- Data analytics company Looker is announcing its first new features since Google Cloud acquired it for $2.4 billion, and it’s going after Google’s core marketing customers (GOOG, GOOGL)
- The US is offering bounties of $10 million to anyone who can catch hackers meddling in the presidential election
- Jerry Falwell Jr. Apologizes, Explains Bizarre Picture: ‘She Was Pregnant’ and I Couldn’t Get My Pants Zipped
- Is Disney About to Present Its First Gay Protagonist?
- Fox & Friends Complains That Facebook Fact-Checked the False Coronavirus Claims Trump Made on Their Show
- The mayor of LA threatened to cut power and water to houses hosting parties after YouTube and TikTok stars kept gathering despite COVID restrictions
- The Trump administration unveiled a wild plan to wall off China from the US internet
- TikTok doubles down in Europe with new $500 million Irish data center as it faces being hounded out of the US
- Self-Publishing Is a Gamble. Why Is Donald Trump Jr. Doing It?
- ‘Let’s put it out in the world’: Why Code and Theory is creating its own thought leadership publication, Decode
- ‘Building up a community first’: Instagram Reels has little on offer for advertisers — for now
- ‘There’s been no emails or interest’: As the drama over TikTok intensifies, advertiser interest cools
- ‘Turns into the Super Bowl’: Media companies prepare for political ad dollars to roll in
- WATCH: Mike Pence Calls Chief Justice John Roberts a ‘Disappointment to Conservatives’
- Teens Reportedly Arrested for Jumping Wall at Mar-a-Lago; Loaded AK-47 Found in Backpack
- Fox’s Dr. Marc Siegel Says Biden’s Cognitive Abilities Fair Game, Calls Trump ‘Very Cognitively Advanced’ After Recent Interview
- Chris Hayes Calls Out ‘Republican Hacks’ Helping Kanye West in ‘Cynical Effort’ to Boost Trump’s 2020 Chances
- Facebook Removes Trump Campaign’s Misleading Coronavirus Video
- Twitter temporarily blocked the Trump campaign from tweeting after it shared a video of the president spreading COVID-19 misinformation (TWTR)
- CNN Medical Analyst Blasts Navarro for Pushing Hydroxychloroquine: ‘I Don’t Give a Damn What He Thinks… He’s Not Qualified’
- ‘What You’re Saying is Irresponsible!’ CNN’s Erin Burnett Gets in Bonkers Hydroxychloroquine Fight With Peter Navarro
- Amazon quietly launched a new website for its big ad conference, which returns for its second straight year amid the company’s surging digital ad sales (AMZN)
- Facebook Takes Down Trump Post Sharing Clip from Fox & Friends Interview, Citing Policies on ‘Harmful COVID Misinformation’
- Trump Accuses Democrats of Using Coronavirus to Shutter Churches: They Want to Put Them ‘Out of Business’
- LISTEN: Trump Lawyer Can’t Explain to Dan Abrams Why Mail-In Voting is Now Fine for Florida
- Morning Joe Beats All Morning Shows in Overall Tuesday Ratings; Fox & Friends Takes Demo
- Silicon Valley leaders say VCs that are now flocking to safer late-stage investments rather than early startups could shrink their future pipeline of growth companies to back
- Trump Continues to Speculate Beirut Explosion Could Be an Attack: I’ve ‘Heard It Both Ways’
- These Specially Designed ‘Boxers With Pockets’ Are the Future of Comfort
- Now You Can Use Cutting Edge AI to Take Control of Your Cellular and Gut Health
- ABC Reporter Cites Nevada Official to Fact-Check Trump Over Mail-In Voting Claims: ‘That Simply Isn’t True’
- Member of Conservative Think Tank Takes On Reporter Duties on Air Force Two
- How one founder overcame the stress and isolation of his undocumented youth to create a company with $2.7 million in seed funding
- Facebook removed a Trump post because it violated the company’s policies banning ‘harmful COVID misinformation’ (FB)
- Chief of Staff Mark Meadows Defends School Re-Openings Because the Flu is ‘More Dangerous’ For Kids Than Covid-19
- Microsoft is diving into the controversy between Google, IBM, and the open source community by launching a new attempt to dethrone hot cloud service Istio
- Shares of Rackspace fell nearly 22% on IPO day, but its CEO explains why he’s optimistic about the cloud services company’s second shot as a public company (RXT)
- Wolf Blitzer Presses Mark Meadows on Trump Beirut Comments: Why Did He Just ‘Speculate Publicly’ on Explosion?
