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China issues regulations for food delivery platforms, mandating minimum wage, respect for worker rights, and more, leading to Meituan shares dropping by 14%+ — - It extended losses after Beijing issued food platform curbs — Meituan is grappling with a broader antitrust investigation| Financial Times: |
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Sources: DOJ is probing whether Tether execs committed bank fraud in its early stages; Tethers in circulation are worth ~$62B, underpin >50% of bitcoin trades — - Tether says it's committed to cooperating with law enforcement — A U.S. probe into Tether is homing in on whether executives behind …
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| Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: |
Spotify adds a What's New feed on iOS and Android, showing continually updating new releases from followed artists, rolling out over the coming weeks — Spotify is introducing a feature to notify people when their favorite artists and podcast producers have a new release to check out.
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| Todd Feathers / VICE: |
A look at ShotSpotter, which uses sensors to “detect gunshots”, as court filings suggest it frequently alters evidence at the request of police departments — Prosecutors in Chicago are being forced to withdraw evidence generated by the technology, which led to the police killing …
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| Elizabeth Culliford / Reuters: |
Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, YouTube, and others will now add content from white supremacist and far-right militias to a key counterterrorism database — A counterterrorism organization formed by some of the biggest U.S. tech companies including Facebook (FB.O) and Microsoft (MSFT.O) …
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| Theo Wayt / New York Post: |
Now-deleted job listings suggest Citizen is paying people in NYC and LA up to $250 per 10-hour shift to livestream crime scenes and other emergencies — Want to make $200 a day in New York City? Rush to the scene of a murder, a three-alarm fire or a traffic accident — then pull out your phone and start shooting.
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Intel says its Foundry Services will build chips for Qualcomm and AWS and lays out a roadmap to catch up with TSMC and Samsung by 2025 — Intel Corp (INTC.O) said on Monday its factories will start building Qualcomm Inc (QCOM.O) chips and laid out a roadmap to expand its new foundry business … | Erin Woo / New York Times: |
QR codes, which took off in the US amid the pandemic in restaurants and retail, are here to stay, adding convenience but also privacy concerns — Fueled by a desire for touchless transactions, QR codes popped up everywhere in the pandemic. Businesses don't want to give them up.
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FTX and Binance will curb highly leveraged cryptocurrency trading, a practice that can vastly multiply losses; FTX offered 101x leverage, now down to 20x — The moves would reduce the size of the bets that investors can make by drastically cutting the maximum leverage offered.| Tom Krazit / Protocol: |
Google issues a new Enterprise APIs policy, promising that APIs will remain available far into the future, aiming to move past a reputation for killing services — Google Cloud issued a promise Monday to current and potential customers that it's safe to build a business around its core technologies …
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| Elizabeth Dias / New York Times: |
As part of its expanded outreach to US churches, Facebook is offering subscription tools for exclusive content and donation tools during live streams — The company is intensifying formal partnerships with faith groups across the United States and shaping the future of religious experience.| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Ex-Google employee recounts how Google abandoned a redesign attempt of Chrome on Android, which was similar to iOS 15's Safari, with the URL bar at the bottom — Apple's mobile web browser is the main lightning rod of this year's iOS 15 beta period and it remains to be seen whether it will actually launch in the fall.
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