Author: Tech Support

    • Trump says cryptocurrencies including Facebook's Libra are "not money", need to be regulated, citing their high volatility and facilitation of unlawful behavior (Richard Lawler/Engadget)

    Richard Lawler / Engadget: Trump says cryptocurrencies including Facebook’s Libra are “not money”, need to be regulated, citing their high volatility and facilitation of unlawful behavior  —  Just hours after a “social media summit,” the president’s Twitter account posted a thread aimed at, of all things, cryptocurrency. Trump says cryptocurrencies including Facebook's Libra are "not

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    • Sources: Postmates has had talks with DoorDash, Walmart, Uber, and others about being acquired, is still considering following through with its much-delayed IPO (Theodore Schleifer/Vox)

    Theodore Schleifer / Vox: Sources: Postmates has had talks with DoorDash, Walmart, Uber, and others about being acquired, is still considering following through with its much-delayed IPO  —  The conversation around labor rights in Silicon Valley could be reshaped if the food-delivery startup is gobbled up. Sources: Postmates has had talks with DoorDash, Walmart, Uber,

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    • Interview with Neal Mohan, YouTube's chief product officer, on whether YouTube is a media company, content moderation, demonetization, and more (Richard Nieva/CNET)

    Richard Nieva / CNET: Interview with Neal Mohan, YouTube’s chief product officer, on whether YouTube is a media company, content moderation, demonetization, and more  —  Neal Mohan, second in command at the video site, handles an evolving role.  —  Neal Mohan, YouTube’s chief product officer, is staring at a picture I’ve pulled up on my

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    • YouTube is introducing Learning Playlists, which will offer dedicated landing pages for educational videos on a variety of topics and have no recommended videos (Dami Lee/The Verge)

    Dami Lee / The Verge: YouTube is introducing Learning Playlists, which will offer dedicated landing pages for educational videos on a variety of topics and have no recommended videos  —  YouTube is introducing a new education feature called Learning Playlists that will offer dedicated landing pages for educational videos … YouTube is introducing Learning Playlists,

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    • YouTube drafting ‘creator-on-creator harassment’ rules after Steven Crowder incident

    YouTube is working on new policies to prevent “creator-on-creator harassment” that it will announce in the coming weeks, the company said today. The announcement was made by Youtube’s Chief Product Officer Neal Mohan, who briefly spoke about the issue at YouTube’s VidCon keynote this evening, where both creators and industry insiders were gathered in Anaheim,

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    • In Q2, IDC estimates global PC shipments grew 4.7% to 64.9M units; Gartner estimates 1.5% growth to 63M units; both say Windows 10 refresh contributed to gain (Emil Protalinski/VentureBeat)

    Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: In Q2, IDC estimates global PC shipments grew 4.7% to 64.9M units; Gartner estimates 1.5% growth to 63M units; both say Windows 10 refresh contributed to gain  —  The PC market rebounded slightly in Q2, according to research firms Gartner and IDC.  After six years of quarterly PC shipment declines …

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    • YouTube is launching educational playlists that won’t include algorithmic recommendations

    YouTube is introducing a new education feature called Learning Playlists that will offer dedicated landing pages for educational videos on a variety of topics, including math, science, music, and language. The playlists will have organizational features, like chapters around key concepts, ordered from beginner to advanced lessons. The pages will also be notably free from

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    Motorized Lens Controller Techs Up Your Webcam

    If you’re familiar with the DSLR camera market, you’d know that modern lenses are works of technological art. Crammed full of motors and delicate electronic assemblies, they’re bursting with features such as autofocus, optical stabilization and zoom. [Saulius Lukse] has been experimenting with motorized lenses for webcam applications, and has built a controller to make

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    • Twitter says it will test a feature to let users hide replies to their tweets starting next week in Canada (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)

    Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: Twitter says it will test a feature to let users hide replies to their tweets starting next week in Canada  —  Twitter users are getting more control over which comments are visible in the conversations they start.  —  The company has been testing and talking about this feature since earlier this

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    • Trump says he plans to call execs from social media platforms to a meeting later this month; sources say they haven't received invites from the White House (Reuters)

    Reuters: Trump says he plans to call execs from social media platforms to a meeting later this month; sources say they haven’t received invites from the White House  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he plans to call a meeting of executives from major social media platforms later this month.

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    • Google announces it is rolling out redesigned News results for Search on desktop, making publishers' names more prominent, adding a carousel, and more (Abner Li/9to5Google)

    Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google announces it is rolling out redesigned News results for Search on desktop, making publishers’ names more prominent, adding a carousel, and more  —  Google Search on the desktop web has seen a slew of visual refreshes in recent weeks.  The latest is a substantial redesign of the News tab …

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