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Facebook says it will stop selling Oculus Go, ending app submissions for it in December, and vows to no longer make headsets that only track head rotation — Facebook will stop selling Oculus Go this year as the company sharpens its focus on fully positionally tracked VR headsets like Oculus Quest.
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Tweets: @mcclure111, @edlago, @tommy_palm, @drash_vr, @bengeskin, @oculus, and @davezatz
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Tweets: @ru_weerasuriya, @jacksflavour, @mysticryan, @hmltn, and @ericpresidentvr
| Ian Walker / Kotaku: |
A former Mixer employee who worked at Microsoft for two years before joining the Mixer team in 2018 accuses management of failing to address racism at Mixer — Over the weekend, former Mixer employee Milan Lee shared a blog describing his experiences with racism while working …
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Tweets: @ninja, @watchmixer, @xboxp3, @shroud, @gothalion, @facebookgaming, @tomwarren, @watchmixer, @rubberninja, @shannon_liao, @johnolilly, @jeffgerstmann, @shannon_liao, and @sunidey
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Over 70 people, mostly women, have shared stories of discrimination, harassment, and sexual assault within the video game live-streaming industry since Friday — After more than 70 allegations surfaced on Twitter this weekend, gaming companies and streamers responded with action.
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| Dana Mattioli / Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon unveils a Climate Pledge Fund, which will invest an initial $2B in startups building sustainable technologies — Tech giant plans to invest in transportation, energy, food and other industries — Amazon. AMZN 2.36% com Inc. is launching a $2 billion internal venture-capital fund focused …
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| Mark Wilson / Fast Company: |
Segway, the two-wheeled, self-balancing vehicle known for the hype it generated in the early 2000s, ends production as the company lays off most of its staff — Steve Jobs said it would be bigger than the PC. Some dubbed it the most hyped product since the Apple Macintosh.
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| Cara Lombardo / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Dell is examining spinning off its ~$50B stake in VMWare as well as other options; after hours, Dell's stock is up 14%+, VMware's is up 8%+ — Dell Considers Spinoff, Other Options for VMWare Stake — Dell Technologies Inc. DELL 1.62% is examining options including a spinoff …
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1,000+ technologists, including some from MIT, Facebook, Google, urge Nature to not publish a paper that describes a system to predict crime based on faces — Technologists from MIT, Harvard, and Google say research claiming to predict crime based on human faces creates a “tech-to-prison pipeline” that reinforces racist policing.| David Gelles / New York Times: |
TaskRabbit says CEO Stacy Brown-Philpot is stepping down after four years; she is one of the few Black female tech CEOs in Silicon Valley — Stacy Brown-Philpot, one of the few prominent black women in the technology industry, has led the gig worker marketplace for four years, and oversaw its sale to Ikea.
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Tweets: @aunder, @nytimesbusiness, @veenadubal, @nytimesbusiness, and @stanfordgsb
| Nathaniel Popper / New York Times: |
Small businesses complain about Square withholding 20%-30% of their customers' payments, which it said it was doing to protect against risky transactions — Small businesses say the Twitter chief's other company is holding on to 30 percent of their customers' payments during the pandemic.
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Tweets: @lisaabramowicz1, @ungarino, @nathanielpopper, @alexlindsay, @felixsalmon, and @xeni
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Microsoft releases the first public preview of its Defender antivirus Android app, as Microsoft Defender ATP for Linux becomes generally available for all users — UPDATE: Microsoft Defender ATP for Linux has also exited public preview and is now generally available for all users.
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Tweets: @msintune, @msftsecurity, and @campuscodi
| Karin Matussek / Bloomberg: |
A previously-suspended German antitrust order against Facebook gets reinstated amid pending lawsuit, after a judge says Facebook abuses its dominant position — - Social network giant is abusing its market power, judges say — Antitrust order won't be suspended while suit is pending
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Tweets: @marietjeschaake, @cernovich, @jason_kint, and @profcarroll
| Don Clark / New York Times: |
Japanese supercomputer Fugaku is rated as the world's fastest, carrying out 2.8x more calculations/second than the second fastest, an IBM system at Oak Ridge — In the race for the most powerful computers, Fugaku, a Japanese supercomputer, recently beat American and Chinese machines.
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Tweets: @mukulneetika, @aparanjape, @stefaniechiras, @scottlincicome, @nytimesbusiness, and @nytimestech
| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple has added an accessibility feature in iOS 14 called Sound Recognition that can notify users about important sounds like fire alarms and doorbells — Apple has added a useful accessibility feature to iOS 14 called Sound Recognition that can notify users about important sounds …
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The Verge, Engadget, iPhone Hacks, iDownloadBlog.com, Neowin, and MSPoweruser. Tweets: @viticci
| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple is opening up the U1 chip found in iPhone 11 models to developers with a new Nearby Interaction framework for iOS 14 — Introduced last year, the U1 chip in iPhone 11 models enables Ultra Wideband support for improved spatial awareness, but Apple has so far only used the technology …
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Recent pledges by Google, Facebook, and Microsoft to diversify their workforce come after years of similar claims followed by little progress — Spurred by nationwide protests and calls to end systemic racism after the police killing of George Floyd, Google, Microsoft Corp …
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| Olaf Storbeck / Financial Times: |
Former Wirecard CEO Markus Braun has been arrested on suspicion of false accounting and market manipulation — Prosecutors accuse him of inflating German fintech company's balance sheet and revenues — Wirecard's former chief executive Markus Braun has been arrested on suspicion …
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Tweets: @quinnypig, @financialtimes, and @bopinion
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
DoNotPay, which creates bots to automate mundane tasks and save users money, raises $12M Series A led by Coatue Management at a valuation of $80M — The pandemic has opened a Pandora's box of consumer concerns, with flights canceled, gyms closed, and monthly membership commitments to contend with.| BuzzFeed News: |
Trump's new executive order will suspend H-1B, J-1, and H-2B visas, be in effect until the end of the year, and not immediately affect workers already in the US — BuzzFeed News has reporters around the world bringing you trustworthy stories about the impact of the coronavirus.
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Tweets: @sundarpichai, @policy, @andrewyng, @nxthompson, @levie, @levie, @mlevchin, @susanwojcicki, @haleaziz, @pichette, @adamnash, @cnbc, @moorehn, @sam_l_shead, @virusesimmunity, @jposhaughnessy, @isforat, @the_moviebob, @tanvim, @timkmak, @jason_pontin, @matt_oppy, @ow, @bznotes, @billkristol, @deniswirtz, @sahilkapur, @martinvars, @deniswirtz, @mmasnick, @amy_siskind, and @kevincorke
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Instagram says it is opening its Shopping tools to more businesses that comply with its new requirements, including creators selling their own merch — Instagram announced today it's expanding access to Instagram Shopping to more businesses, including creators who want to sell their own merchandise.
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