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| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
Facebook staff detail the fight over CrowdTangle, which notes top-engaging posts, often showing right-wing sources dominating; in April, its team was reassigned — Executives at the social network have clashed over CrowdTangle, a Facebook-owned data tool that revealed users' high engagement levels with right-wing media sources.
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Gizmodo and Nieman Lab
Tweets: @brianstelter, @felixsalmon, @janelytv, @billr, @jackclarksf, @brizzyc, @goldman, @szhang_ds, @asankin, @dseetharaman, @benjamintoff, @masonoise, @facebookstop10, @facebookstop10, @jonkeegan, @caseynewton, @kevinroose, @reckless, @brandyzadrozny, @kevinroose, @sarafischer, @brianstelter, @kevinroose, @digiphile, @iansherr, @kantrowitz, @imincorrigible, @issielapowsky, @mccanner, and @alkapdc
| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Twitter says it will retire Fleets, its stories-like service, on August 3 after low adoption — A fleeting moment for Fleets — Say goodbye to Fleets, the row of fullscreen tweets at the top of the Twitter timeline that expire after 24 hours. The ephemeral tweet format is shutting …
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Twitter, Ad Age, CNN, Engadget, TNW, New York Times, Android Police, inews.co.uk, FrontPageTech.com, The Hill, AppleInsider, USA Today, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, mobilesyrup.com, Los Angeles Times, CNET, TechCrunch, International Business Times, Social Media Today, TalkAndroid.com, Input, MUO, iPhone in Canada Blog, Android Central, Phandroid, CNBC, PetaPixel, Slashdot, iDownloadBlog.com, Variety, KnowTechie, and Techweez
Tweets: @twitter, @twittersupport, @kayvz, @twittersupport, @tomwarren, @jeff_gluck, @harrymccracken, @howelloneill, @kateconger, @barry, @alexeheath, @jack, @nytimestech, @twittersupport, @kayvz, @kayvz, @kayvz, @anildash, @ow, @caseynewton, @thekenyeung, @taylorlorenz, @caseynewton, @alexeheath, @mgsiegler, @ow, and @alexhern
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft announces Windows 365, letting businesses stream a version of Windows 10 or 11 in a web browser or through its Remote Desktop app, launching August 2 — Windows 365 is a new service that creates Cloud PCs — Microsoft is putting Windows in the cloud.
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Microsoft 365 Blog, GeekWire, Microsoft, Petri, VentureBeat, HotHardware.com News, PCWorld, Windows Central, Laptop Mag, TechRepublic, BBC, The Economic Times, PC Gamer, The 8-Bit, AppleInsider, Microsoft, SlashGear, OnMSFT.com, CNBC, Tom's Hardware, ExtremeTech, Engadget, ZDNet, Redmond Pie, BetaNews, CRN, Livemint, Bloomberg, Australian Financial Review, OnMSFT.com, Windows Experience Blog, The Official Microsoft Blog, XDA Developers, and MSPoweruser
| Brent Kendall / Wall Street Journal: |
Facebook says it is seeking the recusal of FTC chair Lina Khan in the agency's deliberations over a new antitrust case, following a similar move by Amazon — Social-media giant follows Amazon in citing Lina Khan's tech criticisms, congressional work to question her impartiality| Taylor Lorenz / New York Times: |
Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook will pay $1B to creators by the end of 2022; creators can earn money using Instagram or Facebook tools or by hitting milestones — Facebook is setting up a program to pay $1 billion to creators through the end of 2022, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's chief executive …
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About Facebook, The Verge, PYMNTS.com, Reuters, TechCrunch, Forbes, NBC News, The Hill, Engadget, Reuters, CNET, Agence France-Presse, Insider, Variety, Ad Age, TechSpot, Tubefilter, PetaPixel, Deadline, Adweek, and The Wrap
Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg. Tweets: @nytimes, @smithakhorana, @joshsternberg, @kurtwagner8, @esosa_osa, @kashhill, @mathewi, @kerrymflynn, @ow, @jetscott, @mosseri, and @kantrowitz
| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
As very few iOS users opt into tracking, Facebook's many advertisers are noticing a negative impact on tracking campaigns, targeting new customers, and more — People give iOS apps permission to track their behavior just 25% of the time — When users get asked on iPhone devices …
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9to5Mac and AppleInsider
Tweets: @kurtwagner8, @niemanlab, @aripap, @astaniscia86, @vanvidum, @epicciuto, and @robleathern
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
WhatsApp begins a limited beta for multi-device support, letting users access WhatsApp on up to four non-phone devices without an active smartphone connection — WhatsApp is finally pushing an improvement to a key feature that even the Facebook-owned instant messaging service acknowledges has been a top request from users for years.
