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Apple recommends that users such as DJs avoid Catalina until developers update their apps, as the option to export music libraries as XML files has been removed — Apple recommends users avoid Catalina until developers update their apps — Apple's latest desktop operating system update …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
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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| Bloomberg: |
Trump admin blacklists eight Chinese tech companies, including video surveillance camera giants, implicated in human rights violations against Muslim minorities — - Move comes as U.S.-China high-level trade talks set to resume — Action targets Chinese surveillance companies, public entities
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| Katie Notopoulos / BuzzFeed News: |
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.| Mishaal Rahman / XDA Developers: |
Google to require new devices launching with Android 9 or later to come with a wellness app and parental controls, either Google's own apps or third-party ones — One of the biggest themes of Google I/O 2018 was improving digital wellness. As consumers realized they're spending way too much time online …
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The Trump administration is inserting CDA 230-like protections into international trade deals that shield online platforms from lawsuits related to user content — WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has begun inserting legal protections into recent trade agreements that shield online platforms …
Tweets: @nickconfessore, @matthewstoller, @cagoldberglaw, @nytimes, and @dmccabe
| Reuters: |
Samsung projects operating income of $6.4B for Q3, beating analyst estimates, but down 56% YoY amid continued weakness in memory chip price and demand — SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics on Tuesday reported its third-quarter operating profit likely tumbled 56% … | iFixit: |
iFixit's new teardown of the Galaxy Fold shows Samsung's durability improvements but suggests that the main display and folding mechanism are still fragile — Introduction Teardown Update: After Samsung tried to make our initial teardown disappear from the internet five months ago …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Hulu launches support for offline viewing, letting users download up to 25 titles across 5 devices, initially available only to iOS users on its “No Ads” plan — Hulu is finally adding downloads to its streaming service, years after Netflix and Amazon Prime Video did the same.
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| Peter C Baker / The Guardian: |
Pedestrian deaths in US have steadily increased since 2010, and experts are skeptical that pedestrian detection systems and autonomous vehicles are the solution — For drivers, roads are safer than ever - but for people on foot, they are getting deadlier. Car companies and Silicon Valley claim that they have the solution.
Tweets: @guardian, @carolinerussell, @pedbikeinfo, @peterwalker99, and @walk_to
| Hamza Jawad / Neowin: |
Microsoft expands Airband, its US rural broadband initiative, to Latin America and Africa, aims to bring the internet to 40M people globally by 2022 — A couple of years ago, Microsoft launched the Airband Initiative with the aim of serving broadband internet access to two million people living in the rural U.S. by 2022.
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| Caroline Binham / Financial Times: |
Analysis: UK's Financial Conduct Authority now has 87 open inquiries into crypto companies, compared with 50 this time last year — The number of cryptocurrency businesses in the crosshairs of the UK's financial watchdog leapt by 74 per cent in the past year, as the Financial Conduct Authority estimates …
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CoinGeek, CoinDesk, Decrypt, Telegraph, NewsBTC, Bitcoinist.com, Cointelegraph, The Block, The Next Web, and CryptoGlobe
| Kate Rooney / CNBC: |
Profile of Katie Haun, who targeted Bitcoin as a US DOJ prosecutor and is the first female general partner at a16z, now co-heading its $350M cryptocurrency fund — - Katie Haun is the first female general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, and co-heads its $350 million cryptocurrency fund.
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Wired, FutureSin, Bitcoinist.com, and Cointelegraph
Tweets: @davelevine0com, @kr00ney, @masterbtcltc, @angela_walch, and @fintechfrank
| Ian Allison / CoinDesk: |
The Enterprise Ethereum Alliance creates a system of trusted reward tokens backed by Microsoft and Intel, to incentivize teamwork in consortiums of companies — The Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA), the consortium charged with creating standards for businesses to build applications using … | Financial Times: |
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 …
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