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Sources: ByteDance, owner of TikTok, is building its own smartphone that will come with its many apps preinstalled, including newsfeeds, video platforms, games — China's ByteDance, owner of the popular TikTok streaming app, is taking a step into hardware to develop its own smartphone …
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| Andrew Griffin / The Independent: |
A look at Apple's secret testing lab where Secure Enclave chips are subjected to extreme tests, and Q&A with Craig Federighi about Apple's commitment to privacy — UK exclusive: In a never-before-seen look at the company's privacy and security work, it takes on criticism …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Alibaba is considering raising $20B via a second listing in Hong Kong, after raising a record-breaking $25B in its 2014 market debut on the NYSE — - It's said to be angling for Hong Kong in the second half — The offering comes after the Hong Kong exchange relaxes rules
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| Matthew Wall / BBC: |
Since GDPR, Ireland's Data Protection Commission says it has launched 19 cross-border investigations, 11 of which focus on Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram — Social media giant Facebook and its subsidiaries Instagram and WhatsApp have been the subject of most data investigations in the Republic …
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| Daniel Cooper / Engadget: |
Nvidia brings pro-level Quadro RTX 5000 series to laptops, announces 17 “RTX Studio” laptops from seven partners including ASUS, Dell, HP, Razer, and Gigabyte — NVIDIA has succeeded in shrinking its beefy Quadro RTX 5000 graphics hardware in order to bring it to laptops.
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| Leika Kihara / Reuters: |
Japanese government says, starting August 1, it will limit foreign ownership of companies in 20 sectors in its IT and telecom industries — TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's government said on Monday that high-tech industries will be added to a list of businesses for which foreign ownership of Japanese firms is restricted.
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| Emma Grey Ellis / Wired: |
Profile of HobbyKidsTV, a family-run children's YouTube channel with 3M+ subscribers and adult moderators protecting its kid hosts and viewers from predators — In it will be a Silver Play Button, a plaque that YouTube gives to creators who have surpassed 100,000 subscribers.
Tweets: @wired and @jrostergaard
| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
ASUS announces the ZenBook Pro Duo with two 4K screens, a 15-inch 16:9 OLED display and a 32:9 IPS “ScreenPad Plus” screen directly above the keyboard — One of the most decadent laptops ever created — Asus always likes to use its hometown trade show of Computex …
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| Bloomberg: |
Neolix, a Chinese driverless vehicle company, is mass producing autonomous delivery vans, expects to manufacture a thousand vans in its first year — - Chinese startup begins mass production of robo-delivery vans — Besides Neolix, Silicon Valley's Nuro is testing similar tech — Forget drones.| Cate Cadell / Reuters: |
As the Tiananmen anniversary nears, censorship by Chinese internet companies has ramped up and is largely automated with AI and voice and image recognition tech — BEIJING (Reuters) - It's the most sensitive day of the year for China's internet, the anniversary of the bloody June 4 crackdown …
Tweets: @reuters, @donie, and @profcarroll
| Robin Wauters / Tech.eu: |
SoundCloud acquires rights management platform Repost Network, which is used by over 20M audio creators and offers content distribution to over 25 stores — SoundCloud, the audio platform company started in Berlin back in 2007, has acquired rights management and distribution company Repost Network … | Yancey Strickler / OneZero: |
The internet is becoming a dark forest, full of life that's retreated from public view, as private spaces like Facebook Groups and invite-only forums have grown — This is also what the internet is becoming: a dark forest — In his sci-fi trilogy The Three Body Problem …
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