Reddit 2020

UK-based fintech startup Revolut launches commission-free US stock trading service, including the ability to buy fractions of shares (Ryan Browne/CNBC)

Analysis: in Q2 2019, global smartphone shipments declined 1% YoY, making it the 7th consecutive quarter of declining shipments; Samsung shipments grew 7.1% YoY (Varun Mishra/Counterpoint Research)

After 6 months of fact-checking for Facebook, Full Fact published 96 fact-checks, was paid ~$171k, wants Facebook to share more data with fact-checkers (Laura Hazard Owen/Nieman Lab)

Lyft has made its 1,000 e-bikes in San Francisco "unavailable to riders" following two reports of bikes catching fire (Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez/The San ...)

Google to let G Suite admins select users for the Advanced Protection Program, designed to prevent cyberattacks against high-profile users, in the coming days (Liam Tung/ZDNet)

Newly-released documents on Sentient, the NRO's ambitious analysis tool meant to guide spy satellites to areas of interest, raise more questions than answers (Sarah Scoles/The Verge)

Google says its Titan security keys are now available in Canada, France, Japan, and the UK, expanding beyond the US (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)

Amazon has acquired Israeli enterprise flash storage startup E8 Storage, which has raised $18M+; sources say the deal was worth under $50M (Taylor Soper/GeekWire)

Trump's ongoing trade war with China has been a boon for Vietnam, as some tech companies, like Apple and Nintendo, consider shifting production there (Raymond Zhong/New York Times)

Toronto-based Clearbanc, which offers $10K-$10M investments in e-commerce startups, says it raised $50M led by Highland Capital and announces a new $250M fund (Kate Clark/TechCrunch)

Four major broadcast networks sue Locast, which is funded by AT&T, to try to stop it from freely retransmitting the signals of their local TV stations (Wall Street Journal)

Researcher discovers unsecured Honda database, now secured, containing 134M rows of employee systems data that could help hackers compromise its systems (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)

In an apparent bid to sway Trump after he rejected Apple's request for Mac Pro part import exclusions, Tim Cook says Apple plans to make the Mac Pro in the US (Chris Welch/The Verge)

Filings: Alphabet's cash pile reached $117B, surpassing Apple's as the world's largest for the first time in 10 years, as Apple declined from $163B to $102B (Richard Waters/Financial Times)

Sources: Facebook is working on a new TV device that can stream video and make video calls using its Portal tech, and has approached Netflix, Disney, and others (Alex Heath/The Information)

Samsung announces Galaxy Tab S6, it's most high-end Android tablet, with a 10.5-inch OLED display and Snapdragon 855, coming September 6 for $649+ (Dan Seifert/The Verge)

Behind the rise of the funeral livestreaming industry in the US, where an estimated 20% of funeral homes offer livestreaming services (Paris Martineau/Wired)

Harver, which offers pre-hire assessment software for high-volume hiring in enterprises, raises $15M Series B from Insight Partners (Paul Sawers/VentureBeat)

Sources: Chinese importers in Russia buy ~$30M worth of tether, a USD pegged crypto coin, every day, to send large sums of money back home (Anna Baydakova/CoinDesk)

Lightricks, which makes the popular selfie editing app Facetune, raises $135M Series C led by Goldman Sachs at a post-money valuation of $1B (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)

Spotify Q2: 108M paying subscribers, up 31% YoY, and operating loss of €3M on revenue of €1.67B, up 31% YoY (Tim Ingham/Music Business Worldwide)

Review of DJI's RoboMaster S1 programmable robot tank toy: nice camera, supports both Python and Scratch, but it's pricey at $500 and it lacks module options (Will Greenwald/PCMag)

Apple joins Google, Facebook, and Twitter in the open-source Data Transfer Project, will develop interoperable systems to bring data in and out of iCloud (Russell Brandom/The Verge)

Amazon announces general availability of Neural Text-to-Speech and "newscaster style" in Amazon Polly, its cloud service that converts text to speech (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

US files ~$100M lawsuit against BTC-e crypto exchange and a co-owner for alleged crimes including conspiracy, money laundering, and unlawful money transactions (Daniel Kuhn/CoinDesk)