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Automattic, owner of Tumblr, buys podcast app Pocket Casts from a public radio collective that includes NPR, which reportedly lost $800K on it last year — A new home for the popular podcast app — Pocket Casts has a new owner. Automattic, which runs WordPress.com and recently purchased Tumblr …
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Report: Apple tapped VP of technology Kevin Lynch to help lead its car project; Lynch had a major role in development of Watch and associated health features — As Apple continues its work on self-driving car technology, it is shifting one of its most well-known executives to the Project Titan team.
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| Kait Sanchez / The Verge: |
Unicode releases a draft list of new emoji to be finalized in September; contenders include multiracial handshake, melting smiley face, a pregnant man, and more — Looking forward to beans and more — The draft list for the next round of new emoji was announced today, two days ahead of World Emoji Day on July 17th.
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| Jennifer Elias / CNBC: |
Google Cloud VP Amr Awadallah leaves the company, after staff complain about his manifesto called We Are One that he posted online about his past antisemitism — - Google Cloud has abruptly parted with developer relations vice president Amr Awadallah, according to an internal email seen by CNBC.
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Paytm files for an IPO in India, looking to raise $2.2B — Digital payments giant Paytm, one of India's most valuable startups, plans to raise up to $2.2 billion in an initial public offering, it said in draft papers submitted to the country's market regulator on Friday.| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Dorsey says Square is creating a new business line with the aim of helping devs build decentralized financial services products, primarily focused on Bitcoin — Square Inc. is creating a new business line to help developers build financial services products focused on Bitcoin …
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Sources: Intel is exploring a deal to buy GlobalFoundries, valuing the company at about $30B; GlobalFoundries itself says it isn't aware of any talks — GlobalFoundries, owned by an investment arm of the Abu Dhabi government, has been planning an IPO — Intel Corp. is exploring a deal …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Twitter rolls out auto-captions for voice tweets in 11 languages including English, Japanese, and Hindi, more than a year after launching voice tweets on iOS — Twitter was criticized for launching voice tweets without captions — Twitter is now rolling out captions for voice tweets, the company announced Thursday.
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| Liam J. Kelly / Decrypt: |
Binance is halting operations for its stock tokens offering, which launched in April and let users buy and sell tokenized stocks of popular stocks like Tesla — Editor's note: This article has been updated to include an announcement from Hong Kong's financial regulator.
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Global smartphone shipments grew 12% YoY in Q2, with Xiaomi up 83% to take a 17% share and pushing past Apple to reach the second place for the first time ever — In Q2 2021, global smartphone shipments increased 12%, as vaccines rolled out around the world, and the new normal for economies and citizens started to take shape.
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| Stephanie Condon / ZDNet: |
AWS announces general availability of Amazon HealthLake, a HIPAA-eligible service that allows health organizations to store and work with health data in cloud — The service is part of the cloud giant's AWS for Health initiative, which provides specialized cloud services for healthcare, biopharma and genomics customers.
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE: |
Microsoft and Citizen Lab say government hackers from several countries have used spyware from Israeli vendor Candiru that uses two 0-day exploits in Windows — Microsoft and Citizen Lab found a new kind of spyware made by the mysterious Israeli vendor Candiru, and targeting someone in Europe based on their political beliefs.
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| Andrew Tarantola / Engadget: |
Facebook says BlenderBot 2.0, its updated AI chatbot, can recall past conversations that span months and search the internet to update itself about chat topics — Last April, Facebook's AI research lab (FAIR) announced and released as — open source its BlenderBot social chat app.
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| Ted Johnson / Deadline: |
White House says it is alerting Facebook about posts that spread COVID-19 misinfo; US surgeon general calls on social media companies to tackle health misinfo — As the rate of Covid-19 vaccination slows and cases rise again, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy called on tech platforms …
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| Jennifer Broxmeyer / About Facebook: |
Facebook publishes its first quarterly Oversight Board update, noting it fully or partially implemented 14 of 18 board recommendations across 6 cases in Q1 2021 — When we launched the Oversight Board, we committed to consider and transparently respond to all of the board's recommendations.Sponsor Posts
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