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| Katie Notopoulos / BuzzFeed News: |
Facebook is working on a neural wristband that reads signals from brain to hands, to go along with its AR glasses; Bosworth insists it can't “read your brain” — Facebook is working on a new neural wristband that can read the electrical signals sent to your hands and send them to an augmented reality interface.
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| Kashmir Hill / New York Times: |
A look at the origins of Clearview AI, which far-right activist Charles Johnson says he co-founded, as it is besieged by lawsuits and investigations — In May 2019, an agent at the Department of Homeland Security received a trove of unsettling images. Found by Yahoo in a Syrian user's account …
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| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
Facebook, which supported security keys on desktop since 2017, expands support to iOS and Android users — Facebook has supported security keys on desktop since 2017 and will now enable iOS and Android users to log in to their account via the physical key.
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About Facebook, The Verge, Adweek, Dark Reading, Engadget, CNET, Android Central, Android Police, The Record, MUO, BetaNews, iDownloadBlog.com, Android Headlines, phonearena.com, and iPhone Hacks
Tweets: @yubico, @fbsecurity, @ngleicher, @dyn___, @wongmjane, @fidoalliance, @alexvoica, @shiraovide, and @arekfurt
| BuzzFeed News: |
Instagram is working on a version of the service suitable for kids under 13; source: the work will be led by Pavni Diwanji, a VP who joined Facebook in December — Executives at Instagram are planning to build a version of the popular photo-sharing app that can be used by children under the age of 13 … | Robert Hackett / Fortune: |
OpenSea, a marketplace for NFTs, raises $23M Series A led by a16z Crypto, says $95M in digital merchandise was sold on the service in Feb., up from $8M in Jan. — When CryptoKitties roared onto the scene in 2017, most people regarded the collectible digital cats, which were tied to and encapsulated …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers detail XcodeSpy, a custom version of open source backdoor EggShell that aims to spy on the Macs of iOS and other Apple OS developers — XcodeSpy uses malicious Xcode project to install the EggShell backdoor. — Researchers said they've found a trojanized code library in the wild …
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SentinelLabs, CyberScoop, ZDNet, The Record, Threatpost, Computerworld, SC Media, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, BleepingComputer, AppleInsider, SecurityWeek, iDownloadBlog.com, and The Mac Observer
Tweets: @hrbrmstr, @campuscodi, and @sentinelone
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter says it is testing a way for its iOS users to watch YouTube videos in their timelines, in the US, Japan, Canada, and Saudi Arabia — Shortly after Twitter announced it would begin testing a better way to display images on its app, it's now doing the same for YouTube videos.
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Ubergizmo, Social Media Today, Pocketnow, Engadget, MacRumors, 9to5Google, and 9to5Mac
Tweets: @twittersupport, @boo, @caseynewton, @legallypierre, @chad_hurley, @mep, @mahdi, and @sub8u
| Austen Goslin / Polygon: |
Nvidia is doubling the price of GeForce Now cloud gaming memberships to $10 a month for new users; its almost 10M “Founder” members will keep the same price — Nvidia will keep the price the same for Founders subscribers — Nvidia is effectively doubling the price of GeForce Now, its cloud streaming service.
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The Official NVIDIA Blog, VentureBeat, AnandTech, Tom's Hardware, CNET, PCWorld, ExtremeTech, Windows Central, Neowin, Phandroid, Engadget, Kotaku, GameSpot, Thurrott, 9to5Google, Android Police, SlashGear, MUO, and Droid Life. Tweets: @piershr
| Sundar Pichai / The Keyword: |
Google says it will invest $7B+ in offices and data centers across the US and create at least 10K new full-time Google jobs in the US this year — One of the best parts of my job is getting the opportunity to visit the communities that Google is a part of across the U.S. Whether it's meeting …
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| Reed Albergotti / Washington Post: |
Developer of Watch app FlickType, who previously called out Apple for allowing scam and copycat apps, sues Apple claiming fraud and unfair competition — The developer behind FlickType, an Apple Watch keyboard, alleges the company used its power over the App Store to stymie its progress
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The Verge, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, iMore, phonearena.com, The Mac Observer, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, iPhone Hacks, iPhone in Canada Blog, AppleInsider, and Bloomberg
Tweets: @nickstatt, @hbkirb, @keleftheriou, @ihnatko, and @mosenatlarge
| Eddie Makuch / GameSpot: |
Sony unveils PS5 VR controllers with haptic feedback, adaptive triggers, and finger touch detection — Sony has begun to share more details on its vision for next-gen virtual reality, today announcing and showing off the new controllers that will come with PSVR 2.0 for PS5.
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PlayStation.Blog, The Verge, Eurogamer.net, HotHardware.com News, KnowTechie, TechSpot, Neowin, 9to5Toys, VRFocus, OnMSFT.com, Road to VR, and Engadget
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| CNBC: |
NFL finalizes an 11-year media rights deal, with Amazon Prime Video as exclusive partner for Thursday Night Football; sources: Amazon is paying about $1B/year — - The new agreement runs through 2033 and will feature two Super Bowls returning to Disney's ABC network channel.
