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January 15, 2021, 6:15 PM
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple to launch redesigned iMacs this year with a Pro Display XDR-like design, and is working on two new Mac Pros, one of which may use Intel CPUs — Apple Inc. is planning the first redesign of its iMac all-in-one desktop computer since 2012, part of a shift away from Intel Corp. processors …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple has begun preliminary work on an iPhone model with a foldable screen, while testing an in-screen fingerprint reader for 2021 — Apple Inc. has begun early work on an iPhone with a foldable screen, a potential rival to similar devices from Samsung Electronics Co. and others …
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Kuo: 14" and 16" MacBook Pros coming in Q3 2021 with Apple Silicon, MagSafe charging, no Touch Bar, new design with squared-off sides and more built-in IO ports — Reliable Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo today released some interesting details about the upcoming MacBook Pro.
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| The Information: |
Sources: Apple is discussing launching a new subscription service that would charge people to listen to podcasts — Apple—long considered the sleeping giant in the podcast space—is waking up. The company, which runs the most widely used podcasting app in the industry …
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
WhatsApp to delay new privacy policy by three months following widespread confusion over whether the policy would mandate data sharing with Facebook — The new update will now go out on May 15th — WhatsApp on Friday announced a three-month delay of a new privacy policy originally slated … | Shoshana Wodinsky / Gizmodo: |
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Twitter outlines its plans for Wednesday's Inauguration Day, including transitioning @POTUS and other handles to Biden and archiving several official accounts — - Less than two weeks after President Donald Trump was kicked off his personal Twitter account, the institutional White House … | Mike Rogoway / Oregonian: |
Sources: at an all-hands staff meeting, incoming CEO says Intel has to deliver better products for PCs than what a “lifestyle company in Cupertino” makes — - Competition: Intel rivals AMD and NVIDIA use TSMC's factories and have capitalized on the technical advances in Taiwan to leapfrog Intel in key segments.
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| Jason Del Rey / Vox: |
Interview with Walmart's e-commerce chief Marc Lore, who is leaving the company at the end of the month to build “a city of the future” — Marc Lore, the founder of Jet.com, helped Walmart become the No. 2 online shopping site after Amazon. — Marc Lore, a serial entrepreneur …
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple has started to block the sideloading of unsupported iOS and iPadOS apps onto M1 Macs using third party software — Earlier this week, 9to5Mac reported that Apple would soon start blocking users from side loading iPhone and iPad applications to their M1 Macs.
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google says it will remove the inadvertent ability for Chromium browsers to access Chrome bookmarks and other sync features when users are logged into Google — Besides the intended differences, web browsers based on Chromium offer an underlying experience that's mostly identical to Chrome.
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| Taylor Lorenz / New York Times: |
As Snapchat starts competing with TikTok via its Spotlight program, some creators begin earning small fortunes and look for ways to expand — Top performers are raking in cash, as the company seeks to compete against TikTok and similar platforms. — In late November, Cam Casey …
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| Alex Kantrowitz / OneZero : |
Smaller services like Substack, Spotify, and Clubhouse are coming under scrutiny now that the big platforms have warmed to aggressive moderation — Smaller services are coming under scrutiny now that the big platforms have warmed to aggressive moderation — Glenn Greenwald was pissed.| Shannon Vavra / CyberScoop: |
Rob Joyce will replace Anne Neuberger as the director of NSA's Cybersecurity Directorate; Neuberger will join the Biden admin as deputy adviser on the NSC — Rob Joyce, the National Security Agency's special U.S. liaison officer at the U.S. Embassy in London, will replace Anne Neuberger …
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| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
Federal judge denies Apple's appeal of a $502.8M patent infringement verdict favoring VirnetX; Apple's total payout in two lawsuits could cross $1.1B — (Reuters) - A federal judge denied Apple Inc's bid to set aside or reduce a $502.8 million patent infringement verdict favoring VirnetX Holding Corp … | Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Amazon launches Amazon Custom Assistant, which will let car makers build their own custom AI assistants with their own wake words, custom voices, and more — Amazon is letting automakers tailor custom voice experiences using its AI platform — Amazon is giving car companies …
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| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Bumble files for an IPO, says it had 42M MAUs, 2.4M total paying users, and lost $117M on revenue of $417M in the first nine months of 2020 — The dating and networking service Bumble has filed to go public. — The company, launched by a former co-founder of the IAC-owned Tinder …
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Bloomberg, Reuters, Engadget, Business Insider, Forbes, PYMNTS.com, CNN, Neowin, and Business Insider
Tweets: @crystalttc, @alistairmbarr, @katie_roof, @rafaelshimunov, @justicar, @keribla, @alex, and @slpng_giants
| Zoe Schiffer / The Verge: |
Leaked screenshots show GitHub employees using the term “Nazi” in its internal Slack to protest the unexplained firing of an employee that used the same word — Now in protest, they're using Slack to call Nazis what they are — GitHub employees are protesting the firing … | Ari Levy / CNBC: |
GitLab is considering going public after an employee share sale valued it at $6B; GitLab revenue crossed $150M annually after growing 74% in the latest quarter — - GitLab CEO Sid Sijbrandij confirmed CNBC's reporting from November of an employee share sale, which valued the company at $6 billion.
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