- A full breakdown of what channels you get with every Sling TV package, plus all the add-ons
- Controversial YouTuber Jake Paul Raided By FBI, Several Firearms Seized From His Calabasas Home
- Disney Plus subscriber numbers are soaring — but that’s not the whole story
- Uber and Lyft just got hit with another lawsuit in California over claims the companies are skirting the state’s gig worker law (UBER, LYFT)
- Pro-Trump Meme Creator Banned by Twitter Challenges ‘Legal Standing’ Behind Action
- ‘Is That Even Legal?’: GOP Senators Wary of Prospect Floated by Trump of Convention Speech on White House Lawn
- SpaceX has proven it can fly astronauts. Here’s how Elon Musk’s company became the first to help NASA resurrect US spaceflight.
- A Private Equity Firm Just Bought the Largest Consumer DNA Database
- Swedish e-scooter startup Voi wins exclusive rights to operate in 2 UK markets, edging ahead of rivals
- NASA Imaged the Bubble Around the Solar System and… Yikes
- Trump Campaign’s List of Proposed Debate Moderators Includes a Ton of Fox News Plus… David Muir and Hoda Kotb
- WATCH LIVE: President Trump Holds News Conference at White House
- An electric scooter startup will charge you $39 a month so you can keep and use a single scooter to avoid sharing with other people
- $29 billion biotech company Moderna just signed a big cloud deal with Amazon Web Services, even as the race for a COVID-19 vaccine accelerates
- CNN Contributor Ana Navarro to Host Joe Biden Roundtable
- Trump falsely said NASA ‘was closed and dead’ before he was president and appeared to take credit for a private SpaceX launch
- These charts from Match Group show more people are turning to online dating during the pandemic (MTCH)
- Woman Sues Takeoff, Member of Migos, Accusing Him of Rape
- Knowing when to hand write notes and when you should type will help you to remember the most important facts, recall concepts, and get smarter overall
- Obama-Appointed Judge Says ‘It Is What Is’ While Fast-Tracking Case Against Trump Admin
- Teladoc is acquiring Livongo in the biggest deal that digital health has ever seen. Here are the 3 key takeaways from Wall Street’s top analysts, from shock at the price tag to optimism for healthcare’s digital future.
- This pitch deck helped telehealth startup Heal raise $100 million and win a major partnership with healthcare giant Humana. Here’s how the deal came to be.
- 20 state attorneys general are demanding that Facebook improve its policing of online hate speech and disinformation (FB)
- The Trump Campaign Is Seeking an Early September Debate Against Biden
- Outgoing Ford CEO Jim Hackett never won over Wall Street — but he triumphed in his fight to change the carmaker’s culture (F)
- CNN’s Keilar Swats at Criticism Over Interviews With Trump Officials: You Can’t ‘Ignore BS, You’ve Got to Shovel It’
- This chart shows Amazon’s one-day shipping has significantly rebounded, but many sellers still face long delays getting their own shipments to warehouses (AMZN)
- Democrats Accused of Letting Cops Access Americans’ Browsing Histories
- Fauci Calls Covid Testing Delays ‘Unacceptable’: ‘For Me to Say Anything Different Is Distorting Reality’
- Tesla Competitor Slams Cybertruck For Looking “Like a Doorstep”
- Why Alice + Olivia founder Stacey Bendet decided to launch a LinkedIn-inspired job platform just for artists and creatives
- Black Hat, the ‘security summer camp’ for the tech industry, is holding its first-ever online conference — highlighting just how much cybersecurity has changed in the pandemic
- Stanford business school graduates knew their classmates would soon found great startups, and they created a unique club to invest in them. The result is a $1.5 million fund bound by loyalty, community, and democracy
- Hedge funds are using these 10 alt-data sources to gain an investing edge and keep track of the coronavirus’ impact
- Meet Zhang Yiming, the secretive Chinese billionaire behind TikTok who made over $12 billion in 2018 and called Trump’s demands to sell the app ‘unreasonable’
- A JPMorgan-backed personal finance app catering to children has doubled users this year. Now it’s eyeing ways to let kids play the stock market.
