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Amazon announces Luna cloud gaming service, going live in October for $5.99/month, with a gamepad and support for Fire TV, PC, Mac, iOS, and later for Android — Spoiler: It's not a native iOS app. — 4m ago — Luna is what happens when you take the subscription model of Prime Video …
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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Ring unveils Always Home Cam, an autonomous drone that can fly around inside a house, expected to cost $249.99 when it starts shipping next year — The Always Home Cam is an ambitious new home security device — Ring latest home security camera is taking flight, literally.
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon announces redesigned spherical Echo devices, including $99 Echo, $60 Echo Dot with Clock, and $50 Echo Dot, with on-board speech analysis — Amazon just unveiled an all-new Echo with a revamped design. It comes in three colors and features a spherical design.
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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Amazon announces $250 Echo Show 10 with a motorized base that can move the screen, a 13MP camera that keeps the user in shot, and more, with pre-orders today — The latest Alexa-powered smart display isn't content with sitting still — Amazon has just announced the latest iteration …
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| Sean Lyngaas / CyberScoop: |
Facebook says it removed 200+ accounts Thursday that were associated with US election interference in the past, “including those involved in DC leaks in 2016” — Facebook on Thursday removed over 200 phony accounts and dozens of pages that originated in Russia and pumped …
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| Kate Cox / Ars Technica: |
Former director at Facebook, Tim Kendall, told Congress Facebook “took a page from Big Tobacco's playbook, working to make our offering addictive at the outset” — “At worst, I fear we are pushing ourselves to the brink of a civil war,” he added.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple confirms it had acquired cross-platform podcast app Scout FM, which created podcast stations for users based on listening history, before shutting it down — - Company acquired Scout FM earlier this year in podcasting push — Acquisition continues rapid pace of Apple deals this year| Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
Twitter says its test to prompt users to read articles before retweeting was a success, with users opening articles 40% more and sometimes opting not to retweet — Twitter's experiment to get people to actually read the content they're sharing is going so well the company plans to expand it to the platform at large “very soon.”
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| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Facebook outlines new rules for its internal Workplace, including banning profile pictures that promote specific political candidates or causes — - Facebook on Thursday outlined its new set of rules for employee communications within Workplace, the company's internal social network.
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| Rob Davies / The Guardian: |
Ex-Cambridge Analytica head Alexander Nix banned from running limited companies for seven years over “potentially unethical” behavior linked to the scandal — Alexander Nix, the former boss of Cambridge Analytica, has been banned from serving as a company director for seven years over …
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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Ahead of US elections, YouTube says it is including info panels under videos about voting by mail, pointing viewers to a report by the Bipartisan Policy Center — Official candidate info will also appear in searches — YouTube is stepping up its measures against misinformation around the upcoming US election.
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| Wired: |
A look at Twitter's hack on July 15, the drastic changes it made in the immediate aftermath, and its plans to prevent an Election Day meltdown — On July 15, Twitter melted down. On Election Day, that's not an option. — JULY 15 WAS, at first, just another day for Parag Agrawal, the chief technology officer of Twitter.
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Sources: ahead of public market debut on Sept. 30, Palantir has told investors that its shares could start trading at $10 apiece, valuing the company ~$22B — Bankers have told investors stock could start trading at around $10, sources say — Palantir Technologies Inc. is expected to fetch … | Lauren Kaori Gurley / VICE: |
Amazon says it monitors internal listservs to gather feedback at scale, after an AWS employee claimed the listservs are being monitored for labor organizing — An Amazon spokesperson confirmed that the company monitors dozens of internal listservs but said that the program did not exist for the purposes that the employee described.| Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
Hootsuite says it will terminate its ICE contract after disagreements within the company spilled over into public view when an employee tweeted about the deal — After disagreements within the company spilled over into public controversy, Hootsuite says it won't go forward with a contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.| Andrew Martin / Bloomberg: |
CISA: a hacker accessed the network of an unnamed US federal agency using valid credentials for multiple users' Microsoft 365 accounts and domain admin accounts — An unnamed U.S. federal agency was hit with a cyber-attack after a hacker used valid access credentials, authorities said on Thursday.| Cameron Faulkner / The Verge: |
Amazon announces updated Eero mesh WiFi routers with support for WiFi 6 and Zigbee, available for $129.99 and $229.99 — The new Eero 6 starts at $129.99 — Amazon has debuted the $129.99 Eero 6 and the $229.99 Eero Pro 6 mesh Wi-Fi routers that support Wi-Fi 6 and Zigbee.
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple is now letting customers return only the band, instead of the entire Watch, if they bought a Watch with an ill-fitting Solo Loop band — Apple has reversed course and created an online band-only return method for customers who purchased an Apple Watch Series 6 or Apple Watch SE … | David Shepardson / Reuters: |
US federal judge says the Trump administration must either delay a ban on TikTok or file legal papers defending the decision by Friday — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. judge said Thursday the Trump administration must either delay a ban on U.S. app stores offering TikTok for download …
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| Sarah E. Needleman / Wall Street Journal: |
Epic, Spotify, Match Group, and others form the Coalition for App Fairness to pressure Apple and other app store owners to make changes to marketplace rules — The Coalition for App Fairness is seeking legal and regulatory means to address how Apple, other app marketplace operators work with developers
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The Verge, TechCrunch, CNBC, Bloomberg, Financial Times, FOSS Patents, International Business Times, Fossbytes, The Apple Post, Gizmodo, and Michael Tsai
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Clearview AI SEC filing revealed $8.6M in equity sales from undisclosed investors and identified two previously unknown board members — Controversial facial recognition company Clearview AI — which has built a database of more than 3 billion images taken from Facebook, Instagram …
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