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Zuckerberg says Facebook is extending the block it has placed on Trump's Facebook and Instagram accounts “indefinitely and for at least the next two weeks” — The shocking events of the last 24 hours clearly demonstrate that President Donald Trump intends to use his remaining …
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Trump's Twitter account is unlocked following a 12-hour ban after he deleted several tweets; Twitter says he risks a permanent ban if he further violates rules — A little too late for that — Twitter has lifted its ban on President Donald Trump, and his latest tweet is very different than the ones we've seen for many months.
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A look at the digital archives preserving the posts rioters made of themselves at the US Capitol; the valuable crowdsourced evidence otherwise faces removal — Yesterday, a nauseated and tired public witnessed a clear, on-the-ground, real-time feed of Trump supporters committing countless potential felonies and misdemeanors.| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Reddit bans one of its largest Trump supporting subreddits, r/donaldtrump, due to repeated policy violations with regard to the violence at the Capitol — Reddit has banned the subreddit group “r/DonaldTrump,” a spokesperson confirmed to Axios. — Why it matters: While not an official group …
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Roku has acquired global rights for Quibi content, sources say for less than $100M, and will make it available free to stream in 2021 on the Roku Channel — Maker of the biggest U.S. streaming video-player plans to put the content in its ad-supported channel
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| Jason Gurwin / The Streamable: |
Roku says Roku OS-powered smart TVs held 38% market share in the US and 31% in Canada in 2020, according to NPD — Earlier in the week, Roku revealed that they had surpassed 50 million active users. One of the biggest areas of growth has come from Roku OS-powered Smart TVs.| Saheli Roy Choudhury / CNBC: |
Hyundai confirms that it is in early discussions with Apple on collaborating to develop a self-driving car, and says Apple is in talks with several car makers — - South Korean automaker Hyundai Motor said it's in the early stages of discussions with Apple over potentially working together to develop an electric car.
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| Tanishaa Nadkar / Reuters: |
UK's competition watchdog says it is investigating Google's proposals to remove third-party cookies from Chrome over concerns it could curb rival advertising — (Reuters) - UK's competition watchdog said on Friday it has launched an investigation into Google's proposals to remove third-party cookies …
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| Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac: |
Kuo says there will be no improvements to main iPhone camera lens in 2021 and 2022 but does not change forecasts for upgrades for ultrawide and telephoto lenses — Noted Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo previously predicted significant improvements to two of the three iPhone lenses in 2021 and 2022 respectively.
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Car makers including Volkswagen, Daimler, GM, and Renault are facing a crippling shortage of semiconductors; Volkswagen said it'll produce 100K fewer cars in Q1 — Volkswagen, Daimler, GM and Renault vie with consumer electronics groups for scarce chips — The world's largest carmakers … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: Intercontinental Exchange's Bakkt is in advanced talks to go public via a merger with SPAC; combined entity could be valued at $2B — Bakkt, the cryptocurrency platform majority owned by Intercontinental Exchange Inc., is in advanced talks to go public through a merger …
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| Jessica Toonkel / The Information: |
Sources: AT&T couldn't get an HBO Max distribution deal for Amazon's Fire TV devices before WarnerMedia agreed to extend its contract for AWS services — For six months after WarnerMedia launched HBO Max, the growth of the high-profile new streaming service suffered because the company … | Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Substack says it plans to roll out a “multipub” tool, which will let users aggregate newsletters and podcasts they manage under one publication, in February — Substack is adding a long-awaited new feature today: the ability to change the look of newsletters.| Matt Day / BNN: |
Amazon shutters its Prime Pantry delivery service, and folds thousands of products under that banner into its main retail site — Amazon.com Inc. has shuttered Prime Pantry, a grocery and household essentials delivery service that was one of the retailer's early forays into selling food online.| Christian Berthelsen / Bloomberg: |
Hired Russian hacker Andrei Tyurin, who pled guilty in 2019 to stealing data of 100M+ clients of JPMorgan and others, has been sentenced to 12 years in prison — - Tyurin was hacker-for-hire in cross-border cybercrime spree — U.S. says he stole data on 140 million clients of bank, othersSponsor Posts
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