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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Facebook launches $299 Ray-Ban Stories smart glasses in six countries including the US; users can capture photo and video, listen to music, or take phone calls — Hands-on with Facebook and Ray-Ban's first pair of smart glasses — Starting Thursday, the first pair of smart glasses …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft indefinitely postpones the return to its offices in the US, saying it has “decided against attempting to forecast a new date for a full reopening” — The pandemic keeps pushing back Microsoft's plans — Microsoft is shelving its plans to fully reopen its US offices next month.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple has appointed longtime Apple Watch and Health software chief Kevin Lynch as the new head of its Apple Car project after Doug Field's departure — - Kevin Lynch replaces Doug Field as head of Apple's car efforts — Field left Apple's project after three years to work at Ford
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Amazon launches the Fire TV Omni Series, its first smart TVs, starting at $410 and shipping in October — Amazon is officially in the TV set business. — After years of selling Fire TV devices that plug into third-party HDTVs and teaming with TV makers for Fire TV-based products …
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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Epic asks Apple to reinstate its Fortnite developer account in S. Korea, after passage of a Korean bill forcing app stores to allow alternative payment systems — Following the passing of a bill allowing alternative payment systems on the App Store — Epic Games has asked Apple to reinstate …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Epic to shut down Houseparty, the video chat app it acquired in 2019, in October, along with Fortnite Mode, which uses Houseparty for video chats — Houseparty, the social video chat app acquired by Fortnite maker Epic Games for a reported $35 million back in 2019, is shutting down.
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Houseparty, The Verge, CNET, Gizmodo, Input, PCMag, Wall Street Journal, Mashable, Washington Post, and Variety
Tweets: @beckpeterson, @mediaevan, and @carnage4life
| Dell Cameron / Gizmodo: |
California defense attorney Jay Leiderman, once dubbed the “Hacktivist's Advocate” and known for defending whistleblowers and hackers, dies at 50 years old — Leiderman's rebellious lawyering made him a go-to attorney for Anonymous hackers. — Alerts| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter is testing a new “Automated Account” label for profiles to self-identify as bots, intended for “good bots”, and the label will remain opt-in for now — Twitter today is introducing a new feature that will allow accounts to self-identify as bots by adding a label to their profile.| Reed Albergotti / Washington Post: |
Security researchers say Apple's bug bounty program is undermined by Apple's insular culture, confusion about payments, and long delays in fixing bugs — Lack of communication, confusion about payments and long delays have security researchers fed up with Apple's bug bounty program
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| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Hackers leak a list of ~500K Fortinet VPN login names and passwords; a source in the IT security industry says at least some of the leaked credentials are valid — A threat actor has leaked a list of almost 500,000 Fortinet VPN login names and passwords that were allegedly scraped from exploitable devices last summer.
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McAfee Blogs, Fortinet Blog, Advanced Intel, Threatpost, Tech Times, eSecurityPlanet, and TechRadar. Tweets: @raj_samani
| Kaya Yurieff / The Information: |
Source: Whatnot, a livestreaming service for buying and selling collectibles, is raising new capital at a valuation of $1.5B, following its $50M Series B in May — Whatnot is raising new capital at a valuation of $1.5 billion, according to a person familiar with the deal.
Tweets: @kyurieff
| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
Twitter begins testing emoji reactions to tweets, starting with five options, on iOS and Android in Turkey — Starting today, Twitter is testing Tweet Reactions in Turkey for a limited time. Users in the region will be able to react to tweets using , , , , in addition to .
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Engadget, The Verge, Android Central, iMore, Gizmodo, and iPhone in Canada Blog. Tweets: @liamspradlin
| Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: |
Texas governor signs bill banning social media companies with 50M+ MAUs from blocking or restricting people or their content based on their viewpoint — The law is an escalation of a conservative critique of Silicon Valley and will likely to face legal challenges from the industry
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Tweets: @govabbott, @artofcoop, @govabbott, @wr4nygov, and @brendanbordelon
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Jio and Google delay the JioPhone Next, which was planned to launch on Sept. 10 in India, blaming chip shortages; the launch is now scheduled for early November — The JioPhone Next, the much-awaited smartphone designed by Google and India's Jio Platforms to tap hundreds of millions of users …
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| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Wisetack, which facilitates buy now, pay later services for in-person business transactions, raises $45M Series B, following $19M seed and Series A in February — Buy now, pay later is growing globally — with various companies expanding to, and in, different parts of the world, such as Africa, Latin America and Asia.| Matt Levine / Bloomberg: |
While SEC rules are hazy, Coinbase's Lend product likely does constitute a security; to avoid SEC oversight, Coinbase would need to be regulated like a bank — Is lending your Bitcoins a security? — Oh, sure, yes, absolutely. The rule in the U.S. is that an “investment contract,” …
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Tweets: @brian_armstrong, @tarunchitra, @conorsen, @coinbase, @petersterne, @bopinion, @carlosdomingo, and @leoncfu
| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Affirm beats in Q4 with $261.8M, up 71% YoY, vs. estimates of $225M, with 7.1M active customers, up from 5.4M in the previous quarter; stock up more than 20% — - Affirm reported better-than-expected revenue for the fourth quarter after the bell Thursday and gave strong guidance for the current quarter.
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| Svea Herbst-Bayliss / Reuters: |
Box stockholders voted to re-elect three board directors, including CEO Aaron Levie, giving a blow to activist investor Starboard, which failed to win any seats — Box Inc (BOX.N)won a proxy contest against Starboard Value after the cloud services provider's shareholders backed …
| Stephen Graves / Decrypt: |
Mastercard acquires CipherTrace, which offers a crypto-focused analytics service that specializes in anti-money laundering and forensics — Mastercard has announced that it has acquired cryptocurrency tracking firm CipherTrace with a view to providing “additional transparency and support” for the emerging ecosystem of digital assets.
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Mastercard USA, The Block, Crowdfund Insider, TechRadar, cryptodaily.co.uk, Crypto Briefing, Financial Times, and Bitcoinist.com
Tweets: @hbar_to_moon, @mastercardnews, and @chainlinkgod
| Edward Ongweso Jr / VICE: |
Report: since 2004, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Facebook and Twitter have earned $43.8B in contracts with the Pentagon, mostly in relation to the War on Terror — A team of researchers have published a new report detailing how Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Twitter have profited from the global campaign of violence.
Tweets: @nullvoidstar, @vice, @caradefabio, @mpower_change, and @greisamartinez
| Wayne Ma / The Information: |
Sources: Facebook is developing an ML chip for tasks such as recommending content to users and a data center chip to improve video transcoding — Google, Amazon and Microsoft have all been hiring and spending millions of dollars to design their own computer chips from scratch … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
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