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- Google says its location history auto-delete tool, which lets users pick either 3 or 18 months of data retention, is rolling out on mobile over next few weeks (Natt Garun/The Verge)
- YouTube gives users a "don't recommend channel" option and a way to pick topics of interest for videos showing in Up Next or homepage, now on iOS and Android (Christine Fisher/Engadget)
- Frustrated by Google's policies affecting LGBTQ+ community, ~100 Googlers sign petition asking San Francisco Pride to exclude Google, a sponsor, from the parade (Josh Eidelson/Bloomberg)
- Extreme Networks says it will acquire Aerohive Networks, which makes commercial WiFi routers and more, for $272M in cash (Luke Stangel/Silicon Valley Business ...)
- Shopify says users can now message its 820K+ merchants through Apple's iMessage-based Business Chat service, and adds support for Apple Pay (Mariella Moon/Engadget)
- Bangalore-based Unacademy, which runs a platform that helps Indian students prepare for exams, raises $50M Series D from Steadview Capital and others (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)
- Sources: UK's largest supermarket Tesco has partnered with Israeli startup Trigo Vision to work on cashierless stores, as competition with Amazon heats up (Yaacov Benmeleh/Bloomberg)
- Instagram says it will roll out ads on its Explore page, visible when users tap on Explore posts, starting with an ad for IGTV today (Ashley Carman/The Verge)
- A look at Facebook's and Twitter's plans to combat disinformation ahead of the Democratic presidential debates on Wednesday and Thursday (Cat Zakrzewski/Washington Post)
- MLPerf, a consortium of 40 tech companies including Facebook and Google, releases a set of benchmarks for evaluating the performance of AI tools (Agam Shah/Wall Street Journal)
- Image sharing platform Imgur says it has raised $20M from Coil, a micropayments tool that Imgur will build into its service ahead of a forthcoming premium tier (Josh Constine/TechCrunch)
- Social media verification scams are rampant because the verification process is opaque and arbitrary; platforms need to rebuild the whole system (Taylor Lorenz/The Atlantic)
- Vulcan Cyber, which aims to automate security patching efforts, raises $10M Series A led by Ten Eleven Ventures and YL Ventures, bringing total raised to $14M (Ron Miller/TechCrunch)
- eSmart Systems, which develops predictive maintenance software for utilities, raises $34M from investors including Energy Impact Partners and Innogy Ventures (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)
- Sources: the NSA collected metadata about calls and text messages that it wasn't authorized to obtain last October, in a second such incident (Dustin Volz/Wall Street Journal)
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- Samsung is reportedly bringing back the classic flip phone design with a new foldable device
- 10 popular TV shows that are in danger of leaving Netflix, including 'The Office'
- Hedge funds? secret sauce is obscure data like satellite images. Here?s how the people in charge of spending millions on this data find the stuff worth buying.
- A key metric on FedEx's balance sheet underscores why the shipping giant dropped Amazon as a customer (AMZN, FDX)
- Almost 100 Google employees are petitioning San Francisco Pride to ban Google from sponsoring and participating in the parade ? read the full letter here (GOOG, GOOGL)
- Tesla is reportedly trying to make its own battery cells as its relationship with Panasonic becomes more tense (TSLA)
- Intel is putting about 8,500 patents on the auction block as the chip giant exits the 5G smartphone market (INTC, AAPL)
- AR IN SOCIAL MEDIA: How immersive experiences drive sales, improve customer engagement, and boost awareness (FB, SNAP)
- A new study found a link between the number of racist tweets and real-life hate crimes in 100 US cities (TWTR)
- Facebook and YouTube are dealing with another horror video after a US police officer was livestreamed bleeding to death
- This is the 19-slide pitch deck two 22-year-olds used to nab $57 million in funding from Silicon Valley
- Responsible use of artificial intelligence can make our financial markets even stronger
- A fungus causes cicadas to lose their limbs and 'try to mate with everything they encounter,' researchers found ? here are 10 real examples of zombie animals in nature
- Trump threatens to sue Facebook and Google and rails against big tech companies for being 'totally biased'
- Amazon, unlike Google and Facebook, is punching back at 2020 Democrats
- Technology companies just testified in Washington about how Trump's next round of China tariffs could hurt them. Here's what they said.
- This CEO explains why he left the top job at $36 billion Autodesk to head Bright Machines, a one-year-old robotics software startup that's revolutionizing manufacturing
- Instagram is testing ads in its Explore tab ? here?s how marketers say it will change their ad spend
- Citi's AI-powered tool for catching suspicious payments and thwarting cyber crime is opening up to customers across the world
- Two Amazon veterans just raised $6.5 million for an analytics tool that gives smaller companies the data insights they need to compete with Amazon itself (AMZN)
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