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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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| 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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| 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.| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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 …
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| 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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| 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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| 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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| Cambridge Judge Business School: |
China's share of Bitcoin hashrate fell from 75.5% in September 2019 to 46% in April 2021, even before a crackdown; United States' share rose from 4.1% to 16.8% — Research team from the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF), unveils new datasets showing geographic shifts in Bitcoin mining …
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BBC, Finbold, Reuters, Tom's Hardware, Bitcoin News, cryptodaily.co.uk, and CNBC. Tweets: @joetidy
| 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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| 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.| 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 — Shanghai (China), Bengaluru (India), Singapore, Reading (UK) and Portland (US) - Thursday, 15 July 2021
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MacRumors, TechCrunch, Android Authority, iMore, and AppleInsider
Tweets: @xiaomi and @greengart
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Revolut raises $800M Series E from SoftBank's Vision Fund 2 and Tiger Global at a valuation of $33B; Revolut was last valued at $5.5B in 2020 — The fintech funding continues to roll in at a rapid pace, a result of the huge shift underway in how consumers spend and manage their money.| 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.
Tweets: @katie_roof
| Reuters: |
US Consumer Product Safety Commission has sued Amazon to force it to recall hazardous products sold on its site, including 24K faulty carbon monoxide detectors — The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) said on Wednesday it has sued Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) to force the retailer …
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| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
iOS 15 and watchOS 8 beta 3 allow users to install system updates even when less than 500 MB of storage is available — As Apple continues to work on iOS 15 and other updates ahead of the fall release, the company rolled out today the third beta versions of its latest software for developers.| PYMNTS.com: |
Facebook says it will expand its Facebook Pay service beyond its own platforms, starting in August with Shopify vendors in the US — The cozy and consolidated universe of payment and digital wallet providers got a little less comfortable on Wednesday (July 14) after social media giant Facebook announced … | Meagan Simpson / BetaKit: |
Auvik Networks, which develops cloud-based network management software, raises CAD $312M from Great Hill Partners, bringing its total raised to CAD $362M — United States-based private equity firm Great Hill Partners has acquired a majority stake in Auvik Networks as the Waterloo-based startup looks … | 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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| Bloomberg: |
Netflix hires ex-Facebook and EA exec Mike Verdu as VP of game development; source: Netflix plans to offer games as a new programming genre within the next year — Netflix Inc., marking its first big move beyond TV shows and films, is planning an expansion into video games and has hired …
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Tweets: @markgurman, @toadsanime, @quicktake, @ps5trophies_, @sayssmithy, @bryandfischer, and @schmmuck
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Genvid raises $113M Series C to build out its interactive live gaming events — Join executive leaders at the AI at the Edge & IoT Summit. Watch now! — Genvid Holdings has raised $113 million to fuel massive interactive live events such as the upcoming Project Raven.
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Tweets: @ballmatthew, @variety, @richlightshed, @lux_capital, and @xpangler
| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Aurora Innovation, the autonomous vehicle startup that acquired Uber's self-driving unit in December, to go public via a SPAC merger at a $13B valuation — Aurora Innovation, the autonomous vehicle startup that acquired Uber's self-driving unit in December, is going public via a merger …
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