Techmeme Top News

1、Snap reports Q2 revenue of $454M, up 17% YoY, vs $439.1M est., global DAUs of 238M, up 17% YoY, a net loss of $326M, up from $255M, and ARPU of $1.91, flat YoY (Salvador Rodriguez/CNBC)

2、Network chip startup Innovium raises $170M at a $1B+ post-money valuation, bringing its total raised to date to $350M, as it seeks to challenge Broadcom (Tiernan Ray/ZDNet)

3、Salesforce shuts down AI-powered voice services Einstein Voice Assistant and Voice Skills, as it focuses on its newly released Salesforce Anywhere app (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

4、Google unveils G Suite security features including support in Gmail for BIMI standard for brands, new controls for Meet hosts, and ability to block Chat Rooms (Neil Kumaran/Google Cloud Blog)

5、Emily Kramer, a former VP at equity management service Carta who oversaw publication of Silicon Valley gender-pay gap research, sues Carta over unequal pay (Ellen Huet/Bloomberg)

6、Facebook adds labels to voting-related posts from US politicians like Trump and Biden that say "Get official voting info" without fact checking the posts (CNN)

7、OnePlus Buds review: truly wireless with AirPod-like rigid design, great battery life, aggressive $79 pricing, but custom controls are for OnePlus phones only (Chris Welch/The Verge)

8、Interviews with 36+ current and former Ubisoft employees show claims of sexual harassment and abuse have been known for years, with no action by management (Jason Schreier/Bloomberg)

9、US charges two Chinese nationals over a 10+ year hacking spree, alleging theft of terabytes of data, including vaccine secrets, from many orgs in 11 countries (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)

10、Inside Citizen, a police scanner app whose usage has surged amid BLM protests, as it ponders monetization and continues to tweak its service to address flaws (Boone Ashworth/Wired)

11、Microsoft says it will now let third-party developers integrate apps into Teams video calls, including before, during, and after meetings (Tom Warren/The Verge)

12、China's Blockchain-based Service Network, set to launch to devs on Aug. 10, integrates with public blockchains Tezos, NEO, Nervos, EOS, IRISnet, and Ethereum (David Pan/CoinDesk)

13、South Korea fixes flaws in its COVID-19 quarantine app that could let attackers access sensitive user info, like location, and tamper with data (New York Times)

14、OnePlus says its €399 Nord smartphone will launch in Europe and India with a 90Hz 1080p OLED display, dual selfie cameras, Sub-6GHz 5G, 48-megapixel main camera (Jon Porter/The Verge)

15、Google's Nest Hub and Nest Hub Max smart displays now have official support for Netflix (Cameron Faulkner/The Verge)

TikTok says it plans to hire 10,000 staff in the US over three years; TikTok's number of full-time US employees has jumped from <500 to ~1,400 this year (Margaret Harding McGill/Axios)

5 小时前

US House of Representatives votes to ban TikTok on federal devices, as part of a package of amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act (Politico)

5 小时前

Instagram is testing a Personal Fundraiser feature, first in the US, UK, and Ireland on Android (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

5 小时前

U.S. charges two Chinese nationals in coronavirus vaccine hacking scheme, other crimes (Amanda Macias/CNBC)

5 小时前

Home insurance tech startup Hippo raises $150M at a valuation of $1.5B; CEO says it's on track for $100M+ of revenue in the next year (Bloomberg)

6 小时前

Spotify launches video podcasts worldwide, starting with select creators, letting free and paid users seamlessly move between the video and audio versions (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

7 小时前

AMD unveils 7nm Ryzen 4000 series desktop processors based on its Zen 2 architecture, but says they will only come in prebuilt OEM systems first (Chaim Gartenberg/The Verge)

8 小时前

Robinhood has postponed the launch of its stock trading app in the UK indefinitely, as it refocuses efforts on strengthening its core business in the US (Ryan Browne/CNBC)

8 小时前

Gett, the London- and Israel-based on-demand ride hailing service, raises $100M from new and existing investors, bringing its total raised to $750M (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

8 小时前

Apple commits to be 100% carbon neutral across its entire business, manufacturing supply chain, and product life cycle by 2030 (Apple)

9 小时前

LinkedIn says it will cut ~960 jobs, or 6% of its global workforce, as the pandemic is having a sustained impact on demand for its recruitment products (Supantha Mukherjee/Reuters)

