Techmeme: London's mayor says the Underground will have mobile coverage by the end of 2024 across its entire system, including some popular stations by the end of 2022 (Jon Porter/The Verge)
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June 22, 2021, 4:30 PM

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Javier Espinoza / Financial Times:
European Commission says it has opened an antitrust investigation into whether Google favors its own display ad tech over rivals  —  Brussels to examine whether US group broke rules by giving an advantage to its own services  —  The EU has announced a formal investigation …
Brent Kendall / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: the FTC will review Amazon's proposed acquisition of MGM, just as the commission gets a new chairwoman who has been critical of Amazon's expansion  —  Commission secures antitrust review after talks with Justice Department, and as Amazon critic Lina Khan takes the FTC's helm
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
Privacy browser Brave launches a non-tracking search engine in beta, at search.brave.com, to offer an “all in one” alternative to Google Search and Chrome  —  Pro-privacy browser Brave, which has been testing its own brand search engine for several months — operating a waitlist where brave …
Noah Smith / Noahpinion:
Q&A with Marc Andreessen on his “It's Time to Build” essay, techno-optimism, Clubhouse and Substack's potential, “Augmented Intelligence”, crypto, and more  —  Marc Andreessen should need no introduction, but I'll do one anyway.  He helped code the first widely …
Adi Robertson / The Verge:
Twitter opens applications to test Ticketed Spaces and Super Follows for “small number” of users, who will keep 97% of revenue after the IAP cut if making <$50K  —  Users initially keep 97 percent of their revenue  —  Twitter is opening applications for a limited test of its Super Follows and Ticketed Spaces features.
Ian Hamilton / UploadVR:
After agreeing to be Facebook's first VR ad test partner, Resolution Games says it won't move forward with the test in its paid VR game Blaston  —  Resolution Games won't be moving forward with a Facebook advertising test in its paid VR game Blaston.  —  The studio may still consider testing ads in its free fishing game Bait!
Jon Porter / The Verge:
London's mayor says the Underground will have mobile coverage by the end of 2024 across its entire system, including some popular stations by the end of 2022  —  Popular stations like Oxford Circus, Euston, and Bank will connected by end of 2022  —  By the end of 2024 …
Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Q&A with Patreon CEO Jack Conte on its relationship with Apple and exception from App Store's 30% cut, supporting creators across platforms, and more  —  Today's guest on Decoder is Jack Conte, the co-founder and CEO of Patreon, a platform that allows people to pay their favorite creators directly …
Karissa Bell / Engadget:
Facebook says it is working on visual search for Instagram shopping to help users find info on products in images, and Shops is coming to WhatsApp, Marketplace  —  Facebook is working on visual search technology for Instagram as it doubles down on shopping features throughout its platform.
Carly Page / TechCrunch:
Boston-based Transmit Security, which is building a biometric-based authenticator, raises $543M Series A at a $2.2B pre-money valuation  —  Transmit Security, a Boston-based startup that's on a mission to rid the world of passwords, has raised a massive $543 million in Series A funding.
Omkar Godbole / CoinDesk:
Bitcoin falls to around $30,000, its lowest level since January 28 after a $64,000 peak in mid-April, as China continues to crackdown on mining  —  The decline brings the year-to-date gain down to just 3%, according to CoinDesk 20 data.  —  Bitcoin dipped below the long-held support at $30,000 on Tuesday …
Kait Bolongaro / Bloomberg:
Canadian lawmakers pass a controversial bill that would subject tech giants to the same requirements as traditional broadcasters; bill now heads to the Senate  —  - Move would prioritize Canadian content, echoing broadcast law  — But critics say it threatens free speech on user-driven sites
Vicky McKeever / CNBC:
Dating app Bumble says it's giving all ~700 employees a “paid, fully offline one-week vacation” in June, recognizing the challenges endured during the pandemic  —  Bumble CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd has given the dating app's 700 employees this week off as paid vacation in an effort to help with burnout.
Jeremy Laird / PC Gamer:
A look at AMD's new FidelityFX Super Resolution, which aims to upscale games to higher resolution and competes with Nvidia's DLSS technology  —  ...just maybe not in the way you might have thought.  —  AMD's long awaited answer to Nvidia's game-prettifying DLSS technology is here.
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Oyster, which develops HR software for a distributed workforce, raises $50M Series B led by Stripes at a $475M valuation, up 6x from its previous valuation  —  The future of work is long on long-distance, and today a startup that's built a platform to help organizations hire global talent …
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Joel Khalili / TechRadar:
How Reddit uses its community-first approach to moderate content, relying heavily on its users instead of outsourced moderation farms  —  Reddit CTO: We don't want to be a ‘capricious arbiter’ of what is correct or not  —  One of the most difficult problems for Reddit …
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Elad Gil / Elad Blog:
CB Insights data: US added 154 new unicorns since October 2020, 67%+ of the global total, while Europe added 25 unicorns, India added 11, and China added just 9  —  I have previously written about Unicorn Market Cap and Industry towns in 2019 and 2020.  Over the last 8 months the number …
Tim Hardwick / MacRumors:
UK government says it will test its new national Emergency Alerts system, starting with Android devices today before a smaller, regional iPhone test next week  —  The U.K. government on Tuesday will perform its first national test of a new Emergency Alerts system, but only Android users …
Laurens Cerulus / Politico:
In a draft plan, the EU outlines a Joint Cyber Unit, which would let countries hit by cyberattacks request help, including rapid response teams  —  Barrage of cyberattacks pushes EU to pool powers to fight hackers.  —  PRESS PLAY TO LISTEN TO THIS ARTICLE

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