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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Apple says Arizona and Georgia will be first to support adding IDs to Wallet in iOS 15, with six states, including Utah, Maryland, and Iowa, expected to follow — Apple's plan to digitize your wallet is slowly taking shape. What started with boarding passes and venue tickets later became credit cards …
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The Verge, CNBC, The Hill, PYMNTS.com, NBC News, CNET, Pocket-lint, Digital Trends, Gizmodo, USA Today, Vox, iPhone in Canada Blog, Macworld, HotHardware.com News, ZDNet, Input, Patently Apple, 9to5Mac, Neowin, MacRumors, Engadget, TechSpot, NBC Bay Area, phonearena.com, iMore, BuzzFeed News, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, and The Mac Observer
| Kait Sanchez / The Verge: |
Twitter launches Super Follows for iOS users, allowing a select group of US test users to charge either $2.99, $4.99, or $9.99 per month for their tweets — Select users in the US can now charge for tweets — Twitter is starting to roll out Super Follows, its new feature that lets users charge for subscriber-only content.
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Twitter, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, Finextra, PYMNTS.com, New York Post, Tubefilter, Pocket-lint, Social Media Today, CNBC, SlashGear, Reuters, iPhone Hacks, AppleInsider, Neowin, CNET, Engadget, and KnowTechie
Tweets: @superfollows, @jtwdesign, @liamodelluk, @edwinwee, @harrymccracken, @twittermedia, @44, @ow, @morganblocky, @chriswelch, @hsajwanization, @carnage4life, @iamtimbaker, @makeupforwoc, @tomwarren, @paymentsdive, @fesothe, @matteayce, @maddestmao, @alexeheath, @lamonicabuzz, @russbengtson, @dabitch, and @casey_lau
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft announces an online-only Surface hardware event for September 22, where an updated Surface Duo and Laptop are expected — New Surface hardware is on the way — Microsoft is holding a special Surface hardware event on September 22nd. The software maker has started sending media invites …
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Microsoft. More:
ZDNet, Laptop Mag, HotHardware.com News, TechSpot, Windows Central, BGR, Engadget, XDA Developers, Ars Technica, TechRadar, Thurrott, 9to5Google, Tom's Guide, MSPoweruser, Gizmodo, and Wccftech
Tweets: @microsoft, @backlon, @tomwarren, @phillip_tracy, and @tomwarren
| Jarrod Doherty / Twitter: |
Twitter introduces Safety Mode, which blocks harassing accounts for seven days, in beta for some English-language accounts — Feeling safe on Twitter looks different for everyone. We've rolled out features and settings that may help you to feel more comfortable and in control of your experience …
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TechCrunch, International Business Times, Bloomberg, CNN, MobileSyrup, Insider, The Hill, ZDNet, The Guardian, Social Media Today, PCMag, iThinkDifferent, Livemint, Mashable, Android Central, Tech Xplore, BBC, iPhone in Canada Blog, The Independent, iPhone Hacks, Engadget, BleepingComputer, Silicon Republic, and MacRumors
Tweets: @twittersafety, @bambooney, @kayvz, @twittersupport, @aniistoll, @snoringelbow, @harrysbadtweets, @blowdart, @tomwarren, @twittersafety, @mariamamini, @rainbowchloe19, @elizableu, @alainnfocail, @jillpantozzi, @chipgoines, @leratomannya, @luisassardo, @sharonodea, @glennf, @rellortnocon, and @dril
| Jeffrey Dastin / Reuters: |
Andy Jassy says Amazon plans to hire over 55,000 corporate employees globally, including over 40,000 in the US, a 20% increase in tech and corporate staff — Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) is planning to hire 55,000 people for corporate and technology roles globally in the coming months, Chief Executive Andy Jassy told Reuters.