10 小时前

Dance, an e-bike subscription service created by SoundCloud founders, initially launches in Berlin for &euro;59 per month, backed by BlueYard Capital (Mike Butcher/TechCrunch)

10 小时前

The autonomous vehicle industry is gravitating toward "highway-only autonomy", including long-haul trucks, as its hyped pursuit of "go-anywhere" taxis stalls (Patrick McGee/Financial Times)

11 小时前

Norway-based classified ads publisher Adevinta acquires eBay's classifieds business unit in a $9.2B deal (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

13 小时前

A deep dive into how Robinhood makes money and how its UX design and algorithmic nudges can lead some inexperienced investors to undertake riskier trades (Ranjan Roy/Margins)

15 小时前

Private equity firm Thoma Bravo has agreed to buy and take private Majesco, a New Jersey-based provider of cloud software for insurance companies, for $594M (Luisa Beltran/Barron's Online)

18 小时前

Toronto-based writing platform Wattpad says it's investigating a breach of user data, following a report that 271M user records was up for sale online (Isabelle Kirkwood/BetaKit)

19 小时前

Ahead of next week's antitrust hearing, sources say the committee spoke with Microsoft's Brad Smith on his concerns about how Apple operates its App Store (Juli Clover/MacRumors)

20 小时前

Report: in Q2, US smartphone YoY sales fell 10% for Samsung, 23% for Apple, 25% overall; iPhone SE popular among people with older iPhones and Android switchers (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)

21 小时前

Linux Foundation announces initiative to help public health officials in pandemic battle, launches two COVID-19 tracker apps using Google and Apple APIs (Macy Bayern/TechRepublic)

23 小时前

Uber has quietly debuted a service to give public health officials access to data on users thought to have come into contact with someone infected with COVID-19 (Tina Bellon/Reuters)

24 小时前

IBM reports Q2 revenue of $18.12B, down 5.4% YoY, vs. $17.72B est., with total cloud revenue of $6.3B, up 30%, and Cloud & Cognitive Software revenue up 3% YoY (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

2 天前

Adobe says it has hired Marc Levoy, a top researcher who developed computational photography for Google's Pixel line, to help it make a universal camera app (Jay Peters/The Verge)

2 天前

US accuses Nanchang O-Film Tech, a supplier for Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, of helping China's human rights abuses against Uighurs and places restrictions on it (Ian Sherr/CNET)

2 天前

Email shows Facebook execs mulling how to remove a fact check label, determined to be well founded, after it was applied to a viral climate misinfo post (Popular Information)

2 天前

Coinbase says that, in the wake of Twitter's hack on Wednesday, it prevented over 1,100 of its customers from sending 30.4 BTC, or ~$275K total, to the hackers (Yogita Khatri/The Block)

2 天前

Online insurance aggregator Policybazaar plans a 2021 IPO in Mumbai, seeking a $3.5B+ valuation, and wants to raise ~$250M at a $2B+ valuation before the IPO (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)

2 天前

Sources: China is considering retaliating against the Chinese operations of Nokia and Ericsson should EU members follow US and UK in banning Huawei's 5G tech (Wall Street Journal)

2 天前

Sources say ScaleFactor, which raised ~$100M to automate bookkeeping before blaming COVID-19 for its closure, used dozens of human accountants instead of AI (David Jeans/Forbes)

2 天前

Inside the FTC's Facebook probe, as sources detail disagreements between two units over how forcefully to apply existing competition standards (Axios)

2 天前

Sources: Microsoft plans to release Windows 10X for some single-screen devices in spring 2021, and dual-screen in spring 2022, with limited Win32 app support (Mary Jo Foley/ZDNet)

2 天前

Ford says it is expanding its partnership with Intel's Mobileye, using its vision-sensing tech to improve driver-assist features (Stephanie Condon/ZDNet)

2 天前

Mark Zuckerberg pushes back on rumors of a deal with Trump, saying there is "no deal of any kind" and describing the speculation as "pretty ridiculous" (Mike Allen/Axios)

2 天前

Jack Ma's Ant Group, payments processor for Alibaba, plans a dual listing in Hong Kong and Shanghai, sources say seeking a valuation of $200B+ (Lulu Yilun Chen/Bloomberg)

