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Facebook launches free-to-play cloud gaming on desktop and Android but says it is unable to bring games to iOS due to Apple's “arbitrary” policies — - Facebook announced the launch of cloud gaming on its desktop website and Android app but not to iOS due to Apple's “arbitrary” policies.
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Sources: Apple is working on third-generation entry-level AirPods without noise cancellation and a smaller second version of the AirPods Pro — - New AirPods earbuds planned to be announced as early as 2021 — Hit accessory sees new competition from Amazon, Google, others
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| Lauren Kaori Gurley / VICE: |
Sources: staff at Verkada, a facial recognition and security camera startup, abused the company's own surveillance cameras to monitor and harass women coworkers — Employees at Verkada accessed the company's facial recognition system to take photos of women colleagues and make sexually explicit jokes.
Tweets: @jason_koebler, @zenalbatross, @akumar, @vice, and @fightfortheftr
| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
Ant Group will raise $34.5B in its dual Shanghai and Hong Kong IPOs, valuing it at $313.37B, making it the biggest listing of all time — - Ant Group will raise $34.5 billion in its dual initial public offering (IPO) after setting the price for its shares on Monday, making it the biggest listing of all time.| David Ingram / NBC News: |
Twitter says it will place messages it calls “pre-bunks” at the top of users' feeds to pre-emptively debunk false info about voting by mail and election results — Twitter said Monday it would begin placing messages at the top of users' feeds to pre-emptively debunk false information …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
YouTube revamps its mobile apps with gestures like swiping up for fullscreen and expands video chapters by adding lists with chapter preview images — YouTube today is rolling out a series of updates to its player page on mobile devices. The changes relocate some elements, add new features …
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| Stephanie Clifford / New York Times: |
Seesaw, a remote learning startup with just 60 employees in February, saw rapid growth during the pandemic and is now used in over 75% of American schools — It wasn't simple to become a do-it-all education tool almost overnight. — The first requests that upended Seesaw, a popular classroom app …
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SAP shares drop as much as 21%, the biggest intraday fall since 1999, as profit and sales declined and it cut revenue forecast for the full year — - Previous outlook incorrectly ‘assumed economies would reopen’ — German software maker also delays longer-term financial goals| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Melbourne-based Linktree, a social media platform with lightweight, link-centric user profiles, raises $10.7M Series A and says it has 8M+ users — Simple, link-centric user profiles might seem might not seem like a particularly ambitious idea, but it's been big enough for Linktree.| Variety: |
Sources: Apple TV+, Netflix, and others explored buying the rights for “No Time to Die”, but balked at MGM's $600M price tag — Apple, Netflix and other streaming services explored the possibility of acquiring “No Time to Die,” the upcoming James Bond movie that was originally slated to debut last April.
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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Profile of Maddie Stone, who leads Google's Project Zero team that studies and neuters actively exploited Android malware — The Project Zero reverse engineer shuts down some of the world's most dangerous exploits—along with antiquated hacker stereotypes. — EVEN WITH A knee injury, Maddie Stone is formidable.
Tweets: @howelloneill, @themadstone, @k8em0, @petermbl_, @saffronsec, @kimzetter, @evacide, @a_greenberg, and @lilyhnewman
| Natalia Drozdiak / Bloomberg: |
Group representing Facebook, TikTok, Google, and others calls on EU to protect them from legal liabilities for removing hate speech and illegal content — - Companies risk legal liability for actively removing content — Call comes as European Commission prepares digital policy| Thomas Brewster / Forbes: |
Grayshift, the maker of phone hacking tool GrayKey that's popular with law enforcement, raises $47M led by PeakEquity Partners — Grayshift, the startup behind one of the U.S. government's favourite iPhone hacking technologies, has raised $47 million in funding.Sponsor Posts
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