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| Kashmir Hill / New York Times: |
In January, a faulty facial recognition match led to a Michigan man's arrest for a crime he did not commit, in what may be the first known case of its kind — In what may be the first known case of its kind, a faulty facial recognition match led to a Michigan man's arrest for a crime he did not commit.
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| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
Slack launches Connect, letting up to 20 organizations communicate in a single Slack channel, currently available to paying customers — Slack today announced the launch of Connect, a way for up to 20 organizations to communicate in a single Slack channel.
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TechCrunch, Slack, Engadget, GeekWire, ZDNet, OnMSFT.com, MSPoweruser, and Seeking Alpha
| Alfred Ng / CNET: |
Senate Republicans introduce a bill to end “warrant-proof” encryption, forcing tech companies to work with law enforcement, citing apps like WhatsApp — The proposed legislation is Congress' latest attempt to weaken encryption from tech giants.
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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Google says it will auto-delete location and search data by default for new users after 18 months, as part of a broader expansion of its privacy options — A compromise between privacy and ad-targeting data — On Wednesday, Google announced broad changes in its default data practices for new users …
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| Bloomberg: |
Central Bank of Brazil tells Mastercard and Visa to stop payments via WhatsApp in the country to evaluate risks and regulations — - Central bank wants to assess risks to country's payment system — Lawyer says suspension is an unusual move by the bank| Kosaku Narioka / Wall Street Journal: |
Olympus exits the camera business after 84 years to focus on medical devices, selling its camera unit to private equity firm Japan Industrial Partners — Under pressure from U.S. shareholder ValueAct Capital, Tokyo company to sell unit to private-equity firm Japan Industrial Partners
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Review of email app Superhuman: elegant, detailed interface but you have to live with its fixed hotkeys, inconsistent filtering, and the steep $30/month price — $30 per month is too much for a Gmail app — Superhuman is one of the most in-demand startups right now …
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| Los Angeles Times: |
An in-depth look at the systemic diversity issues that plague Silicon Valley giants and VCs, effectively shutting Black and Latino people out of the industry — It seemed like tech was turning a corner. — For years, the industry's giants had resisted calls to disclose workforce diversity data …
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| Tiffany Hsu / New York Times: |
Ben & Jerry's, Eddie Bauer, and Magnolia Pictures join Patagonia, REI, and others suspending Facebook ads in July to protest amplification of hate speech — Eddie Bauer, Magnolia Pictures, Ben & Jerry's and others have suspended campaigns over the platform's content moderation practices.
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| Bradley Chambers / 9to5Mac: |
Fleetsmith, which makes enterprise management and security products for Apple devices, says it has been acquired by Apple — Mobile Device Management is at the heart of every Apple enterprise customer's network stack. Up until now, Apple has generally relied on third party companies …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Trump's campaign has discussed moving away from Facebook and Twitter, potentially to platforms like Parler, following disputes with both platforms — Amid disputes with Facebook and Twitter, the president's team mulls whether to push supporters toward a different platform or put more emphasis on its own campaign app
Tweets: @mikeisaac, @jesselehrich, @wexler, @yamiche, @keachhagey, and @kevinroose
| Kyle Daly / Axios: |
| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
After WWDC, the performance of Apple's silicon chips for Mac remains a mystery, with speed and efficiency claims not yet substantiated through benchmarks — There were canned demos but no benchmarks or comparisons — For years, Apple has steadily revealed how the ARM-based chips …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Twitter permanently suspends @DDoSecrets account for violating distribution of hacked data policy after it shared links to data stolen from US law enforcement — Twitter said DDoSecrets account leaked and promoted BlueLeaks, a huge collection of files stolen from more than 200 US police departments and fusion training centers.
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| Pranshu Verma / New York Times: |
A lawsuit, filed on behalf of the Open Technology Fund, argues dismissal of heads of OTF and four outlets by Global Media's new CEO Michael Pack was unlawful — The suit is the first legal action taken against Michael Pack after he fired the heads of the technology organization and four journalism outlets under his purview last week.| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
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| Leah Nylen / Politico: |
Sources say DOJ and a coalition of state attorneys general are considering an antitrust investigation into Apple's App Store, following a similar EU probe — The Justice Department and a coalition of state attorneys general are taking the first steps toward launching an antitrust probe of Apple …
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CNET, 9to5Mac, iMore, AppleInsider, iPhone Hacks, iDownloadBlog.com, Business Insider, MacDailyNews, and Pocket-lint. Tweets: @lisaabramowicz1
| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Jumbo, which lets users easily manage their online privacy and mass-delete old posts, raises $8M Series A and releases a major app update — A year after its initial release, Jumbo has two important pieces of news to announce. First, the company has released a major update of its app that protects your privacy on online services.| Aaron Gordon / VICE: |
Former JUMP employees blame the bikeshare company's downfall on Uber applying a software business mentality to a transportation business after acquiring it — One morning at the end of May, Mark Miretsky awoke in his San Francisco apartment and groggily browsed his phone. There was no rush to get up.| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
ClickUp, which offers subscription tools for task management and more, raises $35M Series A led by Craft Ventures — The productivity software space is filled with niche startups designing premium tools with very particular customers in mind. On the flip side a growing class of startups …
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| Judd Legum / Popular Information: |
Despite teaming with Science Feedback last year, Facebook has made climate disinformation ineligible for fact-checking by deeming it “opinion” — This is a special joint edition of Popular Information and HEATED, a climate newsletter by journalist Emily Atkin.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook's NPE Team tests Forecast, an app fostering a community around making crowdsourced predictions about world events using in-app points, now invite-only — Forecast, a new project from Facebook's internal R&D group, NPE Team, is launching today to build a community around predictions.
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NPE Blog, Social Media Today, TechSpot, and Ubergizmo
| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
watchOS 7 drops support for Force Touch, a hardware feature that has been available on every Apple Watch model for revealing hidden menus and more — watchOS 7 adds a variety of new features, such as sleep tracking and new workout types, but it also drops support for one key feature.
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Apple Developer, International Business Times, iPhone in Canada Blog, Gizmodo, and Cord Cutters News
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| Janko Roettgers / Protocol: |
Source: Amazon is “actively pursuing” licensing deals to add live and linear TV to complement its Prime Video offerings — Amazon is looking to add 24/7 live programming to its Prime Video service, according to multiple job listings posted over the past several weeks.| Alfred Ng / CNET: |
Boston passes an ordinance to ban government use of facial recognition, with minor caveats, joining cities like San Francisco, Oakland, and Cambridge — It's the largest city on the East Coast to ban the technology. — Boston joined cities like San Francisco, Oakland, California … Sponsor Posts
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