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Over 400 advertisers are due to suspend Facebook ads on Wednesday for a month, as sources say talks broke down; Zuckerberg will meet boycott organizers — NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Advertisements for more than 400 brands including Coca-Cola and Starbucks are due to vanish from Facebook …
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| CNN: |
Of the top 25 Facebook advertisers in 2019, which include Uber and Netflix, only three, Microsoft, Starbucks, and Pfizer, have said they are pausing ad spending — New York (CNN Business)Hundreds of companies have promised to halt advertising on Facebook and its sibling platform Instagram …
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| Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider: |
Rep. David Cicilline says Tim Cook will testify in front of the House Judiciary Committee in late July, alongside Facebook, Amazon, and Google CEOs — Apple CEO Tim Cook, the last chief executive of four big tech companies targeted in a U.S. House Judiciary Committee antitrust probe …
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| Katyanna Quach / The Register: |
MIT apologizes and takes down its 80M-strong AI image training dataset, scraped from Google Images, that labeled some images with racist and misogynistic terms — Top uni takes action after El Reg highlights concerns by academics — Special report MIT has taken offline its highly cited dataset … | Nikkei Asian Review: |
Sources: Apple faces up to 1-2 month production delays for 5G iPhone lineup, lowers volume target to 80M units, is trying to avoid postponing launch until 2021 — US tech titan to make more older handsets to offset coronavirus disruption — TAIPEI/PALO ALTO, U.S. …
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Apple says it will close 30 more US retail stores as COVID-19 cases spike, bringing the total re-closed stores in the US to 77 in recent weeks — - Apple will close 30 additional stores in the United States by Thursday. — Apple has already reclosed 47 stores in recent weeks …
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| Nick Summers / Engadget: |
UK's Competition and Markets Authority calls for a “pro-competition regulatory regime” to monitor Facebook, Google, and other digital ad giants — The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has called on the UK government to create “a new pro-competition regulatory regime” …
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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, beginning 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.
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| Jacob Silverman / Columbia Journalism Review: |
Over 15 journalists describe covering Facebook, which they say lies on the record, has ghost-written op-eds, and has demanded 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.
Tweets: @mattrosoff, @random_walker, @silvermanjacob, @stephaniemlee, @silvermanjacob, @nattgarun, @moonalice, @kerrymflynn, @tonyromm, @jeffbercovici, @nattgarun, @silvermanjacob, @karlbode, @oliviasolon, @robhof, @willoremus, @liz_shepherd, @willoremus, @campuscodi, @joshsternberg, @benyt, @martinsfp, @allmychandler, @oliviasolon, @michaelkpate, @dseetharaman, @karlbode, and @william_fitz
| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
WhatsApp announces contact-adding QR codes, animated stickers, dark mode for desktop and web, and a new group calling button — Improvements to video calls are also on the way — WhatsApp has announced a collection of new features that are coming to the Facebook-owned messaging service in the coming weeks.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Report: Twitch topped 5B hours watched in Q2, up 62.7% QoQ, YouTube Gaming hit 1.5B hours, up 39.6%, and Facebook Gaming reached 822M hours watched, up 48.5% — Twitch had already broken viewership records in the first quarter of 2020 amid coronavirus lockdowns, surpassing 3 billion total hours watched …
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| Ian Allison / CoinDesk: |
Curv, which is building secure crypto custody management tools, raises $23M Series A from CommerzVentures, Coinbase Ventures, and others — Curv, a company that provides increased secrecy when it comes to holding crypto assets, has closed a $23 million Series A funding round.
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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
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Vendia, founded by two AWS executives and aiming to build a multi-cloud serverless platform, raises $5.1M seed led by Neotribe's Swaroop Kolluri — When the inventor of AWS Lambda, Tim Wagner, and the former head of blockchain at AWS, Shruthi Rao, co-found a startup, it's probably worth paying attention.| Synced: |
Yann LeCun, Facebook's chief AI Scientist and Turing Award winner, takes a break from Twitter after an acrimonious debate regarding racial biases in AI — This is an updated version. — Turing Award Winner and Facebook Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun has announced his exit …
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Zoom has missed its self-imposed June 30 deadline to disclose government data requests, pushing it back to “later this year” — How many government demands for user data has Zoom received? We won't know until “later this year,” an updated Zoom blog post now says.| Joshua Brustein / Bloomberg: |
Anduril Industries, founded by Palantir veterans and Palmer Luckey, raises $200M led by a16z at a $1.9B valuation for its AI-powered drone and surveillance tech — Anduril Industries Inc., a Southern California startup that builds technology for military agencies and border surveillance …
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| Emily Birnbaum / Protocol: |
Employees at tech companies say NDAs, widely used across the industry, are muzzling those who have endured racism and discrimination — Earlier this month, Pariss Athena appeared on a podcast to discuss her experiences as a Black woman in web development. During the wide-ranging conversation …
Tweets: @birnbaum_e, @paigeleskin, @ifeomaozoma, @pierce, @tonyajoriley, and @issielapowsky. Thanks:@birnbaum_e
| Matt Day / Bloomberg: |
Amazon Game Studios pulls its free-to-play PC title Crucible from wide circulation following negative reviews, an exceedingly rare step for a big-budget game — - Crucible was first big-budget release from Amazon Game Studios — Game will move to closed beta while developers work on changes
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Tweets: @playcrucible, @mamabearkingdom, @alexhern, @tprstly, @jasonschreier, and @paultassi
| Paresh Dave / Reuters: |
Sources: Google told European publishers it will cut them off from its ad tools if they block it from harvesting their reader data — OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) Google upended plans by European media companies to block it from harvesting data about their readers … | 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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| Yuan Yang / Financial Times: |
Apple freezes updates for tens of thousands of games without licenses on the App Store in China, closing a widely used loophole, to comply with regulations — Tech group under pressure from Chinese government to comply with local rules — Apple has frozen updates for tens of thousands …
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| Amir Efrati / The Information: |
Source: following Amazon's acquisition, two of Zoox's earliest and most senior engineers have left for Waymo — All is not well following Amazon's $1 billion-plus acquisition of self-driving car developer Zoox. Two of its earliest and most senior engineers—James Philbin and Marc Wimmershoff …
| 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.| Alfred Ng / CNET: |
Ahead of a key contract renewal date, activists are pushing to end facial recognition use in Detroit, the US city with the highest percentage of Black residents — Activists say facial recognition and its racial bias have no place in Detroit, a city that boasts the highest percentage of Black residents in the US.
Tweets: @alfredwkng, @phil_lewis_, @combsthepoet, and @alfredwkng
| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Fauna, which wants to make adding a database a simple API call, adds $27M to its $25M Series A, bringing its total raised to $57M — Databases have always been a complex part of the equation for developers requiring a delicate balance to manage inside the application, but Fauna wants …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Researchers from Salesforce and Univ. of Virginia propose a new way to mitigate gender bias in word embeddings, the word representations used to train AI models — Researchers at Salesforce and the University of Virginia have proposed a new way to mitigate gender bias in word embeddings …
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