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| Nick Clegg: |
Nick Clegg defends Facebook, saying it is not in the company's interest, financially or reputationally, to push users towards ever more extreme content — In a recent article for The Atlantic, Adrienne LaFrance compared Facebook to a Doomsday Machine: “a device built with the sole purpose of destroying all human life.”
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| Sami Fathi / MacRumors: |
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| Josh Taylor / The Guardian: |
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| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
Biden announces $2T American Jobs Plan focused on improving US infrastructure, with $100B allocated for high-speed broadband access over eight years — It sets aside $100 billion for the effort — President Biden plans to announce a sweeping infrastructure plan Wednesday that includes $100 billion …
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| Financial Times: |
Deliveroo closed down 26% in its LSE debut, after pricing shares at £3.90, valuing it at £5.2B; the poor debut is likely due to labor practice issues — Fall comes after food delivery company priced its shares at bottom end of range — Deliveroo's shares plunged 26 per cent …
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| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Apple says it is introducing two new Siri voices for English speakers and eliminating the default female voice selection, as part of iOS 14.5 beta 6 — Apple is adding two new voices to Siri's English offerings, and eliminating the default ‘female voice’ selection in the latest beta version of iOS.
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| Ken Klippenstein / The Intercept: |
Leaked doc sheds light on “Veritas”, an Amazon FC Ambassador program conceived in 2018 that sought to train employees to defend Amazon and Bezos on social media — Amazon's small Twitter army of “ambassadors” was quietly conceived in 2018 under the codename “Veritas,” …
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Last Week in AWS, The Guardian, Insider, VICE, IGN, and Input
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| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Apple leads $50M Series B in music distributor UnitedMasters, with a16z and Alphabet participating; UnitedMasters enters a strategic partnership with Apple — Independent music distribution platform and tool factory UnitedMasters has raised a $50M series B round led by Apple.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
LinkedIn confirms it's working on a Clubhouse rival and will begin beta testing soon, but doesn't have an exact timeframe for its launch — Clubhouse's list of competitors is growing. LinkedIn has now confirmed it's also testing a social audio experience in its app which would allow creators …
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| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
Turing Award goes to Jeffrey Ullman and Alfred Aho for their work on compilers, which underpin computer programming languages — Jeffrey Ullman and Alfred Aho developed many of the fundamental concepts that researchers use when they build new software. — When Alfred Aho and Jeffrey Ullman met …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
Study: Android and iOS transmit telemetry even when devices are idle or users opt out; Google collects 20x more data from Android than Apple from iOS — Academic research published last week looked at the telemetry traffic sent by modern iOS and Android devices back to Apple and Google servers …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google is rolling out FLoC, its alternative to third-party cookies and a crucial part of its Privacy Sandbox project for Chrome, as a developer origin trial — Google today announced that it is rolling out Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC), a crucial part of its Privacy Sandbox project for Chrome, as a developer origin trial.
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New York Times, Electronic Frontier Foundation, The Keyword, SiliconANGLE, Digiday, Fossbytes, TechRadar, SlashGear, and Adweek
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Sponsor of Arizona's HB2005 bill, which allows alternative payment systems in app stores, says it won't get a hearing this year after being pulled last week — Arizona House Bill 2005, a hotly contested piece of legislation that would have imposed developer-friendly changes to Apple …
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| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
Huawei reports 2020 revenue of $136.7B, up 3.8% YoY but slower than the 19%+ growth it saw in 2019, and net profit of $9.9B, up 3.2% YoY — - Huawei's revenue for 2020 totaled 891.4 billion yuan ($136.7 billion), a 3.8% year-on-year rise in yuan terms. That was slower than the more than 19% revenue growth Huawei saw in 2019.| Emily Feng / NPR: |
How Wuhan's HSMC created an unusable chip factory, becoming one of six multibillion-dollar Chinese chip project failures in the last two years — WUHAN, China — In 2019, the U.S. sanctioned two major Chinese telecom firms, temporarily cutting them off from a vital supply of semiconductor chips … | Lawrence Weru / Slate: |
