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| Newley Purnell / Wall Street Journal: |
Facebook and Telegram say they are suspending requests for user data from Hong Kong police, following a new national security law by China — Action comes ‘pending further assessment’ of China's national-security law for territory — HONG KONG— Facebook Inc. FB .97% and its WhatsApp messaging service … | Alex Sherman / CNBC: |
Uber buys food delivery service Postmates for $2.65B in an all-stock deal — - Uber agreed to buy Postmates, the fourth-largest U.S. delivery food service, for $2.65 billion in stock. — Uber had attempted to acquire GrubHub last month but talks failed.
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| Benjamin Wallace / Vulture: |
Inside Quibi's implosion, aided by the divisive management styles of Katzenberg and Whitman, compounded by a failure to understand its digital-native audience — The Emmy race has begun! Vulture is taking a close look at the contenders until nomination-round voting closes on July 13.
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| Rebecca Heilweil / Vox: |
Even if government use of facial recognition tech is regulated more strictly, issues will remain due to the ubiquity of the same tech in consumer devices — A growing number of gadgets are scanning your face. — Facial recognition is having a reckoning.
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| Malkia Devich-Cyril / The Atlantic: |
To defend Black lives, and protect their rights and dignity, we must defund facial recognition and other surveillance tech fueling racist US policing — Ahmaud Arbery. Breonna Taylor. Tony McDade. George Floyd. Rayshard Brooks. Oluwatoyin Salau. Robert Forbes.
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| Gene Park / Washington Post: |
AAA games for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X will likely be priced at $69.99, the first rise since 2005, when Activision released COD: 2 for $59.99 — Video games have been $60 for as long as many of you can remember, but price listings for the upcoming “NBA 2K21” titles for PlayStation 5 …
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| Benedict Carey / New York Times: |
Researchers demonstrate an algorithm that could predict COVID-19 outbreaks based on data from Google, Twitter, smartphones, and other streams — Researchers have developed a model that uses social-media and search data to forecast outbreaks of Covid-19 well before they occur.| William Clowes / Bloomberg: |
A Nigerian man with 2.4M Instagram followers, who allegedly conspired to use hacked email accounts to trick others into sending money, was extradited to the US — A Nigerian social-media celebrity was extradited to the U.S. from Dubai to face fraud charges.
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| Margaret Harding McGill / Axios: |
US government's Lifeline broadband subsidy program only serves under one-fifth of the 38M qualified households, with some blaming FCC's Ajit Pai — The federal government's main program to keep lower income people connected is only serving one-fifth of the people it could help …
Tweets: @mandl
| Bloomberg: |
Source: UK to begin phasing out use of Huawei equipment in its 5G network as soon as this year, after report doubted viability of Huawei due to new US sanctions — - Decision would reverse green light given to Chinese tech giant — Minister Dowden to give statement on Huawei before July 22
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| Ben Smith / New York Times: |
Netflix began to build its Black content catalog, the envy of Hollywood, in 2015 after the success of “Orange Is the New Black” and a memo from Black employees — The company didn't set out to build a big library of Black programming, but now it's the envy of its rivals.| John Haughey / Washington Examiner: |
Florida becomes first state to enact a DNA privacy law, blocking life, disability, and long-term insurers from accessing genetic data — Florida on Wednesday became the nation's first state to enact a DNA privacy law, prohibiting life, disability and long-term care insurance companies from using genetic tests for coverage purposes.
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