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YouTube TV is raising its monthly rate to $65 from $50, due to “the rising cost of content”; some ViacomCBS channels are becoming available on the service today — YouTube TV is getting another price hike, making its live TV streaming service less competitive with the cable TV services it aims to replace.
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Tweets: @youtubetv, @macfaulkner, @ibogost, @gartenberg, @modestproposal1, @rampcapitalllc, @stevesi, @trengriffin, @karlbode, @theperezhilton, @dontwalkrun, @nealmohan, @jeffersongraham, @scottagness, @firstadopter, @joeovies, @uoflsheriff50, @joshhemsley, @carnage4life, @amandamull, @datnofact, @dcseifert, @alex_kirshner, @binarybits, and @backlon
| Billy Steele / Engadget: |
Spotify expands its Premium Duo plan, which allows ad-free streaming for two people for $12.99 per month, to 55 markets including the US — Streaming services have been offering family plans for years. While the terms and prices may change, the basic premise is the same …
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| Nikkei Asian Review: |
Sources: Apple is facing production delays of up to 1-2 months for its 5G iPhone range and will likely not need to postpone the launch until 2021 — US tech titan to make more older handsets to offset coronavirus disruption — TAIPEI/PALO ALTO, U.S. — Apple is pushing its suppliers …
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Facebook says it removed 220 Groups and 95 Instagram accounts dedicated to “Boogaloo”, weeks after US said Boogaloo members planned murder of a federal agent — Facebook announced Tuesday that it is removing groups dedicated to the Boogaloo extremist movement one month …
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| New York Times: |
Researchers say China's mobile hacking campaign against the Uighurs was broader and more aggressive than previously known, and began as far back as 2013 — A new report revealed a broad campaign that targeted Muslims in China and their diaspora in other countries, beginning as early as 2013.
Tweets: @theresaafallon, @nytimes, @noahpransky, @paulmozur, @suilee, @crtejada, and @nytimestech
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple has shifted the strategy of its Arcade gaming service, canceling contracts for some titles in development and seeking games with more engagement — - Company ends contracts for multiple future Arcade titles — Apple seeks games with stronger engagement to hook users
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft unveils initiatives to upskill workers amid the “COVID-19 economy” including cash grants, affordable skill certificates, and a learning app in Teams — Microsoft has announced a slew of new initiatives designed to open up access to new digital skills, including cash grants …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google shares details on upcoming Sheets features that automatically clean up and complete data, through formula suggestions and more — Google today announced a couple of updates to Google Sheets that will make building spreadsheets and analyzing data in them a little bit easier.
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| Gerrit De Vynck / Bloomberg: |
Leaked memo: Google will not reopen its US offices until September 7 at the earliest, pushing back its earlier plan to bring some workers back starting July 6 — - U.S. offices will stay closed until Sept. 7 at the earliest — Company had planned to begin returning employees in July| Arielle Pardes / Wired: |
The 👁👄👁 stunt, a hyped beta of a fake app, exploited Silicon Valley's fixation on shiny new things, but raised $200K for charities — Last weekend, the stunt aimed to use Silicon Valley's love of shiny new things for charity. The result left people wondering about the memeification of movements.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook shuts down Hobbi, its experimental Pinterest-like app for documenting personal projects and hobbies — Facebook's recently launched app, Hobbi, an experiment in short-form content creation around personal projects, hobbies, and other Pinterest-y content, is already shutting down.| Jacob Silverman / Columbia Journalism Review: |
Over fifteen journalists describe covering Facebook, which they say lies on the record, has ghost-written op-eds, and received quote approval for interviews — One day in July 2016, Casey Newton, a tech reporter for The Verge, sat down at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park for the biggest interview of his career.| Synced: |
Yann LeCun, Facebook's chief AI Scientist and Turing Award winner, quits Twitter after getting involved in an acrimonious debate regarding racial biases in AI — Turing Award Winner and Facebook Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun has announced his exit from popular social networking platform Twitter … | Cecilia D'Anastasio / Wired: |
Video game companies shifting to the cloud has sparked an infrastructure arms race to build more data centers so as to achieve low latency and zero packet loss — As videogame companies increasingly shift to the cloud, data centers have taken on outsized importance.
Tweets: @poweredbyinap and @molleindustria
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
US Cybercom warns foreign state-backed hackers will likely abuse a recently discovered SAML vulnerability that allows unauthorized network admin logins — The window of opportunity to fix critical security bug is rapidly closing. — Foreign hackers backed by a well-resourced government … | Sebastian Sinclair / CoinDesk: |
Cloud computing blockchain startup Dfinity opens platform to outside devs, debuts a decentralized TikTok-like service, CanCan, written in under 1K lines of code — Decentralized cloud computing startup Dfinity has announced its “Internet Computer” is now open to third-party developers.
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Tweets: @decryptmedia, @annaescher, and @ourielohayon
| Rachel Lerman / Washington Post: |
California will enforce its digital privacy law, which went into effect on January 1, starting today, despite industry calls for delay because of the pandemic — Measure took effect in January, with a six-month grace period — California's privacy law, often called the broadest law …
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9to5Mac, Bloomberg Law, Ad Age, State of California, Lexology, San Francisco Business Journal, HBR.org, AdExchanger, and Adweek
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| Andrew Liszewski / Gizmodo: |
Researchers from Disney and ETH Zurich detail innovations in creating movie-quality face-swapping technology — In a few short years, neural-network-powered automated face swaps have gone from being mildly convincing to eerily believable. But through new research from Disney … | Katie Roof / Bloomberg: |
B Capital, a VC firm co-founded by Eduardo Saverin that invests in companies in enterprise tech, fintech, and more, has closed its second fund at $820M — - 38-year-old billionaire founded B Capital about five years ago — Boston Consulting Group is an investor and strategic partner| Jade Macmillan / ABC: |
The Australian government announces AU$1.35B will be used over the next decade to boost cyberdefense capabilities against a surge in state-backed cyberattacks — The Federal Government wants to create more than 500 new jobs in its highly secretive cyber intelligence agency as part … | Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Researchers found 25 Android apps, downloaded 2.3M+ times, stealing Facebook credentials through a phishing page overlay; Google has now removed them — The malicious apps were downloaded more than 2.34 million times. — Google has removed this month 25 Android applications …
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| Kelsey Sutton / Adweek: |
Bozoma Saint John, veteran of Uber, Apple, and Pepsi-Cola, is joining Netflix as CMO, succeeding Jackie Lee-Joe, who joined Netflix a year ago — Marketing heavy hitter succeeds Jackie Lee-Joe after just a year — Marketing powerhouse Bozoma Saint John is joining the streaming giant Netflix as chief marketing officer.
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Tweets: @runciedan, @ebuka, @zoescaman, @lucas_shaw, and @kelseymsutton
| Bloomberg: |
India's app ban may present a model for other countries in Europe and Southeast Asia that seek to curtail China's access to their residents' data — - Move shows the increasingly fractured nature of tech industry — Chinese firms may find themselves excluded from key markets
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in.china-embassy.org, The Wire, and Wall Street Journal
Tweets: @anupkaphle, @bgurley, @deccanherald, @sachinrekhi, @sammsacks, @abihabib, @sub8u, @brij, @next_china, and @rsprasad
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