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| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
Apple agrees to pay $113M to settle an investigation into iPhone throttling brought by 34 states and District of Columbia — Apple will pay $113 million to settle an investigation by nearly three dozen states into the tech giant's past practice of slowing customers' old iPhones in an attempt to preserve their batteries.
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azag.gov, Ars Technica, State of California, The Verge, BetaNews, BGR, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, CNET, Business Insider, Neowin, Los Angeles County …, 9to5Mac, iMore, MSPoweruser, Android Authority, TechSpot, Trusted Reviews, iPhone Hacks, Patently Apple, AppleInsider, iDownloadBlog.com, Engadget, TechCrunch, Apple Terminal, MacRumors, CNET, and CT.gov
Tweets: @agbecerra, @jhamby, @patrickclaybon, @markherringva, @kifleswing, @kifleswing, @kifleswing, @darth, and @tonyromm
| Eric Geller / Politico: |
CISA is now being led by 15-year DHS veteran Brandon Wales; source says Wales wants to keep operating CISA's Rumor Control site, which debunked election misinfo — Five months before President Donald Trump fired him, federal cybersecurity chief Chris Krebs made a key addition to his leadership team …
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CyberScoop, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal
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| Amanda Macias / CNBC: |
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| Adam Satariano / New York Times: |
Over 200 Facebook contract moderators sign an open letter criticizing Facebook, Accenture, and CPL for ending WFH policies and call for better protections — Here's what you need to know: — Facebook moderators forced back to the office raise alarms about Covid-19 protections.
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Foxglove, Engadget, CNBC, BBC, SiliconANGLE, news.com.au, Agence France-Presse, Forbes, The Guardian, NPR, TechSpot, Gizmodo, Mashable, Bloomberg, Adweek, and TechCrunch
| Mary Ann Azevedo / FinLedger: |
Affirm files its draft S-1 for an IPO; in its fiscal year ending June 30, 2020, Affirm's revenue was $509.5M, up ~93% YoY, while net losses fell to $112.6M — Buy now, pay later innovator has over 6.2 million consumers on its network — Alternative payments provider Affirm Holdings …
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SEC.gov, TechCrunch, coinspeaker.com, PYMNTS.com, Crunchbase News, MarketWatch, CNBC, Bloomberg, and Fortune
| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
The M1 Macs are astonishingly good and Rosetta is the exemplification of “it just works”, but the iOS app experience ranges from terrible to OK, at best — Better necessarily implies different. — That's one of my favorite axioms. It's both intuitively and undeniably true.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google unveils major redesign for Google Pay for iOS and Android and partners with 11 banks to launch a mobile-first bank accounts service called Plex in 2021 — Google is launching a major redesign of its Google Pay app on both Android and iOS today. Like similar phone-based contactless …
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| Julia Alexander / The Verge: |
YouTube says channels of all sizes may now see ads on them, though only creators big enough to qualify for its Partner Program will be paid any ad revenue — The company is rolling it out on a ‘limited number of videos’ — Starting today, YouTube will begin running ads on some creators' videos …
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| Dave Lee / Financial Times: |
Amazon is laying off dozens of R&D and manufacturing staff on its drone delivery project; source says company is seeking help from two external EU manufacturers — Restructuring comes as US tech giant turns to third parties to build component parts of long-awaited drone| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Apple debuts a forked version of TensorFlow optimized for macOS, says it trains up to 7x faster on 13" MacBook Pro with M1 than 2020 Macbook Pro 13" with Intel — Google today released a new version of TensorFlow, its AI and machine learning development environment, optimized for Intel Macs and Macs powered by Apple's new M1 chip.
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| Sebastiaan de With / Halide: |
iPhone 12 Pro Max's camera achieves images of quality previously only seen in dedicated cameras that have sensors four times its size — At Halide HQ, we've been busily working away on a very deep, technical analysis of what's new in iPhone 12 cameras this year. All four of 'em.
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| Monica Chin / The Verge: |
Pixelmator releases Pixelmator Pro 2.0, which will run natively on Macs with M1, says features like ML Super Resolution will be up to 15x faster on the new Macs — Plus, a big redesign — Pixelmator has announced Pixelmator Pro 2.0, the newest update to the image-editing software Pixelmator Pro.
