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Sources: Apple to unveil high-end water resistant AirPods with noise-cancellation, studio-quality over-ear headphones, and a new HomePod as early as next year — - High-end AirPods and over-ear headphones coming next year — Foxconn to build AirPods; Inventec may lose some HomePod work
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
AT&T confirms it will buy AppNexus, which operates one of the largest independent ad exchanges — Another legacy carrier built on offering phone services is now taking a deeper dive into the world of advertising and specifically ad tech to help catapult itself into the next generation of tech and communications.| The Intercept: |
Documents and sources detail how the NSA taps into the data between AT&T, its partners, and customers, making the telco essential to US surveillance efforts — The secrets are hidden behind fortified walls in cities across the United States, inside towering, windowless skyscrapers …
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Intel's integrated model served it well for 35 years, but now it is the straitjacket that has hemmed in the chip maker in the mobile era — Last week Brian Krzanich resigned as the CEO of Intel after violating the company's non-fraternization policy. The details of Krzanich's departure …
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| Sean Keane / CNET: |
Amazon's Whole Foods to expand 10% discount on some items for Prime members to all stores across US starting June 27 — Amazon said Monday that its Prime membership discounts are coming to all Whole Foods across the US. — From Wednesday, Prime members can get a 10 percent discount … | Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
The Oculus TV app, which displays content in a virtual home theater, debuts for Oculus Go but seems half-baked, with no universal search and clunky navigation — Facebook released a new app for its Oculus Go virtual reality (VR) headset Monday: Oculus TV is meant to be a one-stop-shop for watching streaming video content in VR.| Bob Davis / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Trump admin planning rules to block firms with >25% Chinese ownership from buying firms with “industrially significant” tech, plus new export controls — Treasury is crafting rules that would block firms with at least 25% Chinese ownership from buying companies involved in ‘industrially significant technology’
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
PayPal's Venmo follows Square by officially launching its own MasterCard-branded debit card in the US, following beta tests of a now-discontinued Visa card — Venmo today is officially introducing its own debit card in partnership with MasterCard, following beta tests of a Visa-branded debit card last year.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft integrating Adblock Plus into its Edge browser on iOS and Android, letting users enable it in settings, rolling out to beta testers now — Available in beta right now — Microsoft is building Adblock Plus directly into its Edge browser for iOS and Android.
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Engadget, MacRumors, Fortune, BetaNews, iMore, The Next Web, and KnowTechie. Tweets: @howelloneill
| Caroline O'Donovan / BuzzFeed: |
As chain restaurants increasingly deploy tabletop tablets, servers find they have to contend with inaccurate rankings, unfair scores, and inappropriate comments — In data-hungry, tech-happy chain restaurants, customers are rating their servers using tabletop tablets, not realizing those ratings can put jobs at risk.
Tweets: @cavni
| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
BigID, which helps monitor and protect enterprise customers' private data, raises $30M Series B led by Scale Venture Partners, months after raising Series A — Data protection and privacy startup BigID Inc. today announced its second dose of funding this year, landing $30 million more in funding …
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BigID, VentureBeat, and TechCrunch
| Emily McCormick / Bloomberg: |
Analysis: Instagram is estimated to be worth more than $100B if it were a stand-alone company and is on track to cross 2B users within the next five years — - Boost in estimated valuation signifies a 100-fold return — App is predicted to exceed 2 billion users within five years| Ava Kofman / The Intercept: |
Interpol rolls out new international voice id database, 4 years in the making, with 192 law enforcement agencies participating in audio clip sharing — Last week, Interpol held a final project review of its speaker identification system, a four-year, 10 million euro project that has recently come to completion.
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