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Google updates its Passes API to let users store COVID vaccine cards on Android devices, starting in the US, and says it won't keep a copy of user's information — Google has announced today that Google Pay is now capable of saving and displaying COVID-19 vaccination cards on Android …
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| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Adam Mosseri says Instagram plans to test video more broadly, calls TikTok and YouTube competitors, and says Instagram is “no longer a photo-sharing app” — - Facebook's head of Instagram said the service plans to start showing users full-screen, recommended videos in their feeds.
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
TikTok is rolling out longer videos of up to three minutes, up from one minute, to all users over the coming weeks, after testing them since December — Now up to three minutes — TikToks are about to get longer. The app is now rolling out the ability for everyone to publish videos …
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| Austin Carr / Bloomberg: |
Documents and interviews detail how a junior Microsoft engineer exploited a bug to generate Xbox gift card codes worth $10.1M+ before his arrest in Nov. 2020 — The Xbox gift card came with a string of 25 letters and numbers. The digits, known as a 5x5 code, were sent in an email …
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Articulate, which offers SaaS products that Amazon and other companies use to create training courses for employees, raises $1.5B Series A at a $3.75B valuation — Where does your enterprise stand on the AI adoption curve? Take our AI survey to find out.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
NSA, FBI, and others say Russian hacking group Fancy Bear has been using Kubernetes to run brute force attacks on US and foreign organizations since mid-2019 — US and UK cybersecurity agencies said today that a Russian military cyber unit has been behind a series of brute-force attacks …
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Maine enacts the strongest statewide facial recognition law in the US, prohibiting the use of facial recognition tech in public schools and most police work — AUGUSTA, Maine - Maine has enacted the country's strongest statewide facial recognition law. Maine's law prohibits the use …
| Thomas Claburn / The Register: |
Sources: IBM's company-wide email migration, 18 months in the making, has left many employees unable to use email or schedule calendar events for several days — IBM's planned company-wide email migration has gone off the rails, leaving many employees unable to use email or schedule calendar events.
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
CISA releases a new self-assessment tool to help organizations understand how well they are equipped to defend against and recover from ransomware attacks — The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released the Ransomware Readiness Assessment (RRA), a new module for its Cyber Security Evaluation Tool (CSET).| Jonathan Zittrain / The Atlantic: |
A look at link rot, and projects like Perma, which are trying to give authors of enduring documents like scholarly papers a way to preserve links permanently — Sixty years ago the futurist Arthur C. Clarke observed that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.| David Ingram / NBC News: |
A federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction blocking Florida's Stop Social Media Censorship Act from going into effect, which was scheduled for Thursday — A federal judge Wednesday put on hold a first-of-its-kind law in Florida that authorized the state to penalize social media companies …
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| Nina Bambysheva / Forbes: |
Brazil's largest crypto exchange Mercado Bitcoin raises $200M Series B from SoftBank Latin America Fund, valuing its parent company 2TM Group at $2.1B — I cover cryptocurrencies and other applications of blockchain — Brazil's leading cryptocurrency exchange, Mercado Bitcoin raised $200 million …
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| Eugene Kim / Insider: |
Sources: Amazon is discussing forming a “Rebel Alliance” with Slack and other companies to challenge Microsoft's dominance of the work-productivity app market — - Amazon has discussed creating a software bundle with other companies to compete with Microsoft.| Natasha Mascarenhas / TechCrunch: |
Paper, which provides educational software to K-12 schools in the US and Canada, raises $100M Series C led by IVP — For edtech startups, it's always been easier to go direct-to-consumer than it is to sell into school districts. The latter has stodgy and strict sales cycles …
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| Aria Alamalhodaei / TechCrunch: |
Ghost Locomotion, which develops highway self-driving and crash prevention technology, raises $100M Series D led by Sutter Hill — Autonomous driving system developer Ghost Locomotion has raised a $100 million Series D funding round, led by Sutter Hill Ventures.
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| Patrick Clark / Bloomberg: |
Goldman Sachs leads $32M Series A in Entera, a SaaS provider helping real estate investors find, buy, and manage single-family homes in 24 markets across the US — - Entera helps investors find, buy and renovate rental houses — Investors used software to acquire nearly $1 billion in homes
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| Ercan Ersoy / Bloomberg: |
Hepsiburada.com, one of Turkey's largest online shopping services, raises $470M in its Nasdaq IPO at a $3.9B valuation — - E-commerce platform gets $738 million from IPO of 20% stake — Franklin Resources still backs the firm even as it cuts stake — Hepsiburada.com was valued …
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| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
Micron announces that it has agreed to sell its 3D XPoint fab in Utah to Texas Instruments for $900M in cash — Micron announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its Lehi, Utah fab to Texas Instruments for $900 million in cash.
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| Alex Hern / The Guardian: |
Facebook, Google, Twitter, and TikTok sign up to pledge led by WWWF, to overhaul their moderation systems to tackle the abuse of women on their platforms — Facebook, Google, Twitter and TikTok commit to overhaul their platform's moderation systems — Four of the world's largest social networks …
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| Matt Day / Bloomberg: |
Days before Bezos steps aside, Amazon adds two points to its 14 corporate values, requiring staff to consider welfare of coworkers and society at large — - Workers now required to consider employee welfare, society — Employees are hired, evaluated on how they conform to list| Cromwell Schubarth / Silicon Valley Business Journal: |
Business management software company Intapp raised $273M in its Nasdaq IPO at a ~$1.6B valuation; its stock rose nearly 8% in its first day of trading — Intapp Inc. raised $273 million in an initial public offering that hit the middle of its price targets on Tuesday.
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| Steve Crowe / The Robot Report: |
Zebra Technologies acquires Fetch Robotics, which builds autonomous industrial robots powered by cloud-based software, for $290M — Fetch Robotics, a San Jose, Calif.-based developer of autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) for logistics, has been acquired by Lincolnshire, Ill.-based Zebra Technologies for $290 million.| Sam Shead / CNBC: |
Amazon says it is setting up a new development center in Helsinki to support Amazon Scout, an autonomous delivery robot that the company is testing in the US — - The Seattle-headquartered tech giