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Amazon launches EC2 Mac instances bringing the Intel-based Mac mini to its cloud for $1.083 per hour billed by the second — AWS today opened its re:Invent conference with a surprise announcement: the company is bringing the Mac mini to its cloud. These new EC2 Mac instances, as AWS calls them, are now available in preview.
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| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
Alphabet's DeepMind says it has solved the key “protein folding problem”, cutting the job down from months to hours, which could speed up drug discovery — Researchers at DeepMind say they have solved “the protein folding problem,” a task that has bedeviled scientists for more than 50 years.
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| Eric Geller / Politico: |
SCOTUS worries about CFAA's sweeping nature, with Justice Gorsuch saying that the US government's view of the law risks “making a federal criminal of us all” — The Supreme Court on Monday indicated serious reservations about the ambiguity and scope of the nation's only major cybercrime law …
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| Jim Waterson / The Guardian: |
Facebook to launch Facebook News in the UK in Jan. 2021, says it will pay publishers for news not already on its platform; most big UK publishers have signed up — Facebook is to pay mainstream UK news outlets millions of pounds a year to license their articles, as the social network faces …
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Ajit Pai, the Trump-appointed Republican chairman of the FCC, announces he will leave the agency on Jan. 20, when president-elect Joe Biden is sworn into office — Aji Pai, the Trump-appointed Republican chairman of the FCC, announced that he will leave the agency on Jan. 20, 2021, when president-elect Joe Biden is sworn into office.
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| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Facebook says it has agreed to acquire Kustomer, which specializes in customer service tools and chatbots, reportedly for $1B+ — Facebook Inc. has acquired Kustomer Inc., a New York-based software company that helps businesses manage customer conversations from multiple services on one dashboard.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Gartner: global Q3 smartphone sales dropped 5.7% YoY to 366M; Samsung led with 80.8M units, Huawei fell 21% to 51.8M, and Xiaomi grew ~35% YoY, surpassing Apple — We are now into the all-important holiday sales period, and new numbers from Gartner point to some recovery underway …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple hires Josh Elman, former VC at Greylock Partners and ex-VP of product at Robinhood, to work on app discovery at the App Store — Apple Inc. hired Josh Elman, a former venture capitalist at Greylock Partners who led early investments in Discord and the precursor to TikTok, to work on the App Store.| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
Sources: GitLab is letting employees sell equity in a secondary share sale that values the company over $6B, up from a valuation of $2.7B in September 2019 — - GitLab competes with GitHub, which Microsoft acquired in 2018 for $7.5 billion. — The company had originally aimed to go public …
Tweets: @amontalenti, @mattrosoff, and @levynews
| Jeff Grubb / VentureBeat: |
Report: in the past six months 79% of US consumers played a video game, with time spent playing games up 26% YoY, and user spending up 33% YoY — We know that time and money spent on video games is surging due to the pandemic. Now, industry-tracking firm The NPD Group is providing detail on where that growth is coming from.
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| Ana Swanson / New York Times: |
Sources: Apple suggested edits to a draft of Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, extending some deadlines, limiting release of some info to the public, and more — Business groups and major companies like Apple have been pressing Congress to alter legislation cracking down on imports of goods …
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Zoom reports Q3 revenue of $777.2M, up 367% YoY, vs. $694M est., and customers with 10+ employees rose to ~433,700, up 485% YoY, higher than Q2's 355% growth — - Zoom beat expectations for third-quarter earnings and guidance for the quarter ahead. — The company now sees 329% …
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| New York Times: |
E-commerce is in a flux for luxury brands, with Amazon on one side and a new alliance, including LVMH, Kering, Farfetch, and Richemont, on the other — On one side: Amazon. On the other: a new alliance of brands and platforms. Who will win? — In 2015, the chairman and controlling shareholder …
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| Sahil Patel / Wall Street Journal: |
Reddit says it averaged 52M DAUs in October, up 44% YoY, disclosing the metric for the first time; ad revenue hit $100M+ in 2019, on track to rise 70%+ in 2020 — The disclosure comes as the tech company pursues new advertisers — Reddit Inc. said it averaged 52 million daily active users in October … | Surojit Chatterjee / The Coinbase Blog: |
Coinbase says that, starting in early 2021, it will begin supporting Ethereum 2.0, letting users convert ETH into ETH2 and earn staking rewards — On December 1, the Ethereum Beacon Chain will launch, beginning a multi-year upgrade to Ethereum 2.0 (ETH2). Coinbase intends to support ETH2 through staking and trading.
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Tweets: @coinbase, @hasufl, @brian_armstrong, @crypt0snews, and @adamscochran
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Sources: India-based CRED, which helps users improve their financial behavior, raises $80M Series C at a $800M valuation, up from $450M in August 2019 — CRED, a two-year-old startup that is helping credit card users in India improve their financial behaviour, has raised $80 million …
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