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Trump says cryptocurrencies including Facebook's Libra are “not money”, need to be regulated, citing their high volatility and facilitation of unlawful behavior — Just hours after a “social media summit,” the president's Twitter account posted a thread aimed at, of all things, cryptocurrency.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Amazon is developing an Echo speaker with improved audio quality to rival Sonos, HomePod, for release next year, and ramping up work on its home robot — - Echo speaker to include improved audio to rival Sonos, HomePod — Wheeled robot, codenamed ‘Vesta,’ can be summoned by voice
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft, after an outcry by many of its reseller partners, now says it will not charge them for internal use of the company's products and services — Microsoft is not going to eliminate internal use rights for partners who've been using software obtained as part of Microsoft's partner-program benefits …
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| Caroline Haskins / VICE: |
User manual for Palantir Gotham software, obtained via a FOIA request, shows the amount of information law enforcement can quickly access about any individual — Motherboard obtained a Palantir user manual through a public records request, and it gives unprecedented insight into how the company logs and tracks individuals.
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| Wolfie Zhao / CoinDesk: |
Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Bitpoint says it was hacked for $32M in crypto assets, of which $23M belonged to its customers — Bitpoint, a licensed cryptocurrency exchange based in Japan, has been hacked for $32 million in crypto assets. — According to a CoinDesk Japan report on Friday … | Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Ford and Volkswagen to expand their alliance to include autonomous vehicles; VW will invest $2.6B in Argo AI, the autonomous vehicle startup backed by Ford — VW will invest $2.6 billion in Argo AI, the Pittsburgh based autonomous vehicle startup backed by Ford
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
YouTube unveils new ways for creators to make money, including Super Stickers for chats in livestreams and premieres and paid levels for Channel Memberships — YouTube is rolling out more ways for its creators to engage fans and generate revenue, the company announced today the VidCon event in Anaheim, California.
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| Amber Neely / AppleInsider: |
Hulu, which removed support for 4K content in early 2018, brings back the feature for Hulu Originals, starting with Apple TV 4K and Chromecast Ultra — After quietly removing the feature in 2018, Hulu has brought back 4K to their streaming service —this time, exclusively to the Apple TV 4K and the Chromecast Ultra.
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Experts argue the ruling that said Trump can't block Twitter critics will be difficult and confusing to apply to other cases like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — Telling the president to unblock critics was easy, but interpreting the rule for other government accounts could be hard| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
In Q2, IDC estimates global PC shipments grew 4.7% to 64.9M units; Gartner estimates 1.5% growth to 63M units; both say Windows 10 refresh contributed to gain — The PC market rebounded slightly in Q2, according to research firms Gartner and IDC. After six years of quarterly PC shipment declines …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook, Calibra, and Libra Association execs on how they will approach taxation, anti-money laundering, and other regulatory issues for the new cryptocurrency — Libra claims it's no bank like Trump accuses — Facebook provided TechCrunch with new information on how its cryptocurrency …
Tweets: @joshconstine
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google announces it is rolling out redesigned News results for Search on desktop, making publishers' names more prominent, adding a carousel, and more — Google Search on the desktop web has seen a slew of visual refreshes in recent weeks. The latest is a substantial redesign of the News tab …
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| Naomi Nix / Bloomberg: |
US Court of Federal Claims dismisses Oracle's complaint, clearing the way for the Pentagon to award a $10B cloud contract to Amazon or Microsoft — Oracle Corp. lost its legal challenge to the Pentagon's $10 billion cloud contract on Friday after a Federal Claims Court judge dismissed …
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TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE, Wall Street Journal, GeekWire, New York Times, ZDNet, Houston Chronicle, and Financial Times. Tweets: @m1lesv
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Etsy researchers, using their computer vision algorithms, were able to classify styles across 60M+ Etsy listings with 76% accuracy — Style matters a lot to Etsy's millions of merchandisers. There's roughly 43 different categories their products occupy, from knitted ware and cosmetics …
Tweets: @edbott
| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
How the Mastodon community is dealing with the influx of hateful content after Gab migrated to Mastodon's decentralized open source protocol — Over the past few years, Mastodon has become the model for a friendlier kind of social network, promising to keep out the hateful or ugly content …
Tweets: @reckless
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