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Qualcomm handed a huge win as US court overturns the ‘no-license, no-chips’ antitrust ruling
Twitter launches API v2, the first complete rebuild of its API since 2012, in a bid to improve relations with third-party developers
Trump's executive order to ban TikTok by Sept. 20 is a gross abuse of power and sets an alarming precedent for the executive branch's control over software
Microsoft commits to launching the Xbox Series X in the month of November and will delay Halo Infinite until 2021
Pinterest says it is expanding its skin tone search tool, which uses machine vision to sort beauty-related pins and debuted in US in 2018, to five more markets
Boeing 747s still get critical updates via floppy disks
Android is becoming a worldwide earthquake detection network
Lucid Motors claims its all-electric Air sedan will have a range of 517 miles
Mozilla is laying off 250 people and planning a ‘new focus’ on making money
Nreal, which fought off IP theft suit from Magic Leap, will start shipping AR glasses in S. Korea this month for ~$586 or $295 when bundled with Galaxy Note 20
Gogo says it's trying to sell its commercial in-flight internet business amid COVID-19, CEO says company has had "extensive discussions with multiple parties"
Uber and Lyft ordered by California judge to classify drivers as employees
Amazon rebrands Twitch Prime as Prime Gaming; the service will still give Prime subscribers perks, including free games, on the live streaming platform
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Apple wants this recipe app to stop using a pear in its logo
Huawei says it’s running out of chips for smartphones because of US sanctions
Bill Gates calls Microsoft’s TikTok deal a poisoned chalice
Twitter says it is testing showing quote tweet counts directly on each tweet to see whether that makes the Retweets with Comments metric "more understandable"
Rapidly escalating tensions, including WeChat ban, may devastate Apple's business due to its huge exposure on everything, from manufacturing to sales, to China
TikTok discussions at the White House reportedly turned into a brawl between Trump advisors
Capital One ordered to pay $80 million penalty for its role in a 2019 data breach
THE US DECLARED WAR ON TIKTOK BECAUSE IT CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH
Trump’s WeChat ban could touch everything from Spotify to League of Legends
Many Reddit communities vandalized with pro-Trump content, possibly due to compromised moderator accounts
Facebook slams Apple's App Store policies, launches Facebook Gaming on iOS without the app's mini games feature to pass the App Store's strict approval policies
As the competitive pressure from the Apple's unified ecosystem grows, Microsoft and Samsung need each other now more than ever
Trump will prohibit transactions with Bytedance beginning September 20 in apparent TikTok ban
Trump signs an executive order to block all transactions with ByteDance and Tencent starting Sept. 20, to address the "threat posed by TikTok and WeChat"
Over the past year, scientists have renamed 27 human genes because Microsoft's Excel misread their names as dates and changed the formatting
Apple confirms cloud gaming services like xCloud and Stadia violate App Store guidelines and will not work on iOS, as Apple cannot review each game offered
TikTok launches its first TV app, called More on TikTok, on Amazon Fire TV devices, featuring curated video playlists and compilations from its mobile app
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