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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Sony invests $250M in Epic Games for a 1.4% stake, bringing the total raised by the maker of Fortnite to $1.58B — VB TRANSFORM — The AI event for business leaders — Hosted Online — July 15 - 17 — Learn More — Sony has invested $250 million for a minority stake …
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Business Wire, Tom's Hardware, Bloomberg, TechSpot, Android Central, Game Rant, Tubefilter, Kotaku, The Verge, Neowin, Wccftech, USgamer.net, TweakTown News, GameSpot, UploadVR, and Destructoid
Tweets: @quinnypig, @ijohnf, @kylebrussell, @epro, @mysticryan, and @zhugeex
| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Epic Games releases an iOS app, called Live Link Face, enabling the recording of facial expressions directly into the Unreal Engine — Using Apple's ARKit and the iPhone's TrueDepth camera — A newly released iOS app from Epic Games lets developers record facial expressions …
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Unreal Engine, App Store, Ars Technica, TechSpot, MacStories, Engadget, Gamasutra, 9to5Mac, iMore, MacRumors, AppleInsider, PC Gamer, and iDownloadBlog.com
Tweets: @thatbshar, @twthereddragon, @videogamenews, @unrealengine, and @jimmytugboat
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Hands-on with iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 as they launch in public beta with a new home screen with widgets on the iPhone, a Scribble feature for Apple Pencil, more — There are so many new features that it's hard to keep track — In anticipation of today's release of the public betas of iOS 14 …
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| Anirban Sen / Reuters: |
Sources: Coinbase is exploring going public via a direct listing as early as this year; Coinbase was last valued at $8B+ in 2018 — Anirban Sen, Joshua Franklin, Anna Irrera — (Reuters) - Coinbase Inc has started plans for a stock market listing that could come as early as this year …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
WhatsApp Business adds support for QR codes, allows businesses to create and share links to their catalogs to post elsewhere, and says it has 50M users — The global COVID-19 health pandemic has raised the stakes for businesses when it comes to using digital channels to connect with customers …
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WhatsApp, About Facebook, 9to5Mac, Wall Street Journal, Pocketnow, and PYMNTS.com. Thanks:@ingridlunden
| Alfred Ng / CNET: |
UK and Australian data privacy offices say they are opening a joint investigation of Clearview AI — The facial recognition company is being scrutinized over its database of 3 billion photos. — The governments of the UK and Australia are investigating a facial recognition company …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Gartner and IDC see YoY growth in Q2 PC shipments, 2.8% and 11.2% respectively, with both firms seeing the gains as short-term, driven by work-from-home demands — VB TRANSFORM — The AI event for business leaders — Hosted Online — July 14 - 17 — Register Today
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| Nico Grant / Bloomberg: |
Google scrapped a campus security system asking employees to check each other's badges, sources say after complaints Black and Latinx workers were singled out — - Company encouraged staff to check colleagues' ID badges — System scrapped after workers complained to CEO Sundar Pichai
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Microsoft details Kernel Data Protection, upcoming Windows 10 tech that it says blocks malware from modifying OS memory by making parts of the kernel read-only — New KDP security feature is currently being tested with Windows 10 Insider builds. — Microsoft has published today …
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| Sam Biddle / The Intercept: |
Sources: Dataminr, an official Twitter partner, relayed tweets and other social media posts about BLM protesters directly to police, contrary to earlier claims — Leveraging close ties to Twitter, controversial artificial intelligence startup Dataminr helped law enforcement digitally monitor … | Bloomberg: |
Elon Musk claims Tesla is “very close” to developing fully autonomous vehicles despite Tesla's “Full Self Driving” feature not living up to its name since 2016 — - The billionaire says it'll have basics worked out this year — Tesla's in an industry race to develop fully self-driven cars
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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
In a first, the CENTRE Consortium has blocked an Ethereum address holding $100K USDC stablecoin in response to a law enforcement request — The CENTRE Consortium blacklisted a USDC address in response to a law enforcement request, freezing $100,000 worth of the stablecoin, a spokesperson said Wednesday.
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Tweets: @coindesk, @sthenc, @mrhodl, @theblock__, @aaronwstanley, @jp_koning, @iamnomad, @psychedelicbart, @ourielohayon, and @paul_btc
| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
Police are buying access to hacked data, including passwords, IP addresses, and more to help with investigations in an end-run around the usual legal processes — The sale is “an end-run around the usual legal processes.” — Joseph Cox — Hackers break into websites, steal information …
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Telecoms.com. Tweets: @josephfcox, @anthony, @doctorow, @doctorow, @josephfcox, @gossithedog, @adam_k_levin, @josephfcox, and @evan_greer
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
App Annie: mobile app usage grew 40% YoY globally in Q2, hitting an all-time high of over 200B hours during April, amid stay-at-home measures — As the world continued to cope with the impact of the coronavirus outbreak, the second quarter of 2020 became the largest yet for mobile app downloads, usage, and consumer spending.
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App Annie, iMore, PYMNTS.com, Gamasutra, Android Police, and equalocean.com. Tweets: @appannie
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google says Android 10 reached 100M devices just five months after launch, which is 28% faster than Android Pie — Ahead of Android 11's launch later this quarter, Google is recapping how its partners are releasing device updates faster than ever. Notably, the “adoption of Android 10 …
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Android Developers Blog, Android Authority, Android Police, and Droid Life
| Noel Randewich / Reuters: |
Nvidia surpasses Intel as the most valuable US chipmaker, with a market cap of $248B+ as its stock has surged 68% in 2020 — (Reuters) - Nvidia (NVDA.O) has overtaken Intel (INTC.O) for the first time as the most valuable U.S. chipmaker. — In a semiconductor industry milestone …
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TechSpot, Bloomberg, ExtremeTech, The Next Web, Seeking Alpha, and Tom's Hardware
Tweets: @varunkrish and @amittm
| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
TikTok says it took down 49M+ videos globally for content violations during H2 2019 and again claims it received no takedown requests from China — TikTok's second transparency report offers more details on video removals — TikTok took down more than 49 million videos from users across …
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Newsroom | TikTok, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, Fast Company, Social Media Today, Bloomberg, CNBC, The Next Web, Axios, BBC, and Digital Trends
Tweets: @sam_l_shead and @mattnavarra
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: DOJ is examining whether Wirecard played a critical role in an alleged $100M bank fraud conspiracy connected to an online marijuana marketplace — Federal prosecutors, FBI examining Wirecard's work as payment processor, merchant bank in alleged $100 million fraud involving cannabis company
Tweets: @kowsmann, @rebeccadobrien, and @benpershing
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Amazon announced the general availability of AWS IoT SiteWise, its managed IoT monitoring service for industrial customers, including VW and Bayer — VB TRANSFORM — The AI event for business leaders — Hosted Online — July 14 - 17 — Register Today
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Open source database startup MariaDB adds $25M extension to its $27M Series C, bringing total raised to $125M+, says it's doubled its last valuation of ~$354M — Cloud services continue to be a key component of how organisations remain operational even as so much else … | John Hendel / Politico: |
As his chairmanship hits its fourth year, Ajit Pai has alienated the auto industry, lawmakers, and Trump allies, with decisions like opening 6GHz for Wi-Fi — In moving to free up Wi-Fi and bolster superfast service, Pai has alienated some industries, congressional committees and Trump Cabinet leaders.| Mengqi Sun / Wall Street Journal: |
US Treasury Department says Amazon settled allegations that it violated US sanctions, primarily due to flaws in its automatic screening process, for $135,000 — The e-commerce giant's screening system allegedly failed to flag transactions with blacklisted customersSponsor Posts
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