- Dr. Sanjay Gupta Confronts Fauci Over ‘Failed Response’ to Coronavirus: ‘Did We Let the American People Down?’
- Samsung’s new foldable smartphone promises an improved display and hinge — preorders begin on September 1
- Buying TikTok’s US operations could reportedly cost Microsoft anywhere from $10 billion to $30 billion (MSFT)
- Before-and-after images from space reveal the devastation in Beirut wrought by 2,750 tons of exploding fertilizer
- Scientists Played a Game of Go at the Quantum Scale
- 18 Big Tech Predictions for the Second Half of 2020
- The CEO of this $4.3 billion AI-backed analytics firm explains why voice and video is now key to efforts at top businesses like Macy’s, Sephora, and Marriott to build ‘digital twins’ of customers and employees
- Fauci Decries Death Threats, People ‘Harassing My Daughters’ Over Science: Wish ‘They Didn’t Have to Go Through That’
- Netflix tips and tricks: 12 ways to get the most out of your Netflix subscription
- Twitter just fixed a bug in its Android app that could have given hackers access to private messages (TWTR)
- Google’s music streaming service is about to shut down for good. Here are 20 other Google products that bombed, died, or disappeared. (GOOG, GOOGL)
- ‘Does Tinder notify users of screenshots?’: No, but here’s what you should know before you screenshot a conversation or profile
- Pelosi on Trump Idea to Accept GOP Nomination on White House Lawn: ‘It Won’t Happen’, ‘He Can’t Do That’
- Insiders explain how $3 billion fintech unicorn Brex went from a $150 million raise to laying off 17% of its staff in a matter of days
- Wait, What? Poll Weirdly Asks If You’d More Likely Take Covid Vaccine if Recommended By… Oprah, LeBron, or Tom Brady?
- Timing of State Department Inspector General’s Sudden Resignation Raises Eyebrows
- Elon Musk tweeted that the Egyptian pyramids were built by aliens. Here are 39 of the most outrageous things he’s said over the years. (TSLA)
- How to clear your cache on Hulu on any device to improve the service’s speed and performance
- Samsung’s Galaxy Note 20 and Z Fold 2 event in 9 minutes
- DoorDash just opened 8 US convenience stores that can deliver household items, spices, and other corner store essentials to you in 30 minutes
- 14 tech organizers and labor experts share their ideas for re-empowering American workers
- Google will once again have human workers listen to users’ voice recordings — but only for people who opt in (GOOG, GOOGL)
- Here’s everything we do and don’t know about Microsoft’s bid to acquire TikTok so far (MSFT)
- Disney Plus’ audience growth has wildly exceeded expectations but it brings in less than half the revenue Netflix does per subscriber (DIS)
- How to watch Apple TV+ content on your Microsoft Windows computer
- Public Health Officials Tell MSNBC They Get Threats, Hate Mail Over Pandemic Measures: ‘I Felt Like I Needed to Get’ Home Security
- Gumroad CEO Sahil Lavingia just debuted a $5 million rolling VC fund with investors including Backstage Capital founder Arlan Hamilton and AngelList founder Naval Ravikant
- Adobe just launched new data tracking tools to help companies send customers personalized ads, emails, and recommendations (ADBE)
- Astronomers Say That Planets Orbiting Black Holes Are Called “Blanets”
- Like Your First Quarantine Sourdough Attempt, This Exoplanet Is “Surprisingly Dense”
- WeWork cofounder Adam Neumann is selling his San Francisco Bay Area compound for $27.5 million — look inside the ‘Guitar House’
- Samsung is launching a new foldable phone called the Galaxy Z Fold 2 that fixes the original Galaxy Fold’s biggest problems
- Ford’s new CEO named Amazon, Apple, and Tesla — not GM — as his key rivals. Industry experts say he’s exactly right. (F)
- With TikTok Mired in Uncertainty, Facebook Pounces With Instagram Reels
- Howard Kurtz Warns Trump Campaign Have Set Bar For Biden Debate Skills ‘So Low’ It Could Backfire
- We sent our kids to summer camp. It shut down with a COVID-19 outbreak after just a few days. This is what school will look like.
- Sen. Hawley Demands Microsoft Describe Undisclosed Plan for Booting China from TikTok
- The NSA warned staff that smartphone apps can track them. Here are their recommendations to avoid tracking.
