Techmeme: Seattle-based Glow launches, in beta, its mobile-first podcast monetization platform that lets podcasters turn listeners into subscribers (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)

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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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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

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 …

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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 …

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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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Julia Alexander / The Verge:

YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki apologizes to the LGBTQ community, says that demonetizing but leaving Steven Crowder's channel on the platform was the right decision

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Washington Post:

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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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.

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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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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 …

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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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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 — A group of 10 state attorneys general filed a federal lawsuit on Tuesday in a bid to block a proposed merger between the wireless carriers T-Mobile and Sprint …

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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.

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Devindra Hardawar / Engadget:

AMD announces its first 7nm Navi GPUs: the $379 Radeon RX 5700 and the $449 RX 5700 XT, with speeds of up to 1.9GHz and up to 9.75 teraflops, available July 7

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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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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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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 …

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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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Tom Warren / The Verge:

Microsoft says it has no plans to add more backward compatible titles for Xbox One, but says Project Scarlett will run games from all four Xbox generations — No more Xbox 360 and Xbox additions to the catalog — Microsoft is winding down new additions to its Xbox backward compatibility catalog.

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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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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 …

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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 …

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Liz Pelly / The Baffler:

How Spotify's vast access to mood-related data is valuable to brands and advertisers, allowing them to target its listening audience by their emotional states — Spotify pursues emotional surveillance for global profit — MUSIC IS EMOTIONAL, and so our listening often signals something deeply personal and private.

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

Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat:

Raleigh, NC-based Pryon raises $20M Series A to automate enterprise workloads with AI — Pryon, a Raleigh, North Carolina-based provider of AI-powered tools targeting enterprise, today announced that it's raised $20 million in a series A funding round in partnership with Revolution's Rise …

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