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In a letter from Palantir's S-1, CEO Alex Karp says Silicon Valley's “engineering elite” don't know “how society should be organized or what justice requires” — KEY POINTS — In Palantir's filing to go public on Tuesday, CEO Alex Karp said Silicon Valley engineers …
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Palantir files S-1 for its public market listing, confirming a net loss of $580M in 2019 on $742.6M in revenue; intends to debut with a direct listing — - The data analytics company co-founded by Peter Thiel is going public after 16 years. — Data analytics company Palantir Technologies … | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple plans to add AR content to Apple TV+ next year, as a form of bonus content akin to director commentaries, ahead of an AR headset in 2022 — - Company plans to add AR-based bonus content to original video — Apple seeks to make AR more mainstream ahead of headset launch| New York Times: |
How Microsoft's talks with TikTok ballooned from a small investment into a big, messy, closely watched political soap opera after Trump's intervention — Neither side wanted a big deal. But what began as talks about a small investment ballooned with interventions from President Trump.
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| Kate Cox / Ars Technica: |
Unsealed court docs: Google engineers admitted knowing and discussing that the company's location privacy app settings were confusing and could be misleading — Users could make change, but it was “difficult enough that people won't,” one employee wrote. — Newly unsealed and partially …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
White House announces $1B+ investment to create 12 research institutes focused on AI and quantum computing — The White House today detailed the establishment of 12 new research institutes focused on AI and quantum information science. Agencies including the National Science Foundation …
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| Zach Baron / GQ: |
Profile of VR pioneer Jaron Lanier, his early warnings about the dangers of social media, why Facebook is bad, and why BLM activism felt constructive — Tech oracle Jaron Lanier warned us all about the evils of social media. Too few of us listened. Now, in the most chaotic of moments …
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| Richard Lai / Engadget: |
Hands-on with the ~$950 ASUS ZenFone 7 Pro, which has a flippable camera, Snapdragon 865 Plus, 6.67" 90Hz AMOLED display, and a 5,000mAh battery — ASUS has been taking a cautious approach to its new phones, at a time when rivals continue to churn out a mix of flagship and midrange devices.
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| Tracy Withers / Bloomberg: |
New Zealand's stock exchange halted trading for more than three hours on Wednesday after experiencing its second cyber attack in two days, likely DDoS — New Zealand's stock exchange was halted for more than three hours on Wednesday as it came under cyber attack for a second day.
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google rolls out Chrome 85 with 10% faster page load times, collapsible tab groups, a PDF editor, and more — Following version 84's release on Android, Mac, Windows, Linux, and Chrome OS, the next release of Google's browser is rolling out today. Chrome 85 sees faster page loads …
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| TechCrunch: |
An overview of 94 companies that launched at Y Combinator's Summer 2020 Demo Day 2; the Summer 2020 batch of companies was YC's first fully remote startup batch — And we're back! Today was part two of Y Combinator's absolutely massive Demo Day(s) event for its Summer 2020 class.
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| Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
Grid, a SaaS startup that lets users turn spreadsheets into visual “narratives”, raises $12M Series A led by New Enterprise Associates — Grid, a SaaS startup founded in Iceland that lets you turn spreadsheets into visual “narratives,” has closed $12 million in Series A funding.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook updates Messenger Rooms, its group video calling tool, with a simplified UI for creating and discovering rooms, new customization options, and more — Messenger Rooms, Facebook's social Zoom competitor, is today rolling out new features aimed at making Rooms easier to both create …
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| Issie Lapowsky / Protocol: |
As content moderators started working from home, YouTube's reliance on automation resulted in double the video removals; Facebook saw removals steeply decline — When YouTube sent content moderators home in March due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it dramatically expanded its use of automated filters …
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| Frank Chaparro / The Block: |
Crypto derivatives exchange FTX has acquired crypto price tracking app Blockfolio for $150M, in the form of equity, FTX's native token, and cash — Crypto derivatives exchange FTX has acquired popular crypto price tracking app Blockfolio for $150 million in one of the largest acquisition deals in the digital asset space this year.
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| Katie Abel / Footwear News: |
Tony Hsieh is stepping down as Zappos CEO after 21 years at the helm; COO Kedar Deshpande will succeed him at the Amazon-owned company — Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh is stepping down after 21 years at the helm. — Kedar Deshpande, COO at the company, has assumed the role of CEO, according to an internal email obtained by FN.
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Gartner: global smartphone sales in Q2 dropped 20.4% YoY, similar to Q1's 20% drop; Samsung and Huawei virtually tie for top spot, after Samsung drops 27% YoY — The last couple of years have been tough on the smartphone industry, as sales plateaued and eventually eroded.
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| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Facebook says it will unify its AR/VR teams into a group called Facebook Reality Labs, renames Oculus Connect event to Facebook Connect, to be held on Sept. 16 — Facebook is moving further away from the Oculus brand. — The company says it is changing the name of their augmented reality …
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| Ian Sherr / CNET: |
Microsoft adds an audio transcription feature to Word's web version for Office 365 that will work with prerecorded or live audio — Microsoft's Word writing tool will soon be able to record and transcribe audio, marking an evolution long requested by everyone from students to reporters to Microsoft executives.
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| Olaf Storbeck / Financial Times: |
Interviews and documents reveal Wirecard's desperate effort to cover up fraud, hoodwink its auditors, and a plan to take over Deutsche Bank in its final months — Executives at the German payments group hatched a plan to buy Deutsche Bank while desperately trying to cover their tracks
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| Jim Salter / Ars Technica: |
A Chromium feature is responsible for nearly half of the traffic load on root DNS servers by issuing DNS lookups that often propagate up to root nameservers — Google is doing to DNS what D-Link once did to NTP. — The Chromium browser—open source, upstream parent to both Google Chrome …
Tweets: @jreuben1, @dennis_kipker, @glynmoody, @hackerfantastic, @swiftonsecurity, and @jgamblin
| Christine Hall / Crunchbase News: |
Finix, a SaaS startup selling payments tools to businesses, adds $30M led by Lightspeed and AMEX to its $45 Series B from earlier this year — Finix continues to have a good year. Six months after announcing an initial $45 million Series B, the payments infrastructure company is coming …
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