Facebook announces plans to launch Libra, a new cryptocurrency, and Calibra, a newly formed Facebook subsidiary to oversee financial services for Libra
The internet has changed nearly every aspect of our lives … Matt Levine / Bloomberg : Facebook Will Make the Money Now — Also cheating on tests and renting Buffett's house. Kari Paul / The Guardian ...
Chair of the House Financial Services Committee says Facebook should halt development of Libra until Congress investigates, calls on Facebook execs to testify
Makena Kelly / The Verge :
While Facebook's Libra plays at decentralization, it is still entrenched in Facebook, and using it means trusting Facebook, which is a hard sell in 2019
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Inside Facebook's ambitious plan to make Libra accepted as a global currency, especially for those underserved by banks, despite Facebook's tarnished reputation
NEAR THE END of 2017, on a Dominican Republic beach with his family, Facebook executive David Marcus wrestled with a question …
Sources: Samsung will launch the Galaxy Note 10 on August 7 at an Unpacked event in New York City
Samsung will show off its Galaxy Note 10 during a flashy Unpacked event on Aug. 7 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, according to people familiar with the company's plans.
One of Facebook's stated goals with Libra, to help those without a bank, is undermined by detailed research, which shows solutions are often local and personal
like my home country, the Philippines—where 77% of ppl (!) are unbanked, Libra cuts transaction fees, and lots of OFWs send money back home Dr Uta Meier-Hahn / @zielwasser : This is an interesting ana...
New Kindle Oasis adds color temperature adjustment for night reading, goes on sale on July 24 starting at $249.99, with preorders open today
Amazon's top-tier e-reader gets a new feature — Amazon has a new version of its high-end Kindle Oasis, and it's adding the ability to change …
Mozilla patches a Firefox zero-day exploit that was discovered by Google's Project Zero and Coinbase's security teams, and it says was being abused in the wild
Mozilla releases Firefox 67.0.3 to fix actively exploited zero-day. — The Mozilla team has released earlier today version 67..3 …
Interviews with 12 former Facebook content moderators from Tampa, three on the record, where they work in appalling conditions and many experience PTSD
At Facebook's worst-performing content moderation site in North America, one contractor has died, and others say they fear for their lives
Apple says its devices can now be repaired in over 1,000 Best Buys locations across the US, expanding on its current network of ~270 Apple stores
Since 2001, Apple has staked its claim across the world with its own first-party brick and mortar locations.
YouTube unveils AR Beauty Try-On, which lets viewers virtually try on makeup while watching beauty tutorials, currently in testing, coming in summer
Makeup tutorials and reviews are some of the most popular content on YouTube, as they help people learn about new products as well as how to apply them.
The Facebook-backed Libra Association contains no major banks in its initially announced group of partners
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In watchOS 6, many built-in apps will have their own App Store listings, letting Apple Watch users delete and redownload some currently unremovable apps
Good news for Apple Watch owners who don't want to clutter up their Watch with unused apps. With the release of the new watchOS 6 …
Sources: YouTube considering far-reaching changes to protect kids, including moving all children's content to the YouTube Kids app and turning off autoplay
Executives consider shifting children's content to a separate app, removing auto-play feature in an effort to protect young viewers
Google's Safe Browsing service gets its own Chrome extension, which notifies users of deceptive URLs and lets users report suspicious sites
Google today released the Suspicious Site Reporter Extension. As its name implies, the extension lets users report suspicious sites to Google's Safe Browsing service.
Quibi says it has booked more than $100M in ad sales with launch partners including Google, P&G, Pepsi, Walmart, and Anheuser-Busch, ahead of April 2020 debut
Quibi, the ambitious short-form video venture from Jeffrey Katzenberg and CEO Meg Whitman, has sold $100 million …
Microsoft launches public preview of Azure Bastion, a service for remotely accessing virtual machines more securely
Microsoft's newest Azure service, Bastion, is now in public preview and is meant to bring another level of security to remotely accessing virtual machines.
GitHub acquires code review company Pull Panda, makes subscriptions free for Pull Reminders and two other services but will discontinue enterprise subscriptions
Microsoft is buying Pull Panda and immediately making all subscriptions to its tools available for free in the GitHub Marketplace.
