Twitter suspended the account of a white nationalist group claiming to be an Antifa organization that pushed violent rhetoric related to ongoing protests
Two hashtags that trended worldwide on Twitter falsely claimed that there was a “cover-up” or a “blackout” of protests in Washington, D.C., overnight.
In leaked audio from an internal meeting, Mark Zuckerberg says they will re-examine policies around politicians discussing the use of state force on Facebook
The company is treating a moral issue as if it's a legal one — I. The CEO — On Friday afternoon, Facebook …
In a rare public protest at Facebook, hundreds of staff staged a virtual walkout, pushing back on Zuckerberg's choice to let Trump's inflammatory posts stand
Since macOS 10.12 there's … Theodore Schleifer / Vox : Change will be harder for Silicon Valley than just donating money Wall Street Journal : Social Media Becomes Battleground Over Days of Street Pro...
Cisco says it is postponing the online version of Cisco Live, its major customer event that was scheduled to start Tuesday, amid ongoing protests across the US
Cisco said Monday night that it is postponing the online version of Cisco Live, its major customer event, amid the ongoing protests …
Twitter restricts a tweet from US House Rep. Matt Gaetz for violating its policy against glorifying violence, after it had been retweeted over 12,000 times
The platform did not remove it — Twitter has restricted a tweet from Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) for violating its policies …
As some Facebook employees publicly express anger, Mark Zuckerberg announces Facebook is committing $10M to groups working on racial injustice
Ranjan here. Talking about how tech … Danny Peterson / TheStreet : Morning Bell With Jim Cramer: Facebook Rebellion Andrew Hutchinson / Social Media Today : Instagram Says Internal Spam Filters Have ...
A look at recent statements by tech companies, including Amazon, Microsoft, and Salesforce, regarding racism in America after George Floyd's death
Evan Spiegel's letter to Snap staff: https://www.theinformation.com/ ... Meg Graham / @megancgraham : Talkspace says it's ending its partnership agreement with Facebook following the company's decisio...
Sony postpones a PlayStation 5 event scheduled for June 4 “to allow more important voices to be heard”, following similar moves by EA and Google amid protests
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Apple pushes iOS and iPadOS 13.5.1, saying it patches the flaw used by the Unc0ver jailbreak, and also pushes updates for watchOS, tvOS, HomePod, and macOS
Apple is releasing iOS 13.5.1 to the public today following last month's release of iOS 13.5. Apple says that today's update to iOS 13.5.1 provides important security updates.
Google pushes an update for its Pixel line, with improved Adaptive Battery, Google Assistant integration with Recorder, a personal safety check scheduler, more
Google today announced the latest “feature drop” for its Pixel line of Android phones. Adaptive Battery now predicts …
Facebook finally adds an easier way to delete or archive old posts in bulk
Facebook is introducing a new tool to help users batch-delete old posts and shrink their digital footprint on the aging social network. — Called “Manage Activity,” the new feature lets users prune t...
Google adds a suite of Bedtime tools to Android, building on its Wind Down feature, to turn on Do Not Disturb and enable grayscale effect, for Pixels first
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Samsung's Sero TV, which rotates between landscape and portrait depending on the kind of content, is now available in the US and UK for $1,999
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Gartner says global sales of smartphones to end users declined 20.2% YoY in Q1'20, with Huawei performing the worst out of the top five vendors, down 27.3% YoY
Samsung, Huawei and Oppo Recorded Double-Digit Declines — Global sales of smartphones to end users declined 20.2% …
AT&T says HBO Max will be excused from AT&T's mobile data caps via its “sponsored data” program, while competing services like Netflix and Disney+ will not
Welcome to a world without net neutrality — HBO Max, AT&T's big bet on the future of streaming …
Trump's fury at Twitter might end up being good for the service by increasing engagement, and thus ad sales, while highlighting its anti-misinformation efforts
Twitter itself — which is likely to be good for business, despite the president's harangue https://www.bloomberg.com/... Nu Wexler / @wexler : - 3 in 5 Americans (including 42% of conservatives) said ...
YouTube says it will donate $1M to the Center for Policing Equity, a nonprofit think tank that works with police departments to change discriminatory practices
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The pandemic presents the biggest language translation challenge for COVID-19 info, as Wikipedia supports 309 languages, Google Translate 109, and Bing 71
Services like Google Translate only support 100 languages, give or take. What about the thousands of other languages—spoken by people just as vulnerable to this crisis? Tweets: @appenglobal , @backch...
Appway, which develops customer management tools for financial services companies, raises $37M in its first-ever funding from Summit Partners
With the renewed push for more of the services we use everyday to be accessible online and in a non-physical way, a company out of Switzerland …
Locus Robotics, which makes autonomous warehouse robots, raises $40M Series D led by Zebra Technologies, bringing its total raised to $105M+
Warehouse robotics startup Locus Robotics today announced it has raised $40 million, the bulk of which will be put toward accelerating R&D …
Hachette, Penguin Random House, Wiley, HarperCollins sue Internet Archive, saying its project to let users borrow ebooks scanned from books violates copyrights
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Hong Kong-listed Chinese chip maker Semiconductor Manufacturing International aims to raise ~$2.8B via a Shanghai listing
Chinese gaming company NetEase seeks to raise between $2.6B to $3B in a Hong Kong secondary offering, amid tensions between Beijing and Washington
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A bipartisan group of Senators say they plan to introduce a bill regulating contact-tracing and exposure-notification apps
Tony Romm / Washington Post :
Indian government rejects Walmart-owned Flipkart's proposal to enter the food retail business in the country
Manish Singh / TechCrunch :
OpenAI researchers debut GPT-3 language model trained with 175B parameters, far more than GPT-2's biggest version with 1.5B parameters
Khari Johnson / VentureBeat :
Australian appeals court rules that media companies can be held responsible for defamatory comments posted under stories on their Facebook Pages
Michael Pelly / Australian Financial Review :
YouTube and YouTube TV have more than 100M people in the US watching on TV screens each month, rising 80% YoY in March, according to the company
Sahil Patel / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @agaase19 See also Mediagazer Tweets: Aseem Agarwal / @agaase19 : True that Youtube need to invest a lot in content if it were to become TV option for adve...
ConsenSys has helped North American Collegiate League build an Ethereum-based service to make reporting smoother, automate payments for its esports tournaments
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Shopify's new AI commerce stack
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