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| Mark Sullivan / Fast Company: |
Interview with Niantic CEO John Hanke about Niantic's vision for the metaverse and how the metaverse could become a dystopian nightmare — The metaverse, the concept of an alternative, shared digital world that originated in sci-fi, has bubbled up to the surface of tech chatter during the later days of the pandemic.
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| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
Twitter says it is changing the contrast of its new buttons, as users complain about headaches after its redesign that some experts say isn't very accessible — After teasing its new font in January, Twitter made some major changes to its website and app design this week.
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple details its CSAM detection system, says it expects to set a match threshold of 30 known CSAM images before an iCloud account is flagged for manual review — Apple today shared a document that provides a more detailed overview of the child safety features that it first announced last week …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Craig Federighi says introducing two similar features at the same time, iMessage protections for children and CSAM scanning of iCloud photos, caused confusion — Facing criticism about eroding privacy on the iPhone, Apple's Craig Federighi says new tools aimed at best ensuring privacy while fighting illegal images
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
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| Kris Holt / Engadget: |
Facebook rolls out end-to-end encrypted voice and video calls on Messenger, and says it will begin testing opt-in e2e encryption for Instagram DMs — rolling out a host of features for Messenger users who switch on — end-to-end encryption (E2EE). You can now call Messenger contacts using voice or video
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Tweets: @runasand, @rmsherman, and @timothybucksf
| Bill Hathaway / YaleNews: |
Study of 12.7M tweets shows social media amplifies expressions of moral outrage, as users learn that such language gets rewarded with more “likes” and “shares” — Social media platforms like Twitter amplify expressions of moral outrage over time because users learn …
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Science, Popular Science, SlashGear, UPI, Telegraph, Axios, Silicon Republic, CTVNews, Tech Times, and Fast Company
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| Sophia Kunthara / Crunchbase News: |
Analysis: VC-backed companies in the gaming space have raised $5.9B so far in 2021, already surpassing the total raised in 2020 and 2019 — A global pandemic, ripe market conditions, and more private capital availability have led to an increase in funding for gaming startups, and some notable exits over the past year or so.
Tweets: @gazerker and @crunchbasenews
| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Twitter pauses rolling out access to apply for verification, after admitting that several fake accounts, reportedly part of a botnet, were wrongly verified — It wants to improve the application and review process — Twitter is halting the expansion of its verification program …
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Techaeris, Mashable, Livemint, Engadget, The Economic Times, The Daily Dot, CNET, FrontPageTech.com, Gizmodo, BGR India, and 9to5Mac
Tweets: @verified, @chelseabrooke, @_tom_henderson_, @liamodelluk, and @karissabe
| Josef Adalian / Vulture: |
HBO Max plans to roll out a new app in the next four or five months for connected TVs, built from the ground up, after complaints of glitches in its current app — HBO Max execs have had plenty of reasons to celebrate this summer, from an impressive showing in the Emmy nominations …
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9to5Mac, Engadget, AppleInsider, Gizmodo, GameSpot, and Cord Cutters News
Tweets: @tvmojoe and @cnschedules
| Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: |
Senate's $1T infrastructure bill includes $2B for cybersecurity programs, including $1B to provide federal cybersecurity assistance to state, local governments — A Senate bill intended to shore up the nation's roads, pipes and electric grid includes billions to protect that aging infrastructure from cyberattacks.
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The Hill, Washington Post, and CyberArk
| The Economic Times: |
Indian online travel app Ixigo files for an IPO in India to raise $200M+, sources say at a valuation of about $850M — Mumbai: Travel booking app ixigo is looking to raise Rs 750 crore through a primary fundraise and Rs 850 crore via an offer for sale (OFS) from existing investors as part …
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| Osato Avan-Nomayo / Cointelegraph: |
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