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| 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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| 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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Tweets: @jon_bois, @jamestitcomb, @caroljsroth, @linuswilson, and @levynews
| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Tech retailer Fry's Electronics announces it will cease operations effective immediately, blames industry changes and the pandemic for the shutdown — Your best buys are no longer at Fry's, guaranteed — Fry's Electronics, one of the last big brick-and-mortar electronics store chains …
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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: |
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| Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
ViacomCBS says Paramount+ will cost $5/month with ads and $10/month without ads; the ad tier will be available in June while the ad-free tier starts on March 4 — ViacomCBS has a ‘mountain of content’ on the way to streaming, including a ‘Halo’ series and ‘Beavis and Butthead.’
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| Rafael Frankel / About Facebook: |
Facebook says it is banning all Myanmar military and military-controlled entities from Facebook and Instagram, and ads from military-linked commercial entities — Myanmar military banned from Facebook and Instagram with immediate effect. — Today, we are banning the remaining Myanmar military …
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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.
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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, Pocketnow, MUO, and TechRadar
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| 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, Cointelegraph, and CoinDesk
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| 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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| 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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| Coco Feng / South China Morning Post: |
The People's Bank of China joins Hong Kong, Thailand, and the UAE to explore cross-border payments for digital currencies, like the digital yuan — The People's Bank of China is joining the Multiple Central Bank Digital Currency Bridge, a project exploring cross-border payments using distributed ledgers … | 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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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Amazon announces general availability of Lookout for Vision, a cloud service that spots defects and anomalies in manufactured goods using computer vision — Amazon today announced the general availability of Amazon Lookout for Vision, a cloud service that analyzes images using computer vision …
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Business Wire and SiliconANGLE
| 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 and Platformer
| 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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The Verge, GlobeNewswire, The Register, SiliconANGLE, CoinDesk, CRN, AnandTech, Financial Times, Insider, MarketWatch, VentureBeat, and CNBC. Tweets: @patrickmoorhead
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Spain-based Wallapop, an online classifieds marketplace for used items and crafts, raises $191M at an $840M valuation led by Korelya Capital — Through all of the last year's lockdowns, venue closures, and other social distancing measures that governments have enacted and people have followed …
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| 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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Tweets: @manicsocratic, @italianclownz, @starfire2258, @kylebrussell, @amandafarough, @trihex, @emanuelmaiberg, and @whatthebit
| 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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Tweets: @linuxfoundation and @nathanchance
| 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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Tweets: @emmakinery, @iancrossland, @macaesbruno, @ivanthek, @wongmjane, @1funnymike, @benpopper, and @northmantrader
| 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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Tweets: @robaeprice, @deviantollam, @wrrrdnrrrdgrrrl, @internetofshit, @cwarzel, and @chrisderose
| 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, XDA Developers, ZDNet, 9to5Google, and SiliconANGLE
Tweets: @googlecloudtech and @kelseyhightower
| 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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