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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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| Cameron Faulkner / The Verge: |
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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| 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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| Ryan Mac / BuzzFeed News: |
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 …
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| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Apple begins showing a repair index for devices like the iPhone and Mac in France, due to local regulations set by the Minister of Ecological Transition — Apple surprisingly began to show a repair index for devices like the iPhone and Mac in the Apple Store app and the Apple Online Store in France this week.
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| Jan Stryjak / Counterpoint Research: |
European smartphone market shrank by 14% YoY in 2020, with Xiaomi up 85% and Huawei down 62%; Apple hit record market share of 30% in Q4 helped by iPhone 12 — Boston, Toronto, London, New Delhi, Beijing, Taipei, Seoul - February 26, 2021 — 2020 was a rollercoaster year for the European smartphone market.
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| Cecilia Kang / New York Times: |
FCC approves a $50/month high-speed internet subsidy for low-income households and a one-time discount of up to $100 on a computer or tablet for eligible homes — The money, aimed at low-income households, is part of an effort to bridge the access gap to broadband connectivity amid the pandemic.
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| 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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| 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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| 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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| Robinhood: |
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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| Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: |
Cision, a media monitoring company that is the parent of PR Newswire, buys online consumer intelligence and social media analytics service Brandwatch for $450M — Online consumer intelligence and social media listening platform Brandwatch has been acquired by Cision, best known … | 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.
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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.
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| 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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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: China's Tencent-backed trucking startup Full Truck Alliance has confidentially filed for an IPO that could raise at least $1B — - Full Truck Alliance is seeking to raise at least $1 billion — The company is working with Morgan Stanley, CICC for IPO| 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 …
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