2 天前

Snap partners with Headspace to debut Headspace Minis, in-app meditation tools, which are the first Snap Minis, "bite-size" in-chat apps to be used with friends (Rachel Kraus/Mashable)

2 天前

Analysis of why the PACT Act is a far better approach to reforming CDA 230 than the EARN IT Act, even with its shortcomings and need for improvement (Daphne Keller/Stanford CIS Blog)

2 天前

Many hospitals and clinics are introducing AI-powered decision support tools, often novel and unproven, and most patients are unaware of them (STAT)

2 天前

Gyant, which provides AI-enabled remote patient-doctor engagement and symptom checking tools for hospitals and healthcare providers, raises $13.6M Series A (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

2 天前

Sources: eBay is in advanced talks to sell its classified ads business to Norway's Adevinta for ~$8B (Wall Street Journal)

2 天前

Gem, which integrates with LinkedIn to help automate data collection and follow-up correspondence with job candidates, raises $37M Series B led by Greylock (Kenrick Cai/Forbes)

2 天前

TileDB, which aims to simplify data management across industries through its technology that was spun out of MIT and Intel Labs, raises $15M Series A (Rowan Walrath/AmericanInno)

2 天前

SMBs make up 70% of the 5,384 companies certified under EU-US Privacy Shield and face the biggest challenges in complying with the decision that struck it down (Emily Birnbaum/Protocol)

2 天前

Teamviewer has agreed to acquire Ubimax, which makes AR software and wearable computing devices, for &euro;136.5M (Arno Schuetze/Reuters)

2 天前

Caption Health raises $53M Series B for its AI-guided tech that lets health care providers take diagnostic-quality ultrasound scans without specialized training (Sophia Kunthara/Crunchbase News)

3 天前

Sources: TikTok halts talks with UK government to build the HQ for its non-China business in London, with British ban on Huawei seen as a factor (Phillip Inman/The Guardian)

3 天前

Shanghai's year-old STAR market is now second only to Nasdaq in value of IPOs and secondary listings, attracting 17.3% of total issuance, surpassing Hong Kong (Nikkei Asian Review)

3 天前

Sources say plans to remake GE as a software powerhouse were scuttled by employee confusion and delusions about what it would take to reposition the company (Wall Street Journal)

3 天前

Zeotap, a SaaS startup that helps companies with customer intelligence, raises $42M Series C, bringing its total raised to over $60M according to Crunchbase (FinSMEs)

3 天前

In 2019, Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google were collectively granted ~27,000 H-1B visas, over 30% of total visas available to private companies (Kira Tebbe/OneZero&#8202;)

3 天前

Retail stores, which were closing due to declining foot traffic even before the pandemic, are now increasingly being turned into online fulfillment centers (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)

3 天前

Profile of Child Rescue Coalition, whose tech is used in 96 countries including the US to help police triage child porn cases, as experts raise privacy concerns (Olivia Solon/NBC News)

3 天前

Reliance Jio is working to become a "Super Operator", leveraging strategic partnerships and a strong telecom position to play a bigger role in users' lives (Neil Shah/Counterpoint Research)

3 天前

A look at startups that provide end-of-life services, from estate planning to online forums for grieving virtually, amid a surge in interest during the pandemic (Jennifer Miller/New York Times)

3 天前

Critics contend that predictive policing algorithms need to be dismantled due to biased training data, even as advocates say that algorithms can be made fair (Niall Firth/MIT Technology Review)

3 天前

CampusLogic, whose SaaS tech is helping simplify student financial aid processes at 750+ colleges and universities, receives $120M investment from Dragoneer (Christine Hall/Crunchbase News)

3 天前

Chinese-born CEO of robotics company CloudMinds, which was founded in the US, says he will not consider a US listing after sanctions hurt the business (South China Morning Post)

3 天前

A look at the bifurcation of the VC industry between agglomerators, who invest at every stage and across every sector, and specialists, who focus on one (Nikhil Basu Trivedi/next big thing)

3 天前

Sources: FTC's antitrust probe of Facebook will probably roll into next year when there may be a new president as FTC looks into its acquisition of Giphy (Cecilia Kang/New York Times)

3 天前

Amazon warns third party sellers it may separate Fulfillment by Amazon operations in UK from its EU network starting January 1 (Dave Furness/eSellerCafe)

3 天前

Sources: UK told Huawei that geopolitics played a part in its 5G ban and gave the impression the decision could be revisited if Trump fails to win a second term (Toby Helm/The Guardian)

3 天前

Sources: Disney has dramatically cut ad spending on Facebook and Instagram; Disney was Facebook's top US advertiser for H1 2020, per an estimate (Suzanne Vranica/Wall Street Journal)

4 天前

Despite its limitations, GPT-3, OpenAI's text-generating AI, excels at producing follow-on thoughts to input text, and could thus succeed as a "writing buddy" (Delian Asparouhov/Operators & ...)

