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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Samsung announces Galaxy Z Flip3 with an internal 6.7" 120Hz display, a 1.9" external screen, 8GB RAM, and Snapdragon 888, starting at $999, shipping August 27 — One of the first thoughts around foldable smartphones is a high price tag, but that tune is changing.
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Tweets: @backlon, @backlon, and @patrickmoorhead
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Samsung announces Galaxy Z Fold3 with a 7.6" 120Hz primary screen, S Pen support, 12GB RAM, and IPX8 water resistance, shipping August 27 for $1,799 — The flagship foldable now has a 120Hz cover screen — It's August, and today is Samsung's latest big Unpacked event.
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| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
Instagram introduces anti-hate speech tools to let users limit comments and requests on popular posts, following abuse towards England soccer players — Instagram has introduced new features called Limits and Hidden Words designed to reduce hate and abuse on trending posts, the company — announced.| New York Times: |
A look at the multi-year effort by English soccer organizations to push Facebook to crack down on hate speech against players, intensifying during Euro 2020 — For more than two years, soccer officials pushed the social network to limit the invective. As a new season begins, the hate continues.
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| Wolfie Zhao / The Block: |
The attacker who stole $611M from Poly Network has now returned over $256M in USDC, BTCB, SHIBA, and others, after saying they were “ready to surrender” — Quick Take — Poly Network attacker has started returning the funds that were stolen in the largest DeFi hack to date.
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| Tim Copeland / The Block: |
Group behind Poly Network, a cross-chain protocol used for DeFi applications, says a hacker has stolen $611M; one researcher blames the attack on a crypto flaw — Quick Take — Cross-chain protocol Poly Network has been hacked for $611 million. — The team behind the protocol …
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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Facebook claims it is undertaking a “very meaningful pivot”, still in its infancy, to change how its ad tools work with a focus on privacy — A ‘very meaningful pivot’ is underway inside the world's largest social network — Facebook's massive business was built on its ability to track users across the internet.
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
WhatsApp will let users move their chat history, including photos and voice notes, between iOS and Android devices, starting with new Galaxy models — WhatsApp is finally addressing one of the biggest problems with its — chat histories: the inability to carry them over when you switch platforms.
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| Elizabeth Culliford / Reuters: |
Facebook says it has removed a network of accounts from Russia linked to a UK marketing firm that pushed anti-vaccine content using Planet of the Apes memes — Facebook (FB.O) said on Tuesday it had removed a network of accounts from Russia that it linked to a marketing firm which aimed …
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Samsung announces Galaxy Watch4, starting at $249, and Galaxy Watch4 Classic, starting at $349, both with “Wear OS Powered by Samsung”, shipping August 27 — Samsung and Google's smartwatch collaboration is here — Today we're getting our first look at the fruits …
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| Cherlynn Low / Engadget: |
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| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Internal iOS 15 code and animations show Apple will let users link AirPods to the Find My network; the headphones will use Bluetooth to show a location — Apple has announced multiple new features for AirPods users with iOS 15, which includes Conversation Boost for AirPods Pro and true Find My support for the first time.| David Carnoy / CNET: |
Samsung announces $150 Galaxy Buds 2 with active noise cancellation and a similar design to the Galaxy Buds Pro, available August 27 — The latest Samsung true-wireless earbuds are essentially mini versions of the more expensive Galaxy Buds Pro. … Samsung's Galaxy Buds 2 earbuds … | Chris Welch / The Verge: |
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Android Authority, Laptop Mag, Engadget, Gizmodo, Android Central, SamMobile, and phonearena.com. Tweets: @chriswelch
| Packy McCormick / Not Boring: |
NFTs blur the line between social and financial capital and dismissing them is akin to missing the importance of status while analyzing social networks — Analyzing NFTs as Social Networks Using the Status-as-a-Service Framework — The DEAD followed me across Twitter all weekend.