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Facebook Engineering, Washington Post, Engadget, Forbes, The Independent, Wired, SlashGear, WhatsApp, and WABetaInfo
Tweets: @wcathcart, @wcathcart, and @wabetainfo
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
In macOS Monterey's new developer beta, Apple appears to walk back on its revamp of Safari's tabs, which were set to become more efficient with vertical space — In the third developer beta of macOS Monterey, which came out this morning, Apple has overhauled the design of Safari …
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9to5Mac, 9to5Mac, 9to5Mac, XDA Developers, MacRumors, Engadget, and MacDailyNews
| Bloomberg: |
European Central Bank says it will begin a 24-month “investigation phase” that could lead to the creation of a digital euro by around 2025 — - Process will take 24 months before decision on adoption taken — ECB says infrastructure would use far less energy than Bitcoin
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European Central Bank, European Central Bank, CoinDesk, PYMNTS.com, Financial Times, Blockworks, Forbes, Cointelegraph, and CNBC
Tweets: @ecb, @ecb, @lagarde, @jordanschachtel, @vdombrovskis, and @peterbofinger
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple has asked suppliers to build up to 90M next-generation iPhones this year, up 20% YoY; this year's update will be more incremental than iPhone 12 — - Company targets 90 million shipments of this year's new models — Iterative iPhone upgrade to boost chips, cameras and displays
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Barron's Online, FrontPageTech.com, Cult of Mac, MacDailyNews, 9to5Mac, phonearena.com, Coinspeaker, CNBC, iPhone in Canada Blog, iMore, iThinkDifferent, TechSpot, BGR, and Trusted Reviews. Tweets: @barronsonline
| Maddie Stone / The Keyword: |
Google's Threat Analysis Group breaks down three recent malware campaigns, likely state-backed, and notes a large uptick of in-the-wild 0-day attacks this year — Zero-day vulnerabilities are unknown software flaws. Until they're identified and fixed, they can be exploited by attackers.
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VICE, Ars Technica, The Record, PCMag, and BleepingComputer
Tweets: @shanehuntley, @lorenzofb, @lorenzofb, @malwarere, @maddiestone, and @maddiestone
| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Clubhouse debuts Backchannel, a DM feature supporting group messages and audio chat, on iOS and Android; the ability to send images or video will be added later — Never leave the app — Now, you can slide into people's Clubhouse DMs. The social audio company is launching its direct messaging feature …
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Clubhouse, Livemint, iPhone in Canada Blog, CNBC, and Hollywood Reporter
Tweets: @clubhouse and @alexeheath
| Reuters: |
Twitter says governments made 361 demands to remove content from 199 verified accounts of journalists and news outlets in H2 2020, up 26% from H1 — Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) saw a surge in demands over the course of last year from governments around the world to take down content posted …
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Twitter, Reuters, Engadget, and The Hill
Tweets: @twittersafety, @twittersafety, @garettsloane, and @twittersafety
| Priya Anand / Bloomberg: |
Internal documents: Amazon considered building an Alexa-powered, GPS-enabled wearable device for kids aged 4-12 as part of its 2020 product roadmap — - Gadget would give kids aged 4 to 12 access to movies, games — Company is also exploring a ‘Magic Band’ wearable with Disney
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Input, Gizmodo, The Verge, and 9to5Mac
Tweets: @ljmontello, @annierpalmer, @josheidelson, @priyasideas, and @silviakillings
| Stephanie Chan / Sensor Tower Blog: |
TikTok has passed 3B installs globally across iOS and Android, the first non-Facebook app to do so — ByteDance's TikTok had an eventful 2020, setting new records and thriving despite threats of government bans in more than one country. Although the app was removed from India … | Casey Newton / Platformer: |
An Ugly Truth attributes many of Facebook's scandals to its capitalist origins, while arguably the biggest scandals extend from it impacting human psychology — Three ways of looking at a Facebook scandal — I. The CSO and The Wire — As the second season of the great 2000s crime drama … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Alibaba and Tencent are separately working on plans to open their services to each other, as China's crackdown makes keeping barriers more difficult — Mounting regulatory pressure could bring about a major shift in how China's tech giants operate| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
Profile of Spotify's chief legal officer Horacio Gutierrez, who leads its campaign against Apple in the US and EU, painting Apple as an abusive monopolist — Horacio Gutierrez made his name in U.S. corporate law two decades ago defending Microsoft Corp. against charges of anticompetitive behavior … | Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
India has indefinitely banned Mastercard from issuing new debit, credit, or prepaid cards over noncompliance with local data storage rules — Reserve Bank of India has indefinitely barred Mastercard from issuing new debit, credit, or prepaid cards to customers in the South Asian market over noncompliance with local data storage rules.
