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| Sarah E. Needleman / Wall Street Journal: |
Reddit raises $250M+ Series E led by Vy Capital at a $6B valuation, doubling in value since its last funding round in February 2019 — Its WallStreetBets community played a prominent role in recent stock-trading frenzy — Reddit Inc. doubled its valuation to $6 billion in a new round …
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| Mishaal Rahman / XDA Developers: |
Leaked images purportedly show mockups of Android 12, including major UI changes, a privacy indicator, conversation widget, new themes, and more — Google is set to release its next major version of Android — Android 12 — later this year, following a series of Developer Previews and Betas …
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| Jason Koebler / VICE: |
Police say a computer in a water treatment plant in FL, set up for remote access, was breached; the intruder tried raising sodium hydroxide levels in the water — The hacker tried to drastically increase sodium hydroxide levels in the water, Pinellas County, Florida, officials said on Monday.
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| Shara Tibken / CNET: |
Qualcomm unveils next-gen X65 5G modem, likely to appear in phones in 2022, and says it can download data at 10Gpbs speeds and has a better battery life — Qualcomm's new modem is here, it's blazing fast and it's not just for phones . The Snapdragon X65 5G Modem-RF System can download data …
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| Financial Times: |
EU lawmakers are considering regulations that would force Facebook and Google to pay for news content on their platforms, echoing a similar move in Australia — Move by MEPs would strengthen hand of publishers against Google and Facebook — EU lawmakers overseeing new digital regulation …
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| Bloomberg: |
A look at how Tim Cook has transformed Apple after Jobs into a more diversified company and successfully deflected political pressure — Trade war? Pfft. Trump? Please. Antitrust? Zuck's prob. (Ditto privacy.) Revenue? Endless.| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Sources: Mark Cuban is co-founding Fireside, a podcast app where hosts can talk to fans live and monetize their conversations, with plans to launch this year — Fireside is launching this year — Mark Cuban is getting in on the audio and podcasting hype.
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| Liam Tung / ZDNet: |
Programming language Rust is now backed by the Rust Foundation, a new independent organization that will make it easier to accept financing beyond Mozilla — The Rust programming language now has its own foundation that's independent from Mozilla. — Programming language Rust now has the backing …
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| Taha Broach / The 8-Bit: |
In the iOS 14.5 beta, Apple has finally added the ability to set a default music streaming service, including Spotify, when using Siri to play songs — Apple launched the initial beta versions of iOS 14.5 to developers and public beta testers last week. Among the list of new features …
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
A developer is exposing scam lookalike apps that are flourishing on the App Store, fueled by lax enforcement and fake reviews, after his own app was targeted — Over the last several weeks, developer Kosta Eleftheriou has been highlighting many apparent scam applications on the App Store.
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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Facebook expands policies to take down more posts with vaccine-related misinformation, including assertions that vaccines cause autism — Facebook said on Monday that it plans to remove posts with erroneous claims about vaccines from across its platform, including taking down assertions …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Amazon is developing a wall-mounted Echo device with a large touchscreen that serves as a smart home control panel, video chat device, and media player — - Lab126 unit developing new device with touchscreen and Alexa — Product to be thinner than Echo Show, come with video chat| Bloomberg: |
Industry executives warn of severe chip shortages to make phones and game consoles, amid excessive stockpiling of chips by companies like Huawei and Apple — - The dearth of supply is deepening as Apple, China hoard chips — Worsening crunch could impact sectors well beyond automaking
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Monte Carlo, which uses AI to monitor data reliability, raises $25M Series B, led by Redpoint Ventures and GGV Capital, bringing its total raised to $40M+ — San Francisco-based data reliability startup Monte Carlo today announced that it raised $25 million, bringing the company's total capital raised to date to over $40 million.
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| Foeke Postma / bellingcat: |
Investigation reveals how Instagram influencers are enabling animal abuse for clicks by using services that promote Dubai's underground animal trade — The monkey squirms while a woman holds it up with one hand and records it without speaking. The TikTok video is brief and has no description … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Symend, which uses behavioral analytics to help customers who have trouble paying bills, raises $43M Series B extension, bringing its total raised to $100M+ — The pandemic-fueled economic uncertainty of the last year has led many to project that the rate of credit defaults among consumers will continue to wobble into 2021.
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| Financial Times: |
Researchers estimate that the NHS contact tracing app has prevented the transmissions of ~600K coronavirus infections in England and Wales — Study finds link in areas of England and Wales between high app usage and lower case numbers — The NHS contact-tracing app has prevented …
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| Gene Maddaus / Variety: |
DOJ drops out of a lawsuit seeking to block CA from enacting its own net neutrality law; the case will still proceed with backing from various industry groups — In a signal of things to come from the Biden administration, the Justice Department on Monday dropped out of a lawsuit that seeks …
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| Jem Aswad / Variety: |
Universal Music Group unveils a global agreement with TikTok, days after pulling its music catalog from TikTok-rival Triller — Via the agreement, which covers recorded music from artists at UMG's labels and songwriters with Universal Music Publishing Group, “TikTok users will be more empowered … | Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Steam is now officially available in China; the Chinese version of the platform has around 40 gaming titles and another 10 or so listed as coming soon — Room for a billion more gamers — Though the international version of Steam has been available in China for years … | Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Documents show Binance dropped the defamation lawsuit against Forbes it filed in November 2020, but did not give a reason for the withdrawal — The exchange did not say in its latest filing why it withdrew the case, at least for now. — Binance Holdings, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange … | Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
SentinelOne, which analyzes security data using AI, acquires Scalyr, a high-speed logging startup, for $155M in stock and cash — SentinelOne, a late-stage security startup that helps customers make sense of security data using AI and machine learning, announced today that it is acquiring Scalyr,Sponsor Posts
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