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Sources: Apple is cutting orders for all iPhones by ~20% compared to its plans in December, with iPhone 12 mini production cut by 70% for H1 2021 — Total iPhone target for 2021 still at 230m units despite global parts shortage — TAIPEI — Apple is slashing its planned production …
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Hackers say they breached Verkada, accessing feeds and archives of 150K surveillance cameras inside clinics, police precincts, jails, schools, Tesla facilities — - Hacker group says it wanted to show prevalence of surveillance — Video footage was captured from Sequoia-backed startup Verkada
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Apple says it will invest €1B in Germany over the next three years and will make Munich its European Silicon Design Center — Apple will make Munich its European Silicon Design Center, the company announced today. Work already being undertaken by Apple in Bavaria's capital is contributing …
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Russia says it is slowing down Twitter for not removing 3,000+ posts containing “illegal content”, threatens a total block if Twitter ignores deletion demands — MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia said on Wednesday it was slowing down the speed of Twitter in retaliation for its alleged failure …
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Facebook launches Instagram Lite, an Android app that takes up just 2MB of storage space, in 170 countries, and says Facebook Lite has 200M+ MAUs — Growth for Facebook is coming from the developing world, and so the social network today made another key move to cater better to consumers in those countries.
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By bringing disparate parts of gaming into one place, Roblox has created the conditions for interlocking feedback loops that typify transformational products — The degree to which Stratechery Weekly Articles are pre-planned varies; Eddy on Twitter, though, had this article pegged:
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To ease its dependence on US, China's new five-year plan calls tech development a matter of national security and pledges to raise R&D spending by 7% annually — Beijing's leaders plot a path to go it alone, vowing to spend big to fill gaps in innovation and avoid dependence on the United States and others.
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TikTok gives users the ability to approve all new comments before they appear and adds in-app prompts to discourage nasty comments — TikTok is introducing new features meant to — reduce bullying and harassment on its platform: new comment controls and in-app prompts to discourage nasty comments.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Google adds features to Chrome OS including Phone Hub, which lets Android users control aspects of their phones, like replying to texts, from their Chromebooks — Chrome OS is getting a bunch of new features to celebrate 10 years — Google is marking 10 years of Chromebooks by unveiling new features for Chrome OS today.
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| James Cridland / Podnews: |
Apple Podcasts will drop the word “subscribe” in iOS 14.5, substituting the word “follow”; research shows “subscribe” signals a cost for some non-listeners — A small change with a big impact: no more “subscribe” as podcasting moves to “follow”
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Facebook details a 10-year vision for its AR glasses, imagining they will work alongside a wristband to measure hand and figure gestures, with haptic feedback — Facebook is working on a neural wristband for AR glasses, with haptic gloves in the works — Facebook's first pair of smart glasses is arriving this year.
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| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Via, a software and operations platform for cities, buys Remix, which makes mapping software for city transport planning, for $100M in cash and equity — Remix, the startup that developed mapping software used by cities for transportation planning and street design, was born out of a hackathon during a Code for America fellowship.
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Bipartisan group of US lawmakers re-introduce a bill that will let news organizations negotiate collectively with Google, Facebook, and others — - News media could band together under bill to bargain with tech — Australia law marked a major victory for news publishers| Bloomberg: |
Taiwan, undergoing its worst drought in 56 years, says it has enough water to keep its semiconductor industry going until late May, when monsoons are expected — - Government expects rain in 2021 to be slightly less than usual — TSMC sees no impact on production so far, has contingency plan| Amos Barshad / Rest of World: |
A look at Unit 8200, an elite intelligence unit within the Israeli Defense Forces and a pipeline for the country's sprawling network of cybersecurity startups — The country's hacking software is recognized the world over. Not everyone thinks it's a good thing.
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
DataGrail, which helps companies deal with privacy regulations around the world including GDPR and CCPA, raises $30M Series B, bringing its total raised to $39M — Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. — DataGrail, a data privacy startup …
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| Shara Tibken / CNET: |
Samsung announces its Galaxy Unpacked event will be held on March 17, where it's expected to unveil an updated Galaxy A series lineup — It's only the third month of the year, but Samsung is gearing up for its second big product launch of 2021. The company on Tuesday sent invitations …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
London-based Wefarm, which offers a social network for farmers that is popular in East Africa, extends its Series A by $11M to $24M and says it has 2.5M users — The vast majority of startups remain focused on consumers, knowledge workers and the opportunities to provide services … | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
New Jersey-based Pathlock, which offers app security tools for businesses, raises $20M — Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. — Unified access orchestration platform provider Pathlock, formerly Greenlight Technologies …
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Sources: Grab is exploring going public in the US through an SPAC merger — - Grab has been exploring a traditional IPO in the U.S. — Merging with a SPAC could accelerate Grab's listing plans — Grab Holdings Inc. is exploring going public in the U.S. through a merger …
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Epic Games sues Google in Australia, arguing Google forces developers to use its payments system, expanding on lawsuits in US and UK against Google and Apple — - Fortnite maker has already sued Google in the U.S. and U.K. — Dispute centers around fees charged by app store operators
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Israel-based Optibus, which develops an SaaS service to optimize public transport using AI, raises $107M Series C, sources say at a $400M-$500M valuation — Mass transportation is a critical part of how metropolitan areas keep moving, and today a startup that has built an AI-based platform …
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YouTube says more than 120M Americans streamed YouTube and YouTube TV on their TVs in December 2020, up from 100M in March 2020 — YouTube is again touting the living-room TV as the fastest-growing screen in its device matrix, angling to get more advertisers to spend money on the platform.| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Kayvon Beykpour, Twitter's head of consumer product, on focusing on growth, deciding what to prioritize, paying for tweets, Clubhouse, and more — Twitter recently announced that it's going to be building a lot of new things into its product: there's Twitter Spaces …
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