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Pixelmator Pro, TidBITS, iPhone in Canada Blog, and iDownloadBlog.com
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| Charlie Osborne / ZDNet: |
Symantec says a hacking group believed to be sponsored by the Chinese gov't has exploited the Zerologon vulnerability in companies worldwide since Oct. 2019 — A massive campaign is underway around the globe, with automotive, pharmaceutical and engineering entities top targets.
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Ars Technica, infosecurity-magazine.com, and TechNadu
| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
Sources: state and federal investigators are preparing to bring antitrust charges against Facebook for buying rivals Instagram and WhatsApp — State and federal investigators are preparing to bring antitrust charges against Facebook that will challenge the tech giant's acquisition of two rivals …
Tweets: @ohmdee, @jason_kint, @carlquintanilla, @tonyromm, and @tonyromm
| Jake Bright / TechCrunch: |
Chipper Cash, which provides cross-border payments services in Africa, raises $30M Series B led by Ribbit Capital, with participation from Bezos Expeditions — African cross-border fintech startup Chipper Cash has raised a $30 million Series B funding round led by Ribbit Capital with participation …
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coinspeaker.com and Techpoint Africa
Tweets: @wizaj, @chamsface4music, @thembandala, and @asemota
| Maggie Miller / The Hill: |
The Senate passes a bill that would require all internet-connected devices purchased by the US government to comply with NIST's minimum security recommendations — The Senate this week unanimously passed bipartisan legislation designed to boost the cybersecurity of internet-connected devices.| Danny Nelson / CoinDesk: |
Binance sues Forbes Media and two journalists for defamation over a Forbes story in October that alleged Binance had planned to deceive regulators and investors — Binance Holdings Limited sued Forbes Media LLC for defamation Wednesday over a story last month that purported … | Scott Zamost / NBC News: |
Criminals launder coronavirus relief money through Venmo, Cash App, PayPal and other apps; so far 80 have been charged with trying to steal $240M+ from the PPP — Criminals are laundering illegally obtained funds meant for Covid-19 relief through the most popular apps for legally sending …
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple's iOS 14.3 beta 2 lets users run shortcuts from the home screen without launching the Shortcuts app, making custom app icons more seamless — Apple introduced the second developer beta of iOS 14.3 yesterday, and it includes a major change to Shortcuts.
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TechCrunch, MacRumors, TechRadar, iMore, iDownloadBlog.com, and MacRumors
Tweets: @appleterminal, @viticci, @cyanapps, @surenix, and @casey
| Ian Carlos Campbell / The Verge: |
Google adds family-oriented features to Google Assistant devices, like dictating notes that stay on the display, family location map, and educational options — New and improved features for smart displays and Fi plans — Google has announced new family-oriented updates for Assistant and Fi …
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The Keyword, Android Central, SlashGear, USA Today, TechHive, Android Police, 9to5Google, and Engadget. Tweets: @peggyktc
| Ben Gilbert / Business Insider: |
Facebook's experimental NPE division releases E.gg, a tool that lets users create media collages with their own URLs; available now for iOS in the US — The letter F. An envelope. It indicates the ability to send an email. An image of a chain link. It symobilizes a website link url.
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New Product Experimentation …, CNET, Social Media Today, and Adweek
Tweets: @jasontoff and @rstephens
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Afresh, which helps optimize grocery supply chains using AI, raises $13M Series A extension; source says valuing the company at more than $100M — AI-powered grocery management platform Afresh today raised $13 million in funding, a figure that a source tells VentureBeat values the company at over $100 million.
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TechCrunch and PR Newswire
| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Nvidia beats with record Q3 revenue of $4.73B, up 57% YoY, gaming revenue of $2.27B, up 37% YoY, and data center revenue of $1.9B, up 162% YoY — - Nvidia reported earnings for its third fiscal quarter of 2021 on Wednesday. — Nvidia beat analyst expectations on both earnings and revenue …
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NVIDIA, VentureBeat, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Investor's Business Daily, Barron's Online, SiliconANGLE, Financial Times, Yahoo Finance, MarketWatch, Windows Central, Wccftech, and ZDNet
Tweets: @alex, @tekstrategist, @mattrosoff, and @danielnewmanuv
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