Maine enacts the strongest statewide facial recognition law in the US, prohibiting the use of facial recognition tech in public schools and most police work (ACLU)

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Didi: Chinese ride-hailing giant makes $68bn US debut It is the biggest US stock market listing by a Chinese company since Alibaba's debut in 2014. July 01, 2021 at 09:34AM

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Google updates its Passes API to let users store COVID vaccine cards on Android devices, starting in the US; Google will not keep a copy of the user's info (Kyle Bradshaw/9to5Google)

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Israel-based ironSource, provider of user acquisition tech for app devs, went public in the US on Tuesday via a SPAC merger that raised $2.15B at $11B valuation (Krystal Hu/Reuters)

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A federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction blocking Florida's Stop Social Media Censorship Act from going into effect, which was scheduled for Thursday (David Ingram/NBC News)

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Content recommendation company Taboola closed down 2% in its first day of trading after going public via merger with a SPAC (Megan Graham/CNBC)

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Integral Ad Science, which helps keep digital ads non-fraudulent and "brand safe", closes up 14% in its debut after its IPO, valuing the company at ~$3.3B (Megan Graham/CNBC)

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Shares of Xometry, a marketplace for on-demand manufacturing, closed up nearly 99% at $87.39 in trading debut, after raising $303.6M in its US IPO (Luisa Beltran/Barron's Online)

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Adam Mosseri says Instagram plans to test video more broadly, calls TikTok and YouTube competitors, and says Instagram is "no longer a photo-sharing app" (Salvador Rodriguez/CNBC)

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How a US teen developed an app to help his sister talk Sixteen-year-old Archer Calder developed an app to help his nonverbal sister Della communicate. July 01, 2021 at 04:33AM

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Shares of LegalZoom, which helps customers create legal documents online, close up ~35% at $37.85 in trading debut, giving LegalZoom a market cap of $7.35B (Pia Singh/CNBC)

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SentinelOne closed up 21% at $42.50 per share in its debut, valuing the company at $10B+; SentinelOne had the highest valued cybersecurity IPO in history (Riley de León/CNBC)

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Twitter and Facebook are fighting new Indian rules they say curtail privacy and free speech; the regulations include potential jail terms for executives (Bloomberg)

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Clearview AI data shows GAO's recent report on government use of facial recognition overlooked usage by five agencies, including IRS, TSA, and US Capitol Police (BuzzFeed News)

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Hands-on with Apple's watchOS 8 public beta: a welcome focus on helping users reduce stress induced by gadgets with a rebranded Mindfulness app, Focus, and more (Victoria Song/Gizmodo)

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Tim Berners-Lee sells an NFT for $5.4M that represents time-stamped files of the source code for the world wide web and other items, via a Sotheby's auction (BBC)

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Chinese grocery delivery app Dingdong closed at $23.52, up just 2 cents from its offer price in its trading debut, after raising ~$96M in a downsized US IPO (Luisa Beltran/Barron's Online)

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Twitter India named in two more police cases This comes amid growing tensions between the website and the government over new IT rules. June 30, 2021 at 11:05AM

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Ably, a Pub/Sub messaging platform for devs to bring real time features in their products, raises $70M Series B co-led by Insight Partners and Dawn Capital (Romain Dillet/TechCrunch)

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Social media: Norfolk Police chief issues child abuse warning The UK's lead officer on child protection says the industry puts profit above children's safety. June 30, 2021 at 10:42AM

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Microsoft says Windows 11 will feature a new Dynamic Refresh Rate, designed to save laptop battery life and boost refresh rates when they're really needed (Tom Warren/The Verge)

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India's Bharti invests $500m in UK space start-up OneWeb The cash injection comes after the British government and Bharti Global bailed out the company last year. June 30, 2021 at 11:07AM

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Sources: amid escalating rivalry, neither Google nor Microsoft are keen to renew a recently expired truce to not use their lobbying firepower against each other (Bloomberg)

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Outbrain files for an IPO aiming to raise over $100M, says it had $767M in revenue last year, $4.4M in net income, and funnels ads to 7,000+ websites like CNN (Tiffany Hsu/New York Times)

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Quizizz, which helps teachers create gamified quizzes and interactive lessons that generate instant student feedback, raises $31.5M Series B led by Tiger Global (Tarush Bhalla/Livemint)

