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Source: the rescheduled House Judiciary antitrust subcommittee hearing featuring CEOs of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google will take place this Wednesday — The CEOs of Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Google will now testify before the House Judiciary antitrust subcommittee on Wednesday … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
This year's Xbox Games Showcase made it clear that Microsoft's true focus for next generation Xbox gaming is not on hardware but on Xbox Game Pass subscription — If you were heading into Microsoft's Xbox game showcase yesterday to witness a demonstration of why next-gen gaming and the …
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The EFF and 17 other advocacy organizations urge US court to rule that Trump's appointee to the OTF violated the law by ousting OTF's president and the board — Government Attempts Takeover of Private, Independent Nonprofit Protecting Internet Freedom — San Francisco—The Electronic …
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| Ian Sherr / CNET: |
NBA says it will install 17-foot tall screens on game courts to serve as digital “stands” filled with 300 remote fans using the Together mode in Microsoft Teams — The basketball organization said it'll install massive 17-foot tall screens on each game court to serve as digital “stands” filled with 300 fans.
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| Andrew Leonard / Wired: |
Audrey Tang, Taiwan's digital minister and an accomplished programmer, is showing how digital tools can build strong, open, accountable democracies — Audrey Tang says tech can build trust, tame misinformation, and strengthen democracy. Her plan might even work in the US.
Tweets: @letahong, @monstro, @ketagalanmedia, @wired, @wired, and @nxthompson
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
While Slack files an antitrust complaint against Microsoft's Teams bundling, Google, with its G Suite bundle, is uniquely positioned to be an even bigger threat — Slack surprised Microsoft with a competition complaint in Europe yesterday. After arguing for months that Microsoft Teams … | Daisuke Wakabayashi / New York Times: |
Documents and sources: the Global Antitrust Institute, which trains regulators to take a hands-off approach to antitrust, is funded by Google, Amazon, Qualcomm — Google, Amazon and Qualcomm finance a George Mason University institute teaching a hands-off approach to antitrust regulators and judges.
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| Crystal Tse / Bloomberg: |
Dragoneer Growth Opportunities, a SPAC with a broad tech focus including online retail and financial services, files for a US IPO, aiming to raise $600M — - Dragoneer has had bets on Alibaba, Datadog, Uber and Slack — Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan picked to lead offering| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
AB Tasty, a startup focused on improving UX on e-commerce sites, travel portals, fashion sites, and more, announces $40M Series C, bringing total raised to $64M — AB Tasty has raised a new $40 million funding round led by Credit Mutuel Innovation with existing investors Korelya Capital, Omnes, Partech and XAnge also participating.
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| Kaitlyn Tiffany / The Atlantic: |
A look at Randonautica, an app that generates random coordinates that users can explore, and has been downloaded 6M times since the beginning of April — It took me a week to find a plastic water bottle full of what could only be pee. — That was after the abandoned house taped off …
Tweets: @martinsfp, @cccblab, and @theatlantic
| Ina Fried / Axios: |
CalypsoAI, which wants to help businesses and government agencies use AI while ensuring their approaches are bias-free and secure, raises $13M Series A — CalypsoAI, a machine learning startup with its roots in the defense industry, has raised $13 million to help make government and corporate AI systems more secure and free of bias.| Jeanne Whalen / Washington Post: |
US officials unveil a plan to build a quantum Internet, existing alongside our current one, which uses the laws of quantum mechanics to share info more securely — The new network would sit alongside the existing Web, offering a more secure way to send and process information
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