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Sources: Apple's suppliers are preparing to produce components for up to 75M new iPhones in H2 2019, roughly the same number as in 2018 — - New models to focus on upgrades to cameras, faster processor — Samsung's and Huawei's problems could help Apple in long run
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Tweets: @elliottzaagman, @pelstrom, and @markgurman
| Apple: |
Apple to acquire the majority of Intel's smartphone modem business in a transaction valued at $1B — Cupertino and Santa Clara, California — Apple and Intel have signed an agreement for Apple to acquire the majority of Intel's smartphone modem business. Approximately 2,200 Intel employees …
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| Washington Post: |
Current and former moderators in Manila describe how tech companies like Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter outsource the trauma that comes with content moderation — Social media giants have tasked a workforce of contractors with reviewing suicides and massacres to decide if such content …
Tweets: @daveyalba, @reginecabato, @posselist, @lam_barrett, @shibanimahtani, @rachsieg, and @lizzadwoskin
| Caroline Haskins / VICE: |
FOIA docs show Ring required Lakeland, FL, police to advertise its surveillance cameras in exchange for free products and a portal for requesting footage — The Lakeland, Florida police department is required to “encourage adoption” of Ring products as part of a secret agreement with the company.
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Tweets: @techworkersco, @mattblaze, @sandofsky, @skimbrel, @peterbihr, @thomdunn, @henrymance, @rachelblevinson, @harrysiegel, and @jason_koebler
| Matthew Rosenberg / New York Times: |
Facebook's ad library is so plagued by bugs and technical constraints that researchers say it is effectively useless to adequately track political advertising — The social network's new ad library is so flawed, researchers say, that it is effectively useless as a way to track political messaging.
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Gizmodo and The Daily Dot
Tweets: @firefox, @rmac18, @jason_kint, @tiffkhsu, @edbott, and @brooklynmarie
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
T-Mobile says it will not carry Samsung's Galaxy Fold when it is released in September; AT&T says it is still working with Samsung — It will still work on the network, but it's a ding against Samsung — Now that Samsung has announced that it has made changes to the Galaxy Fold …
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
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| Steve Lohr / New York Times: |
Two antitrust academics say Chris Hughes joined them in meetings with the FTC, the DOJ, and state AGs to lay out a potential antitrust case against Facebook — Chris Hughes used to huddle with Mark Zuckerberg in a Harvard dorm room building Facebook from scratch.
Tweets: @mikeisaac, @puiwingtam, @karissabe, @gregorynyc, and @shiraovide
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Standard Cognition, which builds a platform for cashierless retail stores, raises $35M Series B led by EQT Ventures, bringing its total raised to $86M+ — A checkout-free future might be closer than you think, thanks to startups like Standard Cognition. The San Francisco-based company … | Emily Birnbaum / The Hill: |
House passes bipartisan Stopping Bad Robocalls Act, requiring telcos to implement tech that verifies caller identity and increases FCC penalties — The House on Wednesday took a major step toward cracking down on illegal robocalls by passing legislation allowing for tougher penalties …
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| Tim Anderson / The Register: |
Amazon releases AWS Chatbot in beta, which integrates with Slack and Amazon Chime to alert users to AWS issues — Amazon Web Services' work-in-progress beta talks... but does not listen — Amazon Web Services' Chatbot, released in beta yesterday, will alert you to issues … | Pew Research Center: |
Study of YouTube channels with 250K+ subs in early 2019: a small share produce most of the content, kids videos do very well, and most videos aren't in English — An analysis of every video posted by high-subscriber channels in the first week of 2019 finds that children's content …
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| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
FTC announces a $5B fine against Facebook for repeated privacy violations as part of a settlement that requires federal oversight of its business practices — The settlement between the Federal Trade Commission and Facebook ends a 16-month probe that began after revelations of the tech giant's entanglement with Cambridge Analytica
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
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| Drew Harwell / Washington Post: |
Analysis: following Trump's “social media summit”, 15 attendees critical of social networks for alleged censorship gained a combined 197,000 Twitter followers — After right-wing influencers and online provocateurs flocked to the White House earlier this month for a summit …
Tweets: @kimberlyeatkins and @drewharwell
| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
eBay says it will launch Managed Delivery, its own fulfillment service, in the US next year with an aim to deliver packages in two to three days — Although it won't own its own warehouses — eBay has announced plans to launch its own fulfillment service called Managed Delivery …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Ford's e-scooter rental startup Spin to launch in eight more cities in August, bringing it to 47 US markets in total, and wants to launch in 100 cities by 2020 — MOST READ — Amazon launches Prime Video VR for Oculus Go, Quest, and Gear VR — T-Mobile's $5 billion asset sale will make Dish a weak 4th place carrier
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| Cecilia D'Anastasio / Kotaku: |
Report: 74% of gamers in the US have experienced some form of harassment with 65% experiencing severe harassment including physical threats and stalking — 74 percent of adults who play games online have experienced some form of harassment, according to a new report released today.
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Tweets: @danieljkelley, @danieljkelley, @danieljkelley, @gamoid, @mcdizziness, @danieljkelley, and @decafjedi
| Alphabet: |
Alphabet reports Q2 revenue of $38.9B, up 19% YoY, net income of $9.9B, up from $3.2B YoY, and a stock buyback of $25B; stock up 7%+ after hours — Alphabet Announces Second Quarter 2019 Results MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - July 25, 2019 - Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Waymo and DeepMind say they are collaborating to develop better self-driving AI algorithms, using techniques inspired by evolutionary biology — Sussing out AI models capable of reliably guiding driverless cars requires endless amounts of testing and fine-tuning, typically, not to mention computational power out the wazoo.
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Tweets: @deepmindai and @hardmaru
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
SF-based Replicant raises $7M in seed funding, led by Atomic, for Thinking Machine, its AI-powered call center solution — Autonomous customer service agents are fast becoming the rule rather than the exception, and that's partly because consumers seem to prefer it that way.
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| Thomas Brewster / Forbes: |
A profile of FaceApp CEO Yaroslav Goncharov, who says that the app has a paying customer base of roughly 1% after claiming the company is “very profitable” — He's worked on Windows Mobile for Microsoft. He was cofounder of a company that sold to Russia's Google, Yandex … | Christine Fisher / Engadget: |
Google rolls out a new, AMP-powered Swipe to Visit feature for Google Images that lets users see a preview of the website header and swipe up to visit the page — Google wants to make it easier for users to search for content through Google Images. To do so, it's rolling out a new, AMP-powered Swipe to Visit feature.| Amazon.com, Inc. - IR: |
Amazon reports Q2 revenue of $63.4B, up 20% YoY, net income of $2.6B, up from $2.5B in Q2 2018, and AWS revenue of $8.4B, up from $6.1B in Q2 2018 — Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its second quarter ended June 30, 2019.
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