4 天前

Trump campaign urges supporters to sign a petition to ban TikTok, saying TikTok has been caught "red handed by monitoring what is on your phone's Clipboard" (Kari Soo Lindberg/Bloomberg)

4 天前

Researchers say seven Hong Kong-based "no log" VPNs have left 1TB+ of user logs and personally identifiable info exposed on the internet (Shaun Nichols/The Register)

4 天前

Twitter says hackers downloaded account info, which may include DMs, of up to 8 accounts via its "Your Twitter Data" tool, but none of the 8 were verified users (Sean Hollister/The Verge)

4 天前

Some experts agree that TikTok may pose a threat to the US national security because of China, but blocking the app would be too drastic a measure (Louise Matsakis/Wired)

4 天前

Current and former employees provide an inside look at Airbnb amid layoffs, as its warm and fuzzy office culture met with the business realities of a pandemic (Erin Griffith/New York Times)

4 天前

A brief history of video chat, how it has evolved, and how the pandemic has forced big tech to develop new ways to make it feel more like real-life interactions (Adam Clark Estes/Vox)

4 天前

A look at the struggle between Change.org's image as a tool for social change and its for-profit open platform that can be used to promote hate speech (Megan Morrone/OneZero&#8202;)

4 天前

How tech companies place favorable newspaper op-eds, purportedly from small business owners, think tanks, and academics, without disclosing their involvement (Alex Kantrowitz/Big Technology)

4 天前

The FBI is using Sabre, the biggest of three firms that store a majority of the world's travel info, to spy on suspects' movements through sealed court orders (Thomas Brewster/Forbes)

4 天前

Twitter provides an overview of what it knows about Wednesday's hack so far: how it happened, what the attackers accessed, how it reacted, and the next steps (Twitter)

4 天前

Andrew Yang's Data Dividend Project would force social media companies to compensate users, but the plan underestimates difficulty of valuing data (Will Rinehart/Wired)

4 天前

Companies like Deloitte and IBM have made millions building state unemployment websites that didn't work, yet keep getting contracts to fix them (Colin Lecher/The Markup)

4 天前

GitHub took a 21TB snapshot of all active public repositories on February 2 and deposited it in the Arctic Code Vault on July 8 using 186 reels of archival film (Julia Metcalf/The GitHub Blog)

4 天前

Lyft, which gave some drivers free PPE, launches a PPE store for drivers; it's unlikely it can give away PPE regularly without conceding drivers are employees (Sarah Emerson/OneZero&#8202;)

4 天前

A person involved in Twitter hack may have gained access to Twitter's internal dashboard using credentials pinned in one of the company's Slack channels (New York Times)

4 天前

Sources: the FTC is considering deposing top Facebook executives, including Zuckerberg and Sandberg, as part of its anti-trust probe (Wall Street Journal)

4 天前

Amazon settles with Brian Hall, the former AWS VP it had sued for allegedly violating the non-compete clause after taking a VP job with Google Cloud (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)

4 天前

Coursera, the online learning startup founded by Andrew Ng, raises $130M Series F led by NEA, at a valuation of around $2.5B (Kate Clark/The Information)

5 天前

BlueVoyant, which provides managed security, professional services, and threat intelligence to SMBs, raises $68M Series C, bringing its total raised to $275.5M (Mars W. Mosqueda Jr/DealStreetAsia)

5 天前

Twitter says around 130 accounts were affected in Wednesday's hack, and the attackers gained control of and sent tweets from a subset of those accounts (Ryan Browne/CNBC)

5 天前

FCC unanimously approves rules that let carriers block calls from "bad-actor" phone companies that profit from robocalls (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)

5 天前

Global Alliance for Responsible Media, an industry body of ad companies including Google and Facebook, agrees to evaluate mutual definition of hate speech (Sara Fischer/Axios)

