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Apple releases macOS Catalina with new apps Find My and Screen Time, as well as Music, TV, and Podcast apps to replace iTunes, Sidecar for companion iPads, more — Apple today released the newest version of its operating system for Macs, macOS Catalina, to the public. macOS Catalina comes …
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Instagram is removing the Activity feed's Following tab, which showed users what their friends were liking, saying that few people used it — Instagram is ditching the “Following” tab in the Activity feed. — A Catholic priest notices a fellow priest liking gay porn star pics on Instagram.
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Sources: Apple has recently approached big music labels about bundling together Apple Music and Apple TV+ for one flat monthly fee — Apple's hopes of creating a super-bundle of media content for one flat monthly fee have run into early opposition, with some record labels nervous … | Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
Indian hotel-booking startup Oyo is raising $1.5B at a $10B valuation, of which $700M is from the founder Ritesh Agarwal, who plans to raise his stake to 30% — - 25-year-old founder will spend $700 million for new shares — Existing investors such as SoftBank, Sequoia will add the rest
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| Andrew Chung / Reuters: |
SCOTUS refuses to review a 2018 decision by appeals court that found Apple didn't infringe on a Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison patent and threw out $506M in damages — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear a bid by the University of Wisconsin's patent licensing arm …
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| David Carnoy / CNET: |
Amazon launches $110 Kindle Kids Edition, with a choice of four cases, one year free FreeTime Unlimited subscription, and features like achievement badges — Amazon's been selling kid-friendly editions of Fire tablets for a while, but now it's bringing the Kids Edition concept to its Kindle e-reader.
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| Jeremy Burge / Emojipedia: |
In iOS 13.1.2, Hong Kong users' emoji keyboard does not include the Taiwanese flag, a year after a more complete ban on the flag for iOS in mainland China — iPhone users in Hong Kong have noticed a change in the latest version of iOS: the 🇹🇼 Flag for Taiwan emoji is missing.| Carl Miller / BBC: |
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| Thomas Ricker / The Verge: |
Sonos launches Sonos Flex, a subscription service for renting its speakers, starting at €15 per month, currently available only in the Netherlands — Weird Flex, but ok — Sonos has quietly launched a new subscription service that lowers the initial barrier to taking home its costly connected speakers.
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Next Insurance, which offers digital insurance products for small businesses, raises $250M Series C at a valuation of $1B+, bringing its total raised to $381M — Next Insurance, a three-year-old U.S.-based firm that sells insurance products to small businesses, has become the latest unicorn … | Lisa Bonos / Washington Post: |
Tinder debuts Swipe Night, a choose-your-own adventure game inside its app with weekly episodes, and hopes to match users based on their in-game choices — Dating apps are often compared to bars where everyone is single. Now one of the biggest, Tinder, is literally casting itself as a party where all your friends are gathered.| VICE: |
Twitter employees explain the platform's more relaxed approach to policing content, while keeping a 1,500-strong enforcement team vs. Facebook's 15,000 — Multiple current and former Twitter employees, including executives, explain how Twitter really positions itself and its responsibilities around moderating speech.
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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
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