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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
Facebook says it is running a test to assess the impact of letting users know when their post was removed as a result of automation — Facebook is testing a change that will let users know when their post was removed as a result of automation. The new experiment comes in response to the Oversight Board … | Jennifer Broxmeyer / About Facebook: |
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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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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google rolls out a shortcut to delete last 15 minutes of Search history on its iOS app, coming later to its Android app — In addition to auto-delete controls for Search history, Google at I/O 2021 announced a way to quickly delete your last 15 minutes of queries on the Android and iOS apps.| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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.| Decrypt: |
A US District Court judge ruled in favor of Ripple to allow deposition of former SEC official William Hinman, who in 2018 said Ethereum is not a security — Ripple won a significant procedural victory in its fight with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which has accused … | 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.
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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.| 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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