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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Oculus will soon require all of its VR headset users to sign up with a Facebook account, removing support for new separate Oculus accounts in October — Support for separate Oculus accounts will end in 2023 — Oculus will soon require all of its virtual reality headset users to sign up with a Facebook account.
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| Tim Wu / New York Times: |
A ban on TikTok is overdue as the US confronts China's asymmetrical “net nationalism” and fights for the future of the open internet — Critics say we shouldn't abandon the ideal of an open internet. But there is such a thing as being a sucker.
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Google Maps says it's rolling out more detailed maps with improved street designs for SF, NYC, and London, and with more accurate natural features worldwide — Making natural features easier to see and streets easier to navigate — Google Maps is being redesigned to make it easier …
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| Steven T. Dennis / Bloomberg: |
Senate Intelligence Committee concludes Putin ordered the 2016 hacking of Democratic Party accounts and the release of emails to harm Hillary Clinton's campaign — - Manafort described as a ‘grave counterintelligence threat’ — Report details plan to hurt Clinton, finds no Trump collusion| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Instagram starts rolling out QR codes for user profiles globally, a feature that it had first launched in Japan last year; Instagram is deprecating Nametags — Don't open Instagram to find a profile — Instagram is bringing QR codes to the app. Users can now generate QR codes that'll …
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Report: a look at the narrowing regulatory exemptions Apple has been operating under in China, such as running an App Store without a local partner — Amid continued tension between the United States and China, a new report from The Information details how Apple could be impacted by Chinese retaliation.
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| Nick Romeo / New Yorker: |
How Americans can draw upon European thinkers, like Dutch politician Marietje Schaake, to address issues of antitrust, Big Tech, and democratic governance — Last October, a couple of days before joining Stanford University as the international policy director at the Cyber Policy Center …
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| Kris Holt / Engadget: |
Google updates its activity cards feature to provide more personalized results for recipes, jobs, and shopping — Google is making its activity cards feature — which helps you pick up where you left off in Search on mobile — more useful. Let's say you're looking for iPad accessories.
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| Matthew Handrahan / GamesIndustry.biz: |
Take-Two Interactive has agreed to acquire NYC-based mobile game developer Playdots for $192M in cash and stock; Playdots had raised $10M Series A in 2014 — New York-based studio's entire team will join Take-Two in cash and stock deal — Take-Two Interactive has acquired the mobile developer Playdots in a deal worth $192 million.
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| Nick Corasaniti / New York Times: |
Inside the work of the DNC and RNC digital teams for the conventions: building a robust network, ensuring a livestream, producing a broadcast, and more — Making sure livestreams don't lag. Sending out remote video kits. Showing speakers how to avoid microphone mishaps.
Tweets: @ericdavismiddvt, @aaronemyers, @nytpolitics, and @ofirahy
| Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg: |
Sources say the Twitter breach in 2015 involving access of internal data by employees yielded information that led to the disappearance of Saudi dissidents — Access of internal data by Twitter employees in 2015 presaged the disappearance of Saudi dissidents
Tweets: @rj_gallagher, @rprose, and @middleeast
| Cody Toombs / Android Police: |
Android 11 to remove the camera picker, often seen in 3rd-party apps, defaulting instead to the built-in camera; Google says it's to protect privacy, security — Android may have started with the mantra that developers are allowed to do anything as long as they can code it … | The New Indian Express: |
India's main opposition party asks Facebook to investigate favorable treatment of BJP by Facebook's India team, and to replace the team during this probe — The Congress and other opposition parties have attacked the social media giant after a US media report alleged that Facebook did not apply its hate speech rules on BJP leaders.| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Ukraine, helped by Binance's internal investigations, arrests three men who allegedly ran 20 crypto exchanges and laundered more than $42M for ransomware gangs — Gang is believed to have laundered more than $42 million in criminal proceeds. — Law enforcement in Ukraine has announced today …
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| Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
Samsung launches its Pay Card in the UK, a digital-first card powered by London-based Curve, which consolidates existing credit and debit cards into one — Samsung Pay Card, a new Mastercard debit card from the mobile handset giant, has launched in the U.K. today.
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| Paul Ford / Wired: |
How low-code database software like Airtable, a category often sneered at by professional programmers, allows non-programmers to create community databases — When people build a database to manage reading lists or feed their neighbors, that's coding—and culture. — It's a normal afternoon in July.
Tweets: @wired
| Benedict Evans: |
E-commerce penetration in the UK went from 20% to over 30% in the past two months and from 17% to 22% in the US according to official statistics — Both the UK and (today) the USA have given official statistics on how ecommerce and retail have changed during lockdown. The headline numbers are pretty dramatic.| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Berlin-based travel booking service Omio raises $100M, bringing its total raised to ~$400M, and says it's eyeing potential M&A opportunities in the sector — Multimodal travel platform Omio (formerly GoEuro) has raised $100M in late stage funding to help see its business through the coronavirus crisis.
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| Tsering D. Gurung / Rest of World: |
India's ban on WeChat has inconvenienced Tibetan refugees in the country, who despite censorship risk, relied on the app to stay in touch with family back home — Navigating China's censorship and India's apps ban, Tibetan refugees rethink their dependence on WeChat. — • KATHMANDU, NEPAL
Tweets: @barbarademick, @anupkaphle, @clara111, @f_potkin, @restofworld, @telliotter, and @tsering_
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Reliance Retail, India's largest retail chain, has acquired a 60% stake in online pharmacy Netmeds' parent firm Vitalic for about $83.2M — Reliance Retail has bought a 60% stake in pharma marketplace Netmeds' parent firm Vitalic for about $83.2 million, it said today …
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| Victoria Turk / WIRED UK: |
In the pandemic era, QR codes have seen a huge uptick in adoption as the perfect touch-free medium, used to order food and drinks, book rooms, and more — QR codes have been dismissed as a marketing gimmick - but in our touch-free world, they're proving their worth — Venture outside and you'll soon see them.| Livemint: |
Indian online pharmacy PharmEasy has proposed a merger with its smaller rival Medlife, to create a combined entity likely to be valued at $1.15B — The proposed merger indicates early signs of consolidation in the e-pharmacy segment, which along with edtech platforms outperformed most startups during the lockdown period.Sponsor Posts
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