Facebook reports Q2 revenue of $29.08B, up 56% YoY, MAUs of 2.9B, up 7% YoY, headcount of 63,404, up 21% YoY; stock down ~3% on warning of revenue slowdown
“We had a strong quarter as we continue to help businesses grow and people stay connected,” said Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder and CEO.
The Pentagon says Microsoft will build 120K custom HoloLens headsets for the US Army; Microsoft says the contract could be worth up to $21.88B over 10 years
AR makes a spectacle Nathan Ord / HotHardware.com News : Microsoft Inks $22 Billion Deal To Supply Modified HoloLens AR Headsets To US Army Troops Kris Graft / Gamasutra : Controve...
The Pentagon says Microsoft will build 120K custom HoloLens headsets for the US Army; Microsoft says the contract could be worth up to $21.88B over 10 years
- Microsoft will deliver to the U.S. Army more than 120,000 devices based on its HoloLens augmented reality headset.
Sources: Apple told some landlords of UK stores it wants rent reduction of up to 50% and a rent-free period, offering to extend leases by a few years in return
Apple is pushing for huge rent reductions across its UK stores despite its sales soaring to new heights during the lockdown.
AT&T says its low-band 5G network is now available to 205M people, joining T-Mobile as a nationwide 5G network
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Slack files EU antitrust complaint against Microsoft, accusing it of unfairly bundling its rival app Teams with its Office 365 tools
Workplace messaging app says it is unfair for tech group to bundle Teams with Office 365 — The workplace messaging app Slack has filed a formal antitrust complaint …
India's app ban may present a model for other countries from Europe to Southeast Asia that seek to curtail China's access to their residents' data
- Ban shows the increasingly fractured nature of tech industry — Chinese firms may find themselves excluded from key markets Tweets: @brij and @next_china Tweets: Brij Singh / @...
Indian government bans 59 Chinese apps including TikTok, ShareIt, UC Browser, WeChat, and Clash of Kings, citing national security and maintaining public order
Govt bans 59 Chinese apps including TikTok as border tensions simmer in Ladakh — As tensions along the Line of Actual Control …
Indian government bans 59 Chinese apps including TikTok, ShareIt, UC Browser, WeChat, and Clash of Kings, citing national security and maintaining public order
Govt bans 59 Chinese apps including TikTok as border tensions simmer in Ladakh — As tensions along the Line of Actual Control …
Amazon has signed an agreement to acquire self-driving car startup Zoox, reportedly for $1.2B+; Zoox was valued at over $3B in 2018
- Zoox was valued at over $3 billion in 2018, but has struggled with management turnover in its efforts to develop a self-driving car.
UK's NHS contact tracing app won't work unless it's running in the foreground and the phone is kept awake and unlocked, and will also ask for users' location
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Teen's TikTok video about China's Muslim camps, bookended with beauty tips, goes viral with 1.4M+ views and ~500,000 likes, as copycats get millions more
A US teenager's TikTok video clip accusing China of putting Muslims into “concentration camps” has gone viral on the Chinese-owned social network.
Leaked Chinese government docs reveal the mechanics of running mass detention camps in Xinjiang, predictive policing, mass surveillance, and snooping on expats
"brainwashing" — to which China is subjecting at least one million detained Uighur and other Turkic Muslims until they renounce Islam and their ethnicity. https://www.bbc.com/... h...
Leaked Chinese government docs reveal the mechanics of running mass detention camps in Xinjiang, predictive policing, mass surveillance, and snooping on expats
A new leak of highly classified Chinese government documents has uncovered the operations manual for running the mass detention camps …
Facebook buys CTRL-Labs, which makes a bracelet that measures neuron activity to detect movements the user is thinking about; sources: size of deal is $500M-$1B
- CTRL-Labs is said to fetch $500 million to $1 billion — Facebook may one day pair the technology with AR or VR glasses
Samsung releases a new care guide instructing Galaxy Fold users to “just use a light touch” and keep the phone free of water and dust
Apple Card: can't touch leather, denim, other credit cards, or be in a pocket/bag with any loose items —Samsung Fold: “just use a light touch,” don't let any water or dust get on i...
Samsung releases a new care guide instructing Galaxy Fold users to “just use a light touch” and keep the phone free of water and dust
While the Samsung Galaxy Fold is not the first foldable phone on the market, it's without a doubt the biggest, and it will be the device that sets the example for other companies.