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Jack Dorsey says Twitter is actively exploring additional ways to make money from its users, including through a subscription model — Washington (CNN Business)Twitter (TWTR) is actively exploring additional ways to make money from its users, including by considering a subscription model, CEO Jack Dorsey said Thursday.| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
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Tweets: @twittersupport, @leokelion, and @thekarami
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| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
Intel says that it has delayed the rollout of its 7nm CPUs by six months, now 12 months behind the company's internal targets — Intel announced today in its Q2 2020 earnings release that it has now delayed the rollout of its 7nm CPUs by six months relative to its previously-planned release date.
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Gizmodo, Reuters, Windows Central, MacRumors, Protocol, The Verge, PCWorld, ZDNet, Silicon Valley Business …, and Daring Fireball
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Intel reports Q2 revenue of $19.7B, up 20% YoY, and Data Center Group revenue of $7.1B, up 43% YoY, but offers disappointing Q3 guidance; stock down 8%+ — - Intel beat on the top and bottom lines, but earnings guidance for the current quarter was lighter than expected.
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Intel, AppleInsider, Tom's Hardware, Reuters, Thurrott, Neowin, TechSpot, MSPoweruser, and Wccftech. Tweets: @scottwapnercnbc
| Alexandra Garrett / CNET: |
Steve Wozniak and 17 others sue Google, claiming YouTube repeatedly ignored requests to take down videos using their names and likeness to promote Bitcoin scams — The Apple co-founder says YouTube repeatedly ignored requests to take down a scam video. — Steve Wozniak, Apple co-founder …
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Bloomberg, cpmlegal.com, CoinDesk, The Verge, AppleInsider, InsideBitcoins.com, Daring Fireball, and Ars Technica. Tweets: @zseano
| BuzzFeed News: |
An inside look at internal strife and dissent within Facebook, as employees warn the company is “hurting people at scale” and reckon with what they've built — On July 1, Max Wang, a Boston-based software engineer who was leaving Facebook after more than seven years …
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USA Today. Tweets: @rmac18, @buzzfeednews, @buzzfeednews, @daveyalba, @buzzfeednews, @mat, @lopezlinette, @mccarthyryanj, @hannahgais, @scottnover, @ehananoki, @profcarroll, @mattmittenthal, @jamesfallows, @frankrebecca, @craigsilverman, @rmac18, @bernardchickey, @moorehn, @kylesethgray, and @anandwrites
| Wall Street Journal: |
Some startups that took investments from Amazon or had discussions about them say the company used info it received in the process to launch competing products — Some companies regret sharing information with tech giant and its Alexa Fund; ‘we may have been naive’
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Business Insider and Trusted Reviews
Tweets: @oliviasolon, @danamattioli, @rachelbovard, @hshaban, @grahamstarr, @mcwm, and @danpriceseattle
| Olivia Solon / NBC News: |
Sources: Facebook ceased research into racial bias in Instagram's moderation tools after finding problematic results; Facebook says the methodology was flawed — In mid-2019, researchers at Facebook began studying a new set of rules proposed for the automated system that Instagram uses …
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The Hill. Tweets: @aprilaser, @blackamazon, @emeralddeleeuw, @jason_kint, @ncweaver, @gregotto, @oliviasolon, @oliviasolon, @zackford, @chetfaliszek, @pegobry, @profcarroll, @oliviasolon, and @jeremybmerrill
| Eli Blumenthal / CNET: |
AT&T says its low-band 5G network is now available to 205M people, joining T-Mobile as a nationwide 5G network — The carrier is also adding 5G access to its cheapest unlimited plan. — AT&T's 5G network crossed an important milestone Thursday, with the telecom giant announcing … | Corbin Davenport / Android Police: |
Internal doc: T-Mobile to require all new devices to support VoLTE from August 4, and will stop supporting any non-VoLTE phones on its network from January 2021 — According to internal T-Mobile documents, the carrier plans to rapidly fast track plans to shut down its 2G and 3G voice networks …
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Corning unveils Gorilla Glass Victus, says it can resist a six-foot drop and has twice the scratch resistance of the previous gen, will debut in a few months — Samsung will be the first to feature the new glass — Your next Samsung Galaxy or iPhone may soon include the toughest gadget glass Corning has ever created.
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Corning, CNET, TechCrunch, iMore, 9to5Google, Mashable, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, AppleInsider, Android Authority, XDA Developers, TechSpot, TechPP, Neowin, Android Police, MSPoweruser, Android Headlines, USA Today, SamMobile, Gizmodo, Wired, and Engadget
Tweets: @dcseifert, @calebwatney, @corning, and @thurrott
| Margaret Harding McGill / Axios: |
Document obtained via FOIA request indicates Texas AG may be investigating Apple's trade practices as part of a multi-state investigation — Multiple states are investigating Apple for potentially deceiving consumers, according to a March document uncovered by a tech watchdog group.
