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| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
Amazon says it will ban police from using Rekognition for one year, says Congress “appears ready” to place stronger regulations on facial recognition tech — - Amazon said on Wednesday that it's putting in place a one-year moratorium on police use of Rekognition.
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google releases Android 11 Beta 1 for Pixel phones, with updates to messaging notifications, ability for message threads to pop out in bubbles, and more — The Android 11 beta is available now for Pixel phones — Today, Google is releasing the Android 11 beta for Pixel phones.
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Tweets: @suka_hiroaki, @backlon, @android, @mishaalrahman, and @campuscodi
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google details upcoming improvements to Android Studio, like ML model importing, and refreshes Google Play Console; 70%+ of the top 1,000 Play apps use Kotlin — Google today launched the first Android 11 beta with final SDK and NDK APIs as well as new 10 features.
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Android Developers Blog, 9to5Google, XDA Developers, Wccftech, The Verge, and TechRadar.com. Tweets: @backlon
| Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian / Axios: |
US-based Chinese activists say Zoom closed their paid account after event commemorating Tiananmen; Zoom says it was complying with local law, has reactivated it — The U.S. video-conferencing company Zoom closed the account of a group of prominent U.S.-based Chinese activists after they held …
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Bloomberg and Los Angeles Times
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| Bloomberg: |
Just Eat Takeaway confirms it is acquiring Grubhub in an all-stock deal; the deal has an equity value of $7.3B — - Deal creates one of world's largest food-delivery companies — Dutch company offered to pay $75.15 per share for Grubhub — Europe's Just Eat Takeaway.com NV agreed …
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| Bradley Chambers / 9to5Mac: |
Apple says it will discontinue iBooks Author, which will no longer be updated, in July 2020 and iTunes U, its educational resources portal, at the end of 2021 — I have previously written about my frustration With iBooks Author and iTunes U, and Apple has now announced both of these products …
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Tweets: @reneritchie, @stroughtonsmith, @apollozac, @frankcatalano, and @scriptingosx
| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE: |
Sources detail Facebook's extraordinary efforts to help the FBI track down a repeat child predator, paying a cybersecurity firm six figures for a Tails zero-day — For years, a California man systematically harassed and terrorized young girls using chat apps, email, and Facebook.
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Gizmodo, CNET, Court Listener, Business Insider, New York Post, 9to5Mac, and Engadget
| Nitasha Tiku / Washington Post: |
Black tech founders say VCs should move past diversity theater, addressing the lack of top-level black investors and investment in black-run startups — There's a dearth of black investors in venture capital's upper echelons and little investment in start-ups with black founders
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TechCrunch. Tweets: @bryce, @km, @posttech, @rachelerman, @eperlste, @nitashatiku, @thevaluesvc, @nmasc_, and @reedalbergotti
| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Amid protests, a movement swells to update widely-used tech terms for hard drives, camera flashes, and databases, like whitelist/blacklist and master/slave — During Black Lives Matter protests, a movement grows to update terms used with hard drives, camera flashes and databases.
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PetaPixel. Tweets: @leahculver, @mattocko, @houlihan_rick, @alexjamesfitz, @prosaicview, @simonw, @stshank, and @jessesheidlower
| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Reddit names Y Combinator CEO and Justin.tv founder Michael Seibel as Alexis Ohanian's replacement — Ohanian stepped down last week, asking the board to replace him with a black candidate — Reddit has named Y Combinator CEO Michael Seibel to its board of directors.
