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Google announces new Maps features, including the ability to visually soar over some areas, 250 more landmark views, enriched neighborhood info, and AR search — Google is gearing up to launch several new updates for Maps in the coming months, the company announced today at its Search On event.
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| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
Meta confirms taking “enforcement actions” against The OG App, which offers an ad-free Instagram feed, as developers UN1feed say Apple removed the App Store app — A third-party Instagram app, called “The OG App,” which promised an ad-free feed more like the original Instagram experience …
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| Samantha Cole / VICE: |
Meta permanently bans Pornhub's Instagram account for “repeatedly violating” its policies, after a three-week suspension and ToS breaches accruing over 10 years — Pornhub claims its account was “fully PG,” and cites the uneven treatment of mainstream celebrities like Kim Kardashian …
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| Barbara Ortutay / Associated Press: |
Amnesty International: Meta's algorithms “proactively amplified and promoted content” on Facebook that incited violent hatred against the Rohingya in Myanmar — With roosters crowing in the background as he speaks from the crowded refugee camp in Bangladesh that's been his home since 2017 …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers detail Chaos, a new cross-platform malware that infected a wide range of Linux and Windows devices, including routers, FreeBSD boxes, and servers — Small office routers? FreeBSD machines? Enterprise servers? Chaos infects them all. — Researchers have revealed a never …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft plans to end support for SwiftKey on iOS and delist it from the App Store on October 5; SwiftKey on Android will continue to be supported — Questions about what's going on with Microsoft's support of the predictive SwifKey keyboard app for iOS have been bubbling up over the past few weeks.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: SoftBank begins laying off Vision Fund employees, with cuts expected to impact over 150 people, or 30%+ of its staff, following massive losses — SoftBank Group Corp. has started laying off employees at its loss-making Vision Fund and is expected to cut at least 30% of its staff, according to people familiar with the matter.| Aoyon Ashraf / CoinDesk: |
SWIFT is working with blockchain data provider Chainlink on a cross-chain interoperability protocol to let SWIFT messages instruct on-chain token transfers — Interest from institutional investors moving into crypto has been “undeniable,” according to SWIFT's Strategy Director.| Clothilde Goujard / Politico: |
The US' candidate to lead the UN's International Telecommunication Union, which sets global tech and telecom standards, beat Russia's by 139 to 25 votes — BUCHAREST — A top U.S. official won a massive majority to lead the United Nations agency that sets global standards for telecoms and tech infrastructure.
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Jakarta-based Traveloka, Southeast Asia's largest online travel startup, raised $300M from BlackRock and others; Traveloka was valued at $3B in 2020 — Traveloka has secured $300 million in new financing from investors including BlackRock Inc., as Southeast Asia's biggest online travel startup counts …
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| Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: |
Amazon encourages some customer service staff to work from home, sources say to cut real estate costs; source: Amazon plans to close multiple US call centers — Amazon.com Inc. is encouraging customer service employees at some US call centers to work from home, signaling the company's preference …
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| Krisztian Sandor / CoinDesk: |
Block's bitcoin-focused TBD subsidiary partners with Circle to build infrastructure for cross-border, dollar-linked stablecoin transfers and savings — The partnership aims to improve people's access to dollar-linked stablecoins in countries with rapidly devaluing currencies.
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Amazon's $1,000 Astro robot gets pet detection, the ability to check specific windows and doors, Ring camera integration, and an SDK for three universities — There's been a standing question surrounding how seriously we should ultimately take Astro. The product was launched exactly one year ago …
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| Adam Satariano / New York Times: |
A look at Portugal's Meia Praia beach, a haven where crypto supporters gather, creating a bubble of optimism about digital currencies amid crypto's downturn — In crypto havens such as Meia Praia beach, the confidence in digital currencies remains undimmed even after this summer's crash.
Tweets: @satariano, @diditaihuttu, and @alleenbrown
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google announces new US shopping features, including a “Shop the Look” display of complementary products, 3D images, trending items, and more personalization — At its Search On event this afternoon, Google announced a number of shopping-related changes and new features across areas … | Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google unveils search results with a “Discussions and forums” section, rolling out on mobile in the US, and machine-translated news coverage, set for early 2023 — At Search On 2022, Google announced that “Discussions and forums” will be getting their own sections in results … | Matt Burgess / Wired: |
Pornhub tests a chatbot in the UK that sends users searching for CSAM to a service where they can get help; the bot intervened 173,904 times in its first month — Pornhub is trialing a new automated tool that pushes CSAM-searchers to seek help for their online behavior. Will it work?
Tweets: @jcperrino, @joellatto, and @mikestabile
| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
BMW and Amazon partner to let BMW use Alexa's technology to build its own voice assistant, coming to cars launching within the next two years — Amazon Alexa will be the foundation of BMW's next-generation voice assistant, the companies announced Wednesday at Amazon's annual Devices and Services launch event.
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| Financial Times: |
An investigation details China's crackdown on executives at its $47B Big Fund for semiconductor self-sufficiency, including 12+ disappearances and detentions — The sudden disappearance in July last year of Gao Songtao, the bespectacled former vice-president of government fund manager Sino IC Capital, was a warning of a coming storm.
Tweets: @simonbchen, @edwardwhitenz, and @michaelxpettis
| Morgan Meaker / Wired: |
A look at Botometer, which claims to identify the likelihood that a Twitter account is a bot and has been cited by Elon Musk's lawyers in the Twitter lawsuit — In the battle over Twitter's future, the number of bots on the platform is a key issue. Problem is, nobody knows how to count them.| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon increases its average starting pay for front-line US staff to $19+/hour, up from $18/hour; warehouse and delivery workers will earn $16/hour to $26/hour — - Amazon is bumping its average starting pay for warehouse and delivery workers to more than $19 an hour, up from $18 an hour, the company said Wednesday.| Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: |
Square launches support for Apple's Tap to Pay on iPhone to sellers in the US, available within its Square Point of Sale app for iOS on the iPhone XS or newer — Square today publicly launched support for Tap to Pay on iPhone to sellers across the U.S., enabling small merchants …
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Tweets: @rakeshlobster and @mweissbacher
| Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: |
New Jersey-based Sitetracker, which offers a cloud service to manage critical infrastructure projects, raised a $96M Series D, $66M in equity and $30M in debt — Startup Sitetracker Inc. today announced that it has secured $96 million in financing to broaden the adoption of its namesake cloud platform …
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