Microsoft and Salesforce have joined the Hyperledger blockchain consortium, an umbrella project for various business blockchains run by the Linux Foundation
Two of the world's largest top-10 enterprise software companies by revenue have joined the Hyperledger blockchain consortium.
Inside Backpage.com's founders' legal fight with the federal prosecutors, which could reshape Section 230 protections for online platforms
IN MICHAEL LACEY'S younger and more vulnerable years, his father gave him this advice: “Whenever someone pokes a finger in your chest, you grab that finger and you break it off at the knuckle.” Tweets...
Postman, which aims to simplify development, tests, and management of APIs through its platform, raises $50M Series B led by CRV
Postman, a five-year-old startup that is attempting to simply development, tests, and management of APIs through its platform, has raised $50 million in a new round to scale its business.
Google rolls out Private Join and Compute, a tool that lets organizations gain insights about other parties' confidential data, as an open source project
Privacy concerns abound in a world where more than 70 million records were stolen or leaked from poorly-configured databases last year.
Tech companies like Apple, Facebook, and Google are increasingly hiring neuroscientists who study animals to help advance AI, self-driving cars, and more
Jaguar is a mouse. He lives at Harvard's Rowland Institute, where, from time to time, he plays video games on a rig that looks like it belongs in A Clockwork Orange.
Mattermost, which develops an open source messaging platform, raises $50M Series B led by Y Combinator's Continuity Fund, bringing its total raised to ~$70M
Mattermost, a startup developing what it characterizes as an open-source messaging alternative to Google's Hangouts Chat …
In response to claims Google lifted lyrics from Genius, Google has asked its lyrics partner to investigate, will soon include 3rd-party attribution on lyrics
But the Amounts Are ‘Miniscule’ Tweets: @searchliaison : Some questions have been raised this week about where Google gets song lyric information from. Our blog post today explains more. It also clear...
Sources: Dish may make a $6B+ deal this week for T-Mobile and Sprint assets including spectrum and Sprint's Boost Mobile as the carriers try to get DOJ approval
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Source: Xiaomi plans to spend $725M over three years to boost its Chinese market share, anticipating stronger competition from Huawei following US sanctions
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Arizona-based smart home automation company SmartRent, which focuses on multifamily property managers and renters, raises $32M Series B led by Bain Capital
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Shopify announces a range of new updates, including a new Plus tier for enterprise, new tools for developers, and AI-powered fulfillment centers across the US
Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat :
Tally, which helps automate consumer financial services, raises $50M Series C led by Andreessen Horowitz, bringing its total raised to $92M
Robert Hackett / Fortune :
Robotic process automation company Blue Prism acquires UK's Thoughtonomy, which has built an AI-based automation platform, for up to $100M
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Helsinki-based food delivery service Wolt raises $130M Series C led by Iconiq Capital; Wolt operates in 50 cities across 15 countries
Andrii Degeler / Tech.eu :
UK-based Duffel, which aims to provide an end-to-end travel booking experience, raises $21.5M Series A from Benchmark, Blossom Capital, and Index Ventures
Mike Butcher / TechCrunch :
Food ordering app EatStreet discloses breach; hacker Gnosticplayers, who has stolen 1B+ user records from 45 companies this year, claims 6M+ were from EatStreet
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet :
Paris-based Meero says it has raised $230M for its AI-driven photography platform, giving it a $1B+ valuation; it raised $45M in July and has raised $300M total
Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat :
GM's self-driving subsidiary Cruise open-sources Webviz, a tool for robotics data analysis
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
Amazon leases 15 more Boeing planes to expand its air cargo network by more than a quarter to 70 planes by 2021
Paul Sawers / VentureBeat :
Cloudflare aims to make HTTPS certs safe from Border Gateway Protocol hijacking attacks with a new free service called “multipath domain control validation”
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica :
Apple adds a feature in iOS 13 beta 2 that tells users about ongoing subscriptions for apps they are about to delete
Jon Porter / The Verge :
GoTenna, a mobile mesh networking platform using long range, low bandwidth radio frequencies, raises $24M Series C led by Founders Fund
Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch :
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