5 天前

MoneyBox, a UK-based savings and investment app, raises &pound;30M Series C, bringing its total raised to &pound;51M, and announces a crowdfunding campaign (Aisling Finn/AltFi)

5 天前

Canalys: about 17.3M smartphone units were shipped in India in Q2 2020, down from 33M in Q2 2019 and 33.5M in Q1 2020, amid COVID-19 lockdown (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

5 天前

Uber wants to become "actively anti-racist" by doubling Black leadership by 2025, tying exec compensation to diversity metrics, and supporting Black-owned SMBs (Dara Khosrowshahi/Uber Newsroom)

5 天前

Personal assistant arrested in the NYC killing of Fahim Saleh, founder of prank call app PrankDial and motorcycle ride-sharing apps in Bangladesh and Nigeria (New York Times)

5 天前

Sources: AirPods and Apple Watch assembler Luxshare buys an iPhone assembly plant from Wistron in Kushan, China for ~$472M (Nikkei Asian Review)

5 天前

130 high-profile Twitter accounts targeted in hacking attack (Alex Hern/The Guardian)

5 天前

Pegatron, the second-largest iPhone assembler, is setting up a local subsidiary in India, joining rivals Foxconn and Wistron (Bloomberg)

5 天前

A purported 360-degree render of the rumored Samsung Galaxy Note 20 leaks (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)

5 天前

In a leaked bulletin from May, DHS indicated concern that the widespread use of masks could interfere with police facial recognition systems (The Intercept)

5 天前

Sensor Tower: US App Store's downloads have surpassed China's for the first time since 2014, seeing a 27.4% YoY growth compared to 2.1% YoY in China (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

5 天前

An overview of Microsoft's various services for law enforcement, including the Domain Awareness System, a mass surveillance platform it first built for the NYPD (Michael Kwet/The Intercept)

5 天前

US District Judge says WhatsApp's malware case against NSO Group can move forward, rejecting NSO's claim that it qualified for foreign official immunity (Malathi Nayak/Bloomberg)

5 天前

Public records show the US Internal Revenue Service signed a deal, on July 15, with Coinbase to use its blockchain tracing software for one year, for $124,950 (Michael McSweeney/The Block)

5 天前

Hulu is launching Ad Manager, a self-service tool targeted at SMBs with an ad budget of $500 or more, to make it easy to buy ads on its service (Megan Graham/CNBC)

5 天前

Following the Twitter attack, Google appears to have dropped Twitter carousel boxes from displaying in Search results (Barry Schwartz/Search Engine Land)

5 天前

Apple updates its Style Guide with more inclusive language, such as replacing blacklist/whitelist with deny list/allow list and master branch with main branch (Stephen Shankland/CNET)

5 天前

The Twitter attack may have been perpetrated by Joseph James Connor, a 21-year-old English SIM swapper linked to a group that hijacked @jack's account last year (Brian Krebs/Krebs on Security)

5 天前

DHS' CISA issues its third ever emergency order, giving agencies 24 hours to patch or mitigate the "wormable" Windows DNS Server vulnerability (Sean Lyngaas/CyberScoop)

5 天前

The hack on Twitter provides more ammunition for critics who question Twitter's engineering prowess, poor management practices, and anemic financial performance (Tae Kim/Bloomberg)

5 天前

Twitter says it found no evidence hackers gained access to user passwords but is locking accounts that reset passwords in past 30 days (Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet)

6 天前

US lawmakers express worry about future attacks on Twitter's infrastructure; sources: Twitter stepped up its search for a chief infosec officer in recent weeks (Joseph Menn/Reuters)

6 天前

Netflix reports Q2 revenue of $6.15B, up 24.9% YoY, and expects 2.5M net subscriber additions for Q3 vs analyst estimates of 5.27M; stock down 9%+ after hours (Lauren Feiner/CNBC)

6 天前

Netflix names Ted Sarandos co-CEO, appoints Chief Product Officer Greg Peters as COO (CNBC)

6 天前

Microsoft says it is halting production of its Xbox One X and Xbox One S All-Digital Edition consoles, ahead of Series X launch (Tom Warren/The Verge)

6 天前

AG Barr accuses Apple, Google, and Microsoft of collaboration with CCP, says iPhones wouldn't be sold in China if they were "impervious to penetration" by China (Reuters)