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About Amazon, Los Angeles Times, Observer, CNBC, GeekWire, Benzinga, CNN, BBC, Ladders, and Bloomberg
Tweets: @scottlincicome, @tomgara, @chrisbrogan, @bradstone, @trengriffin, @twi_mar, @ajassy, @slangwise, and @bytimlogan
| Joe Williams / Protocol: |
Sources: Andy Jassy overruled an internal recommendation to fire a top AWS executive after a probe of claims the executive made discriminatory comments in 2019 — Amazon CEO Andy Jassy intervened to prevent the firing of a top executive after an internal HR report recommended … | Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia: |
Sources: Google is developing Arm-based chips for laptops and tablets that run on Chrome OS, set to launch around 2023 — US software giant ramps up hiring blitz for semiconductor and hardware ambitions — TAIPEI — Google is developing its own central processors for its notebook and tablet computers …
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PCWorld, SiliconANGLE, CNBC, Android Headlines, Ars Technica, Gizchina, HotHardware.com News, TechSpot, Laptop Mag, Barron's Online, The Verge, TechRadar, Android Central, XDA Developers, iPhone Hacks, 9to5Mac, Thurrott, Chrome Unboxed, MSPoweruser, 9to5Google, Pocketnow, Phandroid, The Mac Observer, MacRumors, Tom's Hardware, Gizmodo, Android Police, PCMag, CRN, iPhone in Canada Blog, and Droid Life
Tweets: @natisho, @mikepeeljourno, and @chengtingfang
| Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Apple is planning to add health features, including a blood pressure monitor and thermometer to track fertility, to Watch as soon as 2022 — Tech giant seeks to push past obstacles in adding health features on your wrist — Apple Inc. is working on new health-related features for its smartwatch …
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iMore, Ars Technica, Gizmodo, PYMNTS.com, iThinkDifferent, phonearena.com, iPhone Hacks, 9to5Mac, KnowTechie, MacRumors, iDownloadBlog.com, Redmond Pie, and AppleInsider
Tweets: @rolfewinkler, @tonyromm, @asymco, @jeffnolan, and @jetscott
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple says it has asked all of its US employees to report their vaccination status voluntarily by mid-September, but stops short of mandating COVID-19 vaccines — - Company is still stopping short of mandating Covid-19 shots — It previously ramped up an optional virus testing program| Taylor Lorenz / New York Times: |
Profile of Li Jin, an aggressively pro-worker VC who founded Atelier Ventures, which manages $13M, to invest in influencer-related startups — Li Jin, 31, began backing creators years ago. She has raised her own fund to invest in influencer-related start-ups.
Tweets: @zebulgar, @bwertz, @patrickxrivera, @mr312, @wwshaef, @micsolana, @backseatvc, @jessewldn, @ljin18, @ljin18, @dealbook, @brooke, @mg, @hunterwalk, @cindygallop, and @skupor
| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
FTC bans “stalkerware” company Support King, whose Android app allegedly secretly harvested users' location and other data, from the surveillance business — - The Federal Trade Commission voted unanimously to ban what it called a “stalkerware app company” and its CEO …
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Federal Trade Commission, CyberScoop, VICE, The Hill, Reuters, Bloomberg Law, and BleepingComputer
Tweets: @quinnypig, @mgngates, @evacide, @eff, @issielapowsky, @hshaban, @chopraftc, and @kimzetter
| Vildana Hajric / Bloomberg: |
How Ethereum's increase in value, up 350% this year, and the rise of NFTs and DeFi have dampened enthusiasm for Bitcoin as the most essential crypto — - Ether has gained 350% this year versus Bitcoin's 60% advance — August marked Ether's second monthly rise and best since April| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Analysis: governments intentionally blocked internet access nearly 850 times in the past decade, including 213 shutdowns in 2019, 155 in 2020, and 50 in 2021 — A favorite tactic for stifling dissent in the 21st century — The number of government-led internet shutdowns has exploded …
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Jigsaw. More:
Access Now
Tweets: @issielapowsky, @joshdcaplan, @accessnow, @abramowitz, @jigsaw, @jaredcohen, @raju, @jangles, @accessnow, @accessnow, @torproject, @accessnow, @justinhendrix, and @rankingrights
| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
Texas Senate passes bill banning social media companies with 50M+ users from censoring users' political views; Gov. Abbott is expected to sign it into law — But experts argue it's unconstitutional — Texas is one step closer to enacting a law that would make it more difficult …
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Texas Legislature Online, Houston Public Media, and USA Today
Tweets: @natewendt, @campuscodi, @natalieg92, and @evan_greer
| David McLaughlin / Bloomberg: |
Source: the DOJ is preparing to file a second antitrust lawsuit against Google by the end of this year, targeting Google's digital ads business — U.S. antitrust officials are preparing a second monopoly lawsuit against Alphabet Inc.'s Google over the company's digital advertising business … | Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
FTC's refiled Facebook suit does not offer market definitions reflective of reality, misunderstands ad markets, and highlights harms of regulatory interference — It is coming up on two weeks since the FTC refiled its case against Facebook;1 from the Wall Street Journal:
