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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Samsung announces Galaxy Z Flip3 with an internal 6.7" 120Hz display, a 1.9" external screen, 8GB RAM, and Snapdragon 888, starting at $999, shipping August 27 — One of the first thoughts around foldable smartphones is a high price tag, but that tune is changing.
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Tweets: @backlon, @backlon, and @patrickmoorhead
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Samsung announces Galaxy Z Fold3 with a 7.6" 120Hz primary screen, S Pen support, 12GB RAM, and IPX8 water resistance, shipping August 27 for $1,799 — The flagship foldable now has a 120Hz cover screen — It's August, and today is Samsung's latest big Unpacked event.
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| John D. McKinnon / Wall Street Journal: |
Three US senators unveil the bipartisan Open App Markets Act, which would force app stores to allow sideloading and let developers use their own IAP systems — Legislation would place new limits on how Apple and Google app stores can operate — WASHINGTON—Senators introduced legislation Wednesday …
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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Interview with Facebook ad exec Graham Mudd on Facebook's privacy plans for ads, regulation, Apple's ad tracking prompt, Google's FLoC, and more — A ‘very meaningful pivot’ is underway inside the world's largest social network — Facebook's massive business was built on its ability to track users across the internet.
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| Wolfie Zhao / The Block: |
The attacker who stole $611M from Poly Network has now returned over $256M in USDC, BTCB, SHIBA, and others, after saying they were “ready to surrender” — Quick Take — Poly Network attacker has started returning the funds that were stolen in the largest DeFi hack to date.
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| Tim Copeland / The Block: |
Group behind Poly Network, a cross-chain protocol used for DeFi applications, says a hacker has stolen $611M; one researcher blames the attack on a crypto flaw — Quick Take — Cross-chain protocol Poly Network has been hacked for $611 million. — The team behind the protocol …
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| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
Instagram introduces anti-hate speech tools to let users limit comments and DM requests on popular posts, following abuse toward England soccer players — Instagram has introduced new features called Limits and Hidden Words designed to reduce hate and abuse on trending posts, the company
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| New York Times: |
A look at the multi-year effort by English soccer organizations to push Facebook to crack down on hate speech against players, intensifying during Euro 2020 — For more than two years, soccer officials pushed the social network to limit the invective. As a new season begins, the hate continues.
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
WhatsApp will let users move their chat history, including photos and voice notes, between iOS and Android devices, starting with new Galaxy models — WhatsApp is finally addressing one of the biggest problems with its — chat histories: the inability to carry them over when you switch platforms.
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| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Internal iOS 15 code and animations show Apple will let users link AirPods to the Find My network; the headphones will use Bluetooth to show a location — Apple has announced multiple new features for AirPods users with iOS 15, which includes Conversation Boost for AirPods Pro and true Find My support for the first time.| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Samsung announces Galaxy Watch4, starting at $249, and Galaxy Watch4 Classic, starting at $349, both with “Wear OS Powered by Samsung”, shipping August 27 — Samsung and Google's smartwatch collaboration is here — Today we're getting our first look at the fruits …
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| Cherlynn Low / Engadget: |
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| Reuters: |
How Sweden's policy of putting a computer in every home and early concurrent investment in internet connectivity helped birth Spotify, Skype, Klarna, and others — As Klarna's billionaire founder Sebastian Siemiatkowski prepares to stage one of the biggest-ever European fintech company listings …
Tweets: @ljungman and @klarnaseb
| CNBC: |
Amazon opens its $1.5B, 600-acre air hub in northern Kentucky, capable of handling 100 planes and 200 flights per day, as it ramps up delivery speeds — - Amazon on Wednesday debuted its $1.5 billion air hub in Northern Kentucky. — The hub will serve as the central nerve …
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| Bloomberg: |
In a statement, China signals sweeping regulation of its tech industry will last until at least 2025 to ensure the “healthy development” of new business models — China signaled its push to regulate sweeping parts of the economy, which has jolted markets, will be deep and sustained over the next five years.
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| Packy McCormick / Not Boring: |
NFTs blur the line between social and financial capital and dismissing them is akin to missing the importance of status while analyzing social networks — Analyzing NFTs as Social Networks Using the Status-as-a-Service Framework — The DEAD followed me across Twitter all weekend.
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| David Carnoy / CNET: |
Samsung announces $150 Galaxy Buds 2 with active noise cancellation and a similar design to the Galaxy Buds Pro, available August 27 — The latest Samsung true-wireless earbuds are essentially mini versions of the more expensive Galaxy Buds Pro. … Samsung's Galaxy Buds 2 earbuds … | Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Facebook open sources Time Card, its PCIe-based timekeeping tool that uses atomic clocks and navigation satellites to keep devices and data centers in sync — The social network giant gives away its hardware and software designs that can keep data centers humming efficiently.
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| Radhamely De Leon / VICE: |
Researchers create nine computer-generated faces that can serve as “master keys” to impersonate almost half of the faces in three top facial recognition systems — According to the paper, their findings imply that facial recognition systems are “extremely vulnerable.”
Tweets: @onaircoop, @anylaurie16, @vice, @vice, @ashblankenship, @motherboard, and @jwgoerlich
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Workflow automation company ServiceNow is acquiring MapWize, a France-based indoor mapping and visualization software company — All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. — ServiceNow is extending its footprint into indoor mapping with the acquisition of French startup Mapwize.
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| Reed Albergotti / Washington Post: |
Court docs: Apple settles its 2019 lawsuit against Corellium over Corellium's “virtualized” iPhone business; Corellium says it still sells virtual iOS devices — Apple accused Corellium of violating its copyrights with virtual iPhones used for security research
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The Register, MobileSyrup, Forbes, world.hey.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, Engadget, iThinkDifferent, The Verge, Patently Apple, Plagiarism Today, iMore, Cult of Mac, and TechSpot
Tweets: @kbe123tweet, @gabe_k, @malwarejake, @thegrugq, @migueldeicaza, @malwarejake, @dcuthbert, and @tonyajoriley
| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Microsoft fixes 44 vulnerabilities, including seven flaws that are classified as critical and three zero-day flaws, with one actively exploited in the wild — Today is Microsoft's August 2021 Patch Tuesday, and with it comes fixes for three zero-day vulnerabilities and a total of 44 flaws …
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Microsoft Security …, HotHardware.com News, International Business Times, ZDNet, and ComputerWeekly.com. Tweets: @briankrebs
| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Research shows semiconductor chip lead times slipped to 20.2 weeks in July, up by eight days over June, which was already the longest wait time since 2017 — The amount of time it's taking for chip-starved companies to get orders filled has stretched to more than 20 weeks … | Reuters: |
Sources: China-based autonomous driving startup Pony.ai suspends plans for a US public listing following Chinese government's crackdown on domestic tech firms — Autonomous driving startup Pony.ai has put on hold plans to go public in New York through a merger with a blank-check firm …
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| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
eBay Q2: revenue of $2.7B, up 14% YoY, GMV of $22.1B, down 7%, 159M global active buyers, down 2%; 80% of eBay's S. Korean division sold to Emart for ~$3B — Overall, eBay saw a decline in consumer online spending and active buyers, but the company is seeing growth in its managed payments and advertising businesses.
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