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Facebook launches $299 Ray-Ban Stories smart glasses in six countries including the US; users can capture photo and video, listen to music, or take phone calls — Hands-on with Facebook and Ray-Ban's first pair of smart glasses — Starting Thursday, the first pair of smart glasses …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Epic asks Apple to reinstate its Fortnite developer account in South Korea, after passage of a bill forcing app stores to allow alternative payment systems — Following the passing of a bill allowing alternative payment systems on the App Store — Epic Games has asked Apple to reinstate …
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Sources: Apple has appointed longtime Apple Watch and Health software chief Kevin Lynch as the new head of its Apple Car project after Doug Field's departure — - Kevin Lynch replaces Doug Field as head of Apple's car efforts — Field left Apple's project after three years to work at Ford| Zoe Schiffer / The Verge: |
Apple has fired senior engineering program manager Ashley Gjøvik for allegedly leaking confidential information; Gjøvik has been tweeting about workplace issues — For months, Gjøvik has been tweeting allegations about harassment and intimidation at Apple
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| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
Apple Music says it will use Shazam's tech to properly identify and compensate all of the individual creators involved in making a DJ mix — Apple Music announced today that it's created a process to properly identify and compensate all of the individual creators involved in making a DJ mix.
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Twitter is testing a new “Automated Account” label for profiles to self-identify as bots, intended for “good bots”, and the label will remain opt-in for now — Twitter today is introducing a new feature that will allow accounts to self-identify as bots by adding a label to their profile.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Epic to shut down Houseparty, the video chat app it acquired in 2019, in October, along with Fortnite Mode, which uses Houseparty for video chats — Houseparty, the social video chat app acquired by Fortnite maker Epic Games for a reported $35 million back in 2019, is shutting down.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft indefinitely postpones the return to its offices in the US, saying it has “decided against attempting to forecast a new date for a full reopening” — The pandemic keeps pushing back Microsoft's plans — Microsoft is shelving its plans to fully reopen its US offices next month.
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| Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: |
Texas governor signs bill banning social media companies with 50M+ MAUs from blocking or restricting people or their content based on their viewpoint — The law is an escalation of a conservative critique of Silicon Valley and will likely to face legal challenges from the industry
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| Dell Cameron / Gizmodo: |
California defense attorney Jay Leiderman, once dubbed the “Hacktivist's Advocate” and known for defending whistleblowers and hackers, dies at 50 years old — Leiderman's rebellious lawyering made him a go-to attorney for Anonymous hackers. — Alerts
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| Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
Kuo: Apple has resolved its Apple Watch Series 7 production issues and will start mass production mid to late September, with shipping set for late September — Apple has resolved its Apple Watch Series 7 production issues and will start mass producing the new model in mid to late September …
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon says it will offer to cover 100% of college tuition for its 750,000 hourly employees in the US after 90 days of employment, starting in January 2022 — - Amazon is offering to pay the full cost of college tuition, including books and fees, for its 750,000 hourly U.S. employees.
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Amazon launches the Fire TV Omni Series, its first smart TVs, starting at $410 and shipping in October — Amazon is officially in the TV set business. — After years of selling Fire TV devices that plug into third-party HDTVs and teaming with TV makers for Fire TV-based products …
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Doordash, Grubhub, and Uber Eats sue NYC for its law capping the amount of commissions the apps can charge, say the law is harmful government overreach — Food-delivery companies contend the cap is harmful, constitutes government overreach — DoorDash Inc., Grubhub Inc … | Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Jio and Google delay the JioPhone Next, which was planned to launch on Sept. 10 in India, blaming chip shortages; the launch is now scheduled for early November — The JioPhone Next, the much-awaited smartphone designed by Google and India's Jio Platforms to tap hundreds of millions of users … | Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Wisetack, which facilitates buy now, pay later services for in-person business transactions, raises $45M Series B, following $19M seed and Series A in February — Buy now, pay later is growing globally — with various companies expanding to, and in, different parts of the world, such as Africa, Latin America and Asia.| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Affirm beats in Q4 with $261.8M, up 71% YoY, vs. estimates of $225M, with 7.1M active customers, up from 5.4M in the previous quarter; stock up more than 20% — - Affirm reported better-than-expected revenue for the fourth quarter after the bell Thursday and gave strong guidance for the current quarter.
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