In iOS 16 beta 4, Apple Pay finally works in non-Safari browsers like Chrome and Edge, a move that may be in response to the EU's Digital Markets Act (Emma Roth/The Verge)

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Ofcom urged to help end broadband loyalty penalty Many long-standing customers pay more for broadband and mobile contracts than new customers do. August 01, 2022 at 06:57AM

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Investigation: 32 US brokers are selling overlapping datasets with ~2.9B profiles of people pegged as "actively pregnant" or "shopping for maternity products" (Gizmodo)

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Starlink: Why is Elon Musk launching thousands of satellites? The billionaire's SpaceX company hopes to provide an internet service from space. August 01, 2022 at 04:37AM

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Inside China's $16B virtual influencer industry, as motion capture actors complain of hard working conditions powering their avatars four to five hours per day (Rest of World)

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A cyberattack on Illuminate Education, exposing the personal data of 1M+ students, highlights the dangers of stockpiling school children's sensitive information (Natasha Singer/New York Times)

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How Tor is fighting Russia's efforts since December 2021 to block the anonymous browser, such as by using Telegram to share details of volunteer-run Tor bridges (Matt Burgess/Wired)

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A look at the GOP's escalating pressure campaign against Google over Gmail's filters allegedly marking fundraising emails from right-wing candidates as spam (Washington Post)

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A look at the supply chain resilience myth, as efforts to replicate the chipmaking process inside single countries or regions reveal and exacerbate bottlenecks (Nikkei Asia)

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Chasing TikTok's success and leaving behind the protection of hard-to-replicate, large social graphs could end the lengthy dominance of platforms like Facebook (Cal Newport/New Yorker)

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The US and Japan plan to open an R&D center for 2nm chips in 2022 and start mass production in 2025, to establish secure supply chains amid tensions over Taiwan (Rieko Miki/Nikkei Asia)

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A look at the rise and fall of Bird, now a penny stock with a public market cap under $140M, as valuations in its sector collapse (Joanna Glasner/Crunchbase News)

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Dell XPS 13 Plus review: thin with a great OLED screen and a powerful P-series chip but expensive, gets very hot, mediocre battery life, and very few ports (Monica Chin/The Verge)

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Samsung announces a feature that keeps users' data secure during a phone repair, starting with the Galaxy S21 series in South Korea (Sagar Naresh/SamMobile)

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Elon Musk countersues Twitter over the merger agreement in a confidential filing in a Delaware court (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)

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Global smartphone shipments fell 7% YoY to 291M units in Q2 2022; Samsung had a 21.5% market share, followed by Apple's 16.3%, its best Q2 in the past 10 years (Strategy Analytics)

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Brazilian prosecutors ask WhatsApp to delay its Communities feature launch in Brazil until January to avoid spreading misinformation around the October election (Anthony Boadle/Reuters)

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Crypto network Helium claimed for years that Lime is a client, which Lime calls "a false claim"; source: Lime is preparing to send a cease and desist to Helium (Matt Binder/Mashable)

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An interview with Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev on the company's post-IPO stock plunge, catering to its most active users, job cuts, reining in expenses, and more (Annie Massa/Bloomberg)

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Apple expands App Store ads from the Search tab and Search results to the App Store's Today homepage and individual app pages (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)

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SEC adds Alibaba to a list of Chinese companies facing delisting in three years if they fail to comply with US auditing standards; Alibaba stock is down 9%+ (Bloomberg)

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Sources: Ola and Uber are discussing a possible merger, after a deal did not materialize four years ago, when common investor Softbank pushed for it (Manu P Toms/The Economic Times)

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Adam Mosseri says Instagram will roll back some recent changes after a week of mounting criticism, including temporarily reducing the number of recommendations (Casey Newton/Platformer)

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Variant, an early stage crypto-focused fund, has raised $450M for a third fund focused on the "user-owned web", after previously raising $22.5M and $110M (Taylor Locke/Fortune)

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Sources: Ashraf Ismail, who Ubisoft fired in mid-2020 amid misconduct allegations, was hired by Tencent in 2021 to develop a game at its TiMi Studio Group (Stephen Totilo/Axios)

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Google Pixel Buds Pro review: good ANC, improved sound, lengthy battery life, and no frequent dropouts, but transparency mode, audio fidelity, and mic need work (Chris Welch/The Verge)

