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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple delays rollout of CSAM detection feature, says it will “take additional time” to refine the feature before launching it to the public — Last month, Apple announced a handful of new child safety features that proved to be controversial, including CSAM detection features for iCloud Photos.
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Sources: Amazon will launch its own TV featuring Alexa and no third-party manufacturer branding in the US, possibly as soon as October — - Amazon is planning to roll out its own Amazon-branded TV, Insider has learned. — A US launch is targeted for as soon as October.
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XDA Developers, Livemint, Tom's Guide, Phandroid, TechRadar, Pocket-lint, Digital Trends, SamMobile, Pocketnow, TechSpot, Android Central, SlashGear, CNET, and Benzinga
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| Anirban Sen / Reuters: |
Sources: Reddit is planning an IPO for as soon as early 2022, following a $10B valuation in August — Reddit Inc, the operator of online message boards that became the go-to destination for day traders chasing this year's frenzy for so-called ‘meme’ stocks, is seeking to hire investment bankers …
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Filings: NLRB is investigating two complaints by Apple employees, including one by senior engineering PM Ashley Gjøvik who alleges workplace harassment and more — The U.S. National Labor Relations Board is investigating two cases filed by employees against Apple, records on the agency's website show.
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| Wayne Ma / The Information: |
Sources: Apple's planned VR/AR headset will need a wireless connection to an Apple device for full functionality; Apple completed work on VR/AR chips last year — New details of the custom chips designed by Apple for its forthcoming virtual reality and augmented reality headset indicate …
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| Andrew Thurman / CoinDesk: |
Dom Hofmann's Loot, with NFTs of random lists of items ostensibly from a fantasy video game, had $46M in sales in just 5 days, attaining a market cap of $180M+ — The latest non-fungible token (NFT) craze is among the simplest - and the strangest - yet: a randomly generated list …
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| Sheila Dang / Reuters: |
Sources: AWS plans to hire content moderators to look for emerging extremist groups and remove content that violates its cloud service policies — Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) plans to take a more proactive approach to determine what types of content violate its cloud service policies …
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| Francesco Rizzato / Opensignal: |
State of 5G in the US: New York had the fastest download speed at 114 Mbps, while Vermont had the slowest at 42.2 Mbps but the best 5G video experience — As U.S. carriers continue to hit new milestones in their 5G network rollouts, Opensignal has now conducted the most comprehensive analysis …
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| Issie Lapowsky / Protocol: |
Following Texas' abortion law, tech companies could face suits over providing on-demand rides to clinics, subpoenas requesting user data, and more — With the Supreme Court deciding not to block Texas' effective ban on abortion this week, fears have been rightly focused on the people in Texas …
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| Ash Parrish / The Verge: |
Gamesight data shows a dip in Twitch viewership on Wednesday, possibly 5%-15%, as some streamers took #ADayOffTwitch to bring awareness to “hate raids” — It seems as if the Twitch walkout was a success — Streamers took a day off Twitch on September 1st to bring attention …
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| Carly Page / TechCrunch: |
Corelight, which offers a network traffic analysis and security service to enterprises, raises $75M Series D, bringing its total raised to $160M — Corelight, a San Francisco-based startup that claims to offer the industry's first open network detection and response (NDR) platform …
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JD.com's real estate unit has agreed to buy a controlling stake in China Logistics in a deal valuing the company at ~$2.1B, a 7% premium to Wednesday's close — - E-commerce giant agrees to acquire controlling stake — Offer price is about a 7% premium to Wednesday close| Bloomberg: |
China's SMIC will spend $8.87B to build a plant on the outskirts of Shanghai and set up a $5.5B joint venture with Shanghai's government to oversee the project — - SMIC to set up a $5.5 billion JV in the city's free trade zone — The company is pivotal to China's broader chip ambitions
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Sources: the city of Beijing has proposed an investment in Didi Global that would give state-run firms control of the world's largest ride hailing company — - State-backed firm Shouqi Group part of potential consortium — Proposal lets China control world's largest ride-hailing firm| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
General Motors says it is temporarily halting production at six of its North American factories due to the global chip shortage — ‘The situation remains complex and very fluid’ — General Motors, parent company of Chevrolet, GMC, Cadillac, and Buick, said it was temporarily halting production …
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| Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: |
Ireland's Data Protection Commission, on behalf of the EU, fines WhatsApp €225M for privacy violations, the second-largest fine under GDPR; WhatsApp will appeal — Regulators say chat-service unit failed to disclose fully how it collected and shared data about its users
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| Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: |
Bangkok-based Sunday, which uses AI and ML to provide personalized insurance products and services, raises $45M Series B from Tencent and other investors — Sunday, an insurtech startup based in Bangkok, announced it has raised a $45 million Series B. Investors include Tencent, SCB 10X … | Bloomberg: |
Delivery Hero raises €1.25B via convertible notes, its third equity-linked issuance in less than two years — Delivery Hero SE raised 1.25 billion euros ($1.5 billion) from an offering of notes convertible into shares, marking the food-delivery company's third equity-linked issuance in less than two years.
Tweets: @bloombergau
| Reuters: |
China says it will set up a new stock exchange in Beijing that will primarily serve “innovation-oriented SMEs” — China's President Xi Jinping on Thursday said the country would set up a stock exchange in its capital, Beijing, to serve small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).| The Verge: |
Apple's updated rules allowing web signup links appear to apply only to apps that don't make much money for Apple, like Netflix and Spotify — It's for apps that don't make Apple any money anyways — While vocal app developers accused Apple last week of spinning a lawsuit settlement …
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