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| 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.
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Business Insider. Tweets: @tonyromm, @therickwilson, @asmith83, @sivavaid, @marietjeschaake, @xeni, @caseynewton, @tonyromm, @tonyromm, @attackerman, and @whotargetsme
| 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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CNET, Business Insider, The Next Web, Laptop Mag, International Business Times, Engadget, KnowTechie, TechSpot, Input, Digital Trends, Pocket-lint, Patently Apple, SlashGear, Appleosophy, MACお宝 …, Ubergizmo, Macworld, iMore, AppleInsider, iDownloadBlog.com, MacRumors, TechRadar.com, and iPhone in Canada Blog
Tweets: @jon_prosser, @parkerortolani, @_am1t, @brianroemmele, and @la3life
| 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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CoinDesk, Forbes, The Block, Decrypt, Cointelegraph, Messari Crypto, and PYMNTS.com. Tweets: @brianroemmele
| Apple: |
Apple unveils an 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 …
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9to5Mac, The Verge, Macworld, MacRumors, AppleInsider, iMore, CNET, Engadget, MacStories, iPhone in Canada Blog, and iDownloadBlog.com. Tweets: @reneritchie
| 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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The Verge, Wall Street Journal, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, MacDailyNews, iMore, and Neowin
| 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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Twitter, Associated Press, CNN, BBC, Engadget, Neowin, Telecoms.com, NPR, MediaNama, iMore, and TheStreet
Tweets: @twittersupport, @db, @anthony, @lisackaplan, @laurenboebert, @apolyakova, @digiphile, @parkermolloy, @metaviv, and @bluechoochoo
| Travis M. Andrews / Washington Post: |
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| Ed Hammond / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Uber has made an offer to acquire Grubhub, with an agreement possible as soon as this month, sending the food delivery company's stock up 24%+ — Uber Technologies Inc. has made an offer to acquire food-delivery startup Grubhub Inc., according to people familiar with the matter, Bloomberg News reports.
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Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, The Verge, CNBC, and Seeking Alpha
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| 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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CNET, Fortune, iMore, 9to5Mac, The Streamable, Tubefilter, Deadline, Business Insider, Hollywood Reporter, Telecoms.com, Engadget, Numlock News, Variety, Monday Moves, and Digital Trends
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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 … | 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 … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
LinkedIn adds polls and live video-based events in a focus on more virtual engagement — With a large part of the working world doing jobs from home when possible these days, the focus right now is on how best to recreate the atmosphere of an office virtually, and how to replicate online essential work that used to be done in person.
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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.| 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 …
Tweets: @sameer_singh17, @mayazi, @thecompoundnews, and @nikmilanovic
| 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.| 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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Bitcoin News, Cointelegraph, International Business Times, Gadget Now, Cointelegraph, TechRadar.com, The Next Web, Morning Brew, thebalance, coinspeaker.com, BeInCrypto, SiliconANGLE, The DeFi Bridge, Decrypt, Cryptonews, and The Block
Tweets: @lopp, @bramcohen, @manianban, @amittm, @coindesk, @bramcohen, @bramcohen, @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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Android Police, SlashGear, The Next Web, Engadget, PhoneArena, Forbes, and MobileSyrup
| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Profile and behind-the-scenes story of Marcus “MalwareTech” Hutchins, who helped stop the WannaCry attack and pled guilty to selling the Kronos banking malware — At 22, he single-handedly put a stop to the worst cyberattack the world had ever seen. Then he was arrested by the FBI.| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Intel Capital commits $132M to 11 startups focused on AI, automation, and chipset design — Intel today announced that Intel Capital, its global investment organization, committed a total of $132 million to 11 startups focused on AI, automation, and chipset design.
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ZDNet, TechCrunch, FinSMEs, and Business Wire
| 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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Microsoft 365 Blog, 9to5Google, Neowin, Pocket-lint, Android Police, SlashGear, BleepingComputer, Windows Central, and CNET. Tweets: @brandonleblanc
| 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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VentureBeat and FinSMEs
| 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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9to5Mac and Business Insider
Tweets: @techreview, @covidperspectiv, @ckoever, @marcelsalathe, @adamvaughan_uk, @techreview, and @thomasforth
| 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.| Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
Secondary shares marketplace Forge agrees to acquire rival Sharespost in a $160M cash-and-stock deal; Forge has raised $109M to date, Sharespost has raised $38M — Even amid a pandemic, there's a race on to create a powerful, global private securities marketplace where private shares … | Barton Gellman / Washington Post: |
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Tweets: @freedomofpress, @carolleonnig, @eff, and @washingtonpost
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