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Livestream of House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on platform misinformation with Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai, and Jack Dorsey — The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology and the Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Commerce of the Committee on Energy and Commerce …
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Chrissy Teigen, who had 13.7M Twitter followers and was once called “unofficial mayor of Twitter” by the company, quits the platform after years of harassment — The former model and media personality was a prolific tweeter — Chrissy Teigen, a prolific tweeter the company once called … | Lauren Kaori Gurley / VICE: |
Amazon drivers share photos of pee bottles after the company tweets “you don't really believe the peeing in bottles thing, do you?” to a congressman — “You don't really believe the peeing in bottles thing, do you?” Amazon tweeted. Drivers say they're being gaslit. — Lauren Kaori Gurley
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Samsung announces 512GB DDR5 memory, still in verification stage, that delivers over twice the performance of DDR4 at up to 7,200 Mbps, for advanced workloads — As we inch closer to Intel's Alder Lake and AMD's Zen 4 architectures (late this year and/or early next, barring any delays) …
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Sensor Tower: PUBG Mobile has earned $5.1B in lifetime sales, $2.7B of it in 2020 alone; Tencent says the game surpassed 1B accumulated downloads outside China — Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. — PUBG Mobile has earned $5.1 billion …
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Apple bought the most AI companies globally from 2016 to 2020, with 25 acquisitions; Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Facebook collectively bought 60 AI companies — - US tech giants are leading the AI companies acquisition race — Four FAAMG companies feature in the list of top five acquirers …
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Apple tells Australia's consumer watchdog that iOS developers have alternative channels to reach users as “distribution is far from limited” to App Store — Telling the ACCC that users of iOS can go to a website to purchase and consume digital content or services …
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Interviews with 14 current and former Medium employees portray a dysfunctional company; sources say Medium has 700K paid subs, suggesting $35M+ in revenue — Last week, a partnerships manager at Medium working with the White House found that there was a strange problem with the platform: President Joe Biden was being served porn.
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Google launches Android Ready SE Alliance to drive adoption of features like digital car keys and mobile IDs in Android phones through tamper-resistant hardware — Smartphones have already obviated single-purpose gadgets like point-and-shoot cameras and MP3 players.
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Facebook briefly advertised The Re-Entry App, a new app it is building and testing for people transitioning from prison back into society, in Instagram feeds — Facebook Inc. is building a service for people who are transitioning from prison back into society, part of an apparent effort within … | Rebecca Szkutak / Forbes: |
Notarize, which lets users sign and notarize official documents digitally, raises $130M Series D at a $760M valuation, says revenue grew 600% since March 2020 — This time last year, Pat Kinsel, founder and CEO of electronic notary startup Notarize, was fielding 3,000 calls a week …
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Berlin-based Gorillas, a same-day grocery delivery service, raises $290M Series B at a $1B+ valuation led by Coatue Management, DST Global, and Tencent — Gorillas, the Berlin-HQ'd startup that promises to let you order groceries and other “every day” items for delivery in as little as ten minutes …
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