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Since GDPR, Ireland's Data Protection Commission says it has launched 19 cross-border investigations, 11 of which focus on Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram — Social media giant Facebook and its subsidiaries Instagram and WhatsApp have been the subject of most data investigations in the Republic … | Financial Times: |
Sources: ByteDance, owner of TikTok, is building its own smartphone that will come with its many apps preinstalled, including newsfeeds, video platforms, games — China's ByteDance, owner of the popular TikTok streaming app, is taking a step into hardware to develop its own smartphone …
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| Christine Fisher / Engadget: |
A Deep Instinct-commissioned art piece of a laptop containing six pieces of malware that have caused an estimated $95B in damages sells for $1.3M+ at auction — Today, bidding on a laptop packed with some of the world's most dangerous malware closed at $1.345 million.
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Sources: Alibaba is considering raising $20B via a second listing in Hong Kong, after raising a record-breaking $25B in its 2014 market debut on the NYSE — - It's said to be angling for Hong Kong in the second half — The offering comes after the Hong Kong exchange relaxes rules
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Neolix, a Chinese driverless vehicle company, is mass producing autonomous delivery vans, expects to manufacture a thousand vans in its first year — - Chinese startup begins mass production of robo-delivery vans — Besides Neolix, Silicon Valley's Nuro is testing similar tech — Forget drones.
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A look at AT&T's grand vision of transforming into a “modern media company” spanning multiple content networks, distribution channels, and customer data streams — Bellhead CEO Randall Stephenson is taking on Netflix and Comcast simultaneously. It won't be easy.| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
Dell updates the XPS 13 2-in-1 with a new design, Intel's 10th Gen processors, webcam above the screen, new keyboard and larger touchpad, starting at $1,000 — I don't throw the word “perfect” around a lot, but that was honestly the best way to describe the latest XPS 13.
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| Daisuke Wakabayashi / New York Times: |
Leaked doc: Google has ~121K temporary and contract workers globally, compared with ~102K full-time staff, raising concerns about its growing reliance on them — SAN FRANCISCO — Mindy Cruz had an offer for a full-time position at another big tech company when she accepted a temporary job as a recruiter at Google in 2017.
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| Andrew Griffin / The Independent: |
A look at Apple's secret testing lab where Secure Enclave chips are subjected to extreme tests, and Q&A with Craig Federighi about Apple's commitment to privacy — UK exclusive: In a never-before-seen look at the company's privacy and security work, it takes on criticism …
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| Michael J. Coren / Quartz: |
Pl@ntNet, a social collaborative app for identifying plants, shows how good social media can be without the engagement imperative — Pl@ntNet (pronounced plant-net) is the only social app that always makes me happier. Likened to Shazam for plants, it was developed a decade ago by a consortium … | Emma Grey Ellis / Wired: |
Profile of HobbyKidsTV, a family-run children's YouTube channel with 3M+ subscribers and adult moderators protecting its kid hosts and viewers from predators — In it will be a Silver Play Button, a plaque that YouTube gives to creators who have surpassed 100,000 subscribers.
Tweets: @wired and @jrostergaard
| Leika Kihara / Reuters: |
Japanese government says, starting August 1, it will limit foreign ownership of companies in 20 sectors in its IT and telecom industries — TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's government said on Monday that high-tech industries will be added to a list of businesses for which foreign ownership of Japanese firms is restricted.
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| Daniel Cooper / Engadget: |
Nvidia brings pro-level Quadro RTX 5000 series to laptops, announces 17 “RTX Studio” laptops from seven partners including ASUS, Dell, HP, Razer, and Gigabyte — NVIDIA has succeeded in shrinking its beefy Quadro RTX 5000 graphics hardware in order to bring it to laptops.
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