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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Trump signs an executive order to block all transactions with ByteDance and Tencent starting Sept. 20, just 5 days after Microsoft's deadline to acquire TikTok — President Trump has signed a new executive order which will block all transactions with Bytedance, TikTok's parent corporation …
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Microsoft is pursuing a deal to buy all of TikTok's global operations, including those in India and Europe — US group explores whether it can add regions including India and Europe to deal for video app's US arm — Microsoft is chasing a deal to buy all of TikTok's global business …
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| Amanda Macias / CNBC: |
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| BuzzFeed News: |
Staffers ask Zuckerberg what would happen if Trump uses Facebook to dispute the election; some staff say they have evidence of favoritism for right-wing pages — Facebook employees collected evidence showing the company is giving right-wing pages preferential treatment when it comes to misinformation.
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| Bloomberg: |
Facebook and YouTube removed a video where Trump claims kids are “virtually immune” to COVID-19; Twitter banned @teamtrump's account until it removed the video — Twitter Inc. and Facebook Inc. blocked a video shared by accounts linked to U.S. President Donald Trump for violating …
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Apple confirms cloud gaming services like xCloud and Stadia violate App Store guidelines and will not work on iOS, as Apple cannot review each game offered — New cloud gaming services from Google and Microsoft won't work on iOS — Cloud gaming is shaping up to have a big moment …
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Tweets: @macrumors, @timsweeneyepic, @andrewmartonik, @stevestreza, @bzamayo, @vicious696, @gruber, @jamiemoranuk, @tekwendell, @benedictevans, @romudeth, @jake_k, @reneritchie, @mspoonauer, @thurrott, @willsmith, @benedictevans, @gruber, @stroughtonsmith, @samguichelaar, @mishaalrahman, @jcenters, @dmoren, @onejarednewman, and @rileytestut
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Intel is investigating a leak of 20 GB of documents, some confidential, possibly from an internal source accessing its Resource and Design Center — Leak confirmed to be authentic. Many files are marked “confidential” or “restricted secret.” — US chipmaker Intel is investigating …
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CyberScoop, AnandTech, Tom's Hardware, TweakTown News, SiliconANGLE, HackRead, TechRadar, SlashGear, Neowin, CRN, and BleepingComputer
Tweets: @deletescape, @pstasiatech, @daveschroeder, @om, @liliputingnews, and @gregotto
| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Internal Android development document suggests Google is working on builds for a Pixel 5a, foldable Pixel, and at least two other first-party devices — As we try to make sense of Google's 2020 Pixel lineup, an internal Android document reviewed by 9to5Google gives us our first glimpse of what to expect next year.| BBC: |
Twitter says it will start labeling government-linked media accounts, as well as “key government officials”, from China, France, Russia, the UK, and US — Twitter says it will no longer “amplify” tweets by state-controlled media organisations, by excluding them from its recommendation systems.
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Tweets: @twittersupport, @lizkelley, @ideagov, @yoyoel, @frankluntz, @nickpickles, and @fox6now
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Apple iMac 27-inch (2020) hands-on: 1080p webcam is long overdue and its smart features, like face detection, are great; nano texture is good but pricey at $500 — Plus, some impressions of the nano texture screen option — I've had a review unit of the new 27-inch iMac for about two days now …
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MACお宝 …, TechCrunch, Six Colors, CNBC, YouTube, Mashable, iPhone Hacks, and iPhone in Canada Blog
Tweets: @caitlin_mcgarry, @willoremus, @film_girl, @davegershgorn, @backlon, and @snazzyq
| Uber: |
Uber Q2: revenue of $2.2B, down 29% YoY, gross bookings of $10.2B, down 35%, net loss of $1.8B; mobility gross bookings fell 73% but delivery grew 113% YoY — “Our team continues to move at Uber speed to respond to the pandemic's impact on our communities and on our business …
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Over the past year, scientists have renamed 27 human genes because Microsoft's Excel misread their names as dates and changed the formatting — Sometimes it's easier to rewrite genetics than update Excel — There are tens of thousands of genes in the human genome: minuscule twists of DNA …
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| Stephanie Condon / ZDNet: |
T-Mobile reports total Q2 revenue of $17.7B, up 30.5% YoY, adding 1.25M customers to reach 98.3M total, claims to be the second largest US wireless provider — After finalizing its merger with Sprint in the second quarter and posting solid customer growth, T-Mobile says it has officially surpassed AT&T in the wireless market.| Kim Lyons / The Verge: |
TikTok launches its first TV app, called More on TikTok, on Amazon Fire TV devices, featuring curated video playlists and compilations from its mobile app — More on TikTok will be free and view-only at launch — TikTok is launching its first TV app, called “More on TikTok,” on Amazon Fire TV devices today (via Business Insider).
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| Jason Snell / Six Colors: |
A first look at macOS Big Sur as it launches in public beta with a new Control Center, a redesigned Notification Center with widgets, more — So here we are, at the end of OS X. Two decades ago Apple parked the sixteen-year-old Classic Mac OS and leaped to version 10.0 …
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TechCrunch, The Verge, MacRumors, and The Next Web
Tweets: @brandonbutch, @dimillian, and @gregorymcfadden
| Rob Price / Business Insider: |
Facebook extends its work from home policy until July 2021, as well as giving employees an additional $1,000 for home office needs — - Facebook also expects to have up to 50% of its workforce permanently working remotely within five to ten years. — Got a tip?| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researcher says security vulnerabilities in satellite-based Internet services, some known for over ten years, are threatening the safety of ships and planes — Attacks that worked 10 years ago have only gotten worse despite growing use. — More than a decade has passed since researchers …
Tweets: @brianweeden and @mtoecker
| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Analysis of hundreds of pages of documents from Facebook, Amazon, Apple, and Google released by the House antitrust committee and what they reveal — - Following last week's grilling of the CEOs of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google parent company Alphabet, the House Judiciary Committee released … | Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Snapchat to roll out in-app voter registration tools in September, with four new features including a Voter Registration Mini and a voter guide — Snapchat is rolling out a slew of new tools and features to help prepare young people to vote in the November election.
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