6 天前

Activ Surgical, whose AI-enabled service provides real-time intelligence and visualization to surgeons, raises $15M, bringing its total raised to $32M (Greg Nichols/ZDNet)

6 天前

Instacart sues Uber-owned Cornershop, one of the largest delivery apps in Latin America, alleging theft of product images, descriptions, and pricing info (Dave Lee/Financial Times)

6 天前

TikTok launches a Be Informed campaign featuring videos by popular makers, aimed at educating users on how to recognize misinformation (Mark Sullivan/Fast Company)

6 天前

Facebook says it is tying employee diversity and inclusion to bi-annual performance reviews for some executives at the VP level and higher (Salvador Rodriguez/CNBC)

6 天前

Sources: the FBI is leading a federal inquiry into the Twitter hack (Reuters)

6 天前

T-Mobile announces ScamShield, a free service to block robocalls for all T-Mobile, Metro, and Sprint customers (Ina Fried/Axios)

6 天前

Google's Area 120 launches Shoploop, an interactive shopping app that's designed to introduce users to new products with short videos (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

6 天前

IBM's X-Force security team says it has obtained five hours of screen recordings from Iran-linked hacking group ITG18 that were uploaded to an exposed server (Andy Greenberg/Wired)

6 天前

Facebook confirms it will launch Instagram Reels, its answer to TikTok, in the US, UK, Japan, Mexico, and ~50 other countries in the coming weeks (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

6 天前

Twitter unveils a new, fully rebuilt developer API with features like conversation threading, poll results in tweets, and pinned tweets, launching next week (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

6 天前

Analysis shows voting misinformation flourishes on Facebook: about 50% of top 50 posts that have mentioned voting by mail since April 1 were false or misleading (Ryan McCarthy/ProPublica)

6 天前

Openpath, which provides mobile credentials and cloud-based software for contactless entry into workplaces, raises $36M Series C led by Greycroft (Sophia Kunthara/Crunchbase News)

6 天前

At least three VPN providers are suspending their Hong Kong operations, citing concerns over China's new national security law (Eva Xiao/Wall Street Journal)

6 天前

Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky tells employees that the company's IPO plans are back on track, despite the COVID-19 pandemic (Erin Griffith/New York Times)

6 天前

Facebook adds screen sharing to Messenger video calls on its iOS and Android apps (Christine Fisher/Engadget)

6 天前

Cloud file storage startup Qumulo raises $125M Series E led by BlackRock, at a valuation of more than $1.2B (Taylor Soper/GeekWire)

6 天前

EU launches a sweeping antitrust inquiry into how tech giants might be using voice assistants like Siri and Alexa to restrict access to data (Aoife White/Bloomberg)

6 天前

US and UK say state-backed Russian hacking group APT 29 is responsible for ongoing cyberattacks against orgs involved in the development of coronavirus vaccines (Wall Street Journal)

6 天前

Bolt, which helps retailers develop e-commerce sites, raises $50M Series C led by WestCap, bringing its total raised to $140M (Donna Fuscaldo/Forbes)

6 天前

Microsoft says it will offer its game streaming service, currently called Project xCloud, for free to its Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers in September (Tom Warren/The Verge)

6 天前

Uber acquires Routematch, which provides a suite of software services covering both fixed-schedule and demand-based transport to transit agencies (Paul Sawers/VentureBeat)

6 天前

Instagram is rolling out a redesigned shopping hub with collections, a carousel of brands, and curated selections from Instagram's own @Shop account (Nick Summers/Engadget)

6 天前

Facebook is rolling out labels to all posts from presidential candidates and federally elected officials that mention voting or ballots today (Sara Fischer/Axios)

6 天前

Sources: Facebook will launch Instagram Reels, its answer to TikTok, in the US, UK, Japan, Mexico, and ~50 other countries in the coming weeks (Dylan Byers/NBC News)

6 天前

Amazon launches a new livestreaming option for influencers on its Amazon Live service, a home shopping network-style video feed on Amazon's retail site (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

6 天前

Berlin- and Istanbul-based mental wellness app Meditopia raises &euro;13.1M Series A led by Creandum and Highland Europe (Thomas Ohr/EU-Startups)

