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Twitter executive Vijaya Gadde says the company is looking into how white nationalists and supremacists use the platform to determine if they should be banned — “Is it the right approach to deplatform these individuals? Is the right approach to try and engage with these individuals?
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Google says Chrome's current ad blocking capabilities will be restricted to enterprise users in coming changes to Chrome extensions, despite negative feedback — Back in January, Google announced a proposed change to Chrome's extensions system, called Manifest V3, that would stop current ad blockers from working efficiently.
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Google introduces new policies to protect children and families downloading apps on Google Play, including mandating developers comply with content and ad rules — Google announced this morning a new set of developer policies aimed at providing additional protections for children …
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Android Developers Blog, Gizmodo, Financial Times, XDA Developers, VentureBeat, 9to5Google, and Neowin. Tweets: @googleplaydev
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As bars check IDs with PatronScan, its manufacturer, Servall Biometrics, touts a global database with 40K+ banned patrons, amid fears of enabling discrimination — PatronScan says it sells security. Privacy advocates worry it's selling mass surveillance.
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Amazon announces 5.5-inch Echo Show 5 that's shipping in July for $89.99, launches new Alexa commands to delete what you just said or everything you said today — A direct challenge to the Google Nest Home Hub — Amazon is releasing a new Echo device today because apparently …
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| Bloomberg: |
Brex, a startup that provides credit cards to tech startups, is in talks to secure new funding at a valuation of $2B+, up from a $1.1B valuation in October — - Fintech's new cash infusion comes just months after last round — Kleiner Perkins, Peter Thiel among startup's backers
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Apple's new website defending the App Store, following antitrust allegations, mostly serves to highlight its power and dominance while ignoring criticisms — Apple launched a new website as a response to critics like Spotify — As it faces both an antitrust lawsuit with huge implications …
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| Paul Mozur / New York Times: |
Huawei has filed a motion for summary judgement in its lawsuit against the US, in a bid to expedite an outcome without the costs and time of a full trial — SHANGHAI — Huawei is ramping up its legal challenge to American limits on purchases of its equipment, in a sign that it is doubling …
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Apple should be courageous and double down on Marzipan, retooling all of its first-party Mac apps with the cross platform framework and working out rough edges — Why Apple should go all in on iPad apps on the Mac — This year at its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) …
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| Dara Kerr / CNET: |
Uber says it will now ban riders with significantly below-average ratings after giving them several opportunities to improve — Uber has long deactivated drivers who get low ratings. Now the ride-hailing company is turning the tables. — Uber announced Wednesday that those passengers …
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| Bloomberg: |
Source: to clear their $26.5B merger, DOJ officials want T-Mobile and Sprint to lay groundwork for a new wireless carrier with its own network — - Antitrust officials seek additional carrier with own network — T-Mobile mulling possible fixes to satisfy Justice Department
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Palo Alto Networks to buy container security startup Twistlock, which had raised $63M+, for $410M, and serverless security startup PureSec, which raised $10M — At KubeCon last week in Barcelona, container security was a hot topic, so it shouldn't come as a surprise that Palo Alto Networks announced today …
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Google says Gmail's confidential mode, announced last April, will become available to G Suite customers on June 25 — Gmail's confidential mode — the privacy-preserving email feature Google unveiled last April — launched in beta roughly three months ago, and the Mountain View company today announced …
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G Suite Updates Blog, The Verge, CNET, 9to5Google, and BleepingComputer
| Julia Carrie Wong / The Guardian: |
Members of Google's Pygmalion team, responsible for Assistant's linguistic analysis, allege that subcontractors were routinely pressured into unpaid overtime — Interpreting a spoken request isn't magic, rather it has taken a team of underpaid, subcontracted linguists to make the technology possible
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google says it is rolling out the ability for Google Maps to show speed limits and speed cameras in over 40 countries — Google Maps is gaining some features previously exclusive to Google's navigation app, Waze. The company confirmed it's rolling out the ability for Google Maps users to see speed limits … | Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat: |
In-flight internet provider Gogo says it plans to deploy in-flight 5G in 2021 that will service smaller aircraft on routes in the contiguous US and Canada — In-flight internet provider Gogo plans to deploy an air-to-ground 5G network for aviation, the company said today …
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| Dell Cameron / Gizmodo: |
In a report, FCC says broadband deployment is reasonable and timely, reaching same conclusion as an earlier version that overstated broadband access by millions — You know what they say, tens of millions of broadband users here, tens of millions of broadband users there, sooner or later it starts to add up to something.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Dropbox increases Plus plan storage from 1TB to 2TB, raises the price from $10 to $12 per month, and adds Rewind and Smart Sync features — Dropbox has doubled the storage space for its Plus users from 1TB to 2TB, added Rewind and Smart Sync features, and increased the price from $10 per month to $12 per month.
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Following Google's announcement of Google Pay support last week, New York City subway riders will be able to pay with Apple Pay starting Friday — If you frequent the New York City subway's 4, 5, 6 line, you've probably seen the new terminals at a variety of stations like Union Square and Grand Central.
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| Nick Parker / The Official Microsoft Blog: |
Microsoft outlines its vision for a modern OS that has invisible background updates, security by default, always connected, supports multiple form factors, more — Today, at Computex in Taipei, Microsoft executives Roanne Sones, CVP OS Platforms and Rodney Clark, VP IoT Sales …
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The Verge, BetaNews, Windows Blog, ZDNet, WinBuzzer, TechSpot, OnMSFT.com, BGR, Inquirer, The Register, Thurrott, Engadget, MSPoweruser, and Windows Central
Tweets: @sbisson, @therichwoods, @tdietterich, @grady_booch, @maryjofoley, @marypcbuk, @ow, and @bdsams
| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
iRobot announces a pair of new cleaning robots, the $1,299 Roomba s9+ and $499 Braava Jet m6, that can work together to clean houses — A job shared in a job halved — iRobot has a pair of new cleaning robots, the Roomba s9+ and Braava Jet m6, that can work in tandem to vacuum, mop, and dust your house.
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TechCrunch, Engadget, Ars Technica, and ROS Index
| Tom Krazit / GeekWire: |
Salesforce announces Salesforce Blockchain, letting companies more easily build distributed ledgers with Salesforce data, currently in private preview — Salesforce Blockchain will allow companies to build blockchain-based distributed ledgers that integrate with their Salesforce data using …
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TechCrunch, ZDNet, TechRepublic, ZDNet, The Block, and VentureBeat
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| Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal: |
Study on behavioral ad targeting finds that publishers only get about 4% more revenue for an ad impression that has a cookie enabled than for one that doesn't — Finding could affect where publishers line up in brewing privacy battles — Are creepy advertisements really necessary to support the free web?Sponsor Posts
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