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| Jeff Benjamin / 9to5Mac: |
Hands-on with an early preview of Apple Arcade, which will reportedly cost $4.99/month, and some early-access trial games on macOS — Today I was able to go hands-on with an early preview of Apple Arcade, which Apple announced back during its March services-oriented event.
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9to5Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, Appleosophy, CCN Markets, Tom's Guide, iPhone in Canada Blog, Firstpost Tech, Cult of Mac, and PYMNTS.com. Tweets: @jeffbenjam
| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Facebook to hire a small team of journalists to curate a Top News section in its upcoming news tab, which it plans to release as a test before the year-end — SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook has long relied on algorithms to select news stories for its users to see.
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Nieman Lab, Digiday, Axios, Digital Trends, The Verge, NBC News, Engadget, Variety, KnowTechie, Adweek, and Business Insider
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is planning to roll out Apple TV+, its subscription service, by November and is considering $9.99/month pricing after a free trial — - Company builds array of new services to augment hardware sales — Apple Inc. plans to roll out the Apple TV+ movie and TV subscription service …
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Tweets: @markgurman, @davechensky, @sherman4949, @dhh, @reckless, @markgurman, @dylanbyers, and @caseynewton
| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
After announcing the Clear History privacy tool over a year ago, Facebook finally begins rolling it out in Ireland, South Korea, and Spain — But the United States isn't one of them — It was nearly a year and a half ago that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, standing onstage …
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Tweets: @fbnewsroom, @mikeisaac, @itsnicolenguyen, @geoffreyfowler, @kashhill, @rmac18, and @rmac18
| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Facebook debuts first findings from conservative bias audit led by former GOP senator, says it influenced policy changes like creating a content oversight board — Facebook will release the findings of a roughly year-long conservative bias audit Tuesday, along with changes to its advertising policies …
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Wall Street Journal, Facebook, Politico, CNBC, and Engadget
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google Go, the lightweight search app that takes up only ~7MB of phone storage, launches to Android users worldwide, is optimized to save about 40% on data — Google Go, a lightweight version of Google's search app, is today becoming available to all Android users worldwide.
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The Keyword, The Verge, Android Police, Digital Trends, 9to5Google, Thurrott, VentureBeat, Engadget, Droid Life, and Android Central. Tweets: @sundarpichai
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: a group of as many as 20 states will launch a joint antitrust investigation of big tech companies as soon as next month — Investigation would put additional scrutiny on an industry already under a federal spotlight — WASHINGTON—A group of states is preparing to move forward …
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| Christina Farr / CNBC: |
Sources: a slew of staff have left Apple's health unit as some feel it could be tackling more ambitious projects but is limited to wellness and prevention goals — KEY POINTS — The company has described health care as one of its focus areas, with CEO Tim Cook noting that he hopes … | Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: |
Microsoft acquires jClarity, which provides performance tuning tools for Java developers, to help optimize Java workloads on Azure — Microsoft Corp. today divulged that it has acquired jClarity Ltd., a British provider of tools for Java software projects.| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Pre-IPO analysis of WeWork, comparing its huge capital needs and other issues to its bull case, that it can overcome commoditization of its space like AWS did — There is a reason — beyond the fact it is August — that WeWork's upcoming IPO has driven so much discussion …
Tweets: @stratechery, @ataussig, @tomgara, @mattyglesias, @newsmary, and @patio11
| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Microsoft debuts a new, more stable Edge beta, available for Windows 7, Windows 10, and macOS, says 1M+ people have tried the Chromium-based Edge browser so far — Microsoft released the first beta version of its overhauled Edge web browser Tuesday — and it wants you to help squash its bugs …
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple announces that Apple Card is now available to all iPhone users in the United States, with a 3% cashback offer for Uber and Uber Eats — Apple today announced that Apple Card is available to everyone in the United States from today. To sign up, simply open the Wallet app on your iPhone and begin the application process.
