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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft partners with Samsung to launch its Xbox TV app on June 30, letting Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers play Xbox games without a console — Samsung's 2022 smart TVs will be the first to get the Xbox app — Microsoft is launching its Xbox TV app later this month …
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| Cameron Faulkner / The Verge: |
Hands-on with Xbox TV for Samsung's 2022 TVs: games load quickly and work with Xbox and PS5 controllers, a high-speed connection is essential, and more — It's coming first to Samsung's 2022 TV lineup on June 30th — Playing games on the new Xbox app made for TVs feels like a big deal.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple will handle Apple Pay Later's lending, a first for the company; in-house subsidiary Apple Financing LLC will oversee credit checks and make loan decisions — Apple Inc. will handle the lending itself for a new “buy now, pay later” offering, sidestepping partners as the tech giant pushes deeper …
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| Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: |
Source: Twitter's board plans to comply with Elon Musk's demands for internal data on bots by offering access to its full “firehose”, after a weeks-long impasse — The billionaire is in a protracted battle with the company over information about spam and fake accounts
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| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Source: Meta has halted development of a smartwatch with dual cameras, which was in development for two years, and is instead working on other wrist devices — Facebook parent company Meta Platforms Inc. has halted development of a smartwatch with dual cameras and is instead working …
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| Ryan Broderick / Garbage Day: |
Critiques of “anti-crypto media personalities” and the “podcast circuit” miss an essential point: most of Web3 currently sucks and saying so is not a conspiracy — Read to the end for a truly cursed TikTok — Web3 Being Not Very Good Is Not A Conspiracy
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Microsoft plans to stop adding noncompete clauses to US employment agreements, drop NDAs from US worker settlements, add salary ranges to US job posts, and more — Bending to employee sentiment and legislative mandate, Microsoft announced a series of reforms Wednesday that will curtail …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
GitHub is sunsetting Atom, the text editor for developers it launched in 2011, and will archive all projects under the Atom organization on December 15, 2022 — GitHub today announced that it will sunset Atom, the text editor for software development that the company introduced in 2011.
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| Washington Post: |
Despite Facebook's ban on gun sales, internal guidance shows users can break its rules 10 times before being banned, down to five if they call for violence — The company discloses little information about how it enforces its prohibition of firearm sales on the site, leaving its punishment system shrouded in secrecy
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| André Beganski / Decrypt: |
South Korean crypto exchanges Bithumb and Upbit plan to delist Litecoin, saying the token's new privacy features violate the country's anti-money laundering law — Two major exchanges in South Korea said they will delist Litecoin due to new privacy features enabled by the protocol.| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
Snapshot: 54% of ApeCoin owners vote in favor of remaining on Ethereum, after Yuga Labs floated creating its own blockchain after its huge metaverse land sale — ApeCoin owners have decided to keep the token, which is expected to be key to snagging exclusive metaverse game items and deals …
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| Andrew Asmakov / Decrypt: |
Ethereum's proof-of-stake Merge upgrade goes live on Ropsten, Ethereum's oldest testnet for blockchain development testing before deployment on the mainnet — First rolled out in 2016, Ropsten is Ethereum's oldest testnet that allows for blockchain development testing before deployment on the mainnet.
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The Block, CNBC, Cointelegraph, Crypto Briefing, Cryptonews, CoinGape, Coinspeaker, Crypto Daily, Benzinga, and crypto.news
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| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
TikTok expands its screen time controls, adding a dashboard to monitor usage and letting users set time limits; teens will get additional usage reminders — TikTok is rolling out more screen time controls to help users manage how much time they are spending in the app.
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| Florence Ion / Gizmodo: |
Google releases Android 13 Beta 3 for Pixel phones and says Android 13 has reached platform stability, meaning the developer APIs and how apps perform are final — As the beta reaches Platform Stability, Google would like to remind you that Android tablets aren't dead yet. — Alerts
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Android Developers Blog, 9to5Google, The Verge, Android Police, SamMobile, Sammy Fans, Fossbytes, Digital Trends, and MobileSyrup
Tweets: @basicappleguy, @mishaalrahman, and @maxwinebach
| Wall Street Journal: |
Documents show how Cerebral used social media ads to grow its ADHD drug business, as federal prosecutors look into possible Controlled Substance Act violations — The online mental health company surged to a $4.8 billion valuation after it started dispensing ADHD medication …
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Forbes. Tweets: @anfuller, @anfuller, @tomfitton, @richardhanania, @contingentvalue, @theo_wayt, @marcelolprince, @anshelsag, and @mkarolian
| Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: |
In an email, ByteDance says Joshua Ma, who leads UK's TikTok Shop, will “step back” during a probe into comments that he “didn't believe” in maternity leave — Joshua Ma will ‘take some time off’ after claims were brought to TikTok by the Financial Times
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| Dan Taylor / Tech.eu: |
Sweden-based Juni, a neobank catering to e-commerce and online marketing, raises a $206M Series B, made up of $100M in equity led by Mubadala and $106M in debt — Sweden's Juni has raised $206 million ($100 equity/$106 debt) in a Series B funding round. — Swedish integrated payment …
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| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
Experts say the lack of publicly available data makes it difficult to verify claims by Tesla and others about the safety of their autonomous driving tech — Automakers and technology companies say they are making driving safer, but verifying these claims is difficult.
Tweets: @parismarx, @2plus2make5, @davidzipper, @garymarcus, @noahgoodall, and @iihs_autosafety
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Amsterdam-based Backbase, which helps banks analyze data, raises €120M from Motive Partners at a €2.5B valuation and says it has 150 banking customers — Larger banks and other financial service providers are getting a lot more serious when it comes to competing with upstarts …
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Finextra, Tech.eu, Benzinga, and Silicon Canals
| Financial Times: |
Palantir is preparing to bid on a £360M contract to underpin UK NHS' operations, to be awarded in November; Palantir employs 600 in the UK and plans to add 250 — US data analytics group hires health service executives in bid to secure £360mn contract| Sheena Vasani / The Verge: |
Browser maker Vivaldi releases a built-in email client, Mail 1.0, with Vivaldi Calendar and RSS integrations — It's available to use starting today — Vivaldi has launched its own free built-in email client, Mail 1.0, with Vivaldi's Calendar and Feed Reader integrated.| TechCrunch: |
Researcher says over 120K passports, drivers licenses, and IDs of users of Chinese bike-sharing service Mobike was not encrypted and exposed online — A massive trove of more than 120,000 passports, drivers licenses and identity documents uploaded by users of bike-sharing service Mobike have been found online.
Tweets: @zackwhittaker, @mayhemdayone, and @zackwhittaker
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