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iMore, BGR, Reuters, AppleInsider, CNBC, PYMNTS.com, MacRumors, iDownloadBlog.com, and 9to5Mac. Tweets: @carlquintanilla
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Plex launches 80+ free live TV channels across news, sports, film, classic TV, comedy, anime, and more categories, accessible by both free users and subscribers — Streaming media platform Plex announced today it's further expanding into live TV with the addition of over 80 free live TV channels accessible … | Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Following a possible ransomware attack, Garmin starts shutting down its website, Garmin Connect, and some production lines in Asia, plans for multi-day recovery — Smartwatch and wearable maker Garmin planning multi-day maintenance window to deal with ransomware incident.
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CyberScoop, Threatpost, Android Authority, BleepingComputer, and Android Central. Tweets: @gigigraciette
| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Report: Trump campaign alleges suppression of political speech after AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile blocked its texts over fears they violated anti-spam rules — Campaign texts are annoying but legally murky territory — President Donald Trump's reelection campaign is reportedly fighting …
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Tweets: @dsamuelsohn, @mweinberg2d, @waltshaub, @mikeelgan, and @dsamuelsohn
| Julia Alexander / The Verge: |
TikTok says it is launching a new $200M fund to pay creators directly for their content — The first major monetization effort from the company — As TikTok continues to grow in popularity and its personalities become mainstream celebrities in their own right, the company is trying …
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Newsroom | TikTok, CNN, Gizmodo, FinSMEs, Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone, Social Media Today, dot.LA, dexerto.com, Engadget, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, CNET, and Tubefilter
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Sources: ByteDance and its investors are mulling options like selling just TikTok's US business or splitting off ByteDance's international arm to save US TikTok — - Venture investors urge Zhang to sell a majority stake in app — Time is running short to avoid a crackdown from U.S. officials
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Tweets: @hawleymo, @lanceulanoff, @felixsalmon, @michaelschuman, @sarahfrier, and @mikeisaac
| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Facebook now allows Messenger Rooms users to live broadcast video calls with up to 50 participants — - Facebook announced a new feature that will allow users to live broadcast video calls with up to 50 participants. — The ability to live broadcast Messenger Rooms calls could pose another threat …
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About Facebook, Engadget, Social Media Today, Neowin, Windows Central, Mashable, MSPoweruser, Android Headlines, and Pocketnow. Tweets: @db
| Bill Ready / The Keyword: |
Google Shopping goes commission-free for retailers and adds support for third-party providers, starting with PayPal and Shopify — Over the past few months, we've made significant changes to help businesses reach more consumers and help people find the best products, prices and places to buy online.
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Marketing Land, Shopify's pressreleases, TheStreet, support.google.com, and 9to5Google
Tweets: @retailgeek, @delrey, @williamready, @daiwaka, and @richontech
| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Paris selects Lime, Tier, and Dott as its electric scooter operators, snubbing Bird, which had planned to build a Paris hub and hire 1,000 people over two years — Lime, Tier, and Dott are the big winners in the City of Lights — Paris has chosen its electric scooter operators.
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| Javier Espinosa / Ars Technica: |
Sources: EU asks Google in its Fitbit acquisition to not use Fitbit data to “further enhance its search advantage” and to grant 3rd parties equal access to data — Pledge required that health data will not be used to improve search engine. — The EU has demanded that Google …
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9to5Google and PYMNTS.com
| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Ceros, a no-code digital design service with clients like Snap and IBM, raises $100M led by Sumeru Equity Partners; Crunchbase: Ceros previously raised $33.5M — Ceros is taking a big step up in fundraising today, with the announcement that it has raised a $100 million investment led by Sumeru Equity Partners.
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New York Business Journal, Business Wire, and Crunchbase News
| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Facebook can now simulate the actions of bad actors using AI-powered bots let loose in a parallel version of Facebook that researchers can then study — Bad bots roam free in a parallel version of Facebook — Facebook's engineers have developed a new method to help them identify …
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Facebook AI, The Next Web, Social Media Today, CNET, ZDNet, and Digital Trends
Tweets: @hypervisible, @moonalice, @jjvincent, @markhurst, @kateo, @rstephens, @alexvoica, @facebookai, @iansherr, and @tante
| Peter Aldhous / BuzzFeed News: |
Hackers attacked GEDmatch servers and caused over 1M of its profiles to be opted-in for searching by law enforcement, which were previously opted-out — First GEDmatch, the DNA database that helped identify the Golden State Killer, was hacked. Then email addresses from its users were used …
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TechCrunch, Gizmodo, IT PRO, Input, Associated Press, Techdirt, TechSpot, SiliconANGLE, Engadget, and Dark Reading
Tweets: @blmohr, @webdevlaw, @campuscodi, @asher_wolf, @zackwhittaker, @tomasekeli, and @carnage4life
| Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
Facebook to pay $650M to settle a facial recognition suit in Illinois, after judge says the original settlement of $550M did not adequately punish the company — Facebook has agreed to pay a total of $650 million in a landmark class action lawsuit over the company's unauthorized use of facial recognition, a new court filing shows.
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Vox, LAW.com, LawStreetMedia, Engadget, Digital Trends, and Hollywood Reporter. Tweets: @caseynewton. Thanks:@jeffjohnroberts
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