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Mike Isaac / New York Times:
US government charges Anthony Levandowski, a former star engineer at Google and Uber, with 33 counts of theft and attempted theft of Google trade secrets  —  SAN JOSE, Calif. — Anthony Levandowski, one of Silicon Valley's foremost technologists on self-driving cars, was charged …
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft announces Surface event on October 2 in New York City  —  We might see a new dual-screen Surface  —  Microsoft is holding a special Surface hardware event in New York City in October.  The event, which will be held on October 2nd, could serve as the first unveiling of Microsoft's dual-screen Surface device.
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
CBP searched 30,000 devices last year without a warrant, up ~4x from three years prior, and increasingly denies entry to people over content sent by others  —  Travelers are increasingly being denied entry to the United States as border officials hold them accountable for messages …
Jon Porter / The Verge:
Fairphone debuts Fairphone 3, its ethical, repairable smartphone made of responsibly sourced, recyclable materials, available from September 3 for €450  —  Featuring a repairable design made of fairly sourced, recyclable materials  —  Three years after the release of its last handset …
Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge:
Google Maps is rolling out the ability for users to combine different transit modes, like biking, public transit, and ride-sharing, in their directions  —  Google Maps is going multimodal  —  Google Maps is going multimodal.  The navigation app announced the launch of a new feature today …
Nathan Ingraham / Engadget:
Yelp adds personalized search results based on users' diet, lifestyle, accessibility, and other preferences, to its iOS app  —  For good or ill, it's common for internet services to track what you do and offer “personalized” suggestions.  But Yelp, that stalwart of internet reviews …
Geoffrey A. Fowler / Washington Post:
Deep dive into the byzantine tracking and analytics industry around credit card purchases and steps that consumers can take to improve their privacy  —  In a privacy experiment, we bought one banana with the new Apple Card — and another with the Amazon Prime Rewards Visa from Chase.
Ben Thompson / Stratechery:
Privacy fundamentalism, which does not consider the inherent nature of the internet and the unavoidable trade-offs, is a surefire way to get policy wrong  —  Farhad Manjoo, in the New York Times, ran an experiment on himself: … Here is a shrunk-down version of the graphic that resulted …
Jalopnik:
Data from 14,756 fares: Uber and Lyft have slashed driver pay in recent years by taking a larger portion of each fare, far more than they publicly report  —  In July, an Uber driver we'll call Dave—his name has been changed here to protect his identity—picked up a fare in a trendy neighborhood of a major U.S. metropolitan area.
Todd Haselton / CNBC:
Amazon debuts Eero Secure and Eero Secure+, $3/month and $10/month services for its home Wi-Fi products, to add security with malware warnings, VPN access, more  —  KEY POINTS  — Amazon introduced a new security features for Eero owners, which can be purchased with monthly or annual plans.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
E-commerce startup Enjoy, led by ex-Apple VP of retail operations Ron Johnson, raises $150M Series C to fuel its UK expansion, has now raised $350M to date  —  Enjoy, the e-commerce startup led by former Apple VP of retail operations, Ron Johnson, has raised an additional $150 million …
Bernie Sanders / Columbia Journalism Review:
Bernie Sanders pledges to protect news orgs from tech monopolies if elected, including stronger antitrust enforcement, taxing targeted ads to fund public media  —  Walter Cronkite once said that “journalism is what we need to make democracy work.”  He was absolutely right …
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
Tesorio raises $10M Series A, led by Seattle's Madrona Venture Group, to help companies track their cash flow and gauge their financial health using AI  —  Tesorio, a startup that helps businesses aggregate and analyze their cash flow data, today announced that it has raised a $10 million Series …
More: FinSMEs and GeekWire
Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk:
Source: judge rules Craig Wright must turn over half of his bitcoin holdings and IP from before 2014 to the estate of Dave Kleiman in $10B lawsuit filed in 2018  —  Craig Wright must turn over half of his bitcoin holdings and intellectual property to the estate of Dave Kleiman, a judge ruled Monday.
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat:
Researchers at Alphabet's DeepMind detail OpenSpiel, a collection of AI training tools for video games, now available on Github  —  Reinforcement learning, the AI training technique that's brought to fruition systems capable of defeating world poker champions and guiding self-driving cars …
More: GitHub
Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
BBC says it will launch a voice assistant called Beeb next year, that will understand British accents and be built into its website and iPlayer app on smart TVs  —  Corporation recording voices of staff across UK to help Beeb software understand accents  —  The BBC is preparing to launch …

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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Comcast plans to spin off its media and entertainment assets, including NBCUniversal and Sky, into a new publicly traded entity, set to close by mid-2027

Rebecca Rubin / Variety:
Industry sources estimate Supergirl could lose $100M to $120M during its theatrical run after a $37.1M domestic and $62.6M worldwide opening weekend, below est.

Madeline Halpert / BBC:
Film director Carl Erik Rinsch, who was convicted last year of defrauding Netflix of $11M, is sentenced to two and a half years in prison

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Casey Newton / The Verge:
Sources: Facebook is testing Threads, a messaging app for Instagram that lets users automatically share status, location, battery life, more with Close Friends
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE:
Apple releases iOS 12.4.1 to patch a bug, inadvertently reintroduced in iOS 12.4, which allowed up-to-date iPhones to be jailbroken for the first time in years
Nathaniel Mott / Tom's Hardware:
GlobalFoundries sues TSMC in the US and Germany, alleges infringement of 16 patents and seeks processor import bans that could affect Nvidia and Apple
Yogita Khatri / The Block:
Binance launches a crypto lending business, allowing holders of its BNB token, Ethereum Classic, and Tether to lend their assets and earn interest
Canalys Newsroom:
Canalys: Baidu crossed Google to capture 17.3% of the global smart speaker market, growing 3700% YoY with 4.5M shipments in Q2 2019; Amazon had 6.6M shipments
Cherlynn Low / Engadget:
Google and Dell team up to unveil Latitude enterprise-grade Chromebooks, with 8th-gen Intel Core i7 CPUs, available to order from August 27, starting at $699
Arjun Kharpal / CNBC:
Megvii, a China-based facial recognition focused startup, files for a Hong Kong IPO; Megvii has raised $750M, reportedly at a $4B valuation, earlier this year
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