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Apple's system status webpage indicates that the company has resolved an outage affecting iCloud Account and Sign In services — Apple's system status webpage indicates that the company has resolved an outage affecting “iCloud Account and Sign In” services.
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MacRumors, AppleInsider, The Verge, Engadget, Forbes, iPhone Hacks, Redmond Pie, iMore, PCMag, BleepingComputer, Gizmodo, and Fortune. Tweets: @tweeting_frog
| Julia Alexander / The Verge: |
2020 has been the beginning of major streaming exclusivity plays, forcing users to pay for four or five services as big studios prioritize their own platforms — End-of-year turnover is always rough, and it's going to get worse — Two of the biggest movies people want to talk about this week …
Tweets: @trengriffin, @stevie_mat, @themeganpurdy, @sachinrekhi, and @robabramowitz
| Paresh Dave / Reuters: |
Laptop and desktop manufacturers are still months away from fulfilling outstanding orders as sales see a renaissance; shortages won't ease until 2022 — OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) - The world stocked up on laptop and desktop computers in 2020 at a level not seen since the iPhone debuted in 2007 … | Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
2020 political campaigns secured emails with physical security keys from a nonprofit working with Google and Microsoft; source says Biden's campaign used keys — - Keys from the likes of Google and Yubico became a hit among campaign workers this year, including in Joe Biden's campaign.
Tweets: @netik, @codinghorror, @eladgil, @martin_casado, @elizabeth_joh, @boblord, and @jordannovet
| Will Knight / Wired: |
David Silver, a principal research scientist at DeepMind, on AlphaGo, AlphaZero, and MuZero, applying reinforcement learning to real world problems, and more — David Silver of DeepMind, who helped create the program that defeated a Go champion, thinks rewards are central to how machines—and humans—acquire knowledge.
Tweets: @nickwaye, @louisgray, @alan_couzens, and @bravo_abad
| Sarah Fallon / Wired: |
Profile of Ray Holt, who in the 1960s jointly developed the F-14 Tomcat's Central Air Data Computer, considered by some to be the first microprocessor — In a weird way, I've known Ray Holt all my life, but I never knew what he had accomplished—or how his inventions wove their way into my own family.
Tweets: @pomeranian99, @bcantrill, @wired, @airpir_southern, @sarahfallon, @mathewi, @dantley, @caitlin__kelly, @topgunbio, and @crispinburke
| Ionut Ilascu / BleepingComputer: |
Microsoft's patch for a zero-day privilege escalation Windows bug in June did not fix the vulnerability, which could still be exploited with some adjustments — Back in June, Microsoft released a fix for a vulnerability in the Windows operating system that enabled attackers to increase …
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| Ankit Malhotra / Counterpoint Research: |
With 31% market share, MediaTek becomes the biggest smartphone SoC vendor globally in Q3, surpassing Qualcomm, which remains the largest 5G chipset vendor — - More than 100 million smartphones were sold globally with MediaTek chipsets in Q3 2020. — Qualcomm led the market for 5G chipsets in Q3 2020.
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phonearena.com, TechSpot, Pocketnow, Engadget, 91mobiles.com, The Indian Express, NDTV Gadgets 360, DigiTimes, Gizchina, and Notebookcheck.net. Tweets: @liliputingnews
| Reuters: |
Mastercard SpendingPulse: US online holiday sales from Oct. 11 to Dec. 24 grew 49% YoY, for a 19.7% share of overall retail sales, up from about 13.4% in 2019 — (Reuters) -U.S. retail sales rose 3% during this year's expanded holiday shopping season from Oct. 11 to Dec. 24 … | Steven Overly / Politico: |
Facebook critics say a general animosity toward Facebook in Washington may push the Biden administration into taking more proactive measures against the company — Joe Biden has said he's no fan of Facebook. Now he has an opportunity to show it as he assumes landmark policy and legal battles against the company.
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Tweets: @justinhendrix, @bruno_j_navarro, @fboversight, @rededdy56, @alfonslopeztena, and @jason_kint
| Andrew Davis / Bloomberg: |
Report: Facebook closed Irish subsidiary and moved billions in profits back to US following IRS suit; Irish subsidiary paid $101M in tax on $15B profit in 2018 — Facebook Inc. has moved to wind down several Irish holding companies that had allowed it to shift billions of dollars in profit to the country … | Nicole Sperling / New York Times: |
As streaming platforms like Netflix have grown, political films they used to seek out, like The Dissident, on the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, are being shunned — Bryan Fogel's examination of the killing of the Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi had trouble finding a home among the companies …
Tweets: @justinhendrix, @profcarroll, @lunnbernard, @fabiochiusi, @parismarx, @hatr, @lrozen, @ennisnyt, @paulnemitz, @da_banks, @cliffordlevy, @felixsalmon, @jayrosen_nyu, @jlcauvin, @howardfineman, @hshaban, @anopensecret, @tariqkrim, @nytimesbusiness, @sub8u, @dlepeska, @joshfoxfilm, @amlivemon, and @brooksbarnesnyt
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