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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter rolls out Fleets, its ephemeral Stories feature, globally, and says it plans to test an audio-based social networking feature similar to Clubhouse — Twitter this morning is launching its own version of Stories — aka “Fleets” — to its global user base.
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| CNBC: |
Amazon launches Amazon Pharmacy, letting customers in the US order prescription medications for home delivery, including free delivery for Prime members — - Amazon is making its biggest move yet into the pharmacy space. — Amazon Pharmacy is designed to make it easy and convenient to order prescription medicines online.
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| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
Apple MacBook Air with M1 review: incredibly fast performance with no fan noise, decent gaming performance, and a great keyboard and trackpad — Apple's new MacBook Air is stunningly fast. It's raring to go the instant you open its lid. Want to browse the web?
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The Verge, CNET, Laptop Mag, 9to5Mac, Macworld, Business Insider, Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, Wired, CNBC, iMore, Mashable, and Tom's Guide
| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Apple MacBook Pro with M1 review: great performance, display, and battery life but only two USB ports, RAM limited to 16GB, and a miserable webcam — Apple's M1 processor has many upsides, with few downsides — The easiest, best way to think about the new entry-level MacBook Pro is that it is a MacBook Air with a fan.
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TechCrunch, TechCrunch, Laptop Mag, CNN, Six Colors, and iPhone Hacks
Tweets: @dcseifert, @tomwarren, @panzer, and @backlon
| David Kirton / Reuters: |
Huawei is selling its Honor smartphone unit to a consortium of over 30 agents and dealers for an undisclosed sum; buyers are creating a new company for purchase — Huawei Technologies Co Ltd is selling its budget brand smartphone unit Honor to a consortium of over 30 agents and dealers …
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Huawei, Thurrott, Nikkei Asia, Android Police, The Verge, Financial Times, XDA Developers, TechCrunch, IT Management, coinspeaker.com, Wccftech, Huawei Central, Neowin, Android Headlines, Pocketnow, Android Central, BGR India, TechPP, Forbes, Android Authority, TechRadar, SlashGear, ZDNet, South China Morning Post, and Bloomberg
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| Callum Booth / The Next Web: |
Security researcher demonstrates how Apple's apps on macOS Big Sur bypass firewalls and VPNs, an issue first brought to light in October — DON'T WORRY THOUGH, APPLE REALLY, REALLY, REALLY CARES ABOUT YOUR PRIVACY — For all of Apple's talk of being privacy-first, often its marketing speak …
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| BuzzFeed News: |
Internal Facebook data shows that labels on Trump's election misinformation posts only decreased shares by ~8%, and failed to slow their spread across the site — Internal data shows that labels on President Trump's posts decrease reshares by about 8%. They still account for some of the most engaging posts on the platform.
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CNET and Gizmodo
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| Joseph Menn / Reuters: |
Twitter names Peiter “Mudge” Zatko, veteran of Stripe, Google, and DARPA, to the new position of head of security — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Social media giant Twitter TWTR.N Inc, under increased threat of regulation and plagued by serious security breaches …
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| Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic: |
Barack Obama says today's online information ecosystem, which boosts conspiracy theories like QAnon, is “the single biggest threat to our democracy” — Barack Obama was describing to me the manner in which the Mongol emperor and war-crimes innovator Genghis Khan would besiege a town.
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| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Airbnb releases public IPO filing, seeks Nasdaq listing under ticker ABNB, reports $219M in net income on revenues of $1.3B last quarter, down nearly 19% YoY — - Airbnb has released its prospectus to debut on public markets. — Brian Chesky, CEO of Airbnb
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
TikTok expands Family Pairing parental controls for kids age 13 or older to include commenting, account privacy, and the ability to access the search bar — TikTok today announced it's expanding its parental control feature set known as Family Pairing to give parents additional tools … | CNBC: |
Walmart says its US e-commerce sales grew 79% YoY in Q3 — - Walmart's U.S. e-commerce sales soared by 79% in the third quarter, as customers continued to shop online during the coronavirus pandemic. — Instead of browsing store aisles, more customers are shipping purchases to their homes … | Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: |
Microsoft announces Pluton, its new project with AMD, Intel, and Qualcomm, to create x86 and ARM CPUs that integrate a dedicated security component — Microsoft teamed up with AMD, Intel and Qualcomm to create a T2-like co-processor — The next Windows PC you buy could come …
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The Verge, ZDNet, Microsoft Security, Tom's Hardware, TechCrunch, TechRadar, Wired, BleepingComputer, crn.com, and MSPoweruser
| Clio Chang / Columbia Journalism Review: |
Profile of Substack, whose founders insist it is a platform, not a media company, and say there is less need for moderation as readers opt in to newsletters — Did a newsletter company create a more equitable media system—or replicate the flaws of the old one?
