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July 24, 2018, 6:45 PM

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Stephanie Condon / ZDNet:
G Suite adds Grammar Suggestions in Google Docs, voice commands to Hangouts Meet hardware customers, and its Smart Reply feature to Hangouts Chat  —  At the Google Cloud Next conference, Google debuted several new capabilities for the productivity suite, which now has more than 4 million customers.
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
Dan Ackerman / CNET:
Apple issues a fix for 2018 MacBook Pro CPU throttling/thermal management issues via macOS High Sierra 10.13.6 Supplemental Update  —  Apple has been catching heat over the performance of its new MacBook Pro laptops, but the company hopes a new software update will cool off outraged power users.
Stephen Shankland / CNET:
Chrome 68, rolling out today, shows a “not secure” warning for any HTTP website; in October the warning's color will change to red  —  Three and a half years ago, Google predicted the day would come when Chrome would warn us all of the security risks of using the web's seminal HTTP technology …
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
eBay to add support for Apple Pay, beginning rollout this fall in US, and partners with Square Capital on seller financing  —  Ebay announced this morning it will begin accepting Apple Pay on its marketplace starting this fall, and has also teamed up with Square Capital on seller financing.
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
EU fines Asus €63.5M, Philips €29.8M, Pioneer €10.1M, and Denon & Marantz €7.7M for online price fixing  —  The European Union's antitrust authorities have issued a series of penalties, fining consumer electronics companies Asus, Denon & Marantz …
BuzzFeed News:
Facebook CSO Alex Stamos told peers in memo about his departure to “intentionally not collect data where possible” and be willing to pick sides on moral issues  —  In March, days after confirming his plans to leave the company, Facebook's highest-ranking security official implored …
Nick Statt / The Verge:
Steam is rolling out Steam Chat, its new text and voice features that compete with gaming chat app Discord, to all users  —  In a bid to keep Discord from dominating the social space around PC gaming  —  Steam has begun rolling out its new text and voice features, as well as its updated friends list, to all users beginning today.
Theodore Schleifer / Recode:
Sources: freelancing startup Upwork has confidentially filed to go public  —  Everyday people can now share in the stock market gains (and the losses, too!) of Silicon Valley companies.  —  Startups that have long grown as private companies are sprinting to the booming, safe stock market of 2018 — and now it's Upwork's turn.
Tweets: @teddyschleifer
Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch:
Uber says it hit 10B completed trips across rides and deliveries on June 10, roughly a year after reaching 5B trips  —  Last month, Uber hit 10 billion completed trips across rides and deliveries, the company announced today.  This comes about one year after Uber hit five billion trips.
Alex Heath / Cheddar:
Head of Snap's Spectacles division, Mark Randall, tells staff he's leaving to start his own company, marking the second leadership change for the product  —  The head of Snapchat's Spectacles division, Mark Randall, has left the company.  —  Randall, who was Snap Inc.'s vice president of hardware …
More: The Verge
Tanaya Macheel / Cheddar:
Tally, an automated debt management app, raises $25M Series B led by Kleiner Perkins  —  Tally, an automated debt-managing app, has raised $25 million in Series B funding with the goal of expanding its reach and finding new ways to alleviate consumers' financial anxiety, Cheddar has learned.
Tweets: @alexeheath

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