Techmeme: After shutting down its Research and Onavo programs, Facebook releases its similar Study From Facebook app for Android, saying it's more transparent than before (Josh Constine/TechCrunch)

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Rani Molla / Vox:

Mary Meeker releases her 333-page Internet Trends 2019 report showing growing e-commerce, expanded US ad spending, rising number of gamers, 51% of world online — Here are all the slides, plus analysis. — It's the holiday season for data nerds: That is, Mary Meeker is delivering …

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Sources: Zuckerberg contacted Pelosi to discuss viral misinformation, but she has not engaged, frustrated by how Facebook handled a manipulated video of her — Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg contacted House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) in recent weeks to discuss …

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Samantha Cole / VICE:

Instagram says it will not remove deepfake video of Mark Zuckerberg, will treat it the same way as it does all misinformation on the platform — A fake video of Mark Zuckerberg giving a sinister speech about the power of Facebook has been posted to Instagram. The company previously said it would not remove this type of video.

More: CNN, The Verge, CNET, Forbes, Business Insider, The Hill, and The Daily Dot. Tweets: @edbott

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

After shutting down its Research and Onavo programs, Facebook releases its similar Study From Facebook app for Android, saying it's more transparent than before — Facebook shut down its Research and Onavo programs after TechCrunch exposed how the company paid teenagers for root access …

More: Facebook, Android Authority, Forbes, Business Insider, Bloomberg, NBC News, Marketing Land, MSPoweruser, BGR, CNET, The Verge, and Engadget

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Debby Wu / Bloomberg:

Foxconn says it has enough capacity to make all US iPhones outside of China if required should the trade war escalate further — - Main assembler Foxconn says it's got enough non-China capacity — Apple has so far not asked its Taiwanese partner to shift gear

Lauren Feiner / CNBC:

The DOJ's antitrust chief, Makan Delrahim, lays out potential antitrust arguments the US government may use against big tech — KEY POINTS — Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim laid out some possible antitrust arguments against big tech in a new speech in Tel Aviv on Tuesday.

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Will Oremus / OneZero:

Tech platforms are poor arbitrators of acceptable speech, altering enforcement of already-uneven rules when controversies flare up, but there's no clear fix — For YouTube, Facebook and the rest, if a decision becomes too controversial, change it — acing pressure to ban a hatemonger …

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Aaron Tilley / The Information:

Sources: Apple is in talks to buy a key part of Intel's smartphone modem business, its German operations — Apple is in talks to buy a key part of Intel's smartphone modem business—its German operations—in a deal that could boost the iPhone maker's plans to internally develop a modem for its devices …

More: 9to5Mac and Seeking Alpha

John McDermott / OneZero:

Sensor Tower data: following Snapchat's new gender-swapping and baby filters, global downloads in May reached 41.5M, up from 16.8M in the previous month — But can the company build on the momentum? — Last month, Snapchat achieved the kind of virality most companies can only dream of.

Tweets: @willoremus and @mcdermott. Thanks:@dlberes

Daniel Welsh / HuffPost UK:

Radiohead says they're releasing 18 hours' worth of unheard music to benefit climate change group, after hackers stole lead singer's files and attempted ransom — Activist group Extinction Rebellion will benefit too. — Radiohead has announced that they're releasing 18 hours' worth of unheard music …

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Facebook: Radiohead. Tweets: @superglaze, @dustinmartian, @oniropolis, @marshallk, @rickliebling, and @mikeisaac

Harry McCracken / Fast Company:

Dropbox debuts new Windows and Mac apps that let users affix notes and to-dos to the top of folders, rolls out new integrations with other tools — For years, the single best thing about Dropbox was that it was practically invisible. — The service, which debuted in 2008 …

More: Work in Progress, TechCrunch, Engadget, and GeekWire. Tweets: @joshconstine. Thanks:@mariedomingo

New York Times:

Ten state attorneys general file suit in New York to oppose the T-Mobile-Sprint merger over concerns about pricing and competition — Executives at T-Mobile and Sprint have pitched the merger of their companies as a way for the country to greatly expand its 5G network, a priority for President Trump …

