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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Oculus will soon require all of its VR headset users to sign up with a Facebook account, removing support for new separate Oculus accounts in October — Support for separate Oculus accounts will end in 2023 — Oculus will soon require all of its virtual reality headset users to sign up with a Facebook account.
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Zoom says it is adding support for Amazon Echo Show, Facebook Portal, and Google Nest Hub Max later this year — Zoom from even more places — Zoom is expanding to a variety of new devices later this year, with the company announcing that the Amazon Echo Show, Facebook Portal …
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| Janko Roettgers / Protocol: |
Facebook says it will add native support for Zoom, Webex, BlueJeans, and GoToMeeting to Portal starting next month — Portals may soon get sold to enterprise customers in bulk. — Facebook is turning Portal into a Trojan horse for the enterprise: The smart display is getting native apps for Zoom … | The Guardian: |
Avaaz: sites spreading health misinfo had ~500M views on Facebook in April; top 10 such sites had almost four times the views of top 10 reputable health sites — Research findings undermine firm's claims it is cracking down on inaccurate news — Websites spreading misinformation …
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| New York Times: |
Stocks of Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Facebook rose a combined 37% in the first seven months of 2020, while all the other S&P 500 stocks fell 6% — As the economy contracts and many companies struggle to survive, the biggest tech companies are amassing wealth and influence in ways unseen in decades.
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| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Instagram starts rolling out QR codes for user profiles globally, a feature that it had first launched in Japan last year; Instagram is deprecating Nametags — Don't open Instagram to find a profile — Instagram is bringing QR codes to the app. Users can now generate QR codes that'll …
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| Tim Wu / New York Times: |
A ban on TikTok is overdue as the US confronts China's asymmetrical “net nationalism” and fights for the future of the open internet — Critics say we shouldn't abandon the ideal of an open internet. But there is such a thing as being a sucker.
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| Paul Ford / Wired: |
How low-code database services like Airtable, a category often sneered at by professional programmers, let non-programmers create community databases — When people build a database to manage reading lists or feed their neighbors, that's coding—and culture. — It's a normal afternoon in July.
Tweets: @backchnnl, @rozzie, and @wired
| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Google Maps says it's rolling out more detailed maps with improved street designs for SF, NYC, and London, and with more accurate natural features worldwide — Making natural features easier to see and streets easier to navigate — Google Maps is being redesigned to make it easier …
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Tweets: @sounderbruce, @backlon, @alex_roddie, @brchastain, @googlemaps, and @gregbensinger
| Nick Romeo / New Yorker: |
How Americans can draw upon European thinkers, like Dutch politician Marietje Schaake, to address issues of antitrust, Big Tech, and democratic governance — Last October, a couple of days before joining Stanford University as the international policy director at the Cyber Policy Center …
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| Steven T. Dennis / Bloomberg: |
Senate Intelligence Committee concludes Putin ordered the 2016 hacking of Democratic Party accounts and the release of emails to harm Hillary Clinton's campaign — - Manafort described as a ‘grave counterintelligence threat’ — Report details plan to hurt Clinton, finds no Trump collusion
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| Kris Holt / Engadget: |
Google updates its activity cards feature to provide more personalized results for recipes, jobs, and shopping — Google is making its activity cards feature — which helps you pick up where you left off in Search on mobile — more useful. Let's say you're looking for iPad accessories.
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The Keyword, 9to5Google, Android Central, Search Engine Roundtable, Neowin, Pocketnow, and SlashGear
Tweets: @searchliaison and @google
| Nick Corasaniti / New York Times: |
Inside the work of the DNC and RNC digital teams for the conventions: building a robust network, ensuring a livestream, producing a broadcast, and more — Making sure livestreams don't lag. Sending out remote video kits. Showing speakers how to avoid microphone mishaps.
Tweets: @ericdavismiddvt, @aaronemyers, @nytpolitics, and @ofirahy
| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Report: a look at the narrowing regulatory exemptions Apple has been operating under in China, such as running an App Store without a local partner — Amid continued tension between the United States and China, a new report from The Information details how Apple could be impacted by Chinese retaliation.
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Tweets: @markdistef, @zhugeex, @waynema, @_danielsinclair, @greatfirechina, @sarthakgh, and @amir
| Issie Lapowsky / Protocol: |
Profile of Color of Change, a civil rights group pushing Big Tech on issues of race has gone from 1.7M members in May to 8M today — It felt hot in Brandi Collins-Dexter's attic, but nerves may have had something to do with it. — It was late June, and she was sitting in front of her computer …
Tweets: @birnbaum_e, @brandingbrandi, @colorofchange, @protocol, @issielapowsky, and @issielapowsky. Thanks:@birnbaum_e
| Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg: |
Sources say the Twitter breach in 2015 involving access of internal data by employees yielded information that led to the disappearance of Saudi dissidents — Access of internal data by Twitter employees in 2015 presaged the disappearance of Saudi dissidents
Tweets: @rprose, @rj_gallagher, and @middleeast
| Cody Toombs / Android Police: |
Android 11 to remove the camera picker, often seen in 3rd-party apps, defaulting instead to the built-in camera; Google says it's to protect privacy, security — Android may have started with the mantra that developers are allowed to do anything as long as they can code it … | South China Morning Post: |
Taiwan to ban Chinese streaming giants iQiyi and Tencent from September, prohibiting Taiwanese individuals and organizations from working with the companies — Taiwan is planning to ban mainland Chinese streaming giants iQiyi and Tencent Holdings from operating services on the island The order … | Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Google has expanded its Kormo Jobs app, first launched in Bangladesh in 2018 to help people find entry-level jobs, to India — Google said on Wednesday it has expanded its jobs app, called Kormo Jobs, to India as the Search giant looks to offer a helping hand to millions looking … | Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg: |
Chinese AI company SenseTime, blacklisted by Trump last year, saw its revenue surge 147% to $720M in 2019 and expects an 80% revenue growth in 2020 — - World's largest AI startup SenseTime sees business boom — SenseTime is said to expect 80% revenue growth this year| Matthew Handrahan / GamesIndustry.biz: |
Take-Two Interactive has agreed to acquire NYC-based mobile game developer Playdots for $192M in cash and stock; Playdots had raised $10M Series A in 2014 — New York-based studio's entire team will join Take-Two in cash and stock deal — Take-Two Interactive has acquired the mobile developer Playdots in a deal worth $192 million.
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| Reuters: |
India's antitrust watchdog has dismissed a case against WhatsApp, saying the company has not abused its dominant position to expand in the payments market — NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's antitrust watchdog has dismissed a case against Facebook's WhatsApp, saying the company has not abused …
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| Debby Wu / Bloomberg: |
Taiwan accused China-linked hackers of infiltrating Taiwanese companies that provide info services to government bodies, to steal citizens' personal data — - Groups likely backed by Beijing, cybersecurity official says — Efforts to access systems have been ongoing for ‘long time’
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