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After meeting between leaders of Facebook, ADL, Free Press, NAACP, and Color Of Change, boycott organizers are unconvinced meaningful change will occur at FB — WASHINGTON — On Tuesday afternoon, leaders of four of the organizations coordinating the #StopHateForProfit advertising boycott met …
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| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Code in the second developer beta of iOS 14 reveals a hidden and unannounced feature in the Wallet app that would allow payments with QR codes using Apple Pay — Apple today released the second developer beta of iOS 14 with some small changes across the system.
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| The Guardian: |
Microsoft and Zoom join the “pause” on compliance with data requests from Hong Kong authorities; Apple, under pressure to act, says it's “assessing the new law” — Social media firms react to sweeping new national security legislation imposed by China| Paul Mozur / New York Times: |
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| Jason Del Rey / Vox: |
Sources: Walmart+, a $98/year Amazon Prime rival, will launch in July, with same-day delivery, discounts at Walmart gas stations, reserved delivery slots, more — After announcing a number of improvements to its online shopping experience, Walmart is now taking aim at Amazon Prime membership.
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| Diane Bartz / Reuters: |
Sources: FTC and Justice Department are looking into allegations TikTok failed to live up to a 2019 agreement to protect children's privacy — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Justice Department are looking into allegations that popular app TikTok failed …
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Samsung announces its next Galaxy Unpacked event for August 5, to be held virtually, where the Galaxy Note 20 lineup and Galaxy Fold's successor are expected — Time for a new Galaxy Unpacked event — Samsung has announced that its next Galaxy Unpacked event will take place on Wednesday, August 5th, at 10AM ET.
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
ARM plans to spin off its two IoT businesses to its parent company SoftBank, in order to focus its efforts exclusively on the semiconductor IP business — Arm today announced plans to spinoff its two IoT business, a move that would effectively transfer the divisions under the broader umbrella …
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Magic Leap hires Peggy Johnson, who led Microsoft's business development, as CEO, starting in August — Peggy Johnson, who led Microsoft's business development, will take over the struggling virtual reality start-up in August. — SAN FRANCISCO — Magic Leap said on Tuesday …
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| Patrick O'Neill / MIT Technology Review: |
Unsealed court documents reveal identity of Fxmsp, a Kazakh hacker responsible for information theft from 300+ companies and governments in 44 countries — Newly-unsealed court documents name a Kazakh man as the mastermind behind a hacking campaign that hit 44 countries. They also detail his short-lived successes.| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Instagram will start letting users pin up to three comments on their posts, after testing the feature in May — To help users highlight positive replies and better moderate abusive ones — Instagram on Tuesday started the official rollout of its pinned comment feature …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Prime Video launches user profiles globally, allowing six per account, giving access to a Watchlist, personalized recommendations, and viewing progress — Amazon's Prime Video is finally adding a feature that's long since become a standard for streaming video services: user profiles.
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| Carolyn Said / San Francisco Chronicle: |
Uber drivers in Southern California and Sacramento can now set their own fares, higher or lower than Uber's existing rates, in response to AB5 state law — Uber is letting drivers in Southern California and Sacramento set their own fares, a feature it will soon bring to the Bay Area and the entire state.| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Unacademy acquires PrepLadder, which offers medical education courses online, for $50M, as Unacedemy and Byju's eye edtech consolidation in India with more M&A — Indian online learning platform Unacademy said on Tuesday it has acquired Chandigarh-based startup PrepLadder for $50 million …
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| Ethan Gach / Kotaku: |
Ubisoft confronts allegations of sexual harassment at its Toronto offices, amid an open letter from 100+ employees, resignation of the studio's co-founder, more — There's a story some people tell at Ubisoft Toronto, the studio currently finishing one of this fall's bigger planned releases, Watch Dogs: Legion.| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Report: a group known as Keeper has breached at least 570 online e-commerce portals since 2017; 85% of the victims' sites were running Magento software — Hackers also accidentally leaked more than 184,000 stolen cards through an improperly secured backend server.| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
New HomePod beta software release lets users select default services for music, podcasts, and audiobooks; third-party devs will need to add support to be listed — Apple has provided HomePod beta software to a selection of AppleSeed testers, and today released a second version of the HomePod update alongside iOS 14 beta 2.
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Former May Mobility employees explain how its autonomous shuttle ambitions backfired, as missteps soured municipal partners' relationship with the startup — By all appearances, May Mobility was a scrappy success story. The autonomous transportation startup made its debut at Y Combinator's demo …
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| Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider: |
Kuo: “AirPods 3” will adopt a more complex system-in-package chip solution, similar to AirPods Pro, replacing the surface mount tech used in current versions — Apple's next-generation in-ear AirPods product will move to a more complex system-in-package chip solution …
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