Sony reveals new hardware design for its upcoming PlayStation 5, which ships in two versions, one with a 4K Blu-ray drive and a Digital Edition without
Sony's next-gen console is here — Sony is finally revealing what the PlayStation 5 looks like. After nearly an hour of PS5 game announcements …
Zoom says it deactivated accounts of US-based activists due to China's demands, won't allow such requests to impact users outside mainland China “going forward”
- Company shut down video meetings to remember Tiananmen Square — Zoom's in the middle of a free speech and censorship clash
Sources: AT&T is considering selling its Warner Bros. gaming division for about $4B, with Take-Two Interactive, EA, and Activision Blizzard expressing interest
- AT&T is considering selling its Warner Bros. gaming division for about $4 billion, sources say.
HBO says it will be shutting down its HBO Go streaming app on July 31, following the recent launch of HBO Max; HBO Now will be rebranded as just HBO
HBO Go, which first launched in 2010, will be shut down at the end of July — HBO on Friday said it will be shutting down its HBO …
Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan respond to Chan Zuckerberg Initiative scientists who wrote a letter on Trump, say they are “disgusted” by Trump's protest remarks
Hong Kong/New York (CNN Business)Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan say they are “disgusted” by President Donald Trump's remarks …
Twitter removed 32K+ accounts engaged in propaganda linked to Russia, China, and Turkey, describing the accounts as “state-linked information operations”
- Accounts spread ‘deceptive’ claims about Hong Kong politics — Russia-linked accounts supported Kremlin, attacked dissidents
Reddit faces renewed scrutiny over racism on the platform, as moderators claiming to represent 200M users sign open letter in its largest ever collective action
In 2015, the Southern Poverty Law Center called out Reddit as home to “the most violently racist” content on the internet …
Microsoft is aware of a bug affecting Windows 10 PCs with a printer connected via USB that renders the USB port unusable; patch is coming in a future OS update
Windows 10 users are reporting that they are unable to print using devices from multiple vendors after installing updates …
Sony announces PS5 accessories, including HD Camera with dual 1080p lenses, Pulse 3D headset, media remote, and DualSense charging station for controllers
Jon Fingas / Engadget :
Facebook fired an employee for challenging his colleague's silence on Twitter over company's inaction regarding Trump posts
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc (FB.O) fired an employee who had criticized Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg's decision not to take action against inflammatory posts …
Q&A with Chris Best, CEO of Substack: the company has seen revenue increase 60% and readership and writership double in the first three months of the pandemic
If it seems like everyone is launching a newsletter these days, well, you're not wrong. Chris Best, CEO and founder … Tweets: @substackinc , @bizcarson , and @sarthakgh Tweets: Substack / @substackin...
Boston-based Kyruus, which provides analytics and scheduling software for health care systems, raises $30M, bringing its total raised to $155M
Srividya Kalyanaraman / AmericanInno :
Internet Archive to close its National Emergency Library, which offers free, unrestricted access to ebooks, on June 16, after lawsuit from four major publishers
Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica :
China's $1.4T tech campaign includes a massive 5G project, aiming for 600K base stations by end of 2020, relies on money from private sector, local governments
Beijing plans to spend $1.4 trillion in the next five years in sectors including 5G, artificial intelligence and data centers Tweets: @jaygoldberg , @lizalinwsj , and @joshchin Tweets: @jaygoldberg : ...
Facebook announces the results of its first Deepfake Detection Challenge, says the winning algorithm spotted deepfakes with an average accuracy of just 65.18%
James Vincent / The Verge :
PE firm TPG to invest $600M in Reliance Jio Platforms for a 0.93% stake in the company; TPG is the eighth investor to invest in Jio in as many weeks
American private equity firm TPG will invest $600 million in Jio Platforms, joining a roster of high-profile investors including Facebook …
Sources: California is conducting an inquiry into Amazon's practices, focused in part on Amazon selling its own products in competition with third-party sellers
In early 2017, the Yale Law Journal … Mariella Moon / Engadget : Two states are reportedly looking into how Amazon treats sellers New York Times : Amazon Said to Be Under Scrutiny in 2 States for Abus...
Report: EOS platform, which raised $4B in ICO in 2018, has seen developer activity decline by 85% YoY; Ethereum has 80% of all smart contracts and dapps space
Alexander Behrens / Decrypt :
At launch, Facebook News had very few stories on politics, many New York Times links, and coverage overlapped little with the most popular articles on Facebook
On June 10, the most popular stories across Facebook were all NASCAR banning Confederate flags and Blue Lives Matter (with a sprinkling of dead kids).
Computex, Taiwan's annual technology showcase, has been canceled after initial reschedule, due to coronavirus travel restrictions; next showcase in June 2021
The outbreak of pandemic Covid-19 …
UK Competition and Markets Authority, the country's antitrust watchdog, launches an investigation into Facebook's acquisition of Giphy
key question is how much revenues Giphy made & if that meets baseline for UK antitrust authorities to review deal. Major issue w/ current competition rules: you have to meet a certain $$ threshold for...
Taiwanese court fines Taiwanese chipmaker UMC $3.4M after finding three of its engineers stole trade secrets from US chipmaker Micron for China-backed company
Debby Wu / Bloomberg :
Google says it's updating its advertising policies to prohibit demographic and zip code targeting for housing, employment, and credit ads
Ginny Marvin / Search Engine Land :
Dorsey's plan to give $1B shows philanthropy is not as hard as billionaires say; charities with links to Silicon Valley or celebrities have an edge
Shame on me). A good piece highlighting the GREAT work @jack is doing. https://www.vox.com/... Erin ‘Folletto’ Casali / @folletto : I applaud billionaires that pledge to give out their money in philan...
Sources: Google plans to overhaul Google Pay by letting online and brick-and-mortar merchants set up their own branded buttons inside the US version of its app
similar to how Google Pay operates in India and WeChat does in China https://thein.fo/... via @JuroOsawa @NickBastone @fattailcapital : Everyone wants to be WeChat: https://www.theinformation.com/ ...
Ocado, a UK-based online grocery delivery service, to raise £1B+ of fresh equity and debt as it seeks to capitalize on a surge of interest amid the pandemic
Jonathan Eley / Financial Times : Tweets: @paul_framp Tweets: Paul Frampton-Calero / @paul_framp : In spite of early challenges during #COVID__19, the online grocery boom enables @Ocado to raise £1bn...
Airbnb settles a lawsuit against NYC, will hand over physical addresses of NYC listings plus host names, addresses, phone numbers, and more every quarter
Olivia Carville / Bloomberg :
Transfer limits and security freezes imposed by PayPal and Venmo are stalling efforts to bail out people from jail in the middle of a pandemic
$20,000 worth of cash bail—per week.” https://www.vice.com/...
Memo: Google has created a task force to improve the company's racial equity which will listen to staff feedback and work with Google's Black leadership groups
they were essentially “dead” links.https://www.nbcnews.com/ ...
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