Facebook Dating launches in Europe, after Ireland's regulators forced a delay of its planned debut in February, claims it made 1.5B matches across 20 countries — - Facebook has expanded its “Facebook Dating” service to Europe. — Facebook claims that the platform has generated 1.5 …
US intelligence director says Iran was behind threatening emails to FL Democratic voters demanding they vote for Trump; voter info was likely publicly available — Iranian intelligence was responsible for a recent campaign of emails sent to intimidate Florida voters, the FBI announced Wednesday night …
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky says Jony Ive will collaborate with Airbnb as a design consultant, as part of a multi-year partnership with Ive's firm LoveFrom — Jony Ive retired from Apple about a year ago, following an almost 25 year tenure as head of Apple product design.
JPMorgan launches QuickAccept, a smartphone card reader and payments service for SMBs providing instant deposits of POS transactions for free, unlike Square — - JPMorgan's new QuickAccept service lets businesses take card payments within minutes, either through a mobile app or a contactless card reader …
Twitch sent DMCA notices to streamers on Tuesday, deleting content without allowing counterclaims; Twitch says “thousands” of music rights holders complained — It's finally happening: Twitch is taking action against copyrighted music—long a norm among streamers—in response to music industry pressure.
Facebook moderators in India, working for a third-party contractor, say they felt pressured to return to the office this summer, even as the pandemic surged — Employees told Rest of World the contractor they work for is taking advantage of an economic crisis.
US officials offer Brazil telecoms financing to buy equipment from Huawei competitors, in an effort to keep China out of Brazil's 5G market — BRASILIA/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government stepped up an offensive on Tuesday to keep China's Huawei Technologies out of Brazil's 5G market …
Sources: WH is seeking to fast-track a no-bid contract to lease DOD mid-band 5G spectrum to Rivada Networks, whose investors include Peter Thiel and Karl Rove — Washington (CNN)Senior officials throughout various departments and agencies of the Trump administration tell CNN they are alarmed …
The 2020 “Support Black Lives at MIT” petition by the Black Graduate Student Association (BGSA) and Black Students’ Union (BSU):
http://bgsa.mit.edu/sbl2020
The Tech’s article on student evaluation of the 2015 BSU/BGSA recommendations:
https://thetech.com/2020/06/02/letter-bsa-bgsa-recommendations
2015 BSU Recommendations:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/13wGeu4Soj5a5pO0J-33uB0qmQtjJhcny/view
2015 BGSA Recommendations:
http://bgsa.mit.edu/recommendations
What happens to black women and girls in a world without policing? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yb3kcfIZVi4&feature=youtu.be
What does America with defunded police look like? Here is one version:
Sources: Jeffrey Katzenberg tried to sell Quibi's catalog to NBCUniversal and Facebook, but both passed; Katzenberg told others he may shut down the company — Jeffrey Katzenberg may be nearing the end of the road with his mobile video streaming service Quibi.
Amazon's Luna in early access: streaming performance can be spotty without a strong connection, iOS web app support is decent, channel groups silo game choice — A first look at Luna — Amazon's Luna streaming service has arrived, with the company rolling out early access to a limited set of customers today.
Technology companies now account for nearly 40% of the S&P 500 and are set to end the year eclipsing a record of 37% from 1999 — Companies that do everything from manufacturing phones to operating social-media platforms now account for nearly 40% of the S&P 500
Billtrust, which makes cloud-based software for processing B2B payments, is going public on Nasdaq though a SPAC merger in a deal valued at $1.3B — The company will launch with a cash balance of about $200 million — Billtrust announced on Monday it will go public through …
EU enables cross-border interoperability between contact tracing apps from Germany, Ireland, and Italy, with plans to add at least 18 others in the coming weeks — The European Union has switched on cross-border interoperability for a first batch of COVID-19 contacts tracing apps …
Intel agrees to sell its NAND memory unit to SK Hynix for about $9B; the acquisition includes Intel's solid-state drive, NAND flash, and wafer businesses — - U.S. chipmaker has fallen behind in a chip manufacturing race — Intel Corp. agreed to sell its Nand memory unit …
Dhaka-headquartered ShopUp, which aims to digitize neighborhood stores in Bangladesh, raises $22.5M Series A led by Sequoia Capital India and Flourish Ventures — A startup that is aiming to digitize millions of neighborhood stores in Bangladesh just raised the country's largest Series A financing round.
Senate Judiciary Committee postpones its plans to vote to subpoena Twitter and Facebook CEOs after some Republicans expressed reservation about the move — The Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday postponed plans to vote on subpoenas to compel the CEOs of Twitter and Facebook to testify …
Google confirms it's discontinuing Nest Secure, a home security system it introduced in 2017, but will continue to support existing users — Google released the Nest Guard in 2017 as a simple security system with motion sensors and a keypad, but it never received an upgrade, even as other Nest devices were updated again and again.
Sources: Samsung's next Galaxy S flagships, the S21/S30, will be launched in January 2021 in three new models, a standard, a Plus, and an Ultra — The design of Samsung's 2021 flagship has been revealed, and it's launching earlier than ever before. — What you need to know
EU is investigating Instagram's handling of children's personal data, after complaints that contact information on business accounts was publicly visible — Instagram is being investigated by Ireland's Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) over its handling of children's personal data on the platform.
An overview on the current state of AI-driven battery research, which until recently was hampered by a lack of data but is now poised to pick up the pace — Improving batteries has always been hampered by slow experimentation and discovery processes. Machine learning is speeding it up by orders of magnitude.
Profile of Coinbase co-founder Fred Ehrsam and ex-Sequoia partner Matt Huang, whose VC firm Paradigm moved all $400M of its initial capital into Bitcoin in 2018 — Covering venture capital, software and startups — An aggressive Bitcoin trade got crypto VC shop Paradigm flying out of the gate.
Google will discontinue its Trusted Contacts app Dec. 2, pointing users to Maps features instead; the app helped users check on contacts during emergencies — The suggested alternative is a stripped-down Google Maps feature — Google will discontinue its emergency location sharing app Trusted Contacts …