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April 6, 2021, 12:55 PM

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James T. Areddy / Wall Street Journal:
China is pitching the digital yuan as a way to soften the power of US sanctions, which are increasingly being used against Chinese companies and individuals  —  A cyber yuan stands to give Beijing power to track spending in real time, plus money that isn't linked to the dollar-dominated global financial system
Bloomberg:
Companies that make $1 display driver chips can't keep up with surging demand, causing serious production problems for products with LCD displays like laptops  —  - Without a display driver chip, you can't build your product  — CEO says he can't “see the light at the end of tunnel yet.”
Clubhouse:
Clubhouse partners with Stripe to let its users send payments to other users without taking a cut; only selected users will be able to receive payments for now  —  From the earliest days of Clubhouse, a guiding principle has been to build a platform that puts the creator first.
Atul Bhattarai / Rest of World:
A look at the rise and fall of India's missed call industry, which was transformed by Twitter-owned ZipDial that serviced 5M missed calls a day at its peak  —  In the age of expensive data, missed calls became more than just a cheap way to communicate.  But in India, technology moves faster than you'd think.
BuzzFeed News:
Source shares data on 1,803 US taxpayer-funded orgs using Clearview AI; many cops used its facial recognition without higher-ups knowing or after a local ban  —  A controversial facial recognition tool designed for policing has been quietly deployed across the country with little to no public oversight.
Nick Statt / The Verge:
Yahoo Answers, one of the internet's most storied Q&A sites, will be shut down on May 4 and the company says a comprehensive archive will not be provided  —  The end of a long and storied internet era (of bad questions and even worse answers)  —  Yahoo Answers, one of the longest-running …
Andrei Frumusanu / AnandTech:
Review of Intel's Ice Lake Xeon Scalable CPUs, its first server chip design using a 10nm process, which sees large increases in performance for many workloads  —  The launch of Intel's Ice Lake Xeon Scalable processors has been in the wings for a number of years.
Pranob Mehrotra / XDA Developers:
Andy Greenberg / Wired:
Signal says it has added support for privacy-focused cryptocurrency MobileCoin to let users send and receive money, starting in the UK on iOS and Android  —  The encrypted messaging app is integrating support for MobileCoin in a bid to keep up with the features offered by its more mainstream rivals.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
E3 will take place as a free virtual conference on June 12-15 and organizers say an in-person event will happen in LA in 2022  —  The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) announced plans for a “reimagined” all-virtual E3 2021, set to take place June 12-15, 2021, featuring news and game reveals.
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Sendbird, which helps developers integrate chat, video, and other features in their apps, raises $100M at a $1.05B valuation led by Steadfast Financial  —  Messaging is the medium these days, and today a startup that has built an API to help others build text and video interactivity …
Debby Wu / Bloomberg:
Foxconn Q1 revenue jumps 44% YoY to $47B based on robust demand for Apple's new 5G devices and other gadgets  —  - Consumers continue to buy devices to stay connected at home  — Company warns component shortage will affect 10% of shipments  —  IPhone assembler Hon Hai Precision Industry Co.'s …
Washington Post:
A Facebook recruiter, Rhett Lindsey, who left after 11 months, and others say Facebook's hiring processes are problematic and will hinder diversity goals  —  The recruiter quit after 11 months, adding fuel to claims that it discriminates against Black applicants
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat:
ThreatQuotient, a threat-focused security operations provider, raises $22.5M in a mix of debt and $13M equity, bringing its total raised to $60M+  —  Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data.  Learn more.  —  ThreatQuotient, a security operations platform provider …
Carolyn Said / San Francisco Chronicle:
Uber says driver price-naming and destination previewing policies it introduced last year in California have hurt its business, and is considering ending both  —  A year ago, Uber let its California drivers see ride destinations before picking up passengers and let them set pricing in an effort …

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