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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Apple and Samsung settle seven-year long patent fight over copying the iPhone; terms of the settlement were not disclosed — Apple and Samsung have finally put an end to their long-running patent battle whose central question was whether Samsung copied the iPhone.
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Tweets: @design_law and @jacknicas
| Richard Nieva / CNET: |
Google opens its human-sounding Duplex AI to a small group of “trusted testers” and businesses that have opted in to receiving calls from Duplex — Google is moving ahead with Duplex, the stunningly human-sounding artificial intelligence software behind its new automated system …
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| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
Sources: Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey dined with and consulted Ted Cruz, Mercedes Schlapp, Sean Hannity, and others to assuage complaints of liberal bias — Twitter and Facebook are scrambling to assuage conservative leaders who have sounded alarms — and sought to rile voters …
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Politico, CNET, and Engadget
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| Steven Musil / CNET: |
DOJ says first nationwide undercover operation targeting darknet vendors has resulted in arrests of 35 people suspected of selling illicit goods on the darknet — After a yearlong sting operation, US law enforcement officials have arrested 35 people suspected of selling “illicit goods” … | The Information: |
Sources: Snap to launch a platform later this year to let outside developers create games that can be played in Snapchat — In the past few months, Snap has been lightly dipping its toe into the waters of gaming. Later this year, it's going to take the plunge.
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Tweets: @joshconstine, @alex, and @alexeheath
| Shruthi Muraleedharan / Facebook: |
Facebook adds a Keyword Snooze button to the News Feed which hides posts containing exact words or phrases for 30 days so users can avoid spoilers — Ever read a spoiler online before you've watched the last episode of the season? Or maybe you waited years for a movie sequel only to have your favorite blogger reveal the ending?
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| Jessica Toonkel / The Information: |
Sources: Apple is considering a single subscription offering that would encompass its original TV shows, music service, and magazine articles — Apple is considering creating a single subscription offering that would encompass its original TV shows, music service and magazine articles … | Andrew Dalton / Associated Press: |
Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre owe former partner Steven Lamar $25.2M in Beats headphones royalties, a jury in Los Angeles decided Wednesday — LOS ANGELES (AP) — A jury on Wednesday found that Dr. Dre, music mogul Jimmy Iovine and their headphone company Beats Electronics owe a former partner $25.2 million in royalties.
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| Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios: |
Lyft has raised $600M in new funding led by existing investor Fidelity at a post-money valuation of $15.1B — Lyft has raised $600 million in new funding led by existing investor Fidelity at a valuation of $15.1 billion post-money, up from $11.7 billion at the previous round.| Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
Google is taking more steps to curb trolling and ad hominem attacks on internal message boards, passing new rules and empowering forum moderators — Internet giant bans ‘trolling’ on internal message boards and ad hominem attacks against co-workers — Google is trying to quell …
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Tweets: @google_comms and @dmac1
| Shara Tibken / CNET: |
Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon Wear 2500 Platform for kids' smartwatches with a quad-core A7 processor, 4G LTE, and 5MP camera — Qualcomm is betting more kids will soon be sporting smartwatches. — The San Diego chipmaker on Tuesday in Shanghai (Wednesday, China time) …
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| George Burduli / XDA Developers: |
YouTube starts rolling out its picture-in-picture mode, previously available only to YouTube Red/Premium users, to all users in US running Android Oreo or above — Google added picture-in-picture mode support for Android smartphones back in 2017 with the release of Android Oreo.
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| Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat: |
Elgato to rebrand itself as Eve Systems to focus on Apple HomeKit accessories; Corsair to purchase the Elgato name and its game accessory division — One of the Apple accessory industry's oldest developers, Elgato Systems, announced today that it will rebrand itself as Eve Systems and narrow …
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9to5Mac, Engadget, MacRumors, Neowin, PC Gamer, TechSpot, Gamasutra, Tom's Hardware, AppleInsider, and MacDailyNews
| Antonio Villas-Boas / Business Insider: |
Samsung sends out media invites for Unpacked event on August 9 in New York City where it is expected to announce Galaxy Note 9 — Samsung sent out press invites on Wednesday for its Unpacked event on Thursday, August 9, when the company will most likely announce the successor to the Galaxy Note 8.
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MacRumors, XDA Developers, ZDNet, The Verge, Android Police, KnowTechie, The Verge, BetaNews, iPhone in Canada Blog, SamMobile, BGR, 9to5Google, and TechCrunch
Tweets: @backlon and @dcseifert
| Sridhar Ramaswamy / The Keyword: |
Google rebrands AdWords as Google Ads, consolidates enterprise tools as Google Marketing Platform, and unifies publisher monetization tools as Google Ad Manager — We launched AdWords nearly 18 years ago with a simple goal—to make it easier for people to connect online with businesses.
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Tweets: @google, @ross_sergeant, and @googleanalytics
| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Exactis, a marketing and data aggregation firm, allegedly exposed a database of ~340M individual records with phone numbers, addresses, more on a public server — YOU'VE PROBABLY NEVER heard of the marketing and data aggregation firm Exactis. But it may well have heard of you.| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft launches Azure IoT Edge out of preview, to help users securely deploy Azure services, AI, and custom logic to IoT devices — Microsoft today announced a major update to Azure IoT Edge, its cloud solution for internet of things devices. It's exiting preview and gaining support …
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Microsoft Azure Cloud …, ZDNet, SiliconANGLE, GeekWire, The New Stack, MSPoweruser, Windows Central, and TechCrunch. Tweets: @maxgortman
| Mallory Locklear / Engadget: |
Twitter adds support for login verification through physical USB security keys, such as YubiKey, as a part of two-factor authentication process — Twitter announced today that you can now use a USB security key, such as Yubikey, as part of the two-factor authentication process.
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Motherboard, TechCrunch, Adweek, Mashable, Inquirer, Twitter Help Center, Ubergizmo, CNET, ZDNet, Help Net Security, Social Media Today, International Business Times, iMore, SlashGear, and Bloomberg
Tweets: @twittersafety, @rootsecdev, @bcrypt, @mikeh_pr, @typemrt, @robpegoraro, and @pinboard
| Brian Armstrong / GiveCrypto.org: |
Coinbase CEO debuts Givecrypto.org to provide direct funding in cryptocurrencies to people in need, says fund has raised $3.5M, aims to raise $1B over two years — In January, I wrote about how I thought charitable giving could work in the cryptocurrency world. Today I'm pleased to announce the launch of GiveCrypto.org.
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Fortune, The Next Web, CCN, CoinDesk, NewsBTC, and GiveCrypto.org
Tweets: @nbougalis and @neerajka
| Bloomberg: |
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff rejects employee petition to cut ties with US Customs and Border Protection, says its software isn't part of agency's border policy — - CEO says company products not used in family separation policy — Benioff responds to employees' letter to revisit contractSponsor Posts
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