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Finextra, The Economic Times, Agence France-Presse, Financial Times, Reuters, MediaNama, and Entrackr
| Dave Gershgorn / The Verge: |
A coalition of 35 organizations demand that top US retailers, including Macy's and Lowe's, stop using facial recognition to identify customers — Lowe's, Albertsons, Macy's are already using the tech — More than 35 organizations are demanding top US retailers cease using facial recognition …
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Ban Facial Recognition in Stores, The Register, Bloomberg, and Input
Tweets: @roots_action, @fightfortheftr, @fightfortheftr, @fightfortheftr, @fightfortheftr, @ihnatko, and @brodyford_
| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
Amazon launches its Kindle Vella serialized story service on iOS and web, which lets users unlock episodic, self-published stories via in-app purchases — launched its serialized fiction Kindle Vella store that lets you unlock episodic, self-published stories via in-app purchases.
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TNW, 9to5Toys, Business Wire, and TechRadar
| Paul Sandle / Reuters: |
UK's BT, which runs the EE carrier, will phase out 3G by 2023 and plans 5G coverage for all of the UK by 2028; iPhone 12 quadrupled 5G traffic since October — BT (BT.L), the owner of Britain's EE mobile company, said on Wednesday it would phase out 3G in the next two years to free up airwaves …
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BT Newsroom, Financial Times, Light Reading, RCR Wireless News, AppleInsider, MacRumors, Telegraph, and 9to5Mac
| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
FlyMachine, which is building a virtual concerts service that lets users chat with friends during the show, raises $21M led by Greycroft Partners and SignalFire — As concerts and live events return to the physical world stateside, many in the tech industry have wondered whether …
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PR Newswire
| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Stytch, which is building APIs for passwordless authentication, raises $30M Series A led by Thrive Capital, sources say at a $200M+ valuation — There are far fewer annoying things than managing one's passwords. — There are a bunch of companies out there to help you attempt to do that.| Ryne Hager / Android Police: |
OnePlus says it no longer plans to sell the $969 OnePlus 9 Pro model in the US due to supply constraints, says it will prioritize the higher-end $1,069 model — When OnePlus launched the 9 Pro, the company highlighted the $969 starting price for the new phone in an 8GB/128GB “base” model.
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9to5Google and XDA Developers
| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
An Amazon Canada search page details the Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 series, available in 40mm, 42mm, 44mm, and 46mm with Wear OS, shipping August 27 from CAD $309 — We're just short of a month away from Samsung's next big product launch, but there's not much left to be surprised by.| Catie Keck / The Verge: |
Netflix launches two tools for parents: a Top 10 row for age-restricted profiles and a bi-weekly Kids Recap Email to give insights into watching habits — Just like on regular Netflix — Netflix is launching two new tools this week that should help make finding age-appropriate content … | Christine Hall / TechCrunch: |
Castor, which develops software to run clinical trials, raises $45M Series B, bringing its total raised to $65M — Castor is on a mission to make every clinical trial faster and patient-focused. The clinical trial software company announced Wednesday it raised $45 million in Series B funding … | Nate DiCamillo / CoinDesk: |
Jerome Powell tells Congress a Fed report, due in Sept., will address cryptocurrencies, CBDCs, and stablecoins, “which need an appropriate regulatory framework” — The report will address cryptocurrencies, stablecoins, and CBDCs. — U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell …
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| Chris Metinko / Crunchbase News: |
Virsec, which claims to offer companies real-time threat detection of “zero day” exploits without relying on AI, raises $100M Series C led by BlueIO — San Jose, California-based Virsec closed a $100 million Series C as companies continue to look for ways to secure their software amidst an increasing amount of cyber hacks.
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VentureBeat and Silicon Valley Business …
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