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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Internal memo: Apple is delaying its return to corporate offices from October until January at the earliest because of surging COVID-19 cases and new variants — - Company pushes back return from October, encourages vaccines — Apple doesn't plan to close stores, offices on rising cases
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| Emily Flitter / New York Times: |
Binance is aiming for an IPO for its US division after an unsuccessful VC deal and the resignation of its CEO — The founder of Binance, Changpeng Zhao, needs investors for its U.S. unit after a recent venture capital deal fell through — a setback that cost him a C.E.O.
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China passes a data privacy law mandating that data collection has a reasonable purpose, user consent, and limited to “minimum scope”, taking effect November 1 — China's National People's Congress on Friday passed a law designed to protect online user data privacy and will implement …
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
An overview of the most interesting internal emails from the Apple v. Epic trial, including discussions about an “iPhone nano” and lowering App Store fees — In May, the world watched as Epic Games dragged Apple to court, challenging the most profitable company in the world …
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Court docs: Google's “Premier Device Program” gave Android OEMs a greater share of Search revenue for not preinstalling third-party app stores on their devices — Android OEMs couldn't preload apps that could install other apps — Newly unredacted sections of Epic's antitrust complaint …
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| Mike Peterson / AppleInsider: |
Report: Google is dismantling its Health division, formed in 2018, and scattering its units across the company — Google is reportedly dismantling its health technology initiative and splitting its projects across other teams as the chief of the division departs the company.| April Glaser / NBC News: |
Facebook rolls out new security features for people in Afghanistan, including a one-click tool to quickly lock accounts and limit account discoverability — Facebook said Thursday it is rolling out new user controls for people in Afghanistan who are rushing to delete their digital footprints …
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| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
AT&T says it did not suffer a data breach after a threat actor started selling a database purportedly containing the personal info of 70M AT&T customers — AT&T says that they did not suffer a data breach after a well-known threat actor claimed to be selling a database containing … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple launches Siri Speech Study, an iOS app that lets invited participants share their voice requests and other feedback with Apple — Apple recently began a research study designed to collect speech data from study participants. Earlier this month, the company launched a new iOS app called …
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| Sean O'Kane / The Verge: |
Elon Musk says Tesla is working on a humanoid robot that will handle “tasks that are unsafe, repetitive or boring”, with a prototype “sometime next year” — A prototype is supposedly coming ‘sometime next year’ — Tesla CEO Elon Musk says his company is working …
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| Kate Beioley / Financial Times: |
UK's CMA recommends an in-depth investigation into Nvidia's planned $40B acquisition of Arm, saying there are “serious competition concerns” about the deal — CMA recommends in-depth investigation into planned $40bn takeover of British chip designer
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