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Lyft says it will suspend its service in California on August 20 after being ordered to classify drivers as employees — ‘This is not something we wanted to do’ — Lyft will suspend its ride-hailing operations in California at 11:59PM PT on August 20th, the company confirmed in a blog post.
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Facebook removes over 980 Groups, 520 Pages, and 160 ads for “US-based militia organizations” and those that identify as Antifa — Facebook has taken down or restricted more than 10,000 groups, pages and Instagram accounts associated with QAnon, in the latest effort …
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Airbnb announces a global party ban at its listings and an occupancy cap of 16 people, saying some users took “bar and club behavior to homes” during COVID-19 — - Home-sharing platform Airbnb has introduced a global ban on parties as the coronavirus pandemic continues.| Kate Cox / Ars Technica: |
Police in NYC and Miami have reportedly used facial recognition software to arrest people who allegedly committed crimes during Black Lives Matter protests — Cops' use of the tech among the list of things protesters are demonstrating against. — Law enforcement in several cities …
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Latest update to Lightroom for iOS inadvertently wiped users' photos and presets not synced to the cloud; Adobe says there is no way to get them back — This morning, multiple readers wrote in to alert us to a major Adobe gaff. It seems the latest update to the Lightroom app for iPhone …
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Gmail, Docs, Drive, Meet, and more Google services were hit by widespread disruption globally for a few hours Thursday — A number of Google services including Gmail, Drive, Docs, Meet, Groups, Chat, Keep and Voice are experiencing service disruptions, the company is reporting on its G Suite Status Dashboard.
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Google's Pixel Buds get a new transcribe mode to translate long speeches, Attention Alerts to alert users of important events happening around them, and more — There's also a bass boost mode — Google is adding a number of new features to its Pixel Buds today.
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A look at contact-tracing app Aura, which was a required download for students at a Michigan college and has faced criticism for its privacy and security issues — And students have no way to opt out — Schools and universities across the United States are split on whether to open for the fall semester … | Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
TikTok says it removed 380,000 videos and 64,000 comments, and banned 1,300+ users, in the US since the beginning of the year for breaking hate speech rules — TikTok is the latest social media platform to peel back the curtain on its efforts to fight hate speech.| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Google fixed a Gmail bug, which could have let attackers send spoofed emails, months after being alerted by a researcher, and seven hours after she went public — Attackers could have sent spoofed emails mimicking any Gmail or G Suite customer. — Google has patched on Wednesday …
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Alibaba posts quarterly revenue of $21.8B, up 34% YoY, and profit of $6.7B, up 124% YoY, on the back of its online retail and cloud computing businesses — Revenue hit US$21.8 billion in the June quarter, up 34 per cent from a year ago, on the back of its China online retail …
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Crypto lending and borrowing service BlockFi raises $50M Series C led by Morgan Creek Digital, bringing its total raised to around $160M — Financial services company BlockFi landed $50 million in Series C funding to develop products for cryptocurrencies. — Subscribe to the Crunchbase Daily
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Investigation sheds light on Roblox's battle against “condo games”, digital sex parties where kids act like adults and adults may be posing as kids — Roblox is waging a technological shadow war against condo games: digital sex parties where kids act like adults.
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DoorDash launches grocery delivery, starting with select chains in California and parts of the Midwest — Starting with select stores in California and parts of the Midwest — DoorDash is ramping up its on-demand delivery efforts with the launch of grocery delivery …
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Reddit says it has banned nearly 7,000 subreddits since June, resulting in an 18% drop in users posting hateful content — Reddit's new stance on hate speech shows early progress — In June this year, Reddit began a huge campaign to remove hateful content from its site … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Netflix confirms it's been testing a “Shuffle Play” feature, which will randomly play content based on what a user watches or saves to a list, since July — Don't know what you're in the mood to watch? Netflix's new “Shuffle” feature could help.
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How Vladimir Tenev and Baiju Bhatt built the fee-free stock trading app Robinhood, which disrupted rivals by relying on selling customers' orders — It's just after midnight on Friday, July 31, and the Todd Capital Options Community, a $20-per-month subscription Slack channel favored … | Sujeong Lim / Counterpoint Research: |
Global smartwatch revenue grew 20% YoY in H1 2020, despite COVID-19 and shipments remaining flat; Apple accounted for 51.4% of revenue, up from 43.2% in H1 2019 — Seoul, Hong Kong, New Delhi, Beijing, London, Buenos Aires, San Diego — The top three brands contributed more than 69% of the total market revenue in H1 2020.
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