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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: at WWDC, Apple will unveil iOS 13 with updated Maps, Reminders, and Messages apps, watchOS 6 with Calculator, Voice Memos, App Store, and more — Apple Inc. is planning to unleash a slew of new apps, features and development tools at its annual software conference next month.
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Tweets: @markgurman, @markgurman, @markgurman, @markgurman, @markgurman, @jamesthomson, @stevekopack, @stroughtonsmith, and @technology
| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Tim Cook says Apple buys a company every two to three weeks on average and has acquired about 20 to 25 companies in the past six months — KEY POINTS — In an interview with CNBC's Becky Quck, Apple CEO Tim Cook said the company has acquired approximately 20 to 25 companies in the past six months.
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| Rochelle Toplensky / Financial Times: |
Sources: after considering Spotify's complaint about App Store fees, the EU has decided to launch an antitrust probe into Apple's conduct — The EU will launch a formal antitrust investigation into Apple in the next few weeks after Spotify accused the iPhone maker of “tilting the playing field to disadvantage competitors”.
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Tweets: @insideerick and @ow
| Munsif Vengattil / Reuters: |
Sources detail Facebook's efforts to label photos, private posts, more to improve its AI, employing hundreds in Hyderabad, India, alone, raising privacy issues — HYDERABAD, India/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Over the past year, a team of as many as 260 contract workers in Hyderabad …
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Indian grocery delivery startup BigBasket raises $150M Series F at $1B+ valuation; source says Alibaba takes a ~30% stake, more than other investors — India has a new unicorn after BigBasket, a startup that delivers groceries and perishables across the country, raised $150 million for its fight …
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| Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
Equity management platform Carta raises $300M Series E led by a16z at a $1.7B valuation, says it works with 11,000+ companies and 143 VC firms — Carta, a seven-year-old, San Francisco-based startup, is the newest unicorn in tech. The company, which helps private and public companies …
Tweets: @ldrogen
| Oliver Burkeman / The Guardian: |
A critical examination of social media's role in driving the online news economy and how that is harming democratic politics as well as people's well-being — Is engagement with current affairs key to being a good citizen? Or could an endless torrent of notifications be harming democracy as well as our wellbeing?| Kev Needham / Mozilla Add-ons Blog: |
Expired certificate caused Firefox add-ons to stop working on Friday; Mozilla has issued a fix for most issues, advises others not to try any workarounds — Updates: — Some users are reporting that they do not have the “hotfix-update-xpi-signing-intermediate - bug-1548973” study active in “about:studies”.
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Tweets: @firefox, @stshank, @mozamo, @rvstaveren, @fugueish, @kiranpal, @torproject, @artemr, @firefox, and @textfiles
| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Ming-Chi Kuo: 2019 iPhones will feature new antenna technology that will improve iPhones' indoor navigation performance — TF Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo is out today with a new report on Apple's supply chain as it pertains to the 2019 and 2020 iPhones.
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MacRumors, AppleInsider, FierceWireless, O'Grady's PowerPage, Softpedia News, Firstpost Tech, SlashGear, Pocketnow, iDownloadBlog.com, TechSpot, Patently Apple, CNET, and iPhone Hacks. Tweets: @appleinsider
| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
An unprotected database offers a look at a surveillance system in Beijing, which matches faces to police records, monitors Wi-Fi-enabled devices, and more — Thousands of facial recognition scans were matched against Chinese police records — Smart cities are designed to make life easier …
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TechNode and New York Times
Tweets: @zackwhittaker, @grosetimothy, @4ngl3rf1sh, @davidpaulk, and @rj_gallagher. Thanks:@campuscodi
| John Herrman / New York Times: |
UK will outsource porn site age verification to private industry, potentially handing porn streaming giant MindGeek a monopoly on the system and private data — Complying with a new law, the largest online porn company has set itself up to be the youth gatekeeper of British smut. What could go wrong?
Tweets: @naomiohreally and @finck_m
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Israel responds to an alleged Hamas cyberattack with an airstrike, marking the first time a country has reacted with immediate military force to a cyberattack — Israel military said it bombed building housing Hamas cyber forces. — For the first time, Israel has used brute military force …
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The Verge, The Times of Israel, The Hacker News, Security Affairs, BleepingComputer, SecurityWeek, TechSpot, Forbes, Engadget, Telegraph, Federal Computer Week, CTech - 24/7, Wall Street Journal, and Reuters
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