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America is awash in cameras, a double-edged sword for protesters, who can record police brutality, and cops, who can use them to track down protesters — Smartphone cameras, home security cameras, traffic cameras — digital eyes are a boon and danger to protesters.| Taylor Lorenz / New York Times: |
Supercuts of violent police behavior during widespread protests have been going viral on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, with one racking up over 45M views — Supercuts of police behavior are receiving enormous numbers of views. — An officer shoving a protester to the ground.
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Snap says it has stopped promoting Trump's account in Discover, after a tweet from days ago about protesters at the White House meeting “ominous weapons” — Trump will retain his account but no longer appear in Discover — President Trump's verified Snapchat account will no longer …
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| Sidney Fussell / Wired: |
Protests renew scrutiny of tech companies' ties to law enforcement, as company officials issue statements in support of protesters — Amazon executives tweeted support for protesters. But the company sells a surveillance tool to police that studies say misidentifies darker-skinned people.
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
As tech companies cancel events into 2021, Consumer Technology Association says next January's CES will take place “both physically in Las Vegas and digitally” — Other companies are canceling large conferences — The group behind CES plans to hold the enormous tech convention …
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| Ivan Mehta / The Next Web: |
Zoom CEO says the app's upcoming end-to-end encryption feature will be available only to paid users in order to comply with law enforcement in case of misuse — If you're a free Zoom user, and waiting for the company to roll out end-to-end encryption for better protection of your calls, you're out of luck.
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| Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan / Financial Times: |
Google removes Remove China Apps, which promised to help users rid their smartphones of Chinese apps, from the Play Store; the app had 4.7M downloads in India — Remove China Apps reached top of Play Store in India before it was ousted on Tuesday — Google intervened on Tuesday after millions …
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Tweets: @ananthkrishnan, @jamescrabtree, and @yuanfenyang
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
SoftBank launches Opportunity Growth Fund to invest in companies led by founders and entrepreneurs of color, initially starting with $100M — As we continue to see protests across the US (and elsewhere) sparked by the killing of George Floyd by police in Minnesota, SoftBank is announcing … | Liam Tung / ZDNet: |
Microsoft starts bringing its Chromium-based version of Edge to all Windows 10 users through an automatic update; the browser previously needed to be downloaded — New Edge is rolling out to Windows 10 users via Windows Update. — Microsoft this week announced it was deprecating … | Robert Stevens / Decrypt: |
Report: cryptocurrency fraud estimated to be $1.36B in 2020, with thieves increasingly obfuscating origins of funds as exchanges enact anti-laundering measures — The year has so far observed $1.36 billion worth of crypto-related fraud, according to a report from blockchain analysis firm CipherTrace.
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| Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg: |
Interview with ex-Uber CTO Thuan Pham, who left last month, on his seven years atop the company, its rapid expansion, future plans, and more — Reflecting on seven years as the top technology executive at Uber Technologies Inc., Thuan Pham divides his time there into three “tours of duty,” as he describes them.
Tweets: @whatthebit
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Ride-hailing and payments firm Gojek says Facebook and PayPal were participating in its ongoing Series F; Gojek was valued at $10B after raising $1.2B in March — Facebook and PayPal have made investments in Gojek, joining Google and Tencent among other high-profile technology firms …
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Financial Times, About Facebook, Financial Times, South China Morning Post, and CNBC
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| New York Times: |
In a rare public protest at Facebook, hundreds of staff staged a virtual walkout, pushing back on Zuckerberg's choice to let Trump's inflammatory posts stand — While Twitter started labeling some of the president's inflammatory posts, Facebook's chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, has said his company should leave them alone.
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
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| Kate Conger / New York Times: |
Trump's executive order on social media is facing its first legal challenge, from the Center for Democracy and Technology, filed in DC's US District Court — The nonprofit Center for Democracy and Technology argues that the president's move against Twitter and other companies is retaliatory.
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