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Amazon says it is seeking the recusal of FTC chair Lina Khan from matters related to the company, citing her history of criticism and antitrust arguments — - Online retail giant files petition saying Khan shows bias — FTC is reviewing Amazon's purchase of MGM movie studio
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| Federico Viticci / MacStories: |
As iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 public betas arrive, an in-depth look at Focus, Safari's revamped UI, iPad multitasking, SharePlay, and other new features — For the past three weeks, I've been running the developer beta of iOS and iPadOS 15 on my iPhone 12 Pro Max and M1 iPad Pro, respectively.
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| Victoria Song / Gizmodo: |
Hands-on with Apple's watchOS 8 public beta: a welcome focus on helping users reduce stress induced by gadgets with a rebranded Mindfulness app, Focus, and more — When Apple previewed the features coming to watchOS 8, the next-gen software upgrade seemed iterative—great for overall performance … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Hands-on with Windows 11 preview: a new and refreshing approach, with welcome and simplified UI updates; Snap Layouts and Snap Groups improve multitasking — Microsoft's first Windows 11 preview looks promising — Microsoft's first version of Windows appeared more than 35 years ago …
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Microsoft Support, CNET, Softpedia News, YouTube, CNET, and Petri
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| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Slack releases Slack Huddles, an audio chat tool, and details new features, including video messages and an enhanced company directory — Slack started talking about a new set of communications tools to enhance the text-based channels at the end of last year.
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| Varun Mishra / Counterpoint Research: |
iPhone 12 series sales crossed 100M globally in April 2021, seven months after launch, two months faster than iPhone 11; iPhone 12 Pro Max had a 29% sales share — Beijing, San Diego, Buenos Aires, London, New Delhi, Seoul - June 30, 2021 — Exactly 14 years ago, Apple disrupted …
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
AT&T joins T-Mobile in making Google's Android Messages the default app for SMS and RCS services on Android phones; Verizon so far has not made the switch — Verizon is the last big carrier not to switch — AT&T and Google have announced that all Android phones on the network …
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| Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC: |
Shares of Didi Chuxing closed up 1% in its trading debut, giving it a market cap of $67.8B; stock spiked as much as 28.6% intraday — - Shares of Didi Chuxing, the Chinese ride-hailing giant, began trading Wednesday in its initial public offering. — Didi was most recently valued …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google says Android App Bundle, introduced at I/O 2018, will replace APK as the default format for new apps published to the Play Store in August — Google introduced the Android App Bundle format in May of 2018 at I/O as part of its modern development push.
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| Riley de León / CNBC: |
SentinelOne closed up 21% at $42.50 per share in its debut, valuing the company at $10B+; SentinelOne had the highest valued cybersecurity IPO in history — - Cybersecurity company SentinelOne made its market debut Wednesday on the New York Stock Exchange and is now trading under the ticker symbol “S.”
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| Dave Michaels / Wall Street Journal: |
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority fines Robinhood $70M for misleading customers and system outages, the biggest fine it has ever imposed — Online brokerage faulted for missteps related to options trading and technology outages; company neither admits nor denies allegations| The Block: |
Twitter releases a set of seven NFTs, each available in 20 designs, and is auctioning them on marketplace Rarible — Quick Take — Twitter has released a set of seven NFTs, with 20 available in each design. — It's auctioning them on NFT marketplace Rarible.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: amid escalating rivalry, neither Google nor Microsoft are keen to renew a recently-expired truce to not use their lobbying firepower against each other — A non-aggression pact forged by their CEOs expired in April, threatening to add fuel to industry's antitrust battles
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Financial Times, Ars Technica, AppleInsider, Android Central, The Verge, Windows Central, Insider, and MUO
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| Bloomberg: |
Twitter and Facebook are fighting new Indian rules they say curtail privacy and free speech; the regulations include potential jail terms for executives — - Government wants the power to decide acceptable speech online — Twitter's under scrutiny in one of its fastest-growing markets
Tweets: @geopol2030, @jamewils, @vladsavov, @vladsavov, @thejaggi, @super_crypto, @dhume, @asxyzp, and @anjansengupta16
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Instagram confirms it is working on tools to let creators share “exclusive” content to Stories for paying fans — Instagram is building its own version of Twitter's Super Follow with a feature that would allow online creators to publish “exclusive” content to their Instagram Stories that's …
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| Gilad Edelman / Wired: |
While a judge dismissing FTC's suit against Facebook was a setback, experts say the 30-day window to refile and prove Facebook has a monopoly should be enough — A judge dealt the Federal Trade Commission a setback this week in its quest to break the company up—but also provided a roadmap for how to proceed.