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TCGplayer, an online marketplace for trading card games, raises $35M from Vista Credit Partners to expand into collectibles such as sports cards and comic books (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)

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Senator Warren asks the FTC for a "broad and meticulous review" of Amazon's MGM acquisition, citing Amazon's anticompetitive history and growing monopoly power (Catie Keck/The Verge)

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Flying car completes test flight between airports The vehicle runs on regular fuel and can travel up to 1,000km while airborne, its creator says. June 30, 2021 at 05:27AM

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GAO report finds 20 out of 42 federal agencies surveyed use facial recognition tech and sheds light on how deeply the tech is integrated into federal agencies (Gerrit De Vynck/Washington Post)

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Twitter says users losing access to its "Latest" chronological feed option from its web application is a bug and a fix is in the works (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)

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Source: enterprise AI company DataRobot has raised ~$250M in new funding led by Altimeter Capital Management and Tiger Global at a ~$6B pre-money valuation (Dan Primack/Axios)

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Forum Brands, which provides market intelligence for e-commerce acquisitions, raises $27M Series A led by Norwest Venture Partners (Mary Ann Azevedo/TechCrunch)

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T-Mobile is letting eSIM-compatible iPhone owners try out its cellular network with a 30-day free trial just by installing an app; no billing info is required (Allison Johnson/The Verge)

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Shopify drops Shopify App Store's cut to 0% on devs' first $1M in revenue, says app developer partners earned $233M in 2020, more than 2018 and 2019 combined (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

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Elon Musk sets out Starlink goals The Tesla founder's satellite-internet business passes 69,000 users but subsidises dish cost. June 29, 2021 at 11:52PM

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Council workers suspended over TikTok cemetery videos The clips, filmed at a Derby cemetery, were described as "insensitive and disrespectful". June 29, 2021 at 09:02PM

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Data on 700M LinkedIn users for sale on a forum, with info like names, addresses, inferred salary; LinkedIn says it seems some of the data is from other sources (Madeleine Hodson/PrivacySharks)

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Facebook unveils Bulletin, its Substack newsletter competitor, but is not yet accepting signups and says it won't take a cut of creators' revenue "at launch" (Jacob Kastrenakes/The Verge)

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Studies have found that certain neighborhoods across the US that were redlined in the past are the same areas without fast home internet service today (Shara Tibken/CNET)

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RIP Pepper robot? SoftBank 'pauses' production Production of the robot is suspended and will only be restarted if there is a need for it. June 29, 2021 at 04:33PM

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ShipBob, which helps e-commerce businesses streamline fulfillment and manage inventory, raises $200M Series E led by Bain Capital at a $1B+ valuation (Wall Street Journal)

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Education software company Instructure files for a US IPO, reporting $94M in revenue in quarter ended March 31; Thoma Bravo had taken it private in March 2020 (Emily Bamforth/EdScoop)

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Google says all Play Store developer accounts will need to enable 2-Step Verification, provide an address, and verify their contact details later this year (Abner Li/9to5Google)

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Thoma Bravo has agreed to buy QAD, which provides cloud-based planning software for manufacturers, for about $2B in cash and will take the company private (Reuters)

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Sources: Facebook to roll out its newsletter product, called Bulletin, on Tuesday, and has recruited dozens of writers across categories like sports and finance (CNN)

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Payments company Payoneer closed ~1.5% lower on its Nasdaq debut via a SPAC merger, giving it a market cap of $1B+; the company was originally valued at $3.3B (Riley de León/CNBC)

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A South Korean court has ruled that Netflix is obligated to pay network usage fees to mobile carriers; Netflix made up 4.8% of the country's traffic in Q4 2020 (Song Su-hyun/The Korea Herald)

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Stars call for 'gadget levy' to fund UK creatives A small percentage of devices' cost should go into a fund for UK creators and performers, a group says. June 29, 2021 at 05:53AM

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Snapchat says it has fixed the issue causing its iOS app to crash for some users, asks users to manually update the app if they are still facing any problem (Mitchell Clark/The Verge)

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Coinbase is granted a crypto custody license from Germany's Financial Supervisory Authority, the first company to get such a license according to the regulator (Nate DiCamillo/CoinDesk)

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