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| Sameer Samat / The Keyword: |
Google stops using dessert-themed names for Android for better worldwide accessibility, names Android Q Android 10, and refreshes Android brand logo and color — Over the last decade, Android's open platform has created a thriving community of manufacturers and developers that reach a global audience with their devices and apps.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is planning to launch Pro iPhones with three-sensor camera systems for better low-light, new iPads, and a 16-inch MacBook Pro next month — Apple Inc. is readying a clutch of new hardware for the coming weeks and months, including “Pro” iPhones, upgrades to iPads and its largest laptop in years.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google proposes new privacy and anti-fingerprinting controls aimed at making it harder for online marketers and advertisers to track users across the web — Google today announced a new long-term initiative that, if fully realized, will make it harder for online marketers and advertisers to track you across the web.
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| Jennifer Elias / CNBC: |
Google says it has shut down 210 YouTube channels after it found they had been tied to misinformation about Hong Kong protesters — KEY POINTS — In a blog post Thursday, Google said it axed more than 200 YouTube channels due to misinformation around Hong Kong protests.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: News Corp is developing a news-aggregation service called Knewz, to address publisher concerns about Google and Facebook — Knewz.com will surface articles from hundreds of news sources, using software and human curation — News Corp is developing a news-aggregation service meant …
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| ProPublica: |
Interviews with 36+ DOD and tech officials shed light on tech giants' fight for $10B Pentagon JEDI cloud contract using backdoor lobbying and an advisory board — Tech moguls like Jeff Bezos and Eric Schmidt have gotten unprecedented access to the Pentagon. And one whistleblower who raised flags has paid the price.
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Bose announces the $349 Portable Home Speaker with WiFi and Bluetooth and support for Google Assistant, Alexa, AirPlay 2, and Spotify Connect — Preempting Sonos' leaked Move speaker announcement next week — Bose just announced a surprise product: the Portable Home Speaker …
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| CNBC: |
Overstock CEO Partick Byrne has resigned from the e-commerce company after his comments about being involved in a “Deep State” investigation of 2016 election — - Overstock CEO Partick Byrne has resigned from the e-commerce company after making controversial comments about his role in the “Deep State.”
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
VMWare to acquire cybersecurity company Carbon Black for $2.1B and Pivotal for $2.7B — KEY POINTS — VMware is acquiring Carbon Black, a cybersecurity company that went public in 2018, the companies announce as part of VMware's quarterly earnings report.| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Samsung Galaxy Note10+ review: the screen is beautiful and handwriting recognition with S Pen is neat but software backslides into confusion and DeX is a mess — The most phone — How much would you pay to have a stylus in your phone? — That's the essential question for the Note 10 Plus.
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| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
AT&T, Comcast, Sprint, Verizon, T-Mobile, and seven other US carriers announce an agreement with 51 attorneys general to implement new tech to block robocalls — Twelve of the country's largest telephone companies on Thursday pledged to implement new technology to spot and block robocalls …
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| Jennifer Elias / CNBC: |
Krishna Bharat, who led the team that built Google News, returns to the company as a distinguished research scientist after a four-year hiatus — KEY POINTS — Pedestrians walk past Google headquarters in New York. — Krishna Bharat, the inventor of Google News, has returned to the company … | Facebook Technology: |
A look at Oculus Insight, Facebook's technology that makes inside-out VR tracking on Oculus Quest and Rift S headsets possible — VR hardware was tethered to a PC — until one Facebook engineering team found a way to cut the cord — When Anna Kozminski joined Facebook as a software program manager …
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| Johana Bhuiyan / Los Angeles Times: |
Amazon says it will no longer use tips or supplemental earnings to cover promised wages of Flex drivers, who deliver for Prime Now, Fresh, and Whole Foods — Amazon delivery drivers were surprised to learn earlier this year that the e-commerce giant would at times dip into their tips to cover their promised wages.| Nitasha Tiku / Wired: |
Girls Who Code study of 1,000 young women highlights the challenges faced when seeking internships, often an unpleasant experience in a male-dominated workplace — IN 2018, MEI'LANI Eyre, an 18-year-old computer science student at Cascadia College in Washington state, was in the middle … | Washington Post: |
Palantir's revenue from US government contracts under Trump surpassed its total under Obama's second term, as sources describe staff debates about work with ICE — After Google dropped a defense contract over employee pressure, Palantir's leaders doubled down on controversial work with the U.S. government
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| Brian Fung / CNN: |
Sources: FCC and FTC officials raised concerns about the constitutionality and scope of a Trump draft executive order on CDA Section 230 and alleged censorship — (CNN)Officials from the Federal Communications Commission and the Federal Trade Commission have expressed serious concerns … | Brian Merchant / Gizmodo: |
Investigation reveals popular on-demand massage app Zeel repeatedly ignored therapists' complaints about sexual harassment and inappropriate client behavior — When Ilene Antelman arrived at a client's Manhattan duplex in December of 2016, she was in a good mood.
