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| Bloomberg: |
Facebook and YouTube removed a video where Trump claims kids are “virtually immune” to COVID-19; Twitter banned @teamtrump's account until it removed the video — Twitter Inc. and Facebook Inc. blocked a video shared by accounts linked to U.S. President Donald Trump for violating …
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Staffers ask Zuckerberg what would happen if Trump uses Facebook to dispute the election; some staff say they have evidence of favoritism for right-wing pages — Facebook employees collected evidence showing the company is giving right-wing pages preferential treatment when it comes to misinformation.
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NBC News, Columbia Journalism Review, Engadget, and Media Matters for America
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Microsoft is pursuing a deal to buy all of TikTok's global operations, including those in India and Europe — US group explores whether it can add regions including India and Europe to deal for video app's US arm — Microsoft is chasing a deal to buy all of TikTok's global business …
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Financial Times, Engadget, FedScoop, Business Insider, Gizmodo, Thurrott, The Verge, Wired, Axios, CNET, Bloomberg, Fox News, The Next Web, Inc42 Media, 9to5Mac, Gizchina, and Coinspeaker
Tweets: @sameer_singh17, @arashmassoudi, @mgsiegler, @paigeleskin, @jessicalessin, @malcolmmoore, @asemota, and @weshellyar
| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Google has discontinued the Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL, its flagship phones that were released in October of last year — Less than a year after its unveiling — Google has discontinued the Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL, its flagship phones that were released in October of last year.
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9to5Google, TechCrunch, Android Developers, XDA Developers, Gizmodo, Android Central, iPhone in Canada Blog, TalkAndroid.com, ExtremeTech, Droid Life, Trusted Reviews, TechSpot, and Redmond Pie
Tweets: @joannastern, @dcseifert, @topjohnwu, @jaduino, and @backlon
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Apple iMac 27-inch (2020) hands-on: 1080p webcam is long overdue and its smart features, like face detection, are great; nano texture is good but pricey at $500 — Plus, some impressions of the nano texture screen option — I've had a review unit of the new 27-inch iMac for about two days now …
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Tweets: @film_girl, @caitlin_mcgarry, @willoremus, @davegershgorn, and @backlon
| BBC: |
Twitter says it will start labeling government-linked media accounts, as well as “key government officials”, from China, France, Russia, the UK, and US — Twitter says it will no longer “amplify” tweets by state-controlled media organisations, by excluding them from its recommendation systems.
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| Uber: |
Uber Q2: revenue of $2.2B, down 29% YoY, gross bookings of $10.2B, down 35%, net loss of $1.8B; mobility gross bookings fell 73% but delivery grew 113% YoY — “Our team continues to move at Uber speed to respond to the pandemic's impact on our communities and on our business …
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Apple confirms cloud gaming services like xCloud and Stadia violate App Store guidelines and will not work on iOS, as Apple cannot review each game offered — New cloud gaming services from Google and Microsoft won't work on iOS — Cloud gaming is shaping up to have a big moment …
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Business Insider, Android Police, Android Authority, CNET, Windows Central, MacRumors, AppleInsider, OnMSFT.com, USgamer.net, SlashGear, and Six Colors
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Intel is investigating a leak of 20 GB of documents, some confidential, possibly from an internal source accessing its Resource and Design Center — Leak confirmed to be authentic. Many files are marked “confidential” or “restricted secret.” — US chipmaker Intel is investigating …
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CyberScoop, Tom's Hardware, BleepingComputer, AppleInsider, CRN, TechRadar, and Neowin
Tweets: @deletescape, @liliputingnews, @alyssam_infosec, @jgamblin, @steptoeinvest, @gregotto, @om, @pstasiatech, and @daveschroeder
| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Experts say “Clean Network” plan, as it stands now, is merely bluster, with no technical details, no reference to the legislative tools needed to implement it — The Trump administration's Clean Network program is ‘a bit of talk, no trousers’ — The US has unveiled a vague … | Amanda Macias / CNBC: |
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| Kim Lyons / The Verge: |
TikTok launches its first TV app, called More on TikTok, on Amazon Fire TV devices, featuring curated video playlists and compilations from its mobile app — More on TikTok will be free and view-only at launch — TikTok is launching its first TV app, called “More on TikTok,” on Amazon Fire TV devices today (via Business Insider).
