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Apple agrees to pay $50M to settle a class-action lawsuit claiming the company knew and concealed that its MacBook butterfly keyboards were prone to failure — Apple Inc (AAPL.O) agreed to pay $50 million to settle a class-action lawsuit by customers who claimed it knew and concealed that the …
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| Sarah Whitten / CNBC: |
Netflix reports Q2 revenue up 9% YoY to $7.97B, vs $8.04B est., and a 970K subscriber loss vs an estimated 2M subscriber loss; stock jumps 5%+ after hours — - Netflix only lost around 970,000 subscribers during the second quarter, a smaller loss than the 2 million it had projected last quarter.
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The Delaware Court of Chancery grants Twitter an expedited five-day trial in October in its lawsuit against Elon Musk, who wanted the trial to begin in 2023 — - Twitter won its motion for an expedited trial in its lawsuit against Elon Musk on Tuesday. — Delaware Court …
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| Scott Stein / CNET: |
Google plans to test AR prototypes in public, starting with a few dozen employees and trusted testers in August and ramping up to hundreds by the end of 2022 — The camera-enabled assistive glasses won't be able to take photos or video, though. — Scott Stein
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Google will let non-gaming Android apps provide alternative billing systems for IAP, reducing Google's Play Store cut by 3%, in the European Economic Area — Google said today it will allow developers of non-gaming apps on the Play Store to provide alternative billing systems for in-app transactions …
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| Katyanna Quach / The Register: |
Google and Oracle report some of their cloud services and servers in the UK went offline due to cooling failures amid the country's record-breaking heatwave — Clouds burst as nation hits 40C — Cloud services and servers hosted by Google and Oracle in the UK have fallen offline due …
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Sources: Neuralink co-founder Paul Merolla left the company in recent weeks, the latest in a string of departures at the Elon Musk-backed brain implant startup — A founding member of Elon Musk's Neuralink left the company in recent weeks, according to two people familiar with the matter …
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Memo to staff: Meta is reallocating resources from Facebook's News tab and newsletter platform Bulletin, as the company focuses more on the creator economy — Senior executive Campbell Brown told employees that products will be ‘put on the backburner’ — Meta Platforms Inc.'s Facebook …
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Instagram adds a searchable map for exploring nearby popular tagged locations, which can be filtered by restaurants, cafes, beauty salons, and other categories — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced today that the company is introducing a new searchable and dynamic map experience on Instagram.
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
YouTube rolls out new shopping features, including a Shopify partnership to let eligible US creators and merchants link their Shopify store and YouTube channel — YouTube already soaks up billions of hours of the world's attention. Now the video giant also wants to hoover up a bigger piece of consumers' online purchases.| Corin Faife / The Verge: |
Google finds Android spyware, distributed outside the Play Store, that Russians disguised as an app for Ukrainians to launch DDoS attacks against Russian sites — Details were published in a blog post from the Threat Analysis Group, which tracks state-backed cyber activity
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Amazon files a lawsuit against the administrators of 10K+ Facebook groups that offer cash or goods to users willing to post bogus product reviews on Amazon — If the reviews of the last completely necessary and not at all superfluous thing you bought on Amazon looked like so much copypasta … | Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Samsung appears to use “cryptic” puzzles on Twitter to confirm its next Unpacked event is on August 10, 2022, as rumors suggest new foldables and smartwatches — Sure looks like the leaks were accurate — In a trio of images posted to its official Twitter account …
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| Christopher Zara / Fast Company: |
BeReal, the social photo sharing app launched in early 2020 in France, is the No. 1 free app in Apple's US App Store; Sensor Tower: BeReal has 20M+ installs — No doubt you've seen the innumerable recent hot takes about BeReal. The French photo app, launched in early 2020 as a kind …
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Sources: China plans to fine Didi $1B+ for its cybersecurity practices and ease new user restrictions, letting Didi restore its apps and pursue a Hong Kong IPO — Move ends yearlong investigation and will free firm to pursue a second listing in Hong Kong — SINGAPORE—Chinese authorities … | Hannah Miller / Bloomberg: |
Blockchain security startup Halborn, which works with Coinbase, Solana, Ava Labs, and others, raised a $90M Series A led by Summit Partners — Blockchain security firm Halborn has raised $90 million, the company told Bloomberg News. The deal is an outlier in a climate where venture capital investing …
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
BitSight: a popular GPS vehicle tracker made by Shenzhen-based Micodus can be easily exploited to track and remotely cut the engines of at least 1M vehicles — Security vulnerabilities in a popular Chinese-built GPS vehicle tracker can be easily exploited to track and remotely cut the engines …
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| Erin Brodwin / Axios: |
Memo to staff: health care administration automation startup Olive AI, valued at $4B in July 2021, lays off 450 employees, or ~31%, after ~40 employees left — Exit Content Preview … - “Our fast-paced growth and lack of focus strained our product and engineering resources and prevented us … | Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Amazon starts rolling out a Prime Video redesign for Android and connected TV devices, with a Netflix-like look, a top 10 list, a vertical navigation, and more — New navigation, a top 10 list, and a very familiar look and feel — Compared to Netflix, Disney Plus, and other major streaming services …
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