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Microsoft unveils Microsoft Mesh, a mixed-reality platform on Azure, and demos a meeting service to let users join virtual rooms using devices like HoloLens 2 — Mesh is Microsoft's vision for the future of mixed reality — Last week, Microsoft's Alex Kipman, the inventor of Kinect and HoloLens …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft debuts Power Fx, a new open source low-code language that takes its cues from Excel formulas and will become a standard for Microsoft's Power Platform — Microsoft today announced Power Fx, a new low-code language that takes its cues from Excel formulas.
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft warns users a new Chinese state-sponsored threat actor is exploiting 4 previously undisclosed security flaws in Exchange Server; patches are available — Microsoft is warning customers that a new China state-sponsored threat actor is exploiting four previously undisclosed security flaws …
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Amazon quietly updated its app icon, changing the appearance of the ripped packaging tape after some drew comparisons of it to Adolf Hitler's mustache — The company's icon gets a less problematic new look — Amazon has quietly rolled out a slight update to its new app icon that it debuted …
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Sony says the PlayStation Store will stop offering movie and TV show purchases and rentals on Aug. 31, citing users' preference for video streaming services — As of Aug. 31, 2021, the PlayStation Store will stop offering movie and TV show purchases and rentals.
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Colleges requiring virus-screening tech, from virus symptom-checking apps to temperature check stations and wearables, have not rigorously studied if it works — Many schools that use fever scanners and symptom checkers have not rigorously studied if the technology has slowed the spread of Covid-19 on campuses.| Dell Cameron / Gizmodo: |
Facebook Oversight Board member told UK Parliament that the panel feels constrained when reviewing decisions on a case-by-case basis, may seek algorithm access — Facebook's so-called “Supreme Court” is reportedly seeking the company's permission to examine the underlying machine-learning models …
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| Bloomberg: |
Intel ordered to pay $2.18B after a federal court jury in TX found it infringed two patents once owned by NXP Semiconductors and now owned by VLSI Technology — - Intel had claimed royalty demands of VLSI were ‘outrageous’ — NXP would get a share of any damage award, Intel lawyer said| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Review of Gab's open source code shows that the critical vulnerability that led to its recent breach might have been introduced by a code change made by its CTO — Site executive introduces, then removes, insecure code, then hides the evidence. — Over the weekend, word emerged … | Michael Novinson / CRN: |
TPG Capital to buy privileged access management vendor Thycotic and merge Thycotic with its recently acquired competitor Centrify; report values deal at $1.4B — The combined company will be led recently-appointed Centrify CEO and former Symantec Enterprise Head Art Gilliland, while James Legg …
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| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Uber spins out Postmates X, the robotics unit of the delivery startup it acquired last year for $2.65B, as an independent company now called Serve Robotics — Postmates X, the robotics division of the on-demand delivery startup that Uber acquired last year for $2.65 billion …
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eMarketer: Spotify is on track to reach US monthly podcast listenership of 28.2M by the end of this year and surpass Apple's Podcasts for the first time — Investors have been waiting for Spotify's multimillion-dollar bet on podcasting to pay off, in terms of increased paid subscriptions or improved revenues.
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| Ian Allison / CoinDesk: |
Sources: PayPal is in talks to buy New York-based Curv, which facilitates secure storage of cryptocurrency — One source tells CoinDesk that Curv could be sold for as much as $500 million. — PayPal is said to be in the process of buying Curv, a technology firm that powers the secure storage …
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| Cecilia D'Anastasio / Wired: |
In its first transparency report, Twitch says it saw a 40% rise in the number of channels in 2020, a 70% drop in reports of harassment via Twitch DMs, and more — The decade-old streaming platform has for the first time detailed its efforts to safeguard its user base in one place.| LPE Project: |
How a SCOTUS decision from 1946 can be used to ensure that users on platforms like Facebook enjoy basic due process protections against removal/deplatforming — Genevieve Lakier (@glakier) is Assistant Professor of Law, Herbert and Marjorie Fried Teaching Scholar at the University of Chicago Law School
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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
A look at web proxy service Infatica, part of a growing industry of firms offering to buy browser extensions or pay their developers to include some extra code — A company that rents out access to more than 10 million Web browsers so that clients can hide their true Internet addresses … | Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios: |
Mobile ad tech company AppLovin files S-1, revealing a net loss of $126M on $1.45B in revenue in 2020 and reporting its software reached 410M+ DAUs in Q4 2020 — Applovin, a mobile ad tech company that's expanded into video game publishing, has filed with the SEC to go public on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol APP.| Dave Gershgorn / OneZero : |
A look at “Sharp Eyes”, a computerized video surveillance program that aims to surveil 100% of Chinese public spaces and relies largely on reports from citizens — The program turns neighbors into agents of the surveillance state — One of China's largest … | Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Real estate startup Doma, formerly States Title, which uses ML to reduce title processing time, will go public via SPAC, in a deal valued at $3B, including debt — Real estate tech startup Doma, formerly known as States Title, announced Tuesday it will go public through a merger … | CNBC: |
Instacart raises $265M in a round valuing the company at $39B, after raising $200M at a $17.7B valuation in October — - Instacart is valued at $39 billion in a new funding round. — It's the second time the company's valuation has doubled since the start of the Covid pandemic.
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