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Microsoft is launching its Surface Duo dual-screen Android phone on September 10 for $1,399, with preorders starting today in the US — Microsoft is launching its Surface Duo dual-screen Android phone on September 10th, priced from $1,399. After months of Microsoft executives teasing …
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| Scott Stein / CNET: |
Hands-on with a non-functioning Surface Duo prototype, which has two 5.6-inch OLED screens forming a 8.1-inch display, bound together by a unique hinge — Inside a little white box in front of me is a gadget that looks like a little book. The Microsoft Windows logo is embossed on top.
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| Francoise Brougher: |
Former Pinterest COO provides a detailed account of her claims about gender discrimination and toxic workplace culture with recommendations for the company — Pinterest has always been about aspiration. It is a platform for sharing beautiful images, curating galleries of an idealized world.
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| Erin Griffith / New York Times: |
Former Pinterest COO accuses the company of gender bias in a new lawsuit, alleging she was fired in April after complaining about sexist treatment — Françoise Brougher, Pinterest's former chief operating officer, said she was fired after speaking up about mistreatment.
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| Debby Wu / Bloomberg: |
Foxconn says it plans to split supply chain between the Chinese and US markets as trade ties fracture and declares that China's time as world's factory is over — - Hon Hai planning separate supply lines for the two big markets — Company's earnings outperformed expectations but warns on Q3| Yimou Lee / Reuters: |
Foxconn reported a better-than-expected Q2 quarterly profit of $778.54M, up 34% YoY, on $38B revenue, and says smartphone revenue dropped ~15% YoY — TAIPEI (Reuters) - Foxconn, the world's largest contract electronics manufacturer (2317.TW), reported a better-than-expected quarterly profit on Wednesday …
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi says it will likely need to shut down for several months in California if it is forced to re-classify drivers as employees — - Uber would likely shut down temporarily for several months if a court does not overturn a recent ruling requiring it to classify its drivers … | Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Trump's executive order to ban TikTok by Sept. 20 is a gross abuse of power and sets an alarming precedent for the executive branch's control over software — An alarming precedent for government control over software — For months, President Trump has been teasing some kind of ban on TikTok …
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| Theodore Schleifer / Vox: |
Biden's VP pick Kamala Harris, who has close ties with tech execs and has dodged questions about breaking up Big Tech, is likely to generate excitement in SV — Sen. Kamala Harris has had a close relationship with Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Analysis: TikTok used an Android security hole to collect MAC addresses, possibly for ad tracking, without an ability to opt out; the practice ended in November — The tactic, which experts in mobile-phone security said was concealed through an unusual added layer of encryption, appears to have violated Google policies
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| New York Times: |
Hands-on with Instagram's Reels: confusing, frustrating, impossible to navigate, and lacking TikTok's editing features — TikTok might not be winning over President Trump, but it sure beats its Instagram copycat for making and sharing short videos. — Millions of people have used …
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| Robert Burnson / Bloomberg: |
After a $650M settlement in a biometric data collection case last month, Facebook faces a new suit alleging Instagram collects biometric data without consent — Facebook Inc. is facing new allegations that it illegally harvests the biometric data of users, this time in a lawsuit that targets the company's photo-sharing app Instagram.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft commits to launching the Xbox Series X in November and will delay Halo Infinite until 2021 — Halo Infinite will not be available until 2021 — Microsoft is committing to launching its next-generation Xbox Series X console in November. The company had previously only confirmed a vague …
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| Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica: |
NJ Supreme Court ruled that compelling a suspect to unlock their cell phone doesn't violate Fifth Amendment, following opposite ruling by Indiana SC in June — Courts are split on whether phone unlocking orders violate the Fifth Amendment. — New Jersey's Supreme Court has ruled … | Becky Ferreira / New York Times: |
As Amazon joins SpaceX and OneWeb in launching satellite constellations, astronomers worry about the effects on astronomical observations and image quality — The F.C.C. approved the company's 3,236-satellite constellation, which aims to provide high-speed internet service around the world.
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Gong, which uses AI to provide insights on customer behavior and improve sales, raises $200M Series D, at a $2.2B valuation, led by Coatue — Gong.io, a startup providing an “intelligence platform” for enterprise sales teams, today nabbed $200 million in funding at a $2.2 billion valuation …
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| Andrei Frumusanu / AnandTech: |
Samsung Display reveals new generation of variable refresh rate mobile display panels, making its debut in the Note20 Ultra, helping lower device power usage — By now we've become quite familiar with high refresh-rate displays in the mobile space, as the first pioneering 90Hz devices …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Microsoft fixes 17 critical and two zero-day flaws, including an actively-exploited RCE flaw in IE that can compromise PCs when users visit malicious sites — Microsoft says attackers have used a Windows zero-day to spoof file signatures and another RCE in the Internet Explorer scripting engine to execute code on users' devices.
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| Leo Schwartz / Rest of World: |
Interview with Jorge Ríos, co-founder and CEO of Bridgefy, a popular protest app which uses mesh-networking tech for messaging without an internet access — Without intending to, this startup developed a messaging app used in protests from Hong Kong to Minneapolis — and found a Twitter co-founder as an investor along the way.
Tweets: @anupkaphle, @cengizyar, and @leomschwartz
| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
A look at so-called Russian, encrypted, or “white” SIMs, used by criminals to spoof phone numbers, add voice manipulation to calls in real-time, and more — Criminals use so-called Russian, encrypted, or white SIMs to change their phone number, add voice manipulation to their calls …
Tweets: @josephfcox, @brianroemmele, @lorenzofb, @kevincollier, @josephfcox, @josephfcox, @josephfcox, @josephfcox, @josephfcox, and @josephfcox
| Terry Nguyen / Vox: |
Instagram has been taken over by “social justice slideshows” that use the 10-image carousel format to inform and educate about myriad issues — PowerPoint activism is everywhere on Instagram. Why do these posts look so familiar? — In 1971, to the backdrop of a funky jazz rhythm … | Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
Tencent Q2 profit beat estimates, surging to $4.7B, up 37% YoY, on revenue of $16.53B, up 29% YoY; online game revenue was $5.5B, up 40% YoY — - Tencent reported results for the three months to-June on Wednesday that beat analyst expectations in one of the fastest revenue-growing quarters in two years.
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
LinkedIn says it has sold presentation-sharing service SlideShare to Scribd, which will take over its operation on September 24 — SlideShare has a new owner, with LinkedIn selling the presentation-sharing service to Scribd for an undisclosed price. — According to LinkedIn …
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