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| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Sources: Apple's over-ear headphones, called “AirPods Studio”, will feature head and neck detection sensors, automated audio channel routing, and more — We've been hearing about Apple's upcoming over-ear headphones for some time, with evidence from multiple sources pointing to the official launch later this year.
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Tweets: @jon_prosser, @parkerortolani, @_am1t, @brianroemmele, and @la3life
| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
Sources: Facebook is quietly helping to launch American Edge, a political advocacy group in Washington, to battle regulators trying to rein in the tech industry — The organization, called American Edge, arrives at a time when the industry is facing withering antitrust scrutiny in Washington.
Tweets: @asmith83, @tonyromm, @tonyromm, @attackerman, and @whotargetsme
| Elizabeth Culliford / Reuters: |
Twitter says it will add labels and warning messages to tweets about COVID-19 with misleading or disputed content and plans to expand the labels to other topics — (Reuters) - Twitter Inc will add labels and warning messages on some tweets with disputed or misleading information about COVID-19 …
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| Travis M. Andrews / Washington Post: |
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| Apple: |
Apple unveils update to Logic Pro X with Live Loops, a redesigned sampling workflow, and new beat-making tools — New Creative Tools for Electronic Music Production Make Logic Pro X 10.5 a Breakthrough Release for Musicians and Producers — Cupertino, California — Apple today unveiled … | Nicole Sperling / New York Times: |
Jeffrey Katzenberg blames COVID-19 for Quibi's paltry downloads as execs lower projections from 7M users and $250M subscriber revenue estimated for first year — Downloads of the $1.8 billion short-form streaming app, meant for phones, are paltry. “I attribute everything that has gone wrong to coronavirus,” Mr. Katzenberg said.
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| Josh Horwitz / Reuters: |
Smartphone shipments in China rose 17% YoY in April according to government data, suggesting a potential return to normalcy for the consumer hardware market — SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Smartphone shipments from China's factories to vendors rose 17% in April compared to the same month a year ago …
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| Alexander Behrens / Decrypt: |
TD Ameritrade-backed ErisX launches the first Ethereum futures trading platform in the US authorized by regulators — Ethereum has taken another big step into the regulated financial world. — ErisX, a US-based digital asset trading platform backed by TD Ameritrade, today launched trading for Ethereum …
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| Wolfie Zhao / CoinDesk: |
Bitcoin's third “halving”, the programmed event where mining rewards drop, has occurred, lowering the payout to 6.25 BTC per block; the last halving was in 2016 — Bitcoin's third halving, the network's quadrennial landmark and the most anticipated event this year in the cryptocurrency industry, has finally happened.
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Tweets: @lopp, @bramcohen, @bramcohen, @coindesk, @manianban, @bramcohen, @amittm, @bramcohen, and @mdudas
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Instagram Lite, the version of the Instagram app aimed at emerging markets, has quietly disappeared; source: a new lightweight Instagram app is being developed — Instagram Lite, the two-year old version of the Instagram app aimed at emerging markets, has quietly disappeared.
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| Elise Favis / Washington Post: |
A look at Nookazon, a fan-made online retailer for trading Animal Crossing in-game items that claims 270K DAUs, over 9M listings, and 7M page views per day — Daniel Luu, a 25-year-old software engineer from Maryland, woke up one morning to find hundreds of thousands of people scouring his newly launched website Nookazon.| Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
Paris-based PlayPlay, which develops a video creation tool for marketing teams, raises €10M Series A led by Balderton Capital — PlayPlay, the Paris-based startup behind a video creation tool that enables comms, marketing and social media teams to produce high-quality video content … | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Amazon makes Kendra, its cloud-based search tool that uses natural language processing to improve enterprise search, generally available — Amazon today launched Kendra in general availability, an AI and machine learning-powered service for enterprise search.| Bobbie Johnson / MIT Technology Review: |
Iceland's contract tracing app has ~38% adoption, the highest in the world, among its population of 364,000, but its impact on containing COVID-19 seems small — The country has the highest penetration of any automated contact tracing app in the world, but one senior figure says it “wasn't a game changer.”
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Tweets: @techreview, @covidperspectiv, @ckoever, @marcelsalathe, @adamvaughan_uk, @techreview, and @thomasforth
| Franklin Foer / The Atlantic: |
US' election security responses against Russian interference in 2016 remain inadequate as Russian tactics continue to evolve in the run up to the 2020 election — Jack Cable sat down at the desk in his cramped dorm room to become an adult in the eyes of democracy.| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Microsoft's new Family Safety app, for managing kids' screen time and app usage, launches in preview on Android and iOS and syncs with Windows and Xbox devices — The app syncs with Windows and Xbox devices — Microsoft is launching a dedicated new app, Family Safety, designed for managing kids' screen time and app usage.
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9to5Google, Microsoft 365 Blog, Neowin, Pocket-lint, Android Police, SlashGear, BleepingComputer, Windows Central, and CNET. Tweets: @brandonleblanc
| Miles Kruppa / Financial Times: |
Equity management platform Carta is planning to launch CartaX, a private share trading platform to rival Nasdaq, this summer for companies worth $1B+ — Silicon Valley start-up poised to launch exchange as tech companies delay IPOs — The Silicon Valley start-up Carta is planning to launch … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Spotify begins rolling out a new feature called Group Session, which lets multiple Premium users control a listening session — Spotify is today introducing a new feature, Group Session, that will allow two or more of its Premium users in the same space to share control over they music being played.
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Tweets: @jeremarketer, @b_fung, @drakerehfeld, @irvinebroque, @wongmjane, @ericajoy, @paulgelb, @ldrogen, @markcwebster, and @caseynewton
| Paul Vigna / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: JPMorgan Chase has extended banking services to two bitcoin exchanges, Coinbase and Gemini Trust, the first time it has accepted crypto clients — JPMorgan Chase has taken on two well-known bitcoin exchanges, Coinbase and Gemini Trust, as banking customers, say people familiar with the matter …
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Cointelegraph, The Block, and CoinDesk
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
DispatchTrack, which provides logistics services for last-mile deliveries, raises $144M from Spectrum Equity, in its first-ever funding — The current state of our COVID-19 world has underscored more than ever before the need for reliable delivery and e-commerce services …
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| Danny Crichton / TechCrunch: |
Vise, which provides a AI-powered app for investment advisors that helps them choose and personalize investment options for clients, raises $14.5M Series A — The retirement wars are heating up. — As millions of baby boomers leave their jobs in the coming years and transition into retirement …
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