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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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| 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.| 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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| 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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| 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.
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| 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 …
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| 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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| 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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| 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 … | 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.| 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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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Apple will reduce its App Store cut to 15% from any developer who earns less than $1M in revenue per year from all their apps, starting January 1 — Any developer that earns less than $1 million in revenue per year is eligible — Apple on Wednesday announced a reduction …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
SellerX, which buys and grows Amazon's marketplace businesses, raises $118M seed round co-led by Cherry Ventures, Felix Capital, and TriplePoint Capital — As Amazon's Marketplace continues to grow and mature, a new opportunity has emerged in the world of e-commerce for a new breed of startups … Sponsor Posts
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