6 天前

Drover, a UK-based car subscription marketplace, raises &pound;20.5M led by new investors Target Global, RTP Global, and Autotech Ventures (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

6 天前

TSMC confirms it has suspended processing new orders from Huawei to comply with US export regulations, will stop shipping wafers after September 14 (Cheng Ting-Fang/Nikkei Asian Review)

6 天前

Indian online tutoring platform Vedantu raises $100M Series D led by US private equity firm Coatue, at a $600M valuation (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

6 天前

An inside look at how the UK's NHS changed its approach to technology to deal with the COVID-19 crisis, including an interview with the CEO of NHS Digital (Owen Hughes/ZDNet)

6 天前

EU top court strikes down flagship EU-US data transfer mechanism called Privacy Shield in a ruling that could impact thousands of companies including Facebook (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch)

6 天前

GoHealth, an online portal that lets users buy health insurance plans, closes at ~$19/share, after pricing at $21/share, raising $914M in its Nasdaq IPO (Elise Reuter/MedCity News)

6 天前

[Thread] Twitter says a coordinated social engineering attack against employees with access to internal systems and tools allowed hackers to hijack accounts (@twittersupport)

6 天前

SMIC, a key player in China's ambitions to boost its semiconductor industry, saw its shares surge 245% at the open in Shanghai debut after raising $6.62B (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)

6 天前

Twitter hack has profound national security implications as it's no longer unthinkable that someone takes over an account of a world leader to start nuclear war (Casey Newton/The Interface)

6 天前

JEDEC, which sets mainstream RAM speed standards, releases its final spec for DDR5 SDRAM, with a 6.4 Gbps max data rate, and a 128 GB max UDIMM capacity (Ryan Smith/AnandTech)

6 天前

Sources share screenshots of an internal control panel they say Twitter workers use to interact with user accounts, which may have enabled account takeovers (Joseph Cox/VICE)

6 天前

Twitter says most verified accounts should be able to tweet again, after limiting the functionality on some verified accounts earlier while investigating hack (Chaim Gartenberg/The Verge)

6 天前

Lawsuits filed Tuesday accuse Amazon, Alphabet, and Microsoft of training facial recognition tools with photos of people without consent, violating Illinois law (Steven Musil/CNET)

6 天前

A look at wearable tech concepts from Google Research's Interaction Lab: sunglasses projecting holographic images, hybrid analog/digital watch UIs, and more (Richard Nieva/CNET)

6 天前

Hackers pushing a crypto scam hijacked Twitter accounts for Bitcoin, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Ripple, Binance, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Apple, more (TechCrunch)

7 天前

A look at Benchmark Analytics, which wants to help identify "bad apples" in US police departments using data and faces significant challenges, like data quality (Joshua Brustein/Bloomberg)

7 天前

TikTok has rapidly scaled up US lobbying in the past year, hiring 35+ lobbyists, one with deep ties to Trump, who have held 50+ meetings in the last 3 months (New York Times)

7 天前

Brave partners with Gemini exchange to let users buy and sell cryptocurrencies through an in-browser widget and launches a wallet for verified creators (Nathan DiCamillo/CoinDesk)

7 天前

Google debuts a major update to Gmail for G Suite, bringing integrations with Chat, Meet, Rooms, Docs, and more, coming first to G Suite's early adopter program (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)

7 天前

As 1,000+ companies join the Facebook ad boycott, Hollywood has been silent; Walt Disney spent $212M from Jan.-June, making it Facebook's top advertiser by far (New York Times)

7 天前

Mike Pompeo announces US visa restrictions on employees of "Chinese technology companies like Huawei" that support "regimes engaging in human rights violations" (CNN)

7 天前

Facebook to launch Facts about Covid-19 in the Covid Information Center to debunk myths about the pandemic; Zuckerberg to interview Dr. Fauci on Thursday (Salvador Rodriguez/CNBC)

7 天前

Amazon says it's telling staff that can work from home to do so until January 8, 2021, after pushing back the date to October 2 in May (Annie Palmer/CNBC)

7 天前

Apple updates News to include audio stories on Apple News+, a daily audio news briefing, and curated local news collections in five US cities and regions (Apple)

7 天前

Leaked slides from Google's Cloud Next 2020 event appear to show plans for integrating Meet, Chat, Docs, and Rooms into the Gmail app (Manuel Vonau/Android Police)

