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March 1, 2021, 2:45 PM
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Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
Kuo: iPhone 13 to have smaller notch, larger batteries; Pro models to use 120Hz displays; iPhone mini to return; he has “no visibility” of power button Touch ID  —  Reliable Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo is out with a new investor note today focused on what to expect …
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:
Kuo: high-end 2022 iPhones and maybe the entire lineup, if production permits, will lose the notch in favor of a hole-punch design; iPhone SE 5G coming in 2022  —  Ming-Chi Kuo of TF International Securities has published a new report for Apple supply chain investors in which the reliable analyst predicts …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Instagram launches Live Rooms for live broadcasts with up to four creators, up from two, and says it will roll out new audio features in coming months  —  Instagram today announced it's adding a much-requested feature to its app with the launch of “Live Rooms,” which allow up to four people to broadcast live together at the same time.
Andy Greenberg / Wired:
The WikiLeaks-style group DDoSecrets claims that Parler-like site Gab has been breached and is now set to share 70GB of passwords, private posts, and more  —  The transparency group DDoSecrets says it will make the 70GB of passwords, private posts, and more available to researchers, journalists, and social scientists.
Michael Steeber / 9to5Mac:
Every Apple Store in the US is open for the first time since March 2020, with many starting to offer in-store shopping after operating as Express storefronts  —  Every Apple Store in the United States is open for the first time in nearly a year.  It was 353 days ago — March 13, 2020 …
Jennifer Epstein / Bloomberg:
Pres. Biden says there should be “no coercion, no threats, no anti-union propaganda” by Amazon amid its warehouse workers' vote on whether to form a union in AL  —  - ‘The choice to join a union is up to the workers,’ Biden said  — Mail-in voting for 6,000 workers began in mid-February
Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge:
Lime says it will it will spend $50M to expand its network, doubling the number of cities in which it operates, and roll out a new e-bike  —  The scooter company is also rolling out a new model of e-bike  —  Lime is getting back to its roots.  The scooter company formerly known as LimeBike …
Natalia Drozdiak / Bloomberg:
Swedish payments startup Klarna raises $1B at a valuation of $31B, triple its valuation in its last funding round in September  —  - Swedish firm raised $1 billion in new funding from investors  — Klarna to donate 1% of new funds to climate change initiatives
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Sports and esports betting service Rivalry raises $20M ahead of a potential IPO this year, to help it expand to the US  —  Rivalry has raised $20 million for its business of sports and esports betting.  The company has a mobile and PC platform that makes it easy to place bets on sports and esports matches.
New York Times:
China's electronic yuan or eCNY is now being tested in Shenzhen, Shanghai, and Beijing; no major country is as far along with a homegrown digital currency  —  The electronic Chinese yuan is now being tested in cities such as Shenzhen, Shanghai and Beijing.  No other major power is as far along with a homegrown digital currency.

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Jeff Stein / NOTUS:
Former hedge fund manager Stanley Druckenmiller says he used AI to write a WSJ op-ed, likening it to using a calculator for math problems; WSJ hasn't commented

Bloomberg:
Sources: bankers approached potential buyers about acquiring WBD's New Line Cinema, and its cable networks draw interest, as Paramount's legal fight drags on

Marc Malkin / Variety:
NYT pop culture writer Kyle Buchanan announces he has left the NYT and will launch a video podcast about Hollywood, The Kyle Buchanan Show, in mid-October

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Dieter Bohn / The Verge:
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Antonio Garcia-Martinez / The Pull Request:
Q&A with Lambda School's Austen Allred on how the company helps bridge the class divide for students, like setting up bank accounts for those who don't have one
Bob Davis / Wall Street Journal:
A look at Biden's efforts to partner with allies to boost key tech sectors and counter China, going beyond Trump-era measures like restricting sales of SMIC
Tom Krazit / Protocol:
An oral history of #hugops and the growing community of operations engineers who offer support for their peers before and during major cloud service outages
Will Oremus / OneZero :
Twitter Super Follows and Clubhouse portend a shift from algorithmic, scale-focused, low-attention feeds to low-volume, high-attention relationships with users
Ben Smith / New York Times:
Profile of Discovery+, which has hit 12M paid subscriptions globally and offers a reality TV-focused catalog with 55K episodes, rivaling Netflix in sheer volume
Ed Siddons / The Guardian:
Profile of lawyer and activist Cori Crider who is suing Facebook and outsourcing company CPL in Ireland's High Court on behalf of traumatized content moderators
Kim Lyons / The Verge:
Verizon support advised its users in a now-deleted tweet to “turn on LTE”, which would turn off 5G, to preserve battery life
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