PayPal will support paying merchants with cryptocurrency, Sony to shutdown the PlayStation Store for PS3, PSP, and PS Vita, and LinkedIn adds a “Creator” mode.
Boston Dynamics announced Stretch, a new robot designed to move boxes in warehouses, MIT computer scientists led a team that looked at 10 of the most-cited datasets used to test machine learning systems and found that 3.4% of data was either inaccurate or mislabeled, Sony announced it’s shutting down the PlayStation Store for the PlayStation 3 and remaining purchasing capabilites on the PSP on July 2nd, and Microsoft has rebranded the Xbox Live service as Xbox Network.
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Boston Dynamics announces the warehouse robot Stretch, Visa will allow the use of cryptocurrency to settle transactions on its network, and Stanford researchers publish the mRNA sequence of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine to GitHub.
Xiaomi plans to market electric vehicles under its own brand, Dodge announced a new security feature for its Challenger and Charger cars that requires a four-digit code to unlock the car fully and TCL wants to combine rollable and foldable screens into one device.
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Microsoft busca adquirir Discord, China presenta nuevos lineamientos sobre la información que los celulares obtienen de sus usuarios y se presenta una propuesta en la cámara de diputados en México para que conductores y repartidores de Uber, DiDi y similares sean considerados trabajadores de las plataformas digitales.
Xiaomi reportedly plans to produce EVs as early as 2023, Mark Zuckerberg pledges to uphold the Facebook Oversight Board decision on President Trump, and Motorola announces the G100 and G50 phones.
Zuckerberg, Pichai, and Dorsey all testified before the House Energy and Commerce committee to discuss spreading disinformation, extremism and misinformation, Facebook announced it took actions to disrupt the group that security researchers call “Evil Eye” or “Poison Carp” and Triumph announced details about its TE-1 electric bike project, in development since 2019.
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The UK’s CMA finds Facebook’s Giphy acquisition would result in a loss of market competition, the US DOJ launches antitrust investigation into Sony’s Crunchroll acquisition, and Qualcomm announces the Snapdragon 780G SoC.