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Ashley Gold / Axios:

Source: the rescheduled House Judiciary antitrust subcommittee hearing featuring CEOs of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google will take place this Wednesday — The CEOs of Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Google will now testify before the House Judiciary antitrust subcommittee on Wednesday …

More: The Verge, Reuters, CNET, Bloomberg, Protocol, Windows Central, Financial Times, GeekWire, Observer, Android Headlines, Politico, The Mac Observer, iPhone in Canada Blog, CNET, BBC, PYMNTS.com, and AppleInsider

Tweets: @jason_kint, @tonyromm, and @justinhendrix. Thanks:@scottros

Tom Warren / The Verge:

This year's Xbox Games Showcase made it clear that Microsoft's true focus for next generation Xbox gaming is not on hardware but on Xbox Game Pass subscription — If you were heading into Microsoft's Xbox game showcase yesterday to witness a demonstration of why next-gen gaming and the …

More: Laptop Mag, Laptop Mag, Engadget, Windows Central, Softpedia News, and GamingBolt

Tweets: @vicious696, @darthchillash, @gavinpurcell, @alexmulhearn, and @tomwarren

Electronic Frontier Foundation:

The EFF and 17 other advocacy organizations urge US court to rule that Trump's appointee to the OTF violated the law by ousting OTF's president and the board — Government Attempts Takeover of Private, Independent Nonprofit Protecting Internet Freedom — San Francisco—The Electronic …

Tweets: @eff

Andrew Leonard / Wired:

Audrey Tang, Taiwan's digital minister and an accomplished programmer, is showing how digital tools can build strong, open, accountable democracies — Audrey Tang says tech can build trust, tame misinformation, and strengthen democracy. Her plan might even work in the US.

Tweets: @letahong, @monstro, @ketagalanmedia, @wired, @wired, and @nxthompson

Louise Matsakis / Wired:

Experts call for US legislation to make it easy for domestic abuse victims to leave family phone plans, which can be used by abusers to stalk their victims — Abusers can use shared accounts to stalk and harass victims, and plans aren't always easy to escape.

Tweets: @lmatsakis and @privacydigest

Tom Warren / The Verge:

While Slack files an antitrust complaint against Microsoft's Teams bundling, Google, with its G Suite bundle, is uniquely positioned to be an even bigger threat — Slack surprised Microsoft with a competition complaint in Europe yesterday. After arguing for months that Microsoft Teams …

More: Windows Central. Tweets: @annesaurus and @alexhern

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.

More: Microsoft 365 Blog, The Verge, Thurrott, TheStreet, Neowin, Engadget, Windows Central, Ross Dawson, and Seeking Alpha

Tweets: @satyanadella, @campuscodi, @microsoft, @danholme, @katepurchase, @bakingsteele, @xecretcode, @atx, @martinsfp, @jeffteper, and @tomwarren. Thanks:@iansherr

Daisuke Wakabayashi / New York Times:

Documents and sources: the Global Antitrust Institute, which trains regulators to take a hands-off approach to antitrust, is funded by Google, Amazon, Qualcomm — Google, Amazon and Qualcomm finance a George Mason University institute teaching a hands-off approach to antitrust regulators and judges.

Tweets: @rondeibert, @conordougherty, @econ_marshall, @ericliptonnyt, @ddayen, and @matthewstoller

Crystal Tse / Bloomberg:

Dragoneer Growth Opportunities, a SPAC with a broad tech focus including online retail and financial services, 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

More: Decrypt and U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Tweets: @danprimack

Romain Dillet / TechCrunch:

AB Tasty, a startup focused on improving UX on e-commerce sites, travel portals, fashion sites, and more, announces $40M Series C, bringing total raised to $64M — AB Tasty has raised a new $40 million funding round led by Credit Mutuel Innovation with existing investors Korelya Capital, Omnes, Partech and XAnge also participating.

More: PitchBook, PR Newswire, and FinSMEs

Kaitlyn Tiffany / The Atlantic:

A look at Randonautica, an app that generates random coordinates that users can explore, and has been downloaded 6M times since the beginning of April — It took me a week to find a plastic water bottle full of what could only be pee. — That was after the abandoned house taped off …

Tweets: @martinsfp, @cccblab, and @theatlantic

Ina Fried / Axios:

CalypsoAI, which wants to help businesses and government agencies use AI while ensuring their approaches are bias-free and secure, raises $13M Series A — CalypsoAI, a machine learning startup with its roots in the defense industry, has raised $13 million to help make government and corporate AI systems more secure and free of bias.

More: Axios. Tweets: @finnmurphy12

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