7 天前

Substack begins offering legal support to US-based writers with paid subscriptions who publish work that may attract unreasonable legal pressure (Substack Blog)

7 天前

Reddit finally adds support for native image galleries, letting users share up to 20 photos and GIFs simultaneously (Karissa Bell/Engadget)

7 天前

Apple releases iOS 13.6 with Apple News+ audio content, CarKey, improvements to software updates, and more (Michael Potuck/9to5Mac)

7 天前

Report details online threats that LGBTQ people face outside of North America on dating apps like Tinder, from overt state surveillance to data security risks (Jane Lytvynenko/BuzzFeed News)

7 天前

Facebook's 2020 Diversity Report shows it is struggling to recruit and retain Black technical employees, who now comprise 1.7% of roles, up from 1.5% in 2019 (Bloomberg)

7 天前

Microsoft partners with Land O'Lakes, America's third-largest agricultural cooperative, to develop an AI-powered AgTech platform to help farmers (Nicholas Thompson/Wired)

7 天前

A freelancer with Jerusalem Post and The Algemeiner bylines, who attacked critics of NSO Group, seems to be an elaborate fiction with a deepfake profile photo (Raphael Satter/Reuters)

7 天前

Analysis: Twitter's decision to fact check a Trump election tweet was an aberration, as it has left more recent and similarly untruthful tweets alone (Marshall Cohen/CNN)

7 天前

New York-based NS1, which provides DNS and app traffic management services, raises $40M Series D led by Energy Impact Partners (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

7 天前

Sources: some ARM customers are considering alternatives as company has moved to increase their licensing fees, in some cases fourfold (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)

7 天前

Xiaomi unveils a range of new lifestyle products, including the Mi Smart Band 5, AirPod-like Mi True Wireless Earphones 2 Basic, and Mi TV Stick (Matthew Miller/ZDNet)

7 天前

Thrasio, which acquires and integrates private label businesses on Amazon, raises $260M Series C led by Advent at a $1B valuation (Crystal Tse/Bloomberg)

7 天前

Bond, which offers tools to let any company offer credit or debit cards, raises $32M Series A led by Coatue (Jeff John Roberts/Fortune)

7 天前

Slack, introduced to newsrooms to boost efficiency, is now serving another purpose: letting journalists organize and criticize, forcing management to respond (Steven Perlberg/Digiday)

7 天前

As Facebook publishes a white paper calling for light-touch privacy regulations, an interview with deputy chief privacy officer Rob Sherman about the proposals (Issie Lapowsky/Protocol)

7 天前

Analysis: 2,500+ mobile games were removed from Apple's App Store in China in the first seven days of July, following a crackdown on unlicensed games (Craig Chapple/Sensor Tower Blog)

7 天前

Early review of Peacock: succeeds as a streaming service with familiar Browse section and a robust library, but Trending and Channels sections are underwhelming (Julia Alexander/The Verge)

7 天前

Sources: CIA has conducted cyberattacks against Iran, Russia, and others since Trump signed a secret order in 2018 giving the CIA more freedom for such activity (Yahoo News)

7 天前

Zoom unveils a $599 all-in-one home communications device with a 27-inch screen, pre-loaded Zoom software, eight microphones, and three wide-angle cameras (Ron Miller/TechCrunch)

7 天前

Mozilla VPN exits beta, launching on Android and Windows for $5 per month in the US, Canada, UK, Singapore, Malaysia, and New Zealand (Paul Sawers/VentureBeat)

7 天前

Google and Reliance Jio Platforms will work on a customized version of Android to develop low-cost, entry-level smartphones for India (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

7 天前

UK startup Revolut partners with New York-based trust company Paxos to bring bitcoin and ether trading to customers in every US state except Tennessee (Nathan DiCamillo/CoinDesk)

7 天前

Graphcore unveils GC200 AI chip and M2000, a new IPU Machine that runs on it, and claims it achieves a petaflop of processing power "in the size of a pizza box" (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

7 天前

After a data blackout of official COVID-19 figures by the Brazilian government, dozens of volunteer developers are working to ensure the information is public (Priscila Bellini/Rest of World)

7 天前

Sources: Facebook and Sony are ramping up production of Oculus VR and PlayStation 5 devices by as much as 50% as demand soars during the pandemic (Nikkei Asian Review)

7 天前