Tweets: @sarthakgh, @robleathern, @stratechery, and @adamkovac
| Oscar Gonzalez / CNET: |
Reddit bans r/NoNewNormal, its largest anti-vax subreddit, for harassing other communities, following weeks of user moderators asking Reddit admins to ban it — It's also putting 54 other subreddits in quarantine. … Last week, more than a thousand subreddit's posted the same message calling …
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CNN, PCMag, Engadget, Insider, and Input
Tweets: @quinnypig, @ogreporter, @kylesgibson, and @oneunderscore__
| Financial Times: |
SEC's Gary Gensler says crypto trading platforms need to work with regulators to survive, as most trading happens with “really sparse” investor protections — Gary Gensler warns $2tn industry is too big to exist outside of ‘public policy framework’
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The Block, europarl.europa.eu, CoinDesk, Bitcoin Magazine, Crypto Briefing, BitcoinExchangeGuide, and Decrypt
Tweets: @johnedeaton1, @jerrybrito, @sub8u, @mattcorva, @jreade_wgc, @evamaydell, @priapusiq, @deepakmohoni, @jp_koning, @adamsamson, @katelouisemarie, and @c1aranmurray
| Hannah Miller / The Information: |
Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao says Binance.US is set to close a large private fundraising round in the next two months, and could go public in the next three years — Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, has run into a stream of regulatory and legal problems.| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Amazon says it will stop showing autocomplete search suggestions for horse de-worming drug ivermectin; the drug remains easy to purchase on the site — Amazon claims it will fix autocomplete search suggestions — Earlier this week, I started a search on Amazon and mistyped, entering just two letters in: “iv.”
Tweets: @backlon and @hypervisible
| Jonathan Greig / ZDNet: |
Asana beats in Q2 with revenue of $89.5M, up 72% YoY, net loss of $68.4M, up from $41.1M last year, and says it has over 107K paying customers — Asana brought in a revenue of $89.5 million in Q2, an increase of 72% year over year. — Team management software provider Asana reported better …
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| The Tutanota Blog: |
Australia passes bill that lets police hack user devices to modify, collect, or delete data and take over social media accounts without a judge's warrant — The Microsoft database hack shows that data stored in the cloud must always be encrypted end-to-end.| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
A look at the implications of South Korea's alternative app store payment law: confusion for non-technical users, difficulty managing subscriptions, and more — Apple, in a statement to MacRumors (and other media outlets), regarding South Korea's just-passed “Google power-abuse-prevention law” …
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Michael Tsai, Livemint, Game Developer, and Truth on the Market
Tweets: @daringfireball, @stroughtonsmith, @s8mb, @steven_aquino, and @neilcybart
| Tim Anderson / The Register: |
Docker restricts use of its free desktop tool to individuals and small businesses, says companies with 250+ staff or $10M+ annual revenue must use paid version — Search for sustainable business model continues, but most usage will still be free — Docker will restrict use of the free version …
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The New Stack, ZDNet, TechRadar, and TechRepublic
| Kishan Vyas / XDA Developers: |
Qualcomm announces aptX Lossless, a new feature of its aptX Adaptive codec that Qualcomm says can deliver 16bit/44.1kHz CD-quality audio over Bluetooth — Qualcomm today announced aptX Lossless, a new feature of aptX Adaptive that promises to deliver CD-quality lossless audio over Bluetooth.
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Android Police, CNET, PCMag, The Verge, Qualcomm, Phandroid, Engadget, Android Authority, Forbes, Android Central, Wccftech, and Digital Trends. Tweets: @qualcomm
| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Telegram releases an update that removes the cap on live stream viewers, from 1,000 to unlimited, introduces more options for forwarding messages, and more — Along with more forwarding options — Telegram, the messaging app that's becoming more and more like a fully-fledged social media network …
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Telegram. More:
Droid Life, Windows Central, and KnowTechie
Tweets: @abebrown716, @vboykis, and @telegram
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook launches Facebook Fantasy Games, a fantasy sports and reality show prediction feature, available for free on the Facebook app in the US and Canada — Facebook is getting into fantasy sports and other types of fantasy games. The company this morning announced the launch …
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About Facebook. More:
The Verge, Tubefilter, and 9to5Mac
Tweets: @daneglasgow, @mattnavarra, @stevenisbell, @scottnover, @tonyromm, and @jamesliamcook
| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Insurify, which has built an ML-based virtual insurance agent to help people get better rates, raises $100M Series B led by Motive Partners — How many of us have not switched insurance carriers because we don't want to deal with the hassle of comparison shopping? — A lot, I'd bet.
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PYMNTS.com, Business Wire, and FinSMEs
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