Google says Android 10 reached 100M devices just five months after launch, which is 28% faster than Android Pie (Abner Li/9to5Google)

Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google says Android 10 reached 100M devices just five months after launch, which is 28% faster than Android Pie  —  Ahead of Android 11's launch later this quarter, Google is recapping how its partners are releasing device updates faster than ever.  Notably, the “adoption of Android 10 …

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App Annie: mobile app usage grew 40% YoY globally in Q2, hitting an all-time high of over 200B hours during April, amid stay-at-home measures (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: App Annie: mobile app usage grew 40% YoY globally in Q2, hitting an all-time high of over 200B hours during April, amid stay-at-home measures  —  As the world continued to cope with the impact of the coronavirus outbreak, the second quarter of 2020 became the largest yet for mobile app downloads, usage, and consumer spending.

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Sources: Dataminr, an official Twitter partner, relayed tweets and other social media posts about BLM protests directly to police, contrary to earlier claims (Sam Biddle/The Intercept)

Sam Biddle / The Intercept: Sources: Dataminr, an official Twitter partner, relayed tweets and other social media posts about BLM protests directly to police, contrary to earlier claims  —  Leveraging close ties to Twitter, controversial artificial intelligence startup Dataminr helped law enforcement digitally monitor …

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UK and Australian data privacy offices say they are opening a joint investigation of Clearview AI (Alfred Ng/CNET)

Alfred Ng / CNET: UK and Australian data privacy offices say they are opening a joint investigation of Clearview AI  —  The facial recognition company is being scrutinized over its database of 3 billion photos.  —  The governments of the UK and Australia are investigating a facial recognition company …

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Sony invests $250M in Epic Games for a 1.4% stake, bringing the total raised by the maker of Fortnite to $17.86B (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: Sony invests $250M in Epic Games for a 1.4% stake, bringing the total raised by the maker of Fortnite to $17.86B  —  VB TRANSFORM  —  The AI event for business leaders  —  Hosted Online  —  July 15 - 17  —  Learn More  —  Sony has invested $250 million for a minority stake …

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Amid India-China tensions, Zoom fights xenophobic rumors on social media that it is Chinese-owned, scrambling to remind Indian users that it is a US company (Pranav Dixit/BuzzFeed News)

Pranav Dixit / BuzzFeed News: Amid India-China tensions, Zoom fights xenophobic rumors on social media that it is Chinese-owned, scrambling to remind Indian users that it is a US company  —  After the Indian government banned 59 apps owned by Chinese firms last week, the videoconferencing app Zoom is fighting xenophobic rumors …

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Hands-on with iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 as they launch in public beta with a new home screen with widgets on the iPhone, a Scribble feature for Apple Pencil, more (Dieter Bohn/The Verge)

Dieter Bohn / The Verge: Hands-on with iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 as they launch in public beta with a new home screen with widgets on the iPhone, a Scribble feature for Apple Pencil, more  —  There are so many new features that it's hard to keep track  —  In anticipation of today's release of the public betas of iOS 14 …

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Google scrapped a campus security system asking employees to check colleagues' badges, sources say after complaints Black and Latinx workers were singled out (Nico Grant/Bloomberg)

Nico Grant / Bloomberg: Google scrapped a campus security system asking employees to check colleagues' badges, sources say after complaints Black and Latinx workers were singled out  —  - Company encouraged staff to check colleagues' ID badges  — System scrapped after workers complained to CEO Sundar Pichai

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Epic Games releases an iOS app, called Live Link Face, enabling the recording of facial expressions directly into the Unreal Engine (Jon Porter/The Verge)

Jon Porter / The Verge: Epic Games releases an iOS app, called Live Link Face, enabling the recording of facial expressions directly into the Unreal Engine  —  Using Apple's ARKit and the iPhone's TrueDepth camera  —  A newly released iOS app from Epic Games lets developers record facial expressions …

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EU court rules that online platforms like YouTube need not hand over to rights holders the email or IP addresses of users who upload pirated content (Andy Maxwell/TorrentFreak)

Andy Maxwell / TorrentFreak: EU court rules that online platforms like YouTube need not hand over to rights holders the email or IP addresses of users who upload pirated content  —  A judgment handed down by the EU Court of Justice this morning has found that online platforms, including YouTube, do not have to hand …

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