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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google unveils Pixel 6, with 6.4" 90Hz display, and Pixel 6 Pro, with 6.7" display and 4x optical zoom, featuring a Google-designed Tensor SoC, coming in fall — Google's new Tensor SoC is the heart of its next phone — Google is announcing the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro today …
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| Sam Rutherford / Gizmodo: |
Google's Rick Osterloh demos Pixel 6's Tensor SoC, which enables real-time object detection and HDR in videos as well as real-time translation and live captions — We sat down with Google's phone chief, Rick Osterloh, to see what the Pixel 6 has in store. — Alerts
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
YouTube trials Premium Lite subscription for €6.99/month, offering ad-free viewing across all major platforms, currently available in Europe — Currently being piloted in parts of Europe — Google is piloting a more affordable premium subscription tier for YouTube …
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| Greg Ahlstrand / CoinDesk: |
Square reports Q2 revenue of $4.88B, up 143% YoY; Cash App's bitcoin yearly revenue was $2.72B, up 200%, as Square's bitcoin holdings had a $45M impairment loss — Cash App's bitcoin gross profit rose to $55 million, Square said in its Q2 letter to shareholders.
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| Olivia Solon / NBC News: |
Female journalists and activists share how they were targeted and harassed by authoritarian regimes through hack-and-leak attacks using the Pegasus spyware — Ghada Oueiss, a Lebanese broadcast journalist at Al-Jazeera, was eating dinner at home with her husband last June when she received … | Politico: |
Pro-Trump social network GETTR is awash with Islamic State propaganda, including graphic videos of beheadings and memes of a militant executing Trump — GETTR, the new platform started by members of the former president's inner circle, is awash with beheading videos and extremist content.
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| Dr. Ian Cutress / AnandTech: |
A now-deleted tweet by an Intel executive suggests Thunderbolt 5 could double the bandwidth of existing Thunderbolt 4 and USB 4 connections to 80 Gbps — An executive visiting various research divisions across the globe isn't necessarily new, but with a focus on social media driving named individuals … | Sifted: |
Current and former employees at German grocery delivery startup Gorillas describe arbitrary firings and exploitation of riders and warehouse workers — “It's like the new WeWork story,” says Ben*, who joined Gorillas' operations team last summer in Berlin. — The comparison to coworking company WeWork is a brutal one.
Tweets: @phineasjfr, @siftedeu, @shiraovide, @mstothard, @hkanji, @mparts_, @davidbaratech, @mstothard, @siftedeu, and @fpratty
| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft's desktop-as-a-service Windows 365 Cloud PC is generally available and costs between $20 to $162 per user per month, based on cores, RAM, and storage — Microsoft's Windows 365 Cloud PC service is now generally available, and pricing is public. The service will cost users anywhere between $20 … | New Statesman: |
Investigation: in the last five years, six EU academic institutes received tens of millions of pounds in funding from Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft — The search giant has provided tens of millions of pounds of funding to academics investigating issues closely related to its business model.
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Politico. Tweets: @ggreenwald, @jeremycliffe, @markhurst, @randfish, @jerrysaltz, and @ggreenwald
| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
Researchers say a collection of nine vulnerabilities impact pneumatic tube systems installed in ~80% of all major US hospitals — Details have been published today about a collection of nine vulnerabilities known as PwnedPiper that impact a common type of medical equipment that's installed …
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Armis, TechRepublic, Channel Futures, Security Affairs, ZDNet, Softpedia News, SecurityWeek, Dark Reading, BleepingComputer, CSO, The Hacker News, and The Register
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| Bloomberg: |
An in-depth look at the political motivations behind China's tech crackdown, as Xi pursues progressive authoritarianism at the expense of international capital — Xi Jinping smiled and hinted at a policy bombshell that would soon roil stock markets from Shanghai to New York.
Tweets: @bloombergtv, @ryan_chua, and @hraleighspeaks
| Heather Somerville / Wall Street Journal: |
Non-VC funds invested in a record 42% of tech startup funding deals in Q2 2021; H1 '21 US startup funding was $150B, with FY 2021 on pace to double 2020's total — Hedge, mutual and pension funds are investing heavily, leading to higher valuations and more leverage for company founders
Tweets: @heathersomervil, @jontreble, @amyssorrells, @mims, @sarahponczek, @dngusev, @notamitalegend, @mv11151, @timcohn, and @mdudas
| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Facebook to require all US on-campus staff to wear masks starting on Aug. 4, regardless of vaccination status, citing rising COVID cases and local regulations — - Facebook will begin requiring all of its employees to wear masks when on its campuses in the U.S., regardless of an employee's vaccination status.
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| Aoife White / Bloomberg: |
Following the UK's CMA, European Commission is launching an investigation into Facebook's acquisition of Kustomer with a deadline of December 22 for a ruling — - EU sets Dec. 22 deadline to examine customer-service software — EU will also examine Facebook's ad-targeting “data advantage”| Jennifer Elias / CNBC: |
Filings: Larry Page and Sergey Brin have sold a combined $1B+ in Google stock since May 2021, the most since 2017; Google's share price has since tripled — - Google founders and majority stakeholders Larry Page and Sergey Brin have sold more than $1 billion worth of stock combined since May.
Tweets: @mycatalan88
| Marie Beaudette / Wall Street Journal: |
Robinhood says 301,573 users participated in its IPO, representing about 1.3% of its 22.5M funded accounts as of June 30 — Buyers represented about 1.3% of the online brokerage's 22.5 million funded accounts — Hundreds of thousands of Robinhood Markets Inc.'s customers bought shares … | Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Estonian ride hailing startup Bolt, formerly known as Taxify, raises $713M at a ~$4.75B valuation, led by Sequoia, Tekne, and Ghisallo — - Estonian ride-hailing start-up Bolt has raised $713 million in fresh funding to push into the rapidly-growing online grocery delivery industry.
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| Leah Nylen / Politico: |
Sources: FTC's lead economics expert in its antitrust case against Facebook, Carl Shapiro, has parted ways with the agency as it prepares to refile its case — Economics consultant Carl Shapiro, who hasn't commented on why he left the case, has a history of ideological differences with agency Chair Lina Khan.
Tweets: @leah_nylen, @politico, @florianederer, @leah_nylen, @lutherlowe, @matthewstoller, @cfcamerer, @scottlincicome, and @leah_nylen
| Financial Times: |
SPACs are being forced to fund deals with more expensive financing, like issuing convertible bonds, due to cash from institutional investors drying up — Target companies are raising debt rather than equity to push transactions over the line — Blank cheque companies are turning … | Carly Page / TechCrunch: |
Finite State, a supply chain security startup that helps uncover security flaws in device firmware, lands $30M Series B led by Energize Ventures — Columbus, Ohio-based Finite State, a startup that provides supply chain security for connected devices and critical infrastructure, has raised $30M in Series B funding.| Laura Forman / Wall Street Journal: |
New York City Council passes five bills aimed at reducing the power of food delivery platforms, including extending a cap on restaurant commissions to Feb. 2022 — New bills passed in New York City could curb some appeal of companies like Grubhub, DoorDash and Uber Eats
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