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TikTok will pull its app from Google Play and App Store in Hong Kong following a new security law, saying it doesn't and wouldn't share data with China — TikTok said Monday night that it would pull its social video platform out of the Google and Apple app stores in Hong Kong amid a restrictive new law that went into effect last week.
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| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says the US is “looking at” banning TikTok and other Chinese social media apps amid rising tensions between US and China — - The U.S. is “looking at” banning TikTok and other Chinese social media apps, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Monday.
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| Andrew Anthony / The Guardian: |
Profile of Stanford law professor Jim Steyer, who set up the Stop Hate for Profit campaign that has led to about 800 companies joining an ad boycott of Facebook — With 800 firms now joining the Facebook advertising boycott, the man whose idea it was explains how the company could easily clean up its act
Tweets: @stevenrenderos, @jason_kint, @marietjeschaake, and @stopfundinghate
| New York Times: |
Magic Leap hires Peggy Johnson, who led Microsoft's business development, as CEO, starting in August — Peggy Johnson, who led Microsoft's business development, will take over the struggling virtual reality start-up in August. — SAN FRANCISCO — Magic Leap said on Tuesday …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Prime Video launches user profiles globally, allowing six per account, giving access to a Watchlist, personalized recommendations, and viewing progress — Amazon's Prime Video is finally adding a feature that's long since become a standard for streaming video services: user profiles.| Jason Del Rey / Vox: |
Sources: Walmart+, a $98/year Amazon Prime rival, will launch in July, with same-day delivery, discounts at Walmart gas stations, reserved delivery slots, more — After announcing a number of improvements to its online shopping experience, Walmart is now taking aim at Amazon Prime membership.| Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat: |
Fraunhofer announces H.266/VVC, a new video compression standard that it says cuts file sizes by ~50% compared to its predecessor without compromising quality — Having engineered the popular music encoding format MPEG-3 before developing the widely-used video formats H.264 (AVC) and H.265 …
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| TechCrunch: |
Palantir says it has confidentially filed an S-1 draft registration with the SEC for an IPO — Secretive surveillance startup Palantir said late Monday it has confidentially filed paperwork with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to go public. — Its statement for the secretive …
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| Abdi Latif Dahir / New York Times: |
Alphabet's Loon starts providing internet service to Kenya in the first-ever commercial deployment of the tech, extending 4G LTE to a ~31K square-mile area — A commercial deal in Kenya marks the first application of balloon-powered internet in Africa, the region with the lowest percentage of internet users globally.| Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider: |
Kuo: “AirPods 3” will adopt a more complex system-in-package chip solution, similar to AirPods Pro, replacing the surface mount tech used in current versions — Apple's next-generation in-ear AirPods product will move to a more complex system-in-package chip solution …
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| Casey Newton / The Interface: |
Reframing “tech vs. journalism” discussion as “managers vs. employees” shows why journalists who have called attention to workplace activism have become targets — Last week, the worlds of technology and journalism were transfixed by a conflict that played …
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| Tara Seals / Threatpost: |
Researchers say that 14.8% of Android users targeted with malware or adware last year were left with an infected system partition, making removal difficult — A healthy percentage of Android users targeted by mobile malware or mobile adware last year suffered a system partition infection …
Tweets: @kaspersky and @campuscodi
| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
A list of some tech companies the SBA says have received PPP loans of more than $150K; Bird and Index Ventures say they are wrongly listed — Scooter companies, AV startups, LIDAR manufacturers among companies receiving PPP loans — Bird, the beleaguered e-scooter company …
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Uber launches an on-demand grocery delivery service in 19 cities across Latin America and Canada, and says it will be available in the US later this month — The announcement follows Uber's acquisition of Cornershop in 2019 and Postmates in 2020 — Uber is launching an on-demand grocery delivery service … | Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Phil Libin debuts Mmhmm, a Mac videoconference tool in invite-only beta that enables Weekend Update-style presentations with dynamic backgrounds — The next generation of videoconferencing is now in beta — The future of video chat will look more like Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update than it will Zoom.
Tweets: @carlquintanilla, @chudson, @anildash, @caseynewton, and @caseynewton
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Instagram expands its TikTok rival, Reels, to India in the wake of the country's ban on Chinese apps — In the wake of India's decision to ban TikTok and dozens of other Chinese apps over privacy concerns, Instagram has expanded its TikTok rival, known as Reels, in the region.Sponsor Posts
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