Nick Clegg says that Facebook will put "more friends, less politics" in News Feed and will "nudge" teens away from toxic Instagram content (Bruce Haring/Deadline)

Bruce Haring / Deadline:
Nick Clegg says that Facebook will put “more friends, less politics” in News Feed and will “nudge” teens away from toxic Instagram content  —  Fighting back after a whistleblower's damning testimony earlier this week before a Congressional committee …

Profile of Ifeoma Ozoma as she launches The Tech Worker Handbook, an online guide for tech workplace complaints, and Silenced No More Act becomes California law (Jennifer Elias/CNBC)

Jennifer Elias / CNBC:
Profile of Ifeoma Ozoma as she launches The Tech Worker Handbook, an online guide for tech workplace complaints, and Silenced No More Act becomes California law  —  - Ifeoma Ozoma, a former employee at Pinterest and Google, just published a resource guide for tech workers who are considering …

New rules needed to cover risks from cloud computing, says Bank of England

New rules will be needed to deal with operational risks from banks relying on outsourced 'cloud' computing from Amazon, Google, Microsoft and others for providing services to customers, the Bank of England said on Friday. https://ift.tt/3iOjwip

When trying to address problems that social media may cause young people, lawmakers focus on Facebook and largely ignore TikTok, which most teens use (Evelyn Douek/The Atlantic)

Evelyn Douek / The Atlantic:
When trying to address problems that social media may cause young people, lawmakers focus on Facebook and largely ignore TikTok, which most teens use  —  Many people think of TikTok as a dance app.  And although it is an app full of dancing, it's also a juggernaut experiencing astronomical growth.

MindMaze, which makes VR software to help patients regain motion after strokes or traumatic brain injuries, raises $125M, source says at a $1.5B valuation (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
MindMaze, which makes VR software to help patients regain motion after strokes or traumatic brain injuries, raises $125M, source says at a $1.5B valuation  —  - MindMaze's software aids recovery from traumatic brain injury  — AlbaCore Capital provides financing round of $125 million

Deals of the day in Amazon sale: Apple iPad Mini, Oppo smartphone, Lenovo laptop and more

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Leaked marketing site: Pixel 6 phones will include a 50MP primary camera, with 12MP ultrawide and 48MP 4x telephoto lenses on Pro, and a Magic Eraser feature (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)

Ben Schoon / 9to5Google:
Leaked marketing site: Pixel 6 phones will include a 50MP primary camera, with 12MP ultrawide and 48MP 4x telephoto lenses on Pro, and a Magic Eraser feature  —  The Pixel 6 series is set to deliver the biggest camera overhaul the Pixel lineup has ever seen, and now a pair of marketing sites …

Following a BBC investigation, Facebook bans buying and selling Amazon rainforest land in ecological conservation areas on Marketplace (BBC)

BBC:
Following a BBC investigation, Facebook bans buying and selling Amazon rainforest land in ecological conservation areas on Marketplace  —  Facebook says it will begin clamping down on the illegal sale of protected areas of the Amazon rainforest on its site.

[Thread] Google's staff engineering lead for Apple's platforms says Google stopped using Material Design for iOS apps after almost a decade, in favor of UIKit (Jeff Verkoeyen/@featherless)

Jeff Verkoeyen / @featherless:
[Thread] Google's staff engineering lead for Apple's platforms says Google stopped using Material Design for iOS apps after almost a decade, in favor of UIKit  —  This year my team shifted the open source Material components libraries for iOS into maintenance mode. Why? A 🧵...

NYC-based customer data infrastructure company mParticle raises $150M Series E, bringing its total raised to $272M (AlleyWatch)

AlleyWatch:
NYC-based customer data infrastructure company mParticle raises $150M Series E, bringing its total raised to $272M  —  The customer data platform market size is expected to grow to $15.3B by 2026; that's just the platform market.  The value of the data that these platforms contain is worth much more …

Tesla delays Full Self-Driving beta rollout to ~1,000 drivers with perfect safety scores of 100, Elon Musk says due to a "few last minute concerns" (Kim Lyons/The Verge)

Kim Lyons / The Verge:
Tesla delays Full Self-Driving beta rollout to ~1,000 drivers with perfect safety scores of 100, Elon Musk says due to a “few last minute concerns”  —  The “Full Self-Driving” update was supposed to roll out to 1,000 more Tesla owners Friday  —  Tesla has delayed the rollout …

UK eyes 'walk me home' phone-tracker to protect lone women

Once a woman activated an app on her phone, the service would track her journey and send an alert to her emergency contacts if she didn't reach her destination on time, Philip Jansen said in the letter. https://ift.tt/3DohWvk

All analog terrestrial TV transmitters to be phased out by Mar 31, 2022, barring 50: MIB

Almost 70 per cent of all analog transmitters have been phased out so far and the rest are being "sunset" in a phased manner while ensuring that "appropriate measures" are taken for re-deployment of manpower, the ministry said. https://ift.tt/3mwgjF6

Grand Theft Auto Trilogy's Remastered Versions Coming Later This Year

Grand Theft Auto III, Grand Theft Auto Vice City, and Grand Theft Auto San Andreas - the trilogy of the popular action-adventure RPG - are getting remastered later this year, publisher Rockstar... https://ift.tt/3uWIjW3

Chinese Lunar Samples Suggest Moon Cooled Down Later Than Thought

Chinese lunar mission Chang'e-5 brought back remnants of solidified lava that were 1 billion years younger than material acquired by other missions, suggesting the moon cooled down later than thought. https://ift.tt/3Br9niF