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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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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Google Stadia details: pre-order now, coming in Nov. with $130 Founder's Edition, subscription costs $10/month not including extra games, and free tier in 2020 — Today, Google has revealed the key details that were conspicuously missing from its March announcement of the new Stadia game streaming service.
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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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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
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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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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Sources: Facebook to release a white paper explaining its cryptocurrency's basics on June 18, ahead of a formal launch in 2020 — Facebook is finally ready to reveal details about its cryptocurrency codenamed Libra. It's currently scheduled for a June 18th release of a white paper explaining …
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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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| 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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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
FCC votes unanimously to let carriers block robocalls by default and advances proposed rule for carriers to adopt SHAKEN/STIR caller ID system — The FCC voted to give cell providers explicit permission to do stop the madness — The FCC voted unanimously today to allow carriers … | New York Times: |
Experts say US election laws, which prohibit companies from providing services at a discount, are hampering cyber security work, a weakness for 2020 campaigns — One year out from the 2020 elections, presidential candidates face legal roadblocks to acquiring the tools and assistance necessary … | Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Barack and Michelle Obama's company, Higher Ground Productions, strikes a multiyear deal with Spotify to produce exclusive podcasts for the platform — NY Digital Editor @https://twitter.com/xpangler FOLLOW — YouTube Says It's Reviewing Harassment Policies, After It Condoned Sustained Attacks on Gay Latino Journalist
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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 …
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Macworld, iMore, The Verge, iPhone Hacks, 9to5Mac, and iPhone in Canada Blog. Tweets: @steven_aquino
| 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.| 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 … | 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.
| 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. Tweets: @kateclarktweets, @darlin, @ingridlunden, @jmbooyah, @kan_academy, @nickabouzeid, @jmbooyah, and @jmbooyah. Thanks:@nickabouzeid
| 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 … | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Gatik, which is developing an autonomous vehicle stack for B2B short-haul logistics, emerges from stealth with a $4.5M seed round, announces Walmart partnership — Gatik, a two-year-old startup developing an autonomous vehicle stack for business-to-business short-haul logistics …
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