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| Daniel Van Boom / CNET: |
Australia passes news bargaining code that will require digital platforms like Google and Facebook to pay local media outlets and publishers for their content — Australia on Wednesday passed a new media law that had generated noisy pushback from internet giants Google and Facebook …
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| Nick Clegg / About Facebook: |
Facebook defends its stance in Australia, says it invested $600M since 2018 to support the news industry and plans at least $1B more over the next three years — Last week, in a move that will have felt abrupt and dramatic to many, Facebook announced it was stopping the sharing of news on its service in Australia.
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| Maggie Fitzgerald / CNBC: |
GameStop shares closed up nearly 104% on Wednesday, halting twice for volatility; GameStop said on Tuesday its CFO will resign; stock up 80%+ after hours — - GameStop announced Tuesday that its chief financial officer Jim Bell will resign on March 26. — Sources familiar …
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| Scott Chipolina / Decrypt: |
Business intelligence firm MicroStrategy buys 19,452 Bitcoin, worth $1.0261B, and now holds ~90K Bitcoin, worth ~$4.5B at current prices — Business intelligence firm MicroStrategy has purchased 19,452 Bitcoin, worth $1.026 billion, at an average price of $52,765.
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
YouTube to roll out a “supervised” account option in beta in the coming months in more than 80 countries, aimed at kids that are too old for YouTube Kids — YouTube is launching a PG version of the internet's biggest video service. — A new “supervised” YouTube account option …
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YouTube Official Blog, Bloomberg, Engadget, Agence France-Presse, phonearena.com, Social Media Today, Deadline, Android Central, 9to5Google, and CNET
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| Cherlynn Low / Engadget: |
Microsoft announces industry cloud packages for financial services, available in March, and for manufacturing and nonprofits, available in June — new Industry Cloud service with a suite of tools for the healthcare sector last year and unveiling a Retail-specific version in January, Microsoft is ready to introduce more areas of focus.| Alex Leary / Wall Street Journal: |
Biden signs executive order mandating a 100-day review of supply chains, including for semiconductors used in products from cars to phones and rare-earth metals — The president signed an executive order with the aim of eventually increasing domestic production of critical materials
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Tweets: @nikkeiasia, @paragkhanna, and @gwbstr
| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Amazon says its Luna cloud gaming service is available to try for free in the US on select Fire TV devices, after launching as invite-only last year — And anyone in the US can also buy a Luna Controller — Amazon's cloud-gaming service, Luna, is now available to try for free in the US …
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Amazon Luna, PCMag, Thurrott, AFTVnews, Pocket-lint, TechRadar, KnowTechie, Android Central, 9to5Google, Engadget, MUO, and TalkAndroid.com
| Stephanie Condon / ZDNet: |
Nvidia beats with Q4 revenue of $5B vs. $4.8B expected, up 61% YoY, data center revenue of $1.9B, up 97% YoY, and gaming revenue of $2.5B, up 67% YoY — The GPU maker beat Q4 market expectations with record sales in its two key areas of business. — Nvidia on Wednesday published fourth …
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| ProPublica: |
Emails show how Facebook responded to requests by Turkey to censor content during the authoritarian government's 2018 military offensive against Kurds — Amid a 2018 Turkish military campaign, Facebook ultimately sided with Turkey's demand to block the page of a mostly Kurdish militia.
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Engadget. Tweets: @propublica, @dicktofel, @posmarketer, @mattdrange, @jason_kint, @puiwingtam, @jackgillum, @gnuseibeh, @natemcdermott, @justinelliott, @_____mjb, @veryimportant, and @cyberrights
| Bloomberg: |
FCC reveals that for its 5G licenses auction, Verizon spent the most of any carrier with $45.5B, followed by AT&T with $23.4B, and T-Mobile with $9.3B — - AT&T is second at $23 billion in bids, followed by T-Mobile — FCC releases results of so-called C-band airwaves sale
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| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
iRobot, which makes Roomba vacuums, says a software update to fix issues with i7 and s9 models will take several weeks, after users reported them acting “drunk” — Users have reported their robotic helpers acting ‘drunk’ — iRobot, maker of the robotic Roomba vacuums …
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USA Today and Android Police
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| Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios: |
Source: Dispo, a retro photo sharing app co-founded by YouTube star David Dobrik, raises $20M Series A led by Spark Capital at a $200M valuation — Dispo, a retro photo-sharing app co-founded by YouTube star David Dobrik, recently raised $20 million in Series A funding led by Spark Capital …
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The Information, Protocol, Insider, and dot.LA
Tweets: @martinsfp, @willoremus, @caseynewton, @parkerortolani, and @kateclarktweets
| Taylor Lyles / The Verge: |
HP says it is acquiring gaming peripheral company HyperX for $425M, giving the company a major foothold in the gaming accessory market — The acquisition means HP owns the HyperX brand — HP has announced that it is acquiring gaming peripheral company HyperX for $425 million.
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GlobeNewswire, eWeek, Forbes, PC Gamer, SlashGear, Game Rant, 9to5Toys, GameSpot, Neowin, BetaNews, PCMag, Liliputing, Tom's Hardware, MUO, XDA Developers, PCWorld, Gizmodo, AnandTech, ZDNet, Pocketnow, Laptop Mag, Engadget, KnowTechie, GamesIndustry.biz, TechRadar, Polygon, and MSPoweruser
Tweets: @emanuelmaiberg, @whatthebit, @amandafarough, @starfire2258, @trihex, and @kylebrussell
| Michael McSweeney / The Block: |
Optimism, which plans to help scale the Ethereum blockchain with a Layer 2 protocol, raises $25M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz — Optimism, a startup focused on the scalability of the Ethereum blockchain network, has raised a $25 million Series A funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz.