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| Michael Potuck / 9to5Mac: |
Apple becomes the first company to reach a market cap of $1.5T+ — AAPL shares have crossed another major milestone with the market cap hitting over $1.5 trillion during trading today. The growth makes it the first US company to reach the achievement. — Just last week we saw AAPL pushing closer …
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MacRumors, Ars Technica, Barron's Online, New York Post, MacRumors, Fast Company, iPhone in Canada Blog, Gizchina, and PYMNTS.com
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| Sarah Emerson / OneZero : |
Facebook acknowledges banning hundreds of anti-racist skinheads for allegedly violating its community standards, apparently conflating them with neo-Nazi groups — ‘They wanted to see my ID before they would give me my account back’ — Hundreds of anti-racist skinheads are reporting …
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Gizmodo, BBC, The Sun, NME, Louder Than War, Exclaim! Media, Engadget, and The Focus
Tweets: @sarahnemerson, @guyro, @dlberes, @rmac18, @ozm, @_cheymac, @philnelson, @bcmerchant, @jilliancyork, @evan_greer, @mikeisaac, @slpng_giants, @jason_koebler, @sarahnemerson, and @jeffbercovici. Thanks:@dlberes
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple says in a memo that its main campus will re-open on June 15 for select employees, with most waiting several months at least before going back — Apple Inc. told staff at its main Silicon Valley headquarters that the first phase of a plan to return to the office will begin on June 15 … | Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Intel details its 3D-stacked Lakefield chips, designed for ultraportable, foldable, and dual-screen devices, in a bid to compete with ARM and Qualcomm — Intel is ready to take on ARM and Qualcomm — Intel's 3D-stacked Lakefield processors are finally getting an official debut after months of previews …
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Engadget, AnandTech, 9to5Mac, Gizmodo, SiliconANGLE, Windows Central, SemiAccurate, Tom's Hardware, CNET, Thurrott, and Laptop Mag. Tweets: @lukemiani
| New York Times: |
Many top Chinese-educated AI researchers work at US companies, which could lose their edge as Trump moves to limit Chinese access to advanced American research — New research shows scientists educated in China help American firms and schools dominate the cutting-edge field.
Tweets: @aauniversities, @paulmozur, @paulmozur, @paulmozur, @paulmozur, @paulmozur, @ericfish85, @jchengwsj, and @nytimes
| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
Amazon, Facebook, and Google have been covertly funding a range of political groups to fight back against US antitrust action, pushing positive polling and more — The tech giants have funded a bevy of political groups, including those producing positive polling, and engaged …
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Financial Times, getrevue.co, and The Logic
Tweets: @tonyromm, @slpng_giants, @omidyarnetwork, @caseynewton, @demandprogress, @noahbookbinder, and @dhh
| Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
Two senators have introduced a bill to provide over $22.8B in aid for domestic semiconductor manufacturers; two House members plan to introduce a similar bill — (Reuters) - A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday introduced a bill that would provide more than $22.8 billion in aid …
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Bloomberg and MacDailyNews
| Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
Tech giants like Salesforce and Facebook, longtime advocates of open workspaces, are reopening with new rules, banning elevator conversations, communal snacks — Companies like Salesforce created workplaces with all the comforts of home. But now they may feel more like hospitals.
Tweets: @benioff, @pink94109, @r0h1n, and @coreymintz
| Isobel Asher Hamilton / Business Insider: |
After its apparent exit from the facial recognition business, experts say IBM ruling out only “general purpose” development could give the company a loophole — - IBM announced on Monday it would stop selling “general purpose IBM facial recognition or analysis software” … | Scott Moritz / Bloomberg: |
Dish and T-Mobile have yet to decide on terms of Dish's purchase of Boost Mobile as July 1 deadline approaches; T-Mobile must offload Boost to acquire Sprint — - Negotiations heat up as key divestiture nears July 1 deadline — Issues include Boost customers getting service on new T-Mobile| Hadas Gold / CNN: |
Facebook says it is lifting its blanket ban on ads for face masks, introduced in the early weeks of the pandemic; ads for medical face masks will remain banned — London (CNN Business)Facebook announced Wednesday that it will lift the blanket ban on advertisements for face masks …
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Facebook, The Verge, and CNBC
Tweets: @evelyndouek, @robleathern, @robleathern, and @robleathern
| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Hands-on with Huawei's P40 Pro Plus, launching internationally later this month without Google services: focus on the camera is undermined by Google's absence — - Huawei is challenging Samsung in the smartphone photography department. But Samsung has something Huawei can't offer.| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
Apple's rumored shift to its own CPUs for Mac may parallel the 2005 transition to Intel and brings up similar questions of emulation, developer transition kits — Mark Gurman: … I'm not sure what the hedging is about there, other than the fact that anything reported about anyone's future plans could, in theory, change.
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The Shape of Everything, 9to5Mac, The Verge, Learning By Shipping, Macworld, WinBuzzer, TechSpot, Trusted Reviews, Digital Trends, Financial Times, and iMore. Tweets: @sonnydickson
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