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| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
Amazon says it will ban police from using Rekognition for one year, says Congress “appears ready” to place stronger regulations on facial recognition tech — - Amazon said on Wednesday that it's putting in place a one-year moratorium on police use of Rekognition.
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Just Eat Takeaway confirms it is acquiring Grubhub in an all-stock deal; the deal has an equity value of $7.3B — - Deal creates one of world's largest food-delivery companies — Dutch company offered to pay $75.15 per share for Grubhub — Europe's Just Eat Takeaway.com NV agreed …
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google releases Android 11 Beta 1 for Pixel phones, with updates to messaging notifications, ability for message threads to pop out in bubbles, and more — The Android 11 beta is available now for Pixel phones — Today, Google is releasing the Android 11 beta for Pixel phones.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google details upcoming improvements to Android Studio, like ML model importing, and refreshes Google Play Console; 70%+ of the top 1,000 Play apps use Kotlin — Google today launched the first Android 11 beta with final SDK and NDK APIs as well as new 10 features.
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| Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian / Axios: |
US-based Chinese activists say Zoom closed their paid account after event commemorating Tiananmen; Zoom says it was complying with local law, has reactivated it — The U.S. video-conferencing company Zoom closed the account of a group of prominent U.S.-based Chinese activists after they held …
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| Bradley Chambers / 9to5Mac: |
Apple says it will discontinue iBooks Author, which will no longer be updated, in July 2020 and iTunes U, its educational resources portal, at the end of 2021 — I have previously written about my frustration With iBooks Author and iTunes U, and Apple has now announced both of these products …
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE: |
Sources detail Facebook's extraordinary efforts to help the FBI track down a repeat child predator, paying a cybersecurity firm six figures for a Tails zero-day — For years, a California man systematically harassed and terrorized young girls using chat apps, email, and Facebook.
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| Scott Moritz / Bloomberg: |
Dish and T-Mobile have yet to decide on terms of Dish's purchase of Boost Mobile as July 1 deadline approaches; T-Mobile must offload Boost to acquire Sprint — - Negotiations heat up as key divestiture nears July 1 deadline — Issues include Boost customers getting service on new T-Mobile| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Amid protests, a movement swells to update widely-used tech terms for hard drives, camera flashes, and databases, like whitelist/blacklist and master/slave — During Black Lives Matter protests, a movement grows to update terms used with hard drives, camera flashes and databases.
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| Nitasha Tiku / Washington Post: |
Black tech founders say VCs should move past diversity theater, addressing the lack of top-level black investors and investment in black-run startups — There's a dearth of black investors in venture capital's upper echelons and little investment in start-ups with black founders
Tweets: @nitashatiku, @thevaluesvc, @nmasc_, @bryce, @reedalbergotti, @km, @posttech, @rachelerman, and @eperlste
| Cyrus Farivar / NBC News: |
California regulatory agency for transportation formally rules that it considers Uber and Lyft drivers as employees of those companies under AB5 state law — OAKLAND, Calif. —The California Public Utilities Commission, the state government body responsible for licensing and regulating …
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| Michael Potuck / 9to5Mac: |
Apple becomes the first company to reach a market cap of $1.5T+ — AAPL shares have crossed another major milestone with the market cap hitting over $1.5 trillion during trading today. The growth makes it the first US company to reach the achievement. — Just last week we saw AAPL pushing closer …
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| Sarah Emerson / OneZero : |
Facebook acknowledges banning hundreds of anti-racist skinheads for allegedly violating its community standards, apparently conflating them with neo-Nazi groups — ‘They wanted to see my ID before they would give me my account back’ — Hundreds of anti-racist skinheads are reporting …
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| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
French startup iBanFirst, which enables SMBs do cross-border payments in 30 currencies, raises €21M Series C led by Elaia and Bpifrance's Large Venture fund — French startup iBanFirst has raised a $23.8 million (€21 million) Series C round from Elaia and Bpifrance's Large Venture fund.
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| Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
Two senators have introduced a bill to provide over $22.8B in aid for domestic semiconductor manufacturers; two House members plan to introduce a similar bill — (Reuters) - A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday introduced a bill that would provide more than $22.8 billion in aid …
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| Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
Paris-based Alkemics, which lets brands collaborate and launch products with retailers, raises €21M Series C led by Highland Europe — Alkemics, the Paris-based platform that lets brands collaborate and launch products with retailers, has picked up €21 million in a Series C funding.
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Tech.eu and EU-Startups
| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Intel details its 3D-stacked Lakefield chips, designed for ultraportable, foldable, and dual-screen devices, in a bid to compete with ARM and Qualcomm — Intel is ready to take on ARM and Qualcomm — Intel's 3D-stacked Lakefield processors are finally getting an official debut after months of previews … | New York Times: |
Many top Chinese-educated AI researchers work at US companies, which could lose their edge as Trump moves to limit Chinese access to advanced American research — New research shows scientists educated in China help American firms and schools dominate the cutting-edge field.
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| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
Amazon, Facebook, and Google have been covertly funding a range of political groups to fight back against US antitrust action, pushing positive polling and more — The tech giants have funded a bevy of political groups, including those producing positive polling, and engaged …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple says in a memo that its main campus will re-open on June 15 for select employees, with most waiting several months at least before going back — Apple Inc. told staff at its main Silicon Valley headquarters that the first phase of a plan to return to the office will begin on June 15 …
Tweets: @markgurman
| Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
Ethyca, which automates the process of managing sensitive consumer data for compliance, raises $13.5M Series A from investors including Max Levchin — For companies that collect consumer data—which can be anything from an email address to web browsing history—the stakes are increasingly high when it come to managing it.
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