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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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| 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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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Oracle, working with US investors who own a stake in ByteDance, held preliminary talks to acquire TikTok's operations in US, Canada, Australia, and NZ — Tech group is working with investors in effort to outbid Microsoft after Trump divestment order
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Samsung Note20 Ultra review: has fast performance, multiday battery life, big display is great for streaming games, but camera bump is huge, and it's expensive — A refinement of the formula — Samsung has settled into a new routine for its Galaxy Note line of smartphones …
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| Apple: |
Apple renames Beats 1, its streaming radio station, Apple Music 1, and launches two new radio stations: Apple Music Hits and Apple Music Country — Apple Music 1 and two new stations, Apple Music Hits and Apple Music Country, feature exclusive original shows from the world's top music hosts and artists
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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| Joanna Nelius / Gizmodo: |
Nvidia's cloud gaming service GeForce Now is now available in beta on Chromebooks, but lacks the ability to automatically adjust for poor network conditions — Nvidia's cloud gaming service, GeForce Now, officially hit beta on ChromeOS today and it's helping to make the gaming PC obsolete faster than you'd expect.| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Apple says “the problem Epic has created for itself is one that can easily be remedied” if they revert to comply with the guidelines they agreed to — “The problem Epic has created for itself is one that can easily be remedied.” — Apple has responded to Epic Games' latest salvo … | The Information: |
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| 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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| Sebastian Herrera / Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon says it is expanding physical offices and adding 3,500 corporate employees in six major cities, including 2,000 jobs in New York City — The e-commerce giant says it is adding 3,500 employees in six major cities, including 2,000 jobs in New York City
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| Kate Conger / New York Times: |
Sources: Uber and Lyft are considering a franchise-like model in California where they would license their brands to operators of vehicle fleets — Under pressure to classify their freelance drivers as full-time employees, the ride-hailing companies are discussing another option.
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| Axios: |
Sources: Filecoin parent company Protocol Labs, which had a couple of seed rounds before raising $205M in an ICO, faces an investor revolt over who owns what — Filecoin is one of the blockchain world's most highly anticipated projects, promising to decentralize data storage.| 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 …
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| Sam Shead / CNBC: |
Pandemic-battered travel companies like GetYourGuide, Trivago, and HomeToGo say they have been feuding with Google for weeks over outstanding ad payments — - Google has been locked in a debate for weeks with the likes of GetYourGuide, Trivago and HomeToGo over outstanding ad payments.| 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.| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Uber expands its Uber Pass subscription to 200 cities across the US, excluding California, after initially testing in 10 — Uber is launching its monthly Uber Pass subscription service across the U.S., following an extended test period in a handful of cities.
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| Matthew Smith / TIME: |
After saying it was committed to justice in Myanmar, Facebook is fighting a suit by the Republic of The Gambia in US court that seek info to be used at the ICJ — Just when it seemed like Facebook's controversies might have peaked, the company now appears to be obstructing a genocide investigation, and it's using U.S. law to do it.| Sophia Kunthara / Crunchbase News: |
Global VC funding for edtech totaled $4.1B between January and July 2020, which is the highest amount raised in that time frame for the past five years — Edtech startup Enuma began raising its Series B round in the fall of 2019 and had its initial close in February 2020.
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