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Tweets: @tim_cook, @genmon, @martinsfp, @chris_ciaccia, and @markgurman
| Fanny Potkin / Reuters: |
Sources: WhatsApp is in talks with multiple digital payment firms in Indonesia to integrate their mobile transaction services in the country — JAKARTA (Reuters) - Facebook Inc's (FB.O) messaging service WhatsApp is in talks with multiple Indonesian digital payment firms to offer …
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PYMNTS.com, Tech in Asia, and The Block
| Todd Feathers / VICE: |
As ~20 US states use AI to grade standardized test student essays, a look at the problematic practice that has little oversight, misses nuance, introduces bias — Fooled by gibberish and highly susceptible to human bias, automated essay-scoring systems are being increasingly adopted, a Motherboard investigation has found
Tweets: @josephfcox, @jason_koebler, @carolineha_, @libshipwreck, @adamsinger, @derektmead, @zenalbatross, @jason_koebler, and @dangillmor
| Samit Sarkar / Polygon: |
Sony Interactive Entertainment says it is acquiring Insomniac Games, developer of PS4 hit Marvel's Spider-Man; Insomniac to join PlayStation's Worldwide Studios — Developer of Ratchet & Clank, Spyro, and Marvel's Spider-Man joins the PlayStation family — Sony is buying Insomniac Games …
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| Ira Boudway / Bloomberg: |
Profile of The Athletic, which has 400+ editorial staffers and expects ~1M subs to its sports news service by 2020; source: a funding in May valued it at ~$500M — Alex Mather would like you to know that he loves newspapers. He's loved them since he was a kid growing up in Philadelphia.| TechCrunch: |
A roundup of the 84 companies that launched at Y Combinator's Summer 2019 Demo Day 1, including education, finance, AI, and AR/VR startups — It's that time of year, Silicon Valley's investor technocrati and advice-giving Twitter celebrities descended upon Pier 48 in San Francisco to judge … | Amanda Bartlett / San Francisco Chronicle: |
FogCam, a webcam set up by two San Francisco State students on a campus roof and widely deemed to be the longest-running webcam, is shutting down after 25 years — “As far as I know, they were the first cats live on the Internet,” Jeff Schwartz says. He's talking about Petunia and Web …
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Gizmodo, The Verge, KnowTechie, BBC, Geek.com, Digital Trends, and Fast Company. Tweets: @daveleebbc
| Twitter: |
Twitter says it proactively suspended ~200K “spammy” accounts, before they became “substantially active”, alongside its initial ban of 936 China-linked accounts — We are disclosing a significant state-backed information operation focused on the situation in Hong Kong …
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Washington Post, Wired, The Verge, MIT Technology Review, BuzzFeed News, TechCrunch, Quartz, Vox, CNN, The Intercept, USA Today, Axios, New York Times, Bloomberg, Gizmodo, Defense One, Social Media Today, BBC, SiliconANGLE, Mothership.SG, and BetaNews
Tweets: @twittersafety, @donie, @chrchristensen, @liyuan6, @cnbcnow, @timothys, @jc_mittelstadt, @theintercept, @wongmjane, @cnn, @sanasaeed, @annafifield, @donie, @oneunderscore__, @jkylebass, and @mikeisaac
| Nathaniel Gleicher / Facebook: |
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Tweets: @alexstamos, @rosenbergerlm, @alexstamos, @lhfang, @repadamschiff, @hawleymo, @mariecbaca, @mikeisaac, @sarahfrier, and @caseynewton
| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Starship Technologies, which builds autonomous sidewalk delivery robots, raises $40M Series A led by Morpheus Ventures, says it has crossed 100K deliveries — Starship Technologies invented the category of rolling autonomous sidewalk delivery robots, and to date, the company …
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PR Newswire, SiliconANGLE, The Verge, CNET, Digital Trends, VentureBeat, ZDNet, FinSMEs, VentureBeat, Business Insider, Mashable, PE Hub Blog, and Forbes. Tweets: @starshiprobots
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Yubico launches USB-C and Lightning-compatible Yubikey 5Ci, with native support for iOS apps like LastPass and 1Password out of the box, for $70 — But it won't work with USB-C iPad Pros — If you've wanted to just plug a physical security key into your iPhone to log into apps securely …
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Engadget, Yubico, TechCrunch, Yubico, Gizmodo, Inquirer, 9to5Mac, Thurrott, ZDNet, Macworld, MacRumors, and CNET
Tweets: @backlon, @wongmjane, and @zackwhittaker
| Jeanne Whalen / Washington Post: |
Inside China's ambitious program to dominate the emerging field of quantum technology, overseen by physicist Pan Jian-Wei, as it pours billions into R&D — China's drive to dominate a field with big economic and military applications outpaces some U.S. strides
Tweets: @rokhanna, @keithboykin, @ritholtz, and @mbrookerhk
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