The rise of Clubhouse and other audio-only social networks marginalizes people with speech impediments like stuttering — It's before sunrise and I'm doing some accounting while listening to conversations on Clubhouse. On the app, people can schedule and host audio chat rooms …
Tweets: @nicolasmagand, @nealbaer, @futuretensenow, @chengela, @futuretensenow, and @yoda
| Axios: |
Survey: trust in tech declined globally in 2020 due factors like misinfo and privacy concerns; in the US, tech fell from the “most trusted” in 2019, to ninth — Trust in tech — including companies specializing in AI, VR, 5G and the internet of things — fell all around the world last year …
Tweets: @techwontsaveus, @omertene, @azeem, and @axios
| Ted Chiang / New Yorker: |
For the foreseeable future, technological innovation will be driven by humans, not self-improving AI systems, so there won't be a “singularity” — We fear and yearn for “the singularity.” But it will probably never come. — In the eleventh century, St. Anselm of Canterbury proposed … | Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
Uniphore, which uses AI to analyze and improve customer support provided over voice and video calls, raises $140M Series D, bringing its total raised to $210M — - Company working on technology that analyzes facial expressions — Startup looking to expand beyond call-center software| Eric Geller / Politico: |
Interviews with 15 people show CISA is underfunded, short on talent, outmatched by adversaries, and overwhelmed by the fallout from two massive cyberattacks — The agency that protects the U.S. from hackers is hobbled by funding woes, a talent shortage and growing pains that are jeopardizing … | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Source: Apple is planning to announce a mixed reality headset “sometime” in the next several months, possibly at an in-person event — Hi everyone—it's Mark. On Tuesday, Apple Inc. announced what will be at least its fifth virtual product launch in a row and one of its most important events …
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Tweets: @lanceulanoff, @bengeskin, @scobleizer, and @markgurman
| Molly Fischer / The Cut: |
A look at the downsides of virtual therapy apps like Talkspace and BetterHelp, which are booming amid high demand but seem to promise more than they can deliver — The summer of 2020, recalls Hillary Schieve, was hard. The pandemic was bearing down across the country …
Tweets: @hwinsider, @amandalitman, and @gvsmith
| Politico: |
Sources: suspected Russian hackers stole thousands of State Department officials' emails last year; the classified network doesn't appear to have been accessed — Suspected Russian hackers stole thousands of State Department officials' emails last year, according to two Congressional sources familiar …
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CyberScoop, Security Affairs, and TechRadar
| Yonhap News Agency: |
South Korea's antitrust regulator to fine Apple Korea $265K and refer it for prosecution for allegedly impeding a probe into unfair business practices — (ATTN: ADDS Apple's reaction in paras 6-7; Minor edits) — South Korea's antitrust regulator said Wednesday it has decided to refer …
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Patently Apple, 9to5Mac, iMore, and The Register
| Caitlin McCabe / Wall Street Journal: |
Robinhood says it will remove digital confetti, which appears when making a first trade and elsewhere, from its app after criticism that it “gamifies” investing — The confetti, which critics alleged was a gamification strategy, will be replaced with new designs
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CNBC, Under the Hood, Insider, and The Independent
Tweets: @vladtenev, @robinhoodapp, and @eringriffith
| Sylvia Varnham O'Regan / The Information: |
Gupta Media: Facebook ad prices, measured in cost per thousand impressions, rebounded from a $1 monthly average last spring to almost $5 in November — With consumers glued to phones and laptops, the year of pandemic shut-ins ended up being great for the biggest digital advertising businesses … | Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Manticore Games, a Roblox-like platform to build and play games using Epic's Unreal Engine, raises $100M Series C led by XN Ventures — Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. — Manticore Games has raised $100 million for user-generated games in the …
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| Reed Albergotti / Washington Post: |
User says ~$600K of bitcoin was stolen after using a fake app for cryptocurrency hardware wallet Trezor downloaded from the App Store; app was rated five stars — Recent scams show there are holes in Apple's safety net — Phillipe Christodoulou wanted to check his bitcoin balance last month …
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| Peter Rubin / Wired: |
A reflection on Facebook's VR efforts as the Oculus Rift turns five: an astonishing number of problems have been solved but many big challenges remain — A lot's happened since Facebook's first headset brought virtual reality to the masses. Facebook might have been a first mover, but it also wants to be the last one.
Tweets: @techatfacebook
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