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| Richard Lawler / The Verge: |
Activision Blizzard says president J. Allen Brack is leaving the company, replaced by Jen Oneal and Mike Ybarra, as the fallout from CA lawsuit continues — Jen Oneal and Mike Ybarra will take over as co-leaders — In the last week or so, we've learned about the state of California filing …
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| Sam Rutherford / Gizmodo: |
Google's Rick Osterloh demos Pixel 6's Tensor SoC, which enables real-time object detection and HDR in videos as well as real-time translation and live captions — We sat down with Google's phone chief, Rick Osterloh, to see what the Pixel 6 has in store. — Alerts
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google unveils Pixel 6, with 6.4" 90Hz display, and Pixel 6 Pro, with 6.7" 120Hz display and 4x optical zoom, with a Google-designed Tensor SoC, coming in fall — Google's new Tensor SoC is the heart of its next phone — Google is announcing the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro today …
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| Chong Koh Ping / Wall Street Journal: |
After Chinese state media criticized online gaming as “opium for the mind” in a now-deleted article, Tencent announces stricter rules for young users — Shares of NetEase and Bilibili also suffer steep falls — Shares of Tencent Holdings Ltd. and rivals plummeted Tuesday …
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| Bloomberg: |
Q&A with SEC chair Gary Gensler on protecting cryptocurrency investors from fraud, regulating the industry, Bitcoin ETFs, and other SEC priorities like GameStop — It's become a parlor game in Washington, on Wall Street, and in Silicon Valley to figure out where U.S. Securities …
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| The Information: |
Facebook confirms it is building a team of AI researchers to study ways of analyzing encrypted data without decrypting it, potentially helping better target ads — Facebook is bulking up a team of artificial intelligence researchers, including a key hire from Microsoft … | Rainey Reitman / Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
The confusing language in the infrastructure bill's crypto provision suggests that nearly any entity in crypto is a broker and must collect their users' data — The forthcoming Senate draft of Biden's infrastructure bill—a 2,000+ page bill designed to update the United States' roads …
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| Andrew Kersley / Wired UK: |
Sources: well over 100 UK-based employees at Amazon's Prime Air drone delivery unit have lost their jobs since 2019, as the company scales back its ambitions — Amazon has triggered mass redundancies and transfers as it winds down a huge part of its UK drone delivery business
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Spotify says it is testing a $0.99/month tier, called Spotify Plus, which includes ads but no limits on skipping tracks or picking songs — Spotify Plus is being piloted with a ‘limited number’ of users — Spotify Plus is a new $.99 subscription tier being piloted by the streaming service …
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| Rob Price / Insider: |
UK-based Emojipedia, an encyclopedia for emoji founded in 2013, says it has been acquired by smartphone software company Zedge — - Emojipedia has been acquired by smartphone software company Zedge for an undisclosed amount. — The online emoji encyclopedia was founded in 2013, and has 500 million-plus yearly pageviews.| Boris Metodiev / Strategy Analytics: |
Xiaomi became Europe's top smartphone vendor in Q2 with 12.7M units shipped, up 67.1% YoY, followed by Samsung with 12M, down 7% YoY, and Apple with 9.6M — According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, Europe smartphone shipments grew a strong +14% YoY to 50.1 million units in Q2 2021 …
| Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg: |
After Chinese regulators halted its IPO, Alibaba's Ant Group reports Q1 profit fell to $2.1B, down 37% from the previous quarter — Ant Group Co.'s profit fell to $2.1 billion in the March quarter after Chinese regulators thwarted its record initial public offering and told it to overhaul its sprawling operation.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Rapyd, which offers APIs to add financial services like payments, raises $300M Series E led by Target Global, sources say at a $8.75B valuation — Neobanks, other financial startups, and the basic concept of “finance anywhere” are seeing huge gains at the moment, and today …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter partners with Reuters and the AP, who will provide context and highlight links from trusted sources for Trends, Moments, Search, and more — Twitter announced today it's partnering with news organizations The Associated Press (AP) and Reuters to expand its efforts focused …
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Tweets: @twittersafety, @jason_kint, @larakate, @stone1atlanta, @chrizap, @shiringhaffary, @niketa, and @anthonycwalker
| Sami Fathi / MacRumors: |
Apple makes Magic Keyboard with Touch ID available as a standalone product for $149; the keyboard is only compatible with Apple silicon Macs — Apple has made the Magic Keyboard with Touch ID, which previously was only available with the purchase of the new 24-inch iMac, available for purchase individually for $179.
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Tweets: @reneritchie, @michaelsteeber, @_inside, @samifathi_, and @davezatz
| Dmitry Smilyanets / The Record: |
Interview with BlackMatter, a new ransomware group that only targets companies with $100M+ revenue and says it will avoid certain industries like healthcare — Editor's Note: In July, a new ransomware gang started posting advertisements on various cybercrime forums announcing that it was seeking …
Tweets: @dcuthbert and @therecord_media
| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Citizen launches Protect, a $20/month service that offers access to a Citizen operator and other features, after a 100,000-user beta test — After months of testing with upwards of 100,000 beta testers, Citizen today is launching its premium Protect offering for all users.| Tracy Qu / South China Morning Post: |
China's top state propaganda outlets jointly call for limits on the role of algorithms in content distribution to help improve “culture and art reviews” — The policy guidelines mark the latest effort by Beijing to align online content with the state's agenda and to rein in the role …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft's desktop-as-a-service Windows 365 Cloud PC is generally available and costs between $20 to $162 per user per month, based on cores, RAM, and storage — Microsoft's Windows 365 Cloud PC service is now generally available, and pricing is public. The service will cost users anywhere between $20 … | Kim Willsher / The Guardian: |
The French government found proof of Pegasus malware on three French journalists' phones and has referred its findings to the Paris public prosecutor's office — Announcement is first time an independent and official authority has corroborated Pegasus project findings
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Tweets: @snowden, @jsrailton, @asawinstanley, @wikileaks, @swiftonsecurity, @jsrailton, and @ericgarland
| Antoine Gara / Forbes: |
How Michael Dell oversaw Dell's expansion after taking it private, growing the company to $75B, by focusing on providing infrastructure to businesses and others — After years battling Silicon Valley skeptics and Wall Street adversaries, Michael Dell has pulled off the deal of the century …
Tweets: @antoinegara, @johnbyrnecso, @antoinegara, @chrishelman, and @danprimack
| Simon Sharwood / The Register: |
Australian court rules AI can be considered an inventor on patent filings, days after South Africa granted a patent in which AI was designated as the inventor — IP lawyer says decision is bad because the last thing we need is robot patent trolls — An Australian Court has decided …
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