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| BBC: |
Tim Berners-Lee sells an NFT for $5.4M that represents time-stamped files of the source code for the world wide web and other items, via a Sotheby's auction — The original source code for the world wide web has been sold as a non-fungible token, making $5.4m (£3.9m).
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The Verge, CoinDesk, Financial Times, Gizmodo, Wired, Reuters, The Boston Globe, Slashdot, and CNBC
Tweets: @gutomartino, @grady_booch, and @mikko
| Dan Primack / Axios: |
TikTok says it removed 11M+ accounts during Q1 2021, including 7M+ for belonging to those under 13; around 62M videos were removed, or 1% of all uploaded — TikTok on Wednesday said it removed more than 7 million accounts “from the full TikTok experience” during the first quarter of 2021 …
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| Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
Microsoft and AT&T say the carrier will run core parts of its 5G network on Azure; AT&T's newer networks rely more heavily on virtualization than hardware — Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) and AT&T Inc (T.N) on Wednesday said that the carrier will run core parts of its 5G wireless network on Microsoft's cloud computing platform.
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FierceWireless, AT&T, CRN, Thurrott, ZDNet, Android Central, Light Reading, Telecoms.com, MSPoweruser, and OnMSFT.com
Tweets: @satyanadella, @quinnypig, @trengriffin, @jlzander, @fiercewireless, and @rdrv3
| Pia Singh / CNBC: |
Shares of LegalZoom, which helps customers create legal documents online, close up ~35% at $37.85 in trading debut, giving LegalZoom a market cap of $7.35B — - LegalZoom made its market debut Wednesday, with shares opening 31% above their offer price in the company's second attempt at going public.
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| Kim Bhasin / Bloomberg: |
Buzzer, a live sports streaming service that launched in January, raises $20M Series A from investors including Michael Jordan and Wayne Gretzky — - Osaka, Mahomes also join $20 million funding round for Buzzer — Service sends alerts that draw viewers to live clips on phones| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Moveworks, which automates enterprise IT tasks using chatbots, raises $200M Series C led by Tiger Global and Alkeon Capital at a $2.1B post-money valuation — Where does your enterprise stand on the AI adoption curve? Take our AI survey to find out. — Moveworks, a platform designed …
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| Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch: |
FightCamp, which offers an interactive at-home boxing training system with smart sensors in the gloves and subscription training videos, raises $90M — FightCamp, an interactive at-home training system for boxing/kickboxing, is announcing this morning that it has raised a $90M round … | Evan Ratliff / Bloomberg: |
Investigation of Ray Hushpuppi, a Nigerian influencer with a lavish lifestyle, who authorities say mastered business email compromise attacks, netting millions — For Ramon Abbas, the Instagram influencer popularly known as Ray Hushpuppi, @hushpuppi, Hush, or the Billionaire Gucci Master, birthdays were always a time for reflection.
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| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Facebook releases Habitat 2.0, a simulator to help AI interact with the real world, and partners with Matterport to open source its indoor 3D scan data set — To train a robot to navigate a house, you either need to give it a lot of real time in a lot of real houses, or a lot of virtual time in a lot of virtual houses.
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| Aria Alamalhodaei / TechCrunch: |
Drone delivery startup Zipline raises $250M at a $2.75B valuation to further its expansion in Africa and the US — Drone delivery startup Zipline, a company that got its start delivering medical supplies across Africa, has raised $250 million in new funding.| BuzzFeed News: |
Clearview AI data shows GAO's recent report on government use of facial recognition overlooked usage by five agencies, including IRS, TSA, and US Capitol Police — In a government accountability report about facial recognition, five federal agencies said they didn't use Clearview AI.
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