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Monday's antitrust hearing featuring CEOs of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google has been postponed due to memorial services for Rep. John Lewis; new date TBA — - The highly anticipated antitrust hearing featuring CEOs from Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google has been officially postponed.
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| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
References to the TrueDepth camera found in macOS Big Sur beta 3 suggest Apple is working on bringing Face ID to Macs — Some iPhone and iPad models features Face ID, which allows users to unlock the device through advanced facial recognition. While Face ID is not yet available on any Mac …
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| Ian Sherr / CNET: |
NBA says it will install 17-foot tall screens on game courts to serve as digital “stands” filled with 300 remote fans using the Together mode in Microsoft Teams — The basketball organization said it'll install massive 17-foot tall screens on each game court to serve as digital “stands” filled with 300 fans.
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| Writankar Mukherjee / The Economic Times: |
Apple has started making its flagship iPhone 11 at the Foxconn plant near Chennai, the first time it has manufactured a top-of-the-line model in India — The company hasn't cut prices as it also sells iPhone 11 handsets made in China in India but industry executives said that could be an option later on.| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers say the Android version of DJI Go 4, installed 1M+ times, covertly collected a range of sensitive user data and sent it to servers in mainland China — DJI Go 4, installed more than 1 million times, can execute arbitrary code. — The Android version of DJI Go 4 …
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| Reed Albergotti / Washington Post: |
Leaked doc: while Apple will let third-party devices connect to Find My app, customers will be barred from using other competing services simultaneously — Opening the “Find My” feature to other companies was seen as an olive branch to developers. But Apple threatened legal action if developers talked about the software.
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
A companion app confirms Samsung's new bean-shaped earbuds will be called Galaxy Buds Live with support for active noise cancellation and other features — More details on Samsung's new headphones straight from its own app — We've seen plenty of pictures of Samsung's new bean-shaped earbuds …
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| Crystal Tse / Bloomberg: |
Dragoneer Growth Opportunities, Dragoneer's SPAC to focus on software, internet, retail and health-care tech, files for a US IPO, aiming to raise $600M — - Dragoneer has had bets on Alibaba, Datadog, Uber and Slack — Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan picked to lead offering| Cary Spivak / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: |
Headphone maker Koss sues Apple, Bose, and three other companies for patent infringement — Koss Corp. is charging five competitors, including Apple Inc. and Bose Corp, with patent infringement, saying the firms took its patented technology for use in their own products.
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| Aroon Deep / MediaNama: |
Flipkart buys Walmart's Indian wholesale arm and launches Flipkart Wholesale, an e-commerce service for small traders, to compete with JioMart — Flipkart has launched Flipkart Wholesale, an e-commerce platform for small retailers and kirana shops, the company announced on Thursday.
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Wall Street Journal, ZDNet, Hindustan Times, FlipKart Group, NDTV.com, TheQuint, DNA India, Indian Opinion News, Arkansas Online, Entrackr, Moneycontrol, The Economic Times, Livemint, and TechCrunch. Tweets: @sanjay2869
| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
From December 2018 to May of this year, Russia's GRU hacker group known as APT 28 or Fancy Bear has carried out a broad campaign against a range of US targets — A previously unreported Fancy Bear campaign persisted for well over a year—and indicates that the notorious group has broadened its focus.
Tweets: @fireeye, @anthomsec, @wired, @a_greenberg, @robertmlee, @issielapowsky, @780thc, @dragosinc, and @campuscodi
| Paddy Baker / CoinDesk: |
Bitcoin Suisse, a Switzerland-based crypto lending and staking services startup, raises $48M Series A at a valuation of around $327M — Bitcoin Suisse has raised more than CHF 45 million (~$48 million) in its first-ever funding round. — The Series A was for 16.4% of total equity …
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