Amazon says it will not ask employees to remove TikTok from their mobile devices, and an internal email asking them to delete the app was sent in error
The company confirms that an email was sent out in error earlier today — Amazon says that it will not ask employees to remove …
Sources: Facebook is considering imposing a ban on political ads on its network in the days leading up to the US election in November
Facebook Inc. is considering imposing a ban on political ads on its social network in the days leading up to the U.S. election in November …
Report: Apple is making thousands of semitransparent lenses for its AR headset at a Foxconn factory as part of engineering validation test stage of the product
Apple and Foxconn have reached a key milestone in the development of Apple's long-rumored augmented reality headset … Source: The Information .
Young people, who found an outlet for creative expression in TikTok amid lockdown, say a US ban would be devastating, as some flock to YouTube and Byte
if they can pull off lengthier vids. https://www.nytimes.com/... Siraj Hashmi / @sirajahashmi : “[TikTokers] have engaged in open revolt, retaliating by posting negative reviews of President Trump's 2...
Pupils and teachers question the new grading algorithm used by the IB Diploma Programme to predict student scores after it canceled in-person tests this spring
The International Baccalaureate program canceled its high-stakes exam because of Covid-19. The formula it used to “predict” scores puzzles students and teachers.
Kuo: Apple Silicon Macs to include 13-inch MacBook Pro this year, MacBook Air this year or Q1 2021, and 14.1-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models in 2021
and big changes may be in store Eli Blumenthal / CNET : New Arm-powered MacBook Pro, Air may arrive this year, report suggests Tyler Lee / Ubergizmo : 14-inch And 16-inch ARM MacBook Pros Coming In 20...
Microsoft details how it is collaborating with Google to help developers get their Progressive Web Apps into the Play Store
Microsoft has been collaborating with Google to ensure that their tools interoperate and can help developers get their Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) into the Play Store. Source: PWABuilder .
An issue with Facebook SDK, which lasted for about 3 hours, crashed iOS apps for TikTok, Spotify, Tinder, Pinterest, and others that use Facebook Login
what you need to know [Update] Mitchel Broussard / MacRumors : Facebook SDK Issue Again Causing Numerous iOS Apps to Crash or Freeze Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac : iOS apps crashing on opening - here's a fix...
India's Supreme Court rules in favor of allowing summons and legal notices to be served via messaging apps, such as WhatsApp and Telegram, as well as by email
This order marks as a huge step towards digitisation of Indian legal proceedings, where notices and summons used to be sent either by mail or delivered in person.
Wells Fargo tells employees to remove TikTok from corporate-owned devices due to privacy and security concerns, says devices are only for company business use
It was a head-spinning day for TikTok, the hit video-sharing app. Hours after Amazon told employees to delete TikTok from their phones …
The App Store's primary purpose should be to steer third-party apps toward excellence; split screen multitasking in Gmail for iPad should't have taken 5 years
or even use — iOS.” @daringfireball https://daringfireball.net/... @zachnfine : @gruber re: “millions of iPad users are satisfied using an email client that is a poor iPad app” - some of us have no ...
Clubhouse is the latest social network to neglect moderation until it becomes a crisis and why its creators shouldn't treat trust and safety as an afterthought
The $100 million startup is learning the hard way that content moderation needs to come first — I.
CBP says there is no practical way for Americans to avoid its license plate reader tracking, will use commercial database to pull private and public plate data
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has admitted that there is no practical way for Americans to avoid having their movements tracked …
China-based Kuaidian, a storytelling app that lets users read novels in text message format and watch visual dramas, raises ~$100M Series C led by Sequoia China
The novel community Kuaidian has attracted 5 million daily active users since its founding in 2017. — 3d ago
Pinterest's moderation approach, which blocks content at the search query level, rather than removing it entirely, lets some objectionable content remain
The moderation oversight is a result of hiding rather than deleting illicit content — Pinterest, a website best known for inspiration boards …
Rackspace, a cloud services company which went private in 2016 after a $4.3B buyout by Apollo Global, once again files for a US IPO
Bharath Manjesh / Reuters :
Google says it will ban stalkerware ads from August 11, but leaves a loophole for stalkerware vendors to get around the ban by posing as “family safety” apps
Graham Cluley :
Taulia, which facilitates payments between companies and their suppliers, raises $60M from China's Ping An, sources say at a valuation of about $400M
Julie Steinberg / Wall Street Journal :
Signal's new feature that allows users to store certain data on their servers for recovery purposes has some security experts threatening to stop using the app
The popular encrypted app is now going to store your contacts in the cloud. Experts are worried this compromises users' privacy. Tweets: @abortu , @lorenzofb , @motherboard , and @drfranksauer Tweets...
Sources: Foxconn to invest up to $1B over the next three years in a factory near Chennai in India where it currently assembles iPhone XR
A deep look at the rift between some prominent SV figures and the journalists increasingly critical of the tech industry, based on Slate Star Codex vs. The NYT
Long, angry LRB essay by Pankaj Mishra. Tweets: Balaji S. Srinivasan / @balajis : Had a fun chat just now with Lewis-Kraus on positive sum ways to build a new relationship between tech & media. He rec...
Yevgeniy Nikulin, a Russian indicted for allegedly hacking LinkedIn, Dropbox in 2012 resulting in ~117M stolen credentials, is found guilty by SF federal jury
Joel Rosenblatt / Bloomberg :
YouTube is finally letting creators know exactly how they're making money on YouTube, using a metric called RPM that shows total revenue, after YouTube's cut
Julia Alexander / The Verge : Tweets: @loudmouthjulia and @backlon Tweets: Julia Alexander / @loudmouthjulia : This could be really cool! Creators have relied on CPM metrics for years to see how much...
Shopify's new AI commerce stack
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