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Switchboard, a collaboration app mixing videoconferencing and digital whiteboarding, raised a $25M Series A at a $200M post-money valuation led by Icon Ventures (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

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Qualcomm reports Q3 revenue up 37% YoY to $10.93B, vs. $10.88B est., net income up 53% YoY to $3.36B, and chip segment revenue up 45% YoY to $9.38B (Kif Leswing/CNBC)

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Meta reports Q2 revenue down 1% YoY to $28.8B, net income down 36% YoY to $6.69B, and Family of Apps daily active people up 4% YoY to 2.88B (Meta - Investor Relations)

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Facebook owner Meta sees first ever sales decline The owner of Instagram and WhatsApp faces increased competition from the likes of TikTok. July 28, 2022 at 02:42AM

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Google delays the phaseout of third-party cookies in Chrome to H2 2024, after delaying it from 2022 to 2023, citing the need for more Privacy Sandbox tests (Abner Li/9to5Google)

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The FTC files to block Meta's acquisition of VR company Within, saying Meta "chose to buy" instead of compete, the first antitrust lawsuit filed under Lina Khan (New York Times)

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US Senate passes the Chips and Science Act, including $52B+ for US chipmakers as well as tax credits to encourage investment; the bill now heads to the House (Kevin Breuninger/CNBC)

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Alphabet's $69.69B revenue marks its slowest sales growth since Q2 2020, missing estimates by almost $190M, as macroeconomic pressures mount on the ad market (Miles Kruppa/Wall Street Journal)

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YouTube's Q2 ad revenue grew 4.8% YoY to $7.34B, below expectations of a 7% YoY increase to $7.49B and marking YouTube's slowest ad growth in over two years (Todd Spangler/Variety)

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Alphabet reports Q2 revenue of $69.7B, up 13% YoY, net income of $16B, down from $18.53B YoY, Google Cloud revenue of $6.28B, up from $4.63B YoY; stock up 3%+ (Alphabet - Investor Relations)

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Microsoft reports Q4 revenue of $51.87B, up 12% YoY, net income of $16.7B, up 2% YoY, Azure revenue up 40%, LinkedIn up 26% YoY, and Xbox down 6% YoY (Microsoft - Investor Relations)

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Senators Toomey and Sinema introduce a bill to exempt crypto users from being taxed on transactions of under $50, similar to a bipartisan bill in the House (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

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Sources: US-based crypto exchange Kraken has been under investigation by the US Treasury Department since 2019 for potentially violating Iran sanctions and more (New York Times)

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A mind-reading combat jet for the future The Tempest fighter jet will have artificial intelligence tech to monitor and help the pilot. July 26, 2022 at 04:55AM

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Apple reaches a deal to settle a patent case with Koss, which in 2020 alleged that the AirPods violate five Koss' patents; terms of the deal were not disclosed (Kelcee Griffis/Bloomberg Law)

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Instagram's new TikTok-like UI, which has only partially rolled out, lifts some dark patterns from TikTok, like no longer being able to quickly mute videos (Devin Coldewey/TechCrunch)

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Meta, Google, Microsoft, Amazon join NIST in calling for an end of the leap second, which keeps clocks in sync with the Earth's rotation but can cause glitches (Stephen Shankland/CNET)

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The NFL launches its NFL+ streaming service, offering a $4.99/month tier and $9.99/month Premium tier with full game replays; NFL+ replaces Game Pass in the US (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)

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Creators are turning to chat apps like Discord and Geneva to build communities, which they say offer a more intimate experience than traditional social networks (Taylor Lorenz/Washington Post)

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Elon Musk denies affair with Google co-founder's wife The technology multi-billionaire's comments came in response to a report in the Wall Street Journal. July 25, 2022 at 09:18AM

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Netflix rolls out a button for iOS and iPadOS users to take them directly to its site to sign up, which avoids the App Store cut via a new API for "reader apps" (Filipe Espósito/9to5Mac)

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Google rules blocked children's diabetes app An NHS-recommended app says Google will not permit it to send text message alerts about glucose levels. July 25, 2022 at 05:30AM

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The tech helping to bring you your morning coffee How Brazil, the world's largest grower of coffee, is turning to technology to boost production. July 25, 2022 at 04:45AM

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An in-depth look at the research collaboration between NASA and the FAA since 2017 to write new US airspace rules for safely accommodating millions of drones (Chris Feliciano Arnold/Bloomberg)

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