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Business Insider, Variety, and Engadget
| Jason Snell / Six Colors: |
A first look at macOS Big Sur as it launches in public beta with a new Control Center, a redesigned Notification Center with widgets, more — So here we are, at the end of OS X. Two decades ago Apple parked the sixteen-year-old Classic Mac OS and leaped to version 10.0 …
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TechCrunch, The Verge, MacRumors, The Next Web, MacRumors, Gizmodo, Gizmodo, Engadget, CNET, 9to5Mac, and 9to5Mac. Tweets: @brandonbutch
| Rob Price / Business Insider: |
Facebook extends its work from home policy until July 2021, as well as giving employees an additional $1,000 for home office needs — - Facebook also expects to have up to 50% of its workforce permanently working remotely within five to ten years. — Got a tip?
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GeekWire, CNET, CNBC, Vox, Variety, San Francisco Chronicle, and The Verge
Tweets: @sfchronicle and @ldrogen
| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Snapchat to roll out in-app voter registration tools in September, with four new features including a Voter Registration Mini and a voter guide — Snapchat is rolling out a slew of new tools and features to help prepare young people to vote in the November election.| BuzzFeed News: |
Sources: at all-hands, Zuckerberg says a ban on TikTok would set “a really bad long-term precedent”, arguing any benefit for Facebook would be short-term — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told his employees Thursday that banning TikTok in the United States would set “a really bad long-term precedent.”| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
A NJ police dept. filed cyber harassment charges against five Twitter users for sharing a photo seeking the identity of a masked police officer during protests — A New Jersey police department is pursuing cyber harassment charges against five people in connection with a protest photo uploaded to Twitter in June.
Tweets: @webster, @coldwarscience, @taniel, @russellbrandom, @reckless, @anotherhelen, @hypervisible, @thedextriarchy, @viking_sec, and @ashedryden
| Eric Ravenscraft / OneZero: |
Tests indicate wireless charging is much less efficient than cord charging; Pixel 4 charging tests showed wireless charging used 47% more power than cabled — We crunched the numbers on just how inefficient wireless charging is — and the results are pretty shocking
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New York Times, Android Headlines, iPhone in Canada Blog, and TechSpot
Tweets: @lordravenscraft, @morlockp, @chrislhayes, @sarahfkessler, @ollie2897, and @ozm
| David Gilbert / VICE: |
After Cisco lawsuit, 250+ Dalit Indians from companies like Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Apple came forward about discrimination by higher-caste colleagues — Dalit Indians working at U.S. tech companies tell VICE News they try to hide their identities to avoid caste-based discrimination they thought they had left behind.| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Twitter says it accidentally pushed incorrect iOS app release notes on Wednesday that said it would now let all users limit who can reply to their tweets — Twitter says it accidentally issues incorrect release notes — An update to Twitter's iOS app on Wednesday said the app …
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Lifehacker, iDownloadBlog.com, 9to5Mac, Digital Trends, and Engadget
| Donie O'Sullivan / CNN: |
Facebook bans ads from The Committee to Defend the President, a pro-Trump super PAC, for repeatedly sharing content determined by fact-checkers to be false — New York (CNN)Facebook announced Thursday it was banning ads from The Committee to Defend the President, a pro-Trump super PAC.| Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
With the introduction of Reels, Instagram has become too complicated, even more so than Facebook, when it comes to deciding where and how to post — Hey everyone, it's Sarah Frier. On Friday, my mother texted, asking me to call her. While she was trying to post a photo …
Tweets: @sarahfrier, @kurtwagner8, @sarahfrier, @caseynewton, @mgsiegler, @mattnavarra, @jessedamiani, @sarahfrier, @jpmanga, @tsuvik, @langealexandra, @alexia, and @jbouie
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Salesforce makes its AI Economist, a research tool built for modeling tax and other economic policy, open source, after launching in April — In April, Salesforce detailed the AI Economist, a research environment designed to elucidate how economic design might be improved with AI.| Karandeep Singh / Android Police: |
OnePlus is preloading OnePlus 8 and Nord series phones with Facebook bloatware that can't be uninstalled as part of the OS — Bloatware on Android phones has been around for so long — especially on Samsung and Huawei phones — that it's hardly even news anymore.
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Input, Phandroid, Pocketnow, and Gizchina
Tweets: @ianstechyt, @ioldmonk, @dylanmcd8, and @rishialwani
| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Nintendo reported quarterly operating profit of $1.4B, up 428% YoY; sales of Nintendo Switch and Switch Lite consoles grew 167% YoY to 5.68M units — - Nintendo reported operating profit of 144.7 billion yen ($1.4 billion) in the April-June quarter, smashing analyst expectations.
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The Verge, GeekWire, Engadget, and VICE
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