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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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| 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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| 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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Tweets: @alex_roddie, @sounderbruce, @backlon, @brchastain, @googlemaps, and @gregbensinger
| The Guardian: |
Avaaz: sites spreading health misinfo had ~500M views on Facebook in April; top 10 such sites had almost four times the views of top 10 reputable health sites — Research findings undermine firm's claims it is cracking down on inaccurate news — Websites spreading misinformation …
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BBC, Washington Post, MIT Technology Review, EURACTIV.com, VICE, CityAM, Avaaz, The Hill, and Financial Times
Tweets: @justiceputnam, @woelken, @karaswisher, @baphometx, and @andrewlegon
| 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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| 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
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Washington Post, New York Times, CyberScoop, Politico, Axios, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, The Hill, CNN, CBS News, NPR, Hindustan Times, Senate Intelligence Committee, and CoinDesk
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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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Tweets: @financialtimes, @sherman4949, @lmatsakis, @marygao, @jgebbia, @nytopinion, @wesyang, @msmelchen, @zhonggg, @yaqiu, @freddylim, @kenroth, @hotlinejosh, @mala, @kantrowitz, @lanceulanoff, @onlyyoontv, and @alantsen
| 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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Tweets: @markdistef, @zhugeex, @waynema, @_danielsinclair, @greatfirechina, @sarthakgh, and @amir
| 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
| 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: @backchnnl, @rozzie, and @wired
| 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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The Keyword, 9to5Google, Android Central, Search Engine Roundtable, Neowin, Pocketnow, and SlashGear
Tweets: @searchliaison and @google
| 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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TechCrunch, Gamasutra, Hollywood Reporter, Digital Trends, Pocket Gamer.biz, GameSpot, and VentureBeat
| Issie Lapowsky / Protocol: |
Profile of Color of Change, a civil rights group pushing Big Tech on issues of race has gone from 1.7M members in May to 8M today — It felt hot in Brandi Collins-Dexter's attic, but nerves may have had something to do with it. — It was late June, and she was sitting in front of her computer …
Tweets: @birnbaum_e, @brandingbrandi, @colorofchange, @protocol, @issielapowsky, and @issielapowsky. Thanks:@birnbaum_e
| 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: @rprose, @rj_gallagher, and @middleeast
| 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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FinSMEs, Bloomberg, Tech.eu, Reuters, EU-Startups, Silicon Republic, and PhocusWire
| Debby Wu / Bloomberg: |
Taiwan accused China-linked hackers of infiltrating Taiwanese companies that provide info services to government bodies, to steal citizens' personal data — - Groups likely backed by Beijing, cybersecurity official says — Efforts to access systems have been ongoing for ‘long time’
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| Reuters: |
India's antitrust watchdog has dismissed a case against WhatsApp, saying the company has not abused its dominant position to expand in the payments market — NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's antitrust watchdog has dismissed a case against Facebook's WhatsApp, saying the company has not abused …
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| 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 … | 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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Binance, CoinDesk, Coin Journal, CryptoGlobe, HackRead, Decrypt, PYMNTS.com, and infosecurity-magazine.com
| New York Times: |
Stocks of Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Facebook rose a combined 37% in the first seven months of 2020, while all the other S&P 500 stocks fell 6% — As the economy contracts and many companies struggle to survive, the biggest tech companies are amassing wealth and influence in ways unseen in decades.
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Wall Street Journal and Business Insider
Tweets: @carlykind_, @econ_marshall, @nytimesbusiness, and @frankpasquale
| South China Morning Post: |
Taiwan to ban Chinese streaming giants iQiyi and Tencent from September, prohibiting Taiwanese individuals and organizations from working with the companies — Taiwan is planning to ban mainland Chinese streaming giants iQiyi and Tencent Holdings from operating services on the island The order … | 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.| Jared Council / Wall Street Journal: |
US Department of Energy and Microsoft partner to develop AI-based disaster response tools, which could help first responders in events like fires and floods — The technology could help first responders more quickly address fast-moving events like fires, floods and windstormsSponsor Posts
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