Tweets: @bcmerchant, @bcmerchant, @bcmerchant, @denisehearn_, @bcmerchant, and @meghanemorris
| Martin Selsoe Sorensen / New York Times: |
Flaws in cellphone tracking data used in Denmark, which may have linked innocent people to crime scenes, prompt a review of 10K+ court cases dating back to 2012 — COPENHAGEN — The authorities in Denmark say they plan to review over 10,000 court verdicts because of errors in cellphone tracking data offered as evidence.
Tweets: @nytimes and @zackwhittaker
| Kashmir Hill / New York Times: |
Users whose accounts have been disabled by Facebook say the opaque review process, the endless wait, and the inability to contact an employee can be maddening — For a decade, Christopher Reeves, an Uber driver in Seattle, used Facebook for everything: talking with friends, communicating with fellow drivers, meeting singles.
Tweets: @mvzelenks, @kashhill, @robpegoraro, @kashhill, @trevortimm, @antoniocasilli, and @digiphile
| Rani Molla / Vox: |
A snapshot of Amazon's financial history and why free cash flow, which Bezos called Amazon's “ultimate financial measure”, is always higher than its profits — Dinendra Haria/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images — It's all about investing in the future.
Tweets: @naijaflyingdr, @recode, @recode, and @recode
| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
Assessing the impact of telecoms' poor privacy practices through the story of a woman stalked by a man who obtained her real-time location data from T-Mobile — Telecom giants are giving up customers' real-time location data to stalkers and bounty hunters. Now, Motherboard speaks to a victim.
Tweets: @jason_koebler, @lam_barrett, @jrosenworcel, @willoremus, @nbougalis, @gigibsohn, @josephfcox, @josephfcox, @lam_barrett, @josephfcox, @motherboard, and @evacide
| CNBC: |
Salesforce beats with Q2 revenue of $4B, up 22% YoY, vs. $3.95B est. and Sales Cloud revenue of $1.13B, up 13% YoY; stock up 6%+ after hours — KEY POINTS — Salesforce released its first earnings report since its $15.3 billion acquisition of Tableau Software, the company's largest deal ever.| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
DoorDash announces a new tipping policy that will let drivers keep 100% of tips, rolling out next month, and pledges to bump up base pay across the board — The changes are arriving a month after DoorDash's CEO promised to address the issue — DoorDash today announced more concrete details … | Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Valve patches recent Steam 0-days, calls turning away researcher who found them “a mistake”, and updates bug bounty program to start accepting “LPE"-class bugs — Valve also updates bug bounty rules to prevent similar incidents from happening again.| BBC: |
Microsoft says it stopped listening to Xbox recordings to improve tech months ago, but at times reviews recordings between users on reports of TOS violations — Microsoft has said that it will stop listening in to Xbox users, saying it was “no longer necessary”.
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| Georgina Torbet / Engadget: |
Google is rolling out its face-grouping feature in Google Photos, first introduced in 2015, across Europe — Google Photos recently hit one billion users after being spun out from Google+ just four years ago. One reason the product grew so quickly is its frequent updates …
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