- Marketers warily continue to spend on TikTok but some are building escape clauses into their contracts because of the political uncertainty
- These sealed individual work pods with air purifiers show what returning to the office could look like
- Morning Joe Mocks Trump’s ‘Yo-Semites’ Gaffe: Makes Attacks on Biden’s Intellect Look Like a ‘Risky Strategy’
- Bill Gates issued a stark warning for the world: ‘As awful as this pandemic is, climate change could be worse’
- Google settled a class-action lawsuit over a Google Plus bug that exposed millions of users’ information — here’s how to claim your payment (GOOGL)
- Watch SpaceX’s Epic Starship Test Flight From Inside the Giant Rocket
- Biden Dismisses Cognitive Test Question by Asking Reporter if He Took a Drug Test Before Interview: ‘Are You a Junkie?’
- One-click checkout startup Fast used this pitch deck to bag $20 million from investors like fintech giant Stripe. Here’s its plan to take on Apple Pay.
- Houseplant sales are booming and so are ‘Plantfluencers,’ the social-media creators sharing plant tips, products, and content
- Samsung is trying to challenge the Apple Watch’s dominance with a new Galaxy Watch that can detect when you fall
- Samsung’s new $170 wireless earbuds feature noise cancellation and a unique bean-shaped design — here’s how and where to buy them
- Samsung’s Galaxy Note 20 phones start at $1,000, and you can preorder them on August 6
- Samsung just announced the Galaxy Note 20, the newest version of its popular stylus-equipped smartphone that comes with a more powerful processor and better cameras
- Trump Ripped Over ‘Stunningly Irresponsible’ Fox & Friends Comments on Covid-19, Black Lives Matter
- Trump Says Schools Should Open Because Coronavirus ‘Is Going Away,’ Kids Are ‘Almost Immune’
- 12 books on leadership and success billionaire Jeff Bezos thinks everyone should read
- Facebook’s TikTok clone, Instagram Reels, launches today in the US as TikTok’s future hangs in the balance (FB)
- Here’s the pitch deck cloud startup Pricefx used to raise $65 million for an AI platform that helps businesses set prices faster and more precisely
- Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers Mock Trump’s ‘Disaster’ Interview with Jonathan Swan: ‘It Made His Coronavirus Briefings Look Good’
- Check out the pitch deck Israeli AI startup Zencity used to raise $13.5 million from TLV and Salesforce Ventures
- Trump Defends Biden From Trump Attack on Biden: ‘He Has Not Said’ He’ll Dodge Debates
- A tiny 3-inch smartphone the size of a credit card runs Android 10, and will only cost $200 — take a look
- Trump and Fox’s Brian Kilmeade Team Up to Destroy Obama For John Lewis Eulogy: ‘It Was an Angry Speech’
- A YouTube creator explains Amazon’s efforts to become a major player in the influencer business, from affiliate commissions to livestreaming
- Pete Hamill, Quintessential New York Journalist, Dies at 85
- Why Brazil’s decision to block WhatsApp payments damages Facebook’s dream of becoming a worldwide ‘super app’
- See the pitch deck that helped WorkPatterns raise $2.8 million in seed funding before the pandemic began, and predicted many challenges remote managers are now facing
- No, Donald Trump can’t ‘ban’ TikTok
- Fox’s Kilmeade Presses Trump on Covid Testing Delays: ‘Where is This Test?’ Results Are ‘Taking Forever’
- The action plan tech companies can use to make technical interviews more inclusive so they don’t miss out on highly-qualified women and people of color
- Trump Renews Assault on Mail-In Voting, Claiming Election Could ‘Go On For Years’
- Meet the VC making massive bets on the future of health and wellness startups as the ongoing pandemic enhances opportunities for home-based technologies
- Digital Revenue Exceeds Print for 1st Time for New York Times Company
- Pro-Trump creators are a lot more active on TikTok than Democrats’ supporters, study finds, as Trump threatens ban
- WATCH: Live BBC Arabic Interview Rocked by Massive Beirut Explosion
- I’m an Indian journalist who lived through Kashmir’s traumatic internet blackout, which started one year ago. Here’s what it’s like to have your freedoms ripped away for 213 days.
- There is still no proof TikTok is spying on you for China
- Trending: Some questions (and answers) about the Microsoft-TikTok deal
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