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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Facebook announces Horizon Workrooms, a virtual meeting space with avatars, spatial audio, a whiteboard, and more, in beta on Oculus Quest 2 — It wasn't long into a recent press briefing I attended in virtual reality when Mark Zuckerberg showed up to talk about the metaverse.
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| Issie Lapowsky / Protocol: |
Facebook, for the first time, shares a report on the most widely viewed domains, links, posts, and Pages on Facebook in the US during Q2 — A video of two cats walking, tails intertwined, looking like the best of friends. A resource site for Green Bay Packers alumni.
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| Ethan Zuckerman: |
Facebook's new report reinforces its narrative that most content on the News Feed is not news, but doesn't provide enough data to make meaningful conclusions — What content is popular on Facebook? — This is a surprisingly difficult - and very important - question to answer.
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Washington Post, Galaxy Brain, Washington Post, Brian Boland, and searchenginejournal.com
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| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
Apple says NeuralHash flaw found by researchers in CSAM detection system was in a generic version of the software and not in the final version it plans to use — Apple said the version of NeuralHash analyzed by researchers is not the final version that will be used for iCloud Photos CSAM detection.
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Nvidia beats with record Q2 revenue of $6.51B, up 68% YoY, Gaming revenue of $3.06B, up 85% YoY, and Data Center revenue of $2.37B, up 35% YoY — - Nvidia reported earnings on Wednesday for its second fiscal quarter that ended on August 1, beating Wall Street estimates on the back of strong graphics cards sales.
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| Richard Waters / Financial Times: |
Nvidia says its planned acquisition of Arm is unlikely to be completed within the planned 18-month time frame, due to investigations in the UK and China — US chipmaker acknowledges delay due to global regulatory scrutiny but remains confident of approval — Nvidia has admitted …
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| Maggie Fitzgerald / CNBC: |
Robinhood reports Q2 revenue of $565M, up 131% YoY, net loss of $502M, down from $58M net income in Q2 2020, and crypto revenue of $233M; stock down 5%+ — Robinhood's revenue more than doubled in the second quarter to $565 million, bolstered by a massive surge in crypto trading …
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| CNBC: |
Robinhood says crypto accounted for ~52% of all transaction-based revenue in Q2, and 62% of crypto revenue came from dogecoin — - Robinhood reported quarterly results on Wednesday for the first time as a public company. — Crypto made up over 50% of transaction-based revenue in the second quarter …
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| Wolfie Zhao / The Block: |
Coinbase launches Coinbase Japan in partnership with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, initially supporting the five highest-trading cryptocurrencies — Crypto exchange Coinbase is entering the Japanese market through its partnership with Japanese financial giant Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG).
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| Matt Robinson / Bloomberg: |
SEC sues three ex-Netflix software engineers and two others for allegedly using confidential subscriber growth numbers to trade ahead of earnings announcements — - Group allegedly made $3 million in profits from illicit tips — Scheme involved illegal trades on subscriber data, SEC says
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Amazon plans to open several large physical stores across the US, starting in Ohio and California, to extend its reach in clothing and other areas — Online shopping pioneer wants a larger retail presence to sell clothing and household items and facilitate exchanges
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| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
Facebook says it took action against 12 COVID vaccine misinfo “superspreaders” but disputes claims that those 12 were responsible for 73% of misinfo on Facebook — Back in March, the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) published — a report linking more than two-thirds … | Sean McLain / Wall Street Journal: |
Toyota says it will cut production in Japan by 40% in September due to the global chip shortage, after touting its ability to insulate itself — Car maker says it will cut production in Japan by 40% in September — The global semiconductor shortage has finally started to bite at Toyota Motor Corp. …
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Sources: OnlyFans is struggling to find investors, possibly due to hosting adult content; pitch-deck shows it predicts $5.9B GMV in 2021 and $1.2B net revenue — OnlyFans, the online creator platform known for its adult content, is struggling to find outside investors, according to multiple sources.
Tweets: @azeem, @markdistef, @cindygallop, @seyitaylor, @alex, and @danprimack
| Sean O'Kane / The Verge: |
Sens. Markey and Blumenthal ask the FTC to investigate Tesla's marketing of Autopilot, saying Tesla has “repeatedly overstated the capabilities of its vehicles” — As the agency turns up the heat on tech companies — Senators Ed Markey (D-MA) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) … | Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: |
Tencent says it will give an additional $7B to aid the Chinese government's wealth redistribution plans and warns investors of more government regulations — - Tech giant pledges $7.7 billion to help wealth redistribution — Company had flagged further regulations for the tech industry
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| Pew Research Center: |
Survey of 11,178 US adults: 48% say the government should restrict false info online, up from 39% in 2018; 59% think tech companies should, up from 56% in 2018 — Amid rising concerns over misinformation online - including surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, especially vaccines …
Tweets: @pewresearch, @asmitch, @pewresearch, @pewjournalism, @elisashearer, @heathercampbell, @ggreenwald, and @pewresearch
| Kristin Broughton / Wall Street Journal: |
Coinbase CFO says it has $4.36B in cash reserves as of June 30, about four times higher than at the end of 2020, as it prepares for possible tighter regulation — The cryptocurrency exchange plans to use its cash to expand and prepare for higher compliance costs, CFO says
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| Chris Metinko / Crunchbase News: |
Analysis: VCs have invested $1B+ in cryptosecurity so far in 2021, up 10x YoY, as technologies for securing crypto wallets and transactions become more popular — What do you get when you combine never seen before investment in cybersecurity with the increasingly heated interest in cryptocurrency?
Tweets: @crunchbasenews and @hokkupr
| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Samsung Galaxy Z Flip3 review: folds in half, same price as its peers, and water resistant, but long-term durability is unknown and hard to use one-handed — Third time is maybe the charm — The story of folding phones thus far has been one of compromise.| Richard Waters / Financial Times: |
Google outlines MUM, an AI model it plans to use to improve Search by answering users' “fuzzy information needs” that aren't formulated into specific questions — New language model called MUM may eventually behave as a virtual research assistant
Tweets: @martinsfp and @daveleeft
| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Netflix says it is now rolling out support for Spatial Audio on iPhones and iPads — Netflix has confirmed that it is now rolling out Spatial Audio support to its iPhone and iPad applications. This enables an immersive experience using directional audio filters, and it has been a long time coming to Netflix users.
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