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Disney+ to launch in Canada, the Netherlands, Australia, and New Zealand along with the US in November, will stream on all major platforms except Fire TV — Disney today confirmed its first global launches for the company's upcoming Disney+ subscription service, and it outlined which devices … | Steve Dent / Engadget: |
Spotify's Premium Family Plan is getting parental controls with an explicit content filter and a Family Mix personalized playlist for the whole family — Spotify is rolling out a new Premium Family Plan with a much-awaited setting. Parents will now have the ability to filter out songs with swearing … | Reuters: |
Google shuts down its free service to show carriers weak spots in their coverage, sources say to avoid potential scrutiny over sharing data from its users — NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's Google has shut down a service it provided to wireless carriers globally that showed … | Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Binance says it plans to launch Venus, an “independent regional version of Libra”, which will develop “localized” stablecoins pegged to fiat currencies — The world's largest cryptocurrency exchange Binance is planning to launch “Venus,” calling it an … | Bloomberg: |
Trump says that at a recent dinner Tim Cook made a “very compelling argument” that Apple might lose its edge to Samsung due to tariffs on goods from China — - Many made-in-China Apple products to be hit soon with tariffs — Apple CEO made ‘good case’ about tariffs at dinner: Trump
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The first public jailbreak in years for up-to-date iPhones has been posted online, researchers say, after a bug that was patched in iOS 12.3 was reintroduced — Apple accidentally unpatched a vulnerability it had already fixed, making current versions of iOS vulnerable to hackers.| Arielle Pardes / Wired: |
Reddit to test live video streaming for users, from 9am to 5pm through the end of this week, to be entirely moderated by Reddit employees — ON FRIDAY, A series of cryptic posts began to appear on r/pan, a Reddit community that seemed to materialize out of nowhere.| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Xiaomi, Oppo, and Vivo are working on an AirDrop-style wireless file transfer protocol that will work between their devices with speeds of up to 20MB/s — Three of China's biggest smartphone makers are working together on a new wireless file transfer protocol that will work between their respective devices.
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Report: 650K+ tests in the US from early 2018 to early 2019 show that carrier throttling on mobile for Netflix, YouTube, and Amazon Prime Video, is pervasive — - New research finds location, time of day play no role — Netflix, YouTube, Amazon Prime Video targeted for slowdowns| Tushar Mehta / XDA Developers: |
Microsoft brings SMS Organizer, its Android app to filter spam texts and get smart notifications about bills, flights, and more, from India to Australia, UK, US — Microsoft's aspirations of creating and selling smartphones may have collapsed but its association with smartphones has not ended.
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Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten launches crypto exchange for trading in bitcoin, ether, and bitcoin cash, via an Android app, with no fees for making trades — Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten has launched its own exchange for crypto spot trading. — Announced Monday … | Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Nvidia says that its GeForce Now game streaming service, which is in public beta for Mac, PC, and Shield TV, will be coming to Android later this year — Ahead of the next Stadia Connect livestream where Google will announce more games, Nvidia revealed that its competing GeForce Now streaming service will be coming to Android.
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Sources: Root Insurance, an auto insurance startup that leverages telematics data from its mobile app to gauge driving style, raises ~$350M at a $3.5B valuation — Root Insurance, a tech-enabled auto insurance upstart that lives among the legacy giants in Columbus, Ohio … | Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
23 Texas local governments hit in what appears to be a coordinated ransomware attack — Infection blamed on a strain of ransomware known only as the “.JSE ransomware.” — Twenty-three local Texas governments have been infected with ransomware last week in what Texas officials have described as a coordinated attack.
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Cerebras Systems unveils the world's biggest semiconductor chip that is the size of a large mousepad, with 400K cores, 1.2T transistors, and 18GB of SRAM memory — Tucked in the Los Altos hills near the Stanford University campus, in a low-slung bunker of offices across from a coffee shop … | Reuters: |
Sources: Facebook contractor Genpact has hiked pay for Indian content reviewers, doubling minimum salaries to ~$3,500/year, after reports in February of low pay — BENGALURU/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook contractor Genpact has raised minimum wages for the content moderation teams it runs … | Nathaniel Popper / New York Times: |
How terrorist organizations, locked out of traditional financing options, have used cryptocurrency for donations in increasingly sophisticated ways — SAN FRANCISCO — Hamas, the militant Palestinian group, has been designated a terrorist organization by Western governments and some others …
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