More: Reuters, Yahoo Finance, The Seattle Times, Politico, Forbes, Financial Times, and GeekWire

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

RapidAPI, which developers use to search for, pay and connect to public APIs, raises $25M Series B led by Microsoft's M12 — APIs — the lightweight programming interfaces used by developers to integrate other applications with theirs, or to help their apps integrate with others …

More: Business Wire, Last Call, VentureBeat, WinBuzzer, FinSMEs, and GeekWire

Todd Bishop / GeekWire:

Seattle-based Glow launches, in beta, its mobile-first podcast monetization platform that lets podcasters turn listeners into subscribers — It's a common problem for podcasters: you've got a passionate, loyal audience, but at a time when it seems everyone is producing an audio show …

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Christopher Palmeri / Bloomberg:

Profile of Tucker Roberts, son of Comcast's CEO, who oversees the cable giant's expansion into esports, including Overwatch League's team Philadelphia Fusion — When the Philadelphia Fusion plays, the team president, Tucker Roberts, likes to stay in the dugout, alongside the coaches and bench players.

Tweets: @ryanlawler, @comcstspectacor, @jonsteinberg, @felixgillette, @gerryfsmith, @austincarr, and @bloombergtv

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Financial Times:

Volkswagen ends its relationship with Aurora, the Amazon-backed self-driving startup; source says Volkswagen could reach a deal with Ford's Argo AI soon — Volkswagen has ended its relationship with Aurora, the Silicon Valley self-driving start-up backed by Amazon, paving …

More: Forbes, Silicon Valley Business …, The Verge, and Ars Technica

South China Morning Post:

Inside Huawei's seven-year quest to build its own OS, which, sources say, started in 2012 as a precaution against the possibility of US ban — The OS issue took an extra urgency after the US government in mid-May placed Huawei and its affiliates on a trade blacklist One of the biggest technical challenges …

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Paul Sawers / VentureBeat:

Brex, which provides corporate credit cards to tech startups, raises $100M round led by Kleiner Perkins Digital Growth Fund at a $2.6B valuation — It has been a whirlwind 12 months for fledgling fintech startup Brex, which launched last June with $57 million in funding from some big-name investors …

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Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:

Researchers unveil the RAMBleed technique, showing it's possible to use Rowhammer-style side-channel attacks to read protected memory, even with ECC enabled — RAMBleed side-channel attack works even when DRAM is protected by error-correcting code. — The Rowhammer exploit …

More: ZDNet, The Register, and SecurityWeek

Ian Cutress / AnandTech:

AMD announces the Ryzen 9 3950X, its first 16-core CPU in the Ryzen 9 family, with a 3.5GHz base frequency, coming in September for $749 — One of the questions that was left over from AMD's Computex reveal of the new Ryzen 3000 family was why a 16-core version of the dual-chiplet Matisse design was not announced.

More: PCWorld, Tom's Hardware, Tom's Guide, VentureBeat, and Engadget. Tweets: @iancutress

Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat:

Amazon announces general availability of Amazon Personalize, its fully-managed AI-powered recommendation service for AWS customers, starting in select regions — Delivering personalized experiences to customers just got easier, thanks to Amazon. The Seattle company today announced …

More: TechCrunch, ProgrammableWeb.com, Business Wire, and ZDNet. Tweets: @naynerz

Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch:

Sense Photonics exits stealth after raising a $26M Series A for its “flash” lidar tech, says it has partnerships with Infineon and a tier-1 automotive company — Lidar is a critical part of many autonomous cars and robotic systems, but the technology is also evolving quickly.

Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch:

Academics introduce Grover, an AI system that writes convincing fake news based on user inputs and can help researchers detect other AI-made disinformation — “To know your enemy, you must become your enemy.” — One of the biggest problems in media today is so-called “fake news,” …

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Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet:

Opera launches Opera GX, the world's first gaming-focused browser, with a built-in system to limit the browser's CPU and RAM usage, so other apps run unhindered — Opera GX released in early access; currently only available for Windows users. — Today, Opera Software …

More: The Verge, Opera Newsroom, PC Gamer, SlashGear, TechCrunch, KnowTechie, Forbes, CNET, Financial Times, Inquirer, and Windows Central

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