer Intelligence Research Partners says the iPhone 12 line accounted for 63% of US iPhone sales in the quarter ending June 2021.| Stephanie Condon / ZDNet: |
AWS announces general availability of Amazon HealthLake, a HIPAA-eligible service that allows health organizations to store and work with health data in cloud — The service is part of the cloud giant's AWS for Health initiative, which provides specialized cloud services for healthcare, biopharma and genomics customers.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft announces Windows 365, letting businesses stream a version of Windows 10 or 11 in a web browser or through its Remote Desktop app, launching August 2 — Windows 365 is a new service that creates Cloud PCs — Microsoft is putting Windows in the cloud.
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Microsoft Design, ZDNet, Petri, OSnews, Digital Trends, Neowin, XDA Developers, MUO, and WRAL TechWire. Tweets: @microsoft
| Issie Lapowsky / Protocol: |
In a 2020 diversity report, Twitter says women make up 43% of its staff and have equal salary to men in equivalent jobs, but only earn ~37% of its total payroll — Zoom's skyrocketing share price turned into a great payday for the videoconferencing employees who stuck around. — Biz Carson
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Tweets: @shenlulushen, @issielapowsky, @jane_seidel, @meganmorrone, and @issielapowsky
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