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The Intercept: Sources: Google made staff delete memo that said Dragonfly required logins to search, tracked location, and gave Chinese partner unilateral access to data -
Megan Farokhmanesh / The Verge: Telltale Games, which makes games based on franchises such as Jurassic Park and Batman, lays off most of its staff, keeps 25 to begin “majority studio closure” -
Ina Fried / Axios: In internal email, Google CEO Pichai denied any effort to politically bias Google's search results, reinforced the company's need to remain politically neutral -
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: Twitter says it fixed a bug that sent some users' direct messages from their interactions with business accounts to third-party developers, since May 2017 -
iFixit: Teardown reveals iPhone XS has a notched L-shaped battery, iPhone XS Max has an extended logic board with an Apple-designed power management chip — Tools Featured in this Teardown -
Jonathan Huang / Google Developers Blog: Google announces new experimental Daydream VR features for developers: support for all Android apps, new 6DoF controllers, and a see-through mode -
Jon Reid / bna.com: NYT sues FCC for records that NYT alleges may reveal Russian government interference in FCC's comment period before rollback of Obama-era net neutrality rules -
Russell Brandom / The Verge: PayPal says it has banned all Infowars-related sites for promoting hate or discriminatory intolerance against certain communities and religions -
Colin Harper / Bitcoin Magazine: Ethereum-based decentralized exchange Bancor to launch BancorX, an extension of its protocol to EOS blockchain that will allow cross-blockchain conversions -
Alex Barinka / Bloomberg: Luxury clothing marketplace Farfetch closes up 42% on its first day of trading, after raising $885M in its IPO; Farfetch is now valued at $8.2B -
Tim Culpan / Bloomberg: IPO prospectus of Meituan-Dianping, which owns Mobike, said that the Chinese bike-sharing service had 48.1M active bike users, 7.1M active bikes as of April 30 -
Josh Taylor / BuzzFeed: Australian Minister for Home Affairs Peter Dutton accused of rushing legislation through parliament that tech companies say would weaken encryption -
Joshua Brustein / Bloomberg: A look at how tech products aimed at civic engagement made by technologists from Silicon Valley have mostly failed to have any long term impact -
Douglas Soltys / BetaKit: Wearables startup Thalmic is about to launch smart glasses under the new brand North, sources and ads around NYC and Toronto show -
10 minutes ago Kevin McCoy / USA Today: How counterfeit Apple products, such as adapters and chargers, take circuitous shipment routes via multiple companies to reach the US consumer market -
Sponsor Post Zoho: Announcing Zoho PageSense for G Suite — Zoho PageSense the complete conversion rate optimization software is now available for G Suite users. -
Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: UK-based Cleo, an AI chatbot that gives users insights into spending across multiple accounts and credit cards, raises $10M Series A led by Balderton Capital -
Brian Heater / TechCrunch: Amazon unveils Echo Auto, a $49.99 dash mounted in-car accessory that puts Alexa in any car with an aux jack and gives directions using Waze -
GeekWire: A roundup of all the major announcements from Amazon on Thursday, from a new microwave to a subwoofer to new Alexa skills and developer tools — Microwave. Subwoofer. -
Amy Gesenhues / Marketing Land: Pinterest makes Shop The Look Pins, a free product-tagging tool previously available only to big businesses, available to all businesses and influencers -
Josh Constine / TechCrunch: Instagram app code shows new potential features like adding hashtags without including them in captions, geofenced posts, quiz stickers, and video tagging -
Casey Newton / The Verge: Sources: Instagram was testing a way for users to reshare posts from other accounts to their own feeds; company says it's not building or testing such a feature