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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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Tweets: @oculus, @chetfaliszek, @oculus, @calbucci, @melt_dem, @adultswimnocon, @slasher, @jason, @accursedfarms, @samfbiddle, @inkblitzer, @willoremus, @joabaldwin, @starfire2258, @tojiro, and @quinnypig
| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Zoom says it is adding support for Amazon Echo Show, Facebook Portal, and Google Nest Hub Max later this year — Zoom from even more places — Zoom is expanding to a variety of new devices later this year, with the company announcing that the Amazon Echo Show, Facebook Portal …
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The Keyword, 9to5Google, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Engadget, About Facebook, and Axios. Tweets: @brianmcc
| Janko Roettgers / Protocol: |
Facebook says it will add native support for Zoom, Webex, BlueJeans, and GoToMeeting to Portal starting next month — Facebook is turning Portal into a Trojan horse for the enterprise: The smart display is getting native apps for Zoom, Webex, BlueJeans and GoToMeeting starting next month, the social media giant announced Wednesday.| 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, Politico, Reuters, VICE, The Verge, CityAM, Avaaz, The Hill, Financial Times, and Engadget
Tweets: @bbctrending, @justiceputnam, @woelken, @karaswisher, @baphometx, and @andrewlegon
| 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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9to5Mac, Wall Street Journal, and Business Insider
Tweets: @carlykind_, @econ_marshall, @nytimesbusiness, and @frankpasquale
| 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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MacRumors, 9to5Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, iDownloadBlog.com, Pocketnow, Engadget, and The Next Web
| 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, @karlbode, @sherman4949, @lmatsakis, @marygao, @jgebbia, @nytopinion, @wesyang, @msmelchen, @zhonggg, @yaqiu, @freddylim, @kenroth, @hotlinejosh, @mala, @kantrowitz, @lanceulanoff, @onlyyoontv, @alantsen, and @madhavchanchani
| Paul Ford / Wired: |
How low-code database services like Airtable, a category often sneered at by professional programmers, let non-programmers 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
| 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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The Keyword, SiliconANGLE, Silicon Republic, Android Central, Firstpost Tech, Gizmodo, Digital Trends, Ubergizmo, The Next Web, Android Headlines, XDA Developers, Pocketnow, Android Police, International Business Times, Android Authority, CNET, Neowin, MacRumors, iDownloadBlog.com, Droid Life, SlashGear, Mashable, VentureBeat, Engadget, and iPhone in Canada Blog
Tweets: @sounderbruce, @backlon, @alex_roddie, @brchastain, @googlemaps, and @gregbensinger
| 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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Politico and The Overspill
| 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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Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, The Verge, PYMNTS.com, iPhone Hacks, AppleInsider, and iMore
Tweets: @markdistef, @zhugeex, @waynema, @_danielsinclair, @greatfirechina, @sarthakgh, and @amir
| 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, NBC News, Politico, Axios, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, The Hill, CNN, CBS News, NPR, Hindustan Times, Senate Intelligence Committee, and CoinDesk
Tweets: @natashabertrand, @carolecadwalla, @davidcorndc, @chrisinsilico, @carolecadwalla, @business, @tribelaw, @senwarren, @resistbot, @joycewhitevance, @senblumenthal, @senjeffmerkley, @mollyjongfast, @cherijacobus, @ericliptonnyt, @nedprice, @rebeccaballhaus, @natashabertrand, @thedemcoalition, and @business
| 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
| 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
| 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
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Google has expanded its Kormo Jobs app, first launched in Bangladesh in 2018 to help people find entry-level jobs, to India — Google said on Wednesday it has expanded its jobs app, called Kormo Jobs, to India as the Search giant looks to offer a helping hand to millions looking … | 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
| 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 … | Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg: |
Chinese AI company SenseTime, blacklisted by Trump last year, saw its revenue surge 147% to $720M in 2019 and expects an 80% revenue growth in 2020 — - World's largest AI startup SenseTime sees business boom — SenseTime is said to expect 80% revenue growth this year
Tweets: @retogregori and @luluyilun
| 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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| 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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| 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, Reuters, Silicon Republic, PhocusWire, EU-Startups, and Tech.eu
| 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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Times of India
| 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 … Sponsor Posts
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