Tweets: @benthompson, @cliomiso, @asymmetricinfo, @can, @bdomenech, @maxwellstrachan, @dandrezner, @biblioracle, @nbashaw, @benthompson, @sonnybunch, @alexkotch, @nicalexiac, @z_everson, @annehelen, @xokasia, @alicesperi, @kantrowitz, @benthompson, @lollardfish, @shortformernie, @benyt, @gbbranstetter, @elongreen, @benthompson, @lpbradley, @emmaroller, @erikhinton, @zacharylipez, and @nathantankus
| Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat: |
Cato Networks, a cloud-based security service to protect remote workforces, raises $130M Series E at a $1B+ valuation, bringing its total raised to $332M — The global pandemic has accelerated the digital transformation of a wide range of sectors. While consumers and businesses continue …
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TechCrunch, crn.com, and New.blicio.us
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Zoom unveils At-Risk Meeting Notifier, a feature that scans the net for posted Zoom meeting links and alerts meeting organizers to potential Zoombombing attacks — The new “At-Risk Meeting Notifier” Zoom feature scans the internet and alerts conference organizers when a link to their Zoom meeting has been posted online.| Annie Musgrove / Tech.eu: |
London-based Paddle, which developing a service to help companies manage their revenue infrastructure, raises $68M Series C, bringing its total raised to $93M — Paddle, the London-based company behind a revenue platform for B2B SaaS companies, has raised $68 million (£52 million) in Series C funding.
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FinSMEs, Business Wire, VentureBeat, Paddle, and EU-Startups
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Adobe releases Arm versions of Photoshop for Windows and macOS in beta, which users can run natively on Surface Pro X or Apple M1 Macs — Just in time for Apple's new M1-powered Macs — Adobe is releasing Arm versions of Photoshop for Windows and macOS today.
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Thurrott, 9to5Mac, Adobe Photoshop Family, MacRumors, Windows Central, and OnMSFT.com. Tweets: @tomwarren
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
OpenPhone, which offers businesses a single phone number that entire teams can access through its iOS, Android apps, raises $14M Series A led by Craft Ventures — OpenPhone, a company setting out to replace “antiquated” business phone systems, has raised $14 million in a series A round of funding led by David Sacks' Craft Ventures.
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TechCrunch, Crunchbase News, and New.blicio.us
| CBS News: |
Livestream of testimonies of Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey before the Senate Judiciary Committee on their companies' actions around the 2020 election — The Senate Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing Tuesday to question Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey …
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Protocol, Protocol, coinspeaker.com, Reuters, Forbes, New York Times, Ad Age, and CNET
| Bijan Stephen / The Verge: |
Twitch is testing “multiplayer ads” that are chosen by the streamer and seen by everyone in the audience; creators can run polls after, earning them Bits — The ads will be chosen by the streamer, and everyone in the audience will see the same thing
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Telkomsel, Indonesia's biggest telecom network, invests $150M in ride-hailing giant Gojek; Gojek raised $3B+ to date and was valued at ~$10B earlier this year — Telkomsel, Indonesia's biggest telecom network, has invested $150 million in ride-hailing firm Gojek, the two companies said on Tuesday.
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PhocusWire, Nikkei Asia, and DealStreetAsia
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
AliveCor, which makes heart-monitoring hardware and is developing algorithms to flag heart issues, raises $65M Series E led by Omron Healthcare — AliveCor, a startup developing algorithms that detect atrial fibrillation, bradycardia, tachycardia, and other health issues from heart rate readings, today raised $65 million in funding.
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hitconsultant.net, mddionline.com, PR Newswire, and FinSMEs
| Abby Vollmer / The GitHub Blog: |
GitHub reinstates the youtube-dl project, raises its bar for DMCA takedown requests, and creates $1M legal defense fund to help open source devs fight takedowns — Today we reinstated youtube-dl, a popular project on GitHub, after we received additional information about the project …
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