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Interview with two Apple executives about changes to multitasking in iPadOS 15, SharePlay, Universal Control, Quick Note, and more — Apple executives talk about the new iPad software's mental models and multitasking enhancements — The announcement of new iPad software at this year's WWDC conference …
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| Yuan Yang / Financial Times: |
A new generation of young workers at China's technology giants is demanding an end to forced rankings, harsh working conditions, and the “996” work culture — By the time he arrived at Alibaba, Tim had been working to get there for years. Raised in a small town in Zhejiang province …
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| Lingling Wei / Wall Street Journal: |
China pushes to subject data-related activities to government oversight, as it worries tech giants could use collected data to build alternative power centers — Beijing is calling on tech giants to share their information—and asserting its authority over data held by U.S. companies in China as well
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Q&A with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about its Omniverse, dubbed a “metaverse for engineers”, discouraging miners from buying its GPUs, chip shortages, and more — Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. — Conversations with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang … | Katie Jennings / Forbes: |
CB Insights: VCs invested $1.5B into mental health startups in 2020, a record high that is 5.5 times the funding invested in this space in 2016 — I am a staff writer covering healthcare. Email me at kjennings@forbes.com. — Investors poured $1.5 billion into the market in 2020 …
Tweets: @jrichlive, @venrock, @tylerbeaty_, and @forbesscience
| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
Taproot, a significant Bitcoin upgrade promising better transaction privacy and smart contracts, got approved by miners globally, due to take effect in November — - The first bitcoin upgrade in four years has just been approved by miners around the world. It's called Taproot, and it's due to take effect in November.| Robert N. Charette / IEEE Spectrum: |
As carmakers integrate 100-150+ chip-based electronic control units in each car, a look at the challenges of an auto industry that is more dependent on software — The trend toward self-driving and electric vehicles will add hundreds of millions of lines of code to cars. Can the auto industry cope?
Tweets: @bertrandduflos, @azaidman, @trengriffin, @sub8u, @drorpoleg, @jamescham, @andwor, @azaidman, and @azaidman
| Sophie Zhang / Rest of World: |
Many Latin American Facebook users are self-compromising their accounts to fuel fake engagement through “autoliker” websites and unwittingly joining bot farms — Global South users often share their accounts with shady middlemen. The practice is corrupting civil discourse around the world.| Caroline Lester / New Yorker: |
A look at the rise of BitClout, a burgeoning crypto service monetizing social influence, valued at more than $1B in April, but operating in a legal gray zone — BitClout collapses everything—art, humor, personhood—into money, laying bare just who, and what, we are willing to pay for.
Tweets: @barhbarian, @newyorker, @newyorker, @chrismessina, and @sinanaral
| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
House lawmakers introduce five bipartisan bills to limit anticompetitive practices of tech giants like Amazon, Apple, Google, and Facebook — The proposals could reshape the tech industry as we know it — On Friday, House Democrats introduced five new bills meant to chip away at the power …
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Tweets: @orientaljanedoe, @jkosseff, @alecstapp, @orientaljanedoe, @davidcicilline, @lancegooden, @repkenbuck, @doctorow, @caseynewton, @b_fung, @jason_kint, @alexstamos, @repkenbuck, @repkenbuck, @doctorow, @doctorow, @doctorow, @davidcicilline, @orientaljanedoe, @orientaljanedoe, @repkenbuck, @mattgaetz, @repkenbuck, @tommanatos, @adamkovac, @adamkovac, @repmgs, @vijayshekhar, @repjayapal, @repkenbuck, @public_citizen, @senatorshoshana, @ne0liberal, @benedictevans, @geoffreyfowler, @repjoeneguse, @carnage4life, @benedictevans, @carnage4life, @jason_kint, @austen, @jesselehrich, @alexstamos, @alexstamos, @reckless, @jason_kint, @reckless, @tribelaw, @drriteshmalik, @pathedger18, @azeem, @jasonlemon, @margarethmcgill, @hshaban, @b_fung, @axios, @jordannovet, @wajahatali, @davidcicilline, @b_fung, @profgalloway, @kellymakena, @danamattioli, @karlbode, @joshconstine, and @kantrowitz
| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Epic trial email suggests Apple manually boosted ranking of its Files app in App Store search results for Dropbox in 2017; Apple says it was a simple mistake — “We are removing the manual boost and the search results should be more relevant now” — In 2019, facing down extensive investigations … | Robert Stevens / Decrypt: |
Thai SEC orders exchanges to delist NFTs and meme coins, defined as those with “no objective or underlying value” whose price relies on social media trends — Pisscoin, CumRocket, Dogecoin—none were funny enough to stop Thailand's Securities and Exchange Commission from banning meme coins.| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
AT&T CEO says Biden's municipal broadband plan is “a bit misguided” and is confident that Congress will steer legislation in the more “pragmatic” direction — CEO thinks US will keep giving billions to private ISPs instead of public networks.
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