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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Google Photos gets a big redesign with a new Places view, Recent Highlights feature in Memories, a Things feature with photos related to users' interests, more — Plus, more features designed to help you rediscover your old photos — After five years as the dominant solution …
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Google announces a licensing program to pay publishers for content for a new news product, launching later this year, as part of the Google News Initiative — In a major departure from its long-standing practice of not paying publishers directly to distribute their work …
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| New York Times: |
Sources say the DOJ has made the antitrust inquiry into Google its top priority and the case is moving swiftly, spurred by the personal interest of AG Barr — Attorney General William Barr's attention to the Justice Department investigation shows the high stakes for the agency and for him.
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
HEY opens its email service to everyone and says Apple has approved its update with proposed changes to meet App Store guidelines — The $99-per-year email app no longer needs an invite to be used — Hey — the new email service from Basecamp that's been the subject of the latest fight …
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| Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
Facebook says it is globally rolling out a notification screen warning users if they try to share content that's more than 90 days old — Facebook announced Thursday that it would introduce a notification screen warning users if they try to share content that's more than 90 days old.
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| Douglas Busvine / Reuters: |
Wirecard collapses and files for insolvency, facing an almost complete wipeout; source says creditors are owed nearly $4B — Douglas Busvine, Jörn Poltz, Arno Schuetze — BERLIN/MUNICH/FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German payments company Wirecard collapsed on Thursday after disclosing …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple to bring Face ID and Touch ID logins to the web in Safari 14 on mobile and desktop — Apple allows Touch ID and Face ID to be used in lieu of a password to access sensitive apps like those for banking or password management, and in the future, Face ID and Touch ID …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Apple confirms it is not planning to support Boot Camp on ARM-based Macs, and says “purely virtualization is the route” — Virtualization is the route forward — Apple will start switching its Macs to its own ARM-based processors later this year, but you won't be able to run Windows in Boot Camp mode on them.
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| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
Michael Hawley, whose work at MIT Media Lab helped lay the groundwork for IoT, and who helped Steve Jobs and Larry Page write commencement speeches, dies at 58 — A man of manifold interests, his achievements ranged from developing ideas behind the so-called Internet of Things to publishing the world's biggest book.
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| Joe Fedewa / XDA Developers: |
Google makes its ARCore Depth API available for developers on Android and Unity to build AR experiences — ARCore is Google's SDK for creating augmented reality experiences on Android and iOS. On Android devices, it's delivered as part of the Google Play Services for AR app.
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| Pavel Alpeyev / Bloomberg: |
SoftBank's Masayoshi Son steps down from Alibaba's board, a post he had held since 2005 — - Son steps down as Alibaba director, a post he held since 2005 — Jack Ma is also leaving SoftBank's board after 13 years — SoftBank Group Corp. founder Masayoshi Son ended … | Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Comcast is the first ISP to join Firefox's Trusted Recursive Resolver program to deploy encrypted DNS lookups on the Firefox browser — Comcast/Mozilla deal follows dispute over ISP snooping and DNS encryption. — Comcast is partnering with Mozilla to deploy encrypted DNS lookups on the Firefox browser … | Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: |
Senators unveil bipartisan PACT Act, to make social media moderation more transparent and require posts be removed within a day of courts deeming them illegal — Many Republicans and Democrats agree that social networks' prized legal shield is flawed. A new bill is a sign they could also find common ground to change it.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
YouTube is testing a new TikTok-like feature on mobile that will allow users to record 15-second, multi-segment videos — YouTube is taking direct aim at TikTok. The company announced on Wednesday it's beginning to test a new feature on mobile that will allow users to record 15-second long multi-segment videos.
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| Graham Rapier / Business Insider: |
Insurance startup Lemonade sets a price range of $23 to $26 for its IPO, valuing it ~$1.3B, about 25% less than its $2B valuation in its last funding round — Foto: Lemonade Lemonade insurance founders Daniel Schreiber and Shai Wininger. — Lemonade, which filed to go public earlier in June …
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| Justin Sherman / Wired: |
DOJ has objected to Facebook and Google's 8,000-mile cable to Hong Kong, claiming it offers “unprecedented opportunities” for Chinese government espionage — The DOJ's opposition to Facebook and Google's 8,000-mile cable to Hong Kong highlights how physical infrastructure is as contentious as the virtual world.
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U.S. Department of Justice, CSO, Quartz, CyberScoop, TechSpot, BBC, TechRadar.com, The Mac Observer, Light Reading, infosecurity-magazine.com, Fortune, and Nextgov
Tweets: @maryhui, @_ainikki, @ajitpaifcc, @jshermcyber, @cyberstatecraft, @missmaga2016, and @alysesue
| Kate Clark / The Information: |
PitchBook: the median valuation for Series C and later stage funding increased to a new high of $120M in the first half of 2020, from $80M for 2019 — When coronavirus fears sent stocks tumbling this spring, venture capitalists expected startup valuations to follow.
Tweets: @kateclarktweets, @lahepler, and @coryweinberg
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
TikTok launches a new site, TikTok for Business, as a home for marketing products and resources and launches a new AR ad format to rival Snapchat — TikTok is announcing to advertisers that it's open for business. The company is today officially introducing a new brand and platform called … | Anna Baydakova / CoinDesk: |
Telegram to pay $18.5M and notify SEC if it plans to issue digital currency in the next three years as part of an SEC settlement over its failed TON project — Telegram will pay $18.5 million and notify the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) if it plans to issue any sort … | Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Google says it will auto-delete location and search data by default for new users after 18 months, as part of a broader expansion of its privacy options — A compromise between privacy and ad-targeting data — On Wednesday, Google announced broad changes in its default data practices for new users …
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Tweets: @sundarpichai, @robinberjon, @privacyint, @wired, @joejerome, @wolfiechristl, @ericgeller, @lutherlowe, @sensherrodbrown, @googleuk, @chrismaddern, @backlon, @pierce, @pierce, and @caseynewton
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: White House has discussed various strategies to build competition against Huawei in 5G, like tax breaks and export-bank financing for Ericsson, Nokia — The Trump administration has discussed a range of strategies to build competition against Huawei
Tweets: @drewfitzgerald and @wsjpolitics
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