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Twitter announces Super Follow feature to let users charge for tweets, and a Communities feature to let users create and join groups based on specific interests — It's also planning a groups feature — Twitter announced a pair of big upcoming features today: the ability for users to charge …
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Facebook is rolling out an opt-in feature, allowing “Hey Facebook” to be used as a wake word for its Portal displays and Oculus Quest platform — Available on Portal smart displays and rolling out on Oculus Quest headsets — Facebook has introduced a new “Hey Facebook” …
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Facebook's Andrew Bosworth told staff that Facebook is considering building facial recognition into future smart glasses products, weighing legal implications — Facebook is discussing building facial recognition into its upcoming smart glasses product and has been weighing the legal implications … | Reuters: |
ByteDance has agreed to a $92M class action settlement over data privacy claims from some US TikTok users, according to court documents — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - ByteDance has agreed to a $92 million class-action settlement to settle data privacy claims from some U.S. TikTok users …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft confirms it has fixed a five-hour Xbox Live outage which prevented some users from signing in or making purchases — Microsoft's gaming network went down worldwide — Microsoft's Xbox Live service went down for more than five hours today, preventing users from signing in to the service.| Zoe Schiffer / The Verge: |
Eleven current and ex-Mailchimp employees say company executives knew about allegations of racism and sexism at the company, some as early as 2014 — Alejandra Luaces had only worked at Mailchimp for four months when she got a surprising anonymous email. “Oliver* is in an open marriage …
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Robinhood says it has added 6M new crypto customers so far in 2021; Robinhood averaged ~200K new crypto customers a month in 2020 — Since we launched nearly three years ago, Robinhood Crypto has been central to our efforts to expand access to financial services and democratize finance for all.
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google debuts Sleep API which uses a phone's light and motion sensors and on-device AI to generate data which developers can use to build wellness apps — Android has long offered an Activity Recognition API that processes device sensor data with machine learning models in a battery-efficient manner.
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| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Airbnb posts a $3.9B loss in Q4 in first quarterly report since IPO, with revenues of $859M, down 22% YoY, blames much of the loss on charges related to the IPO — - Airbnb reported a loss of $3.89 billion in its first earnings report since its IPO late last year. — However, the company beat expectations for revenue.| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
As part of Epic lawsuit, judge orders Valve to tell Apple how much money 436 Steam games made but narrows the amount of info Valve has to provide overall — Apple subpoenaed Valve for the data — Valve has been compelled by a California court to provide sales data on more than 400 Steam games …
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Amazon-owned Twitch bans Amazon's anti-union ads, saying they should never have been allowed to run on the service — “These ads should never have been allowed to run on our service,” Twitch said. — Matthew Gault — Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alabama are voting on unionization …
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| Stephanie Condon / ZDNet: |
Salesforce reports Q4 revenue of $5.82B, beating estimates of $5.68B, subscription and support revenues of $5.48B, up 20% YoY, and 14K net new paid customers — In spite of the solid performance for the quarter, Salesforce shares were down slightly in after-hours trading.| Katie Deighton / Wall Street Journal: |
Apple, Google, and Amazon are training their voice assistants to better understand people with speech disorders such as stutter — Voice assistants like Alexa and Siri often can't understand people with dysarthria or a stutter; their creators say that may change
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers detected mass scanning activity targeting VMware vCenter servers vulnerable to a remote code execution vulnerability; VMware has issued a patch — Thousands of servers running vCenter server could be in for a nasty surprise. — Hackers are mass-scanning the Internet in search …
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| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
In reply to Oversight rulings, Facebook says it won't loosen COVID-19 misinfo policy, but will test letting users know whether a post was removed by a human — It will test telling people whether a human or robot deleted their post — Facebook has decided whether to adopt recommendations … | Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
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| Vignesh Ramachandran / Stanford News: |
Study finds video chats fatigue humans due to the intense up-close eye contact, constant self-view in real time, reduced mobility, and increased cognitive load — It's not just Zoom. Popular video chat platforms have design flaws that exhaust the human mind and body. But there are easy ways to mitigate their effects.
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| Vanessa Romo / NPR: |
Biden revokes Trump's freeze on green cards for immigrants and temporary work visas for skilled workers in H-1B and other categories — President Biden on Wednesday revoked a freeze that his predecessor had put on many types of visas due to the COVID-19 pandemic, saying the order …
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
DoorDash reports Q4 revenue of $970M, up 226% YoY, in its debut earnings report, with a loss of $312M, up from $134M YoY; stock down 11%+ after hours — - DoorDash reported its Q4 2020 earnings after the bell on Thursday that beat analyst revenue estimates but included a large net loss in its first release as a public company.
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| Cynthia Littleton / Variety: |
AT&T and PE firm TPG reach a deal to make DirecTV a standalone company with TPG owning 30%; the deal is valued at $16.25B, includes DirecTV, AT&T TV, U-verse — The sides have been in talks for months as AT&T has sought to find a solution to the problem of DirecTV's subscriber losses dragging …
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