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| Kelly Weill / The Daily Beast: |
YouTube suspends monetization of Steven Crowder's channel after continued review finds “pattern of egregious actions” that are against Partner Program policies — Right-wing performer gay-bashed a Vox reporter for years. They initially declined to do anything, then ‘demonetized’ him …
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| YouTube Blog: |
YouTube says it will “remove content denying that well-documented violent events, like the Holocaust or the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary, took place” — Over the past few years, we've been investing in the policies, resources and products needed to live up to our responsibility …
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Google to buy data analytics startup Looker for $2.6B in cash, Google Cloud's first major acquisition under new CEO Thomas Kurian — KEY POINTS — The acquisition of Looker is the first major acquisition under former Oracle executive Thomas Kurian — Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud …
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| Shivani Vora / New York Times: |
Uber debuts Uber Copter, a helicopter service starting July 9 in New York, to ferry customers between Lower Manhattan and JFK for $200-$225 per person — For an 8-minute, one-way flight, the average ride will cost between $200 and $225 per person and include private ground transportation on both ends of the trip.
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| Steven Zheng / The Block: |
Report: Facebook to create an independent foundation to manage its cryptocurrency, will charge members a $10M licensing fee for the right to operate a node — Facebook is creating an independent foundation to govern its cryptocurrency, according to a report by The Information.
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| Steven Aquino / TechCrunch: |
Interview with Apple's head of global accessibility on Voice Control, macOS' Hover Text for text magnification, and iOS 13's addition of pointer support — Steven Aquino is a freelance tech writer and iOS accessibility expert. — From dark mode in iOS 13 to a redesigned user interface … | Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Apple details the cryptography behind its upcoming Find My feature, which works so that even Apple cannot track device locations — WHEN APPLE EXECUTIVE Craig Federighi described a new location-tracking feature for Apple devices at the company's Worldwide Developer Conference keynote on Monday …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Amazon shows off its latest delivery drone, saying it will make deliveries to customers in the coming months, has a 15 mile range, and can carry up to 5 pounds — For the first time, Amazon today showed off its newest fully electric delivery drone at its first re:Mars conference in Las Vegas.
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Tweets: @jeffawilke, @et_rise, @skorusark, @business, @indianexpress, @cnn, @hacksternews, @mcwm, @sam_l_shead, and @jank0. Thanks:@fredericl
| Mike Lennon / SecurityWeek: |
Elastic, the company behind Elasticsearch and the Elastic Stack, to acquire endpoint security firm Endgame in a $234M deal — Elastic (NYSE: ESTC), the publicly traded company behind Elasticsearch and the Elastic Stack, announced today that it has agreed to acquire endpoint security firm Endgame in a $234 million deal.
| Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: |
Microsoft has pulled its facial recognition database, MS Celeb, which contained 10M+ images of ~100K individuals scraped under the Creative Commons license — Microsoft has quietly pulled from the internet its database of 10m faces, which has been used to train facial recognition systems around the world …
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Tweets: @madhumita29, @janoschdelcker, @hare_brain, @m_heffernan, and @mikarv
| Taylor Lorenz / The Atlantic: |
How groups of teens use AirDrop to share memes, and bombard unsuspecting adults who have AirDrop on, in an attempt to crash their phones — Veronica Belmont, a product manager at Adobe Spark, was riding the train down to Silicon Valley, doing some work on her phone, when dozens of teenagers plopped down into the seats around her.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Step, which wants to build a mobile-based banking service aimed at teenagers starting in the US, raises $22.5M led by Stripe — The smartphone revolution has well and truly disrupted the world of banking. A wide range of startups have cropped up that have completely removed the need …
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VentureBeat and PE Hub Blog
| TechCrunch: |
Sources: Bird in talks to acquire scooter startup Scoot, which was last valued at ~$71M; Scoot would be Bird's first full acquisition — If you are among those who thought that the scooter market sounded a little overhyped and overcrowded, we've gotten wind of a deal that could point to some impending consolidation.
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SiliconANGLE, Crunchbase News, and socalTECH.com
Tweets: @kateclarktweets, @ingridlunden, @jmbooyah, @kan_academy, @nickabouzeid, @jmbooyah, and @jmbooyah. Thanks:@nickabouzeid
| Wall Street Journal: |
JP Morgan Chase is informing customers that it is shutting down Finn, the mobile-only banking service aimed at younger customers, a year after its launch — Finn was a hybrid, offering digital banking as well as some branch access — JPMorgan Chase & Co. is killing an experiment … | Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Cloudera says CEO Tom Reilly is retiring and will leave the company's board, with board member Martin Cole to become interim CEO; stock down 40%+ — KEY POINTS — Interim CEO Martin Cole is a former Accenture executive who has been on Cloudera's board since 2014. — Cloudera CEO Tom Reilly.
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