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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Sources: Facebook is testing Threads, a messaging app for Instagram that lets users automatically share status, location, battery life, more with Close Friends — The app promotes sharing your status, location, and more with your closest friends — Facebook is developing …
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| Canalys Newsroom: |
Canalys: Baidu crossed Google to capture 17.3% of the global smart speaker market, growing 3700% YoY with 4.5M shipments in Q2 2019; Amazon had 6.6M shipments — The global smart speaker market grew 55.4% in Q2 2019 to reach 26.1 million units. Amazon maintained the worldwide lead …
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE: |
Apple releases iOS 12.4.1 to patch a bug, inadvertently reintroduced in iOS 12.4, which allowed up-to-date iPhones to be jailbroken for the first time in years — The company released a patch to fix a dangerous bug on Monday, a week after hackers had released a jailbreak for fully patched iPhones.
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| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Binance launches a crypto lending business, allowing holders of its BNB token, Ethereum Classic, and Tether to lend their assets and earn interest — The world's largest cryptocurrency exchange Binance has ventured into lending space, according to an announcement Monday.| Cherlynn Low / Engadget: |
Google and Dell team up to unveil Latitude enterprise-grade Chromebooks, with 8th-gen Intel Core i7 CPUs, available to order from August 27, starting at $699 — The next time you get a laptop from your company's IT department, you might be getting a Chromebook.
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| Nathaniel Mott / Tom's Hardware: |
GlobalFoundries sues TSMC in the US and Germany, alleges infringement of 16 patents and seeks processor import bans that could affect Nvidia and Apple — GlobalFoundries (GF) today announced that it filed lawsuits against Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) …
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GLOBALFOUNDRIES, Engadget, New York Times, SiliconANGLE, CNET, The Verge, VentureBeat, PC Gamer, and Silicon Valley Business …. Tweets: @patrickmoorhead. Thanks:@paulyalcorn
| Reuters: |
Macron says France and the US reached a deal that will end the standoff over a French tax on large internet companies that was passed earlier this year — BIARITTZ, France (Reuters) - France and the United States have reached a deal to end a standoff over a French tax on big internet companies …
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| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Swiss financial regulator FINMA issues banking licenses to SEBA Crypto and Sygnum, the first time it's done so for “pure-play blockchain service providers” — Switzerland's Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) has issued banking and securities dealers' licenses …
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| Alison Bevege / Reuters: |
Australia will block access to internet domains hosting terrorist material during crisis events; sites to be censored will be determined on a case-by-case basis — SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia will block access to internet domains hosting terrorist material during crisis events …
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Gizmodo, Ars Technica, iTnews, TechSpot, The Next Web, and Engadget
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| Christopher Bing / Reuters: |
Amid recent ransomware attacks against local governments, US officials fear similar attacks on election databases; CISA to launch a program to help secure them — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government plans to launch a program in roughly one month that narrowly focuses …
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| Jim Waterson / The Guardian: |
BBC says it will launch a voice assistant called Beeb next year, that will understand British accents and be built into its website and iPlayer app on smart TVs — Corporation recording voices of staff across UK to help Beeb software understand accents — The BBC is preparing to launch …
Tweets: @tomcoates, @caseynewton, and @caseynewton
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
CRED, a 9-month old Indian startup, raises $120M Series B to help people improve their financial behavior; source: the startup's valuation is now $430M-$450M — Many Silicon Valley companies and fintech startups in India today share a common mission: They all want to bring their financial services to the next billion users.Sponsor Posts
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