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Craig Federighi, Johny Srouji, and Greg Joswiak on how Apple designed M1, the importance of UMA, non-linear increase in performance at higher power levels, more — Craig Federighi, Johny Srouji, and Greg Joswiak tell us the Apple Silicon story. — Some time ago, in an Apple campus building, a group of engineers got together.| TechCrunch: |
a16z closes two new funds totaling $4.5B, focused on early and later-stage investments, bringing total assets under management to $16.5B — Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) has closed a pair of funds totaling $4.5 billion, the firm confirmed in a blog post this morning.
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| Michael del Castillo / Forbes: |
Crypto analytics startup Chainalysis raises $100M Series C led by Addition at a $1B valuation, says its revenue grew by around 96% over the past year — A new bitcoin unicorn is about to be born. After days of rumors flying around the cryptocurrency industry, investigation firm Chainalysis …
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| Reed Albergotti / Washington Post: |
Congressional staffers say Apple is among companies trying to weaken a bill that would hold US companies accountable for using Uighur forced labor in China — Apple wants to water down key provisions of the bill, which would hold U.S. companies accountable for using Uighur forced labor, according to two congressional staffers
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Twitter says it will transfer @POTUS to Joe Biden when he is sworn in as president, along with other official accounts; Facebook says it will do the same — The presidential Twitter account will pass to Biden on inauguration day — January, Joe Biden will be sworn in as the 46th president …
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Sources: Airbnb's “chief trust officer” resigned in 2019 over concerns about Airbnb's data sharing with Chinese authorities, who wanted more “real-time data” — Company says it declined to disclose more details with China and is transparent with users …
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An operator of TikTok houses, West of Hudson Group, underwent a reverse takeover with Tongji Healthcare this week, creating a publicly traded company — Time to learn about reverse takeovers, kids! — A business trying to make money off mansions full of TikTok influencers has gone public on the stock market through an unusual deal.| Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: |
Apple Support page says the company is working with Microsoft on adding support for Xbox Series X controller to Apple devices — Apple and Microsoft are working on adding support for the Xbox Series X controller to Apple devices, according to an Apple Support page spotted by a Reddit user.
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| Frank Konkel / Nextgov: |
The CIA awards its Commercial Cloud Enterprise contract to AWS, Microsoft, Google, Oracle, and IBM; the project's expected value is in the “tens of billions” — The agency has awarded a contract to bring foundational cloud services from multiple cloud service providers into the intelligence community.
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| Taylor Lorenz / New York Times: |
Zillow usage since March is up 50%+ YoY, as surfing real estate listings on home buying websites becomes a form of escapism amid the pandemic — Scrolling through real estate listings in far-flung destinations is a way to visualize an alternate life, whether you're trying to move or not.
Tweets: @westcoastbill, @taylorlorenz, @taylrn, @menendezrand, and @marybschneider
| Alex Sherman / CNBC: |
Sources: Amazon agrees to pull HBO from Fire TV's Amazon Channels next year; WarnerMedia wanted HBO out to maintain a direct relationship with users via its app — - Amazon has agreed to pull HBO from Amazon Channels in the Amazon Fire TV interface when that agreement lapses next year, sources say.
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| Peter Guest / Rest of World: |
Facebook created country-specific community standards for the first time ahead of Myanmar's general election, and seemingly reduced hate speech and misinfo — Accused of enabling genocide, the social media giant has temporarily changed its rules in Myanmar to prevent abuse and misinformation.
Tweets: @lmatsakis, @yaqiu, @restofworld, @lifewinning, and @jason_koebler
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| David McLaughlin / Bloomberg: |
Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, others want to prevent Google's in-house lawyers from accessing “competitively sensitive” docs given to DOJ as part of antitrust probe — - Fight is over documents in U.S. antitrust suit against Google — Apple says Google would have unfair advantage from disclosures
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YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter say they will join forces with fact-checkers, governments, and researchers to tackle COVID-19 vaccine conspiracies from January — Three of the largest social networks have said they will join forces with fact-checkers, governments and researchers to try to come … | Damian Radcliffe / ZDNet: |
Report: In the Middle East, $704M was invested across 564 different startups in 2019, compared to only $15M in five venture deals in 2009 — The coronavirus is having an impact, but the Middle East's startup scene is showing some unexpected trends. — At the end of last year, the Middle East's startup scene was on the up and up.Thanks:@damianradcliffe
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
A look at Google Pay redesign as an all-encompassing money app with P2P payments, personal finance insights, deals, and banking services, rolling out in the US — Today, Google Pay for both Android and iOS is relaunching with a giant array of new features.| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple defends its delayed IDFA changes in iOS 14 and slams Facebook, saying “its intent is to collect as much data as possible” on its users — Last month, a coalition of eight civil and human rights organizations penned an open letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook regarding …
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