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Andreessen Horowitz and CoinDesk
Tweets: @optimismpbc, @ariannasimpson, @optimismpbc, and @a16z
| Jeff Cox / CNBC: |
US Federal Reserve's systems that let banks send money back and forth went down for several hours, impacting its automated clearinghouse system and more — Fed operational error brings down payment system — The Federal Reserve's system that allows financial institutions to send money …
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CoinDesk, CoinDesk, BBC, BleepingComputer, The Block, Ars Technica, Bitcoin Magazine, The Register, Cointelegraph, PaymentsSource, Gemini Exchange Status, BleepingComputer, Cointelegraph, PYMNTS.com, Kraken Status, ZDNet, and Finextra
Tweets: @emmakinery, @macaesbruno, @ivanthek, @wongmjane, @iancrossland, @1funnymike, @benpopper, and @northmantrader
| Yimou Lee / Reuters: |
Taiwanese chipmakers are buying water by the truckload for some of their foundries in drought-hit areas as the island widens restrictions on water supply — TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan chipmakers are buying water by the truckload for some of their foundries as the island widens restrictions …
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phonearena.com, ExtremeTech, The Register, Tom's Hardware, AppleInsider, PCMag, and Silicon Republic
| Reuters: |
Thomson Reuters says it will spend $500M-$600M over two years to develop its AI and ML tools as it transitions to a “content-driven technology company” — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Thomson Reuters Corp will streamline technology, close offices and rely more on machines to prepare … | Tim Anderson / The Register: |
Google says it has been sponsoring two full-time Linux developers at the Linux Foundation for years to improve security and hopes other companies will follow — Plus: Why the Chocolate Factory only uses code it builds from source — Interview Worried about the security of Linux and open-source code …
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XDA Developers, ZDNet, Dark Reading, Insider, BetaNews, VentureBeat, BleepingComputer, TechRadar, Phoronix, and Slashdot. Tweets: @nathanchance
| Alfred Ng / The Markup: |
Auditing of algorithms can help address bias but there needs to be industry standards/regulations to hold the auditors or the companies that use them to account — For more than a decade, journalists and researchers have been writing about the dangers of relying on algorithms to make weighty decisions …
Tweets: @alfredwkng, @mannymoss, @blackamazon, @aselbst, and @fabiochiusi
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google Cloud unveils Autopilot, an operating mode for its Kubernetes Engine that turns over management of its clusters to Google's engineers and automated tools — Google Cloud today announced a new operating mode for its Kubernetes Engine (GKE) that turns over the management …
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Google Cloud Blog, 9to5Google, ZDNet, 9to5Google, SiliconANGLE, XDA Developers, and SiliconANGLE
Tweets: @googlecloudtech and @kelseyhightower
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Hubilo, which helps businesses host virtual and hybrid events with real-time analytics, raises $23.5M Series A led by Lightspeed Venture Partners — Hubilo, a platform that helps businesses of all sizes host virtual and hybrid events and gain access to real-time data and analytics …
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FinSMEs and The Economic Times
| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
TikTok says it removed 300K+ videos in the US for election misinformation in H2 2020, and 441K videos from its For You recommendation page for misinformation — And another 400,000 were removed from the For You page — TikTok removed over 340,000 videos in the US for breaking …
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TikTok, Insider, TikTok, The Wrap, Mashable, Tubefilter, MUO, Input, and Engadget. Tweets: @mattnavarra
| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Amazon Echo Show 10 review: adjustable screen angle, good sound quality, silent motorized movement, but photo/video options heavily reliant on Amazon services — Since its inception in 2015, Amazon's Alexa virtual assistant has always been a disembodied digital form trapped in a box of electronics.
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Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, CNET, techadvisor.co.uk, and Engadget
Tweets: @nicnguyen and @dcseifert
| New York Times: |
Myanmar's draconian draft cybersecurity law follows a yearslong effort to build out Myanmar's surveillance capabilities, following cues from China — As the military seized power again, the generals moved quickly to take the country offline, criminalize online dissent and block social media.| Bloomberg: |
Russian e-commerce giant Wildberries, which controls 14% of the market, has recently expanded into France, Germany, Italy, and Spain — Winston Churchill, it's often said, quipped that you should never let a good crisis go to waste. Tatyana Bakalchuk would agree.| Jane Wakefield / BBC: |
Portland ends partnership with Sidewalk Labs to track mobility; Sidewalk spin-off Replica says it was unwilling to share granular data requested by the city — A smart city project started by Google's sister firm Sidewalk Labs to track mobility patterns in the US city of Portland has been shelved.
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
California's 2018 net neutrality law, SB 822, can go into effect after a California judge declined to grant the telecom industry a preliminary injunction — It survived challenges from Trump's DOJ, and now one from telecom industry too — Net neutrality died a horrible death in 2017 …
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Ars Technica, Washington Post, Hollywood Reporter, CNN, New York Times, Digital Music News, The Register, Techdirt, Light Reading, VICE, CNET, and Android Central
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