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Tweets: @sportingintel, @stevekovach, @realalexbarth, @sherman4949, @pkafka, @pkafka, and @sherman4949
| Annalee Newitz / The Hypothesis: |
Substack's decision to pay certain writers to write on the platform is an editorial one as leaders decide what kind of writing they want to support — They paid a secret group of writers to make newsletter authorship seem lucrative — I think of myself as having decent critical faculties …
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TechCrunch. Tweets: @annaleen, @jason, @jesseltaylor, @jonathanchait, @gabemschneider, @timmaughan, @mathewi, @genova_ali, @jefferson1simon, @blackamazon, @cfiesler, @micsolana, @sadydoyle, @digifiend, @ericnewcomer, @elliotturn, @kottke, @katiedrumm, @jasonsanford, @oliverburkeman, @tomhillenbrand, @susanschorn, @bradydale, @f, @thrasherxy, @timmarchman, @dangb88, and @kantrowitz
| Reuters: |
Sources: DOJ investigators are asking ad executives whether Google's plan to ban third-party cookies will hobble its smaller rivals — (Reuters) - Google's plan to block a popular web tracking tool called “cookies” is a source of concern for U.S. Justice Department investigators …
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Tweets: @jrhuddles, @silvermanjacob, and @campuscodi
| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Kuo: MiniLED displays will be used in the MacBook Air by 2022 and the 2022 iPad Air will feature an OLED display — Rumors have been suggesting that Apple will soon release a new iPad Pro with a Mini-LED display, but the company also plans to bring this technology to other devices in the future.
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MacRumors, 9to5Toys, Appleosophy, phonearena.com, MacDailyNews, iMore, iPhone in Canada Blog, Tom's Guide, and Notebookcheck.net. Tweets: @parkerortolani
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
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Tweets: @markgurman, @digitallybones, and @9techeleven
| New York Times: |
Sources: China told LinkedIn that it found objectionable posts on the service, asking it to perform a self-evaluation and suspend new sign-ups for 30 days — Officials said the social network had failed to block objectionable political content, a sign of the sacrifices it must make to remain in the vast but difficult market.
Tweets: @pkedrosky, @yaqiu, @zhonggg, and @kenroth
| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
YouTube is rolling out its TikTok rival YouTube Shorts in the US, but the beta is missing features and feels half-baked — Rolling out to everyone in the US ‘over the next several weeks’ — YouTube Shorts, the company's short-form answer to TikTok, is launching in beta in the United States starting today.
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Tweets: @tjl, @liahaberman, @cgartenberg, @gavinsbaker, @cgartenberg, @carnage4life, and @wongmjane
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Apple sends cease and desist emails to Chinese apps testing CAID, which is designed to track users in spite of Apple's upcoming IDFA privacy changes — Chinese apps test multiple workarounds to keep tracking iPhones without prompting for consent — A cat-and-mouse game …
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AppleInsider, The Hacker News, MacRumors, Ubergizmo, AdExchanger, and iDownloadBlog.com
Tweets: @hoofnagle and @patrickmcgee_
| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Apple's concession to Russia to prompt users to install state-approved apps sets a precedent that other authoritarian countries may seek to follow — Russian iPhone buyers will soon be prompted to install software developed in that country, setting a precedent that other authoritarian governments may follow.
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| John Cook / GeekWire: |
Real estate tech startup Offerpad, a Zillow rival, says it is going public via SPAC, valuing the company at $3B and raising $650M — Former Zillow Group CEO Spencer Rascoff is jumping back into the real estate game in a big way. — Rascoff, who left the CEO post at the Seattle real estate juggernaut …
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Reuters, Bloomberg, The Real Deal New York, Offerpad Press Resources, Benzinga, HousingWire, Inman, Seattle Business Journal, PYMNTS.com, and TechCrunch. Thanks:@johnhcook
| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Google's Area 120 in-house incubator launches ThreadIt, a short video app for team collaborations, in beta, as a website and a Chrome plug-in — The team at Google's Area 120 in-house incubator says the idea for ThreadIt came well before COVID-19 made remote work a necessity for large swaths of the globe.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Kuda, which offers mobile-first banking services in Nigeria, raises $25M Series A led by Valar Ventures, following a $10M seed round four months ago — Challenger banks continue to make significant advances in attracting customers away from the big incumbents by providing more modern, user-friendly tools to manage their money.| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
A Russian who flew to the US to try to bribe a Tesla employee to plant malware on the carmaker's network takes plea deal, could face 4-10 month prison sentence — A Russian national who traveled to the US in order to recruit a Tesla employee for a scheme to plant malware …
Tweets: @campuscodi
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