Tweets: @zoescaman, @jihoz_axie, and @jessewldn
| Reed Albergotti / Washington Post: |
Court docs: Apple settles its 2019 lawsuit against Corellium over Corellium's “virtualized” iPhone business; Corellium says it still sells virtual iOS devices — Apple accused Corellium of violating its copyrights with virtual iPhones used for security research
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iThinkDifferent, The Verge, TechCrunch, world.hey.com, Forbes, 9to5Mac, iMore, Cult of Mac, MacRumors, and phonearena.com
Tweets: @malwarejake, @counternotions, @reedalbergotti, @thegrugq, @migueldeicaza, @dcuthbert, and @tonyajoriley
| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Facebook open sources Time Card, its PCIe-based timekeeping tool that uses atomic clocks and navigation satellites to keep devices and data centers in sync — The social network giant gives away its hardware and software designs that can keep data centers humming efficiently.
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Tweets: @alexvoica, @alexvoica, @alexvoica, and @iancutress
| Bloomberg: |
In a statement, China signals sweeping regulation of its tech industry will last until at least 2025 to ensure the “healthy development” of new business models — China signaled its push to regulate sweeping parts of the economy, which has jolted markets, will be deep and sustained over the next five years.| CNBC: |
Amazon opens its $1.5B, 600-acre air hub in northern Kentucky, capable of handling 100 planes and 200 flights per day, as it ramps up delivery speeds — - Amazon on Wednesday debuted its $1.5 billion air hub in Northern Kentucky. — The hub will serve as the central nerve …
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Tweets: @lesliejosephs, @amazonnews, @mattmday, and @sam_l_shead
| Frank Konkel / Nextgov: |
Source: the NSA awarded a secret cloud computing contract worth up to $10B to AWS; Microsoft has filed a bid protest with the GAO in response — Much of the NSA's most prized intelligence data may be moving to the cloud. — The National Security Agency has awarded a secret cloud computing contract worth …
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The Verge, The Hill, Engadget, GeekWire, HotHardware.com News, Tom's Hardware, MUO, IT Management, WinBuzzer, ComputerWeekly.com, PCMag, Insider, Windows Central, MSPoweruser, and cloudpro.co.uk
Tweets: @carnage4life and @silvermanjacob
| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Research shows semiconductor chip lead times slipped to 20.2 weeks in July, up by eight days over June, which was already the longest wait time since 2017 — The amount of time it's taking for chip-starved companies to get orders filled has stretched to more than 20 weeks … | Joe Light / Bloomberg: |
Coinbase amends claims on its website that USDC is backed 1:1 by USD, after Circle disclosed in July that commercial paper and other assets back USDC — - Some assets of second-largest stablecoin carry default risk — Coinbase as late as this month claimed coin is backed by cash
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Cointelegraph. Tweets: @ofnumbers, @joelight, @bennetttomlin, @frances_coppola, @bobonmarkets, @mdudas, and @mdudas
| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Doxel, which uses computer vision to track progress on construction sites, raises $40M Series B led by Insight Partners — Doxel, which has developed software that uses computer vision to help track and monitor progress on construction job sites, announced today that it has raised $40 million in Series B funding.Thanks:@vscpr
| Reuters: |
How Sweden's policy of putting a computer in every home and early concurrent investment in internet connectivity helped birth Spotify, Skype, Klarna, and others — As Klarna's billionaire founder Sebastian Siemiatkowski prepares to stage one of the biggest-ever European fintech company listings …
Tweets: @ljungman and @klarnaseb
| Reuters: |
Web Summit, Europe's largest tech conference, will return as an in-person event in Lisbon in November, after being held virtually last year — Europe's biggest tech conference - the Web Summit - will return as an in-person event in Lisbon this November, organisers confirmed to Reuters on Wednesday …
Tweets: @paddycosgrave, @websummit, and @rustybrick
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Predictive sales startup People.ai raises $100M from Mubadala Investment and Akkadian Ventures at a $1.1B valuation, up from $400M in 2019 — - Silicon Valley's People.ai valued at $1.1 billion after round — Mubadala's AlBanna sees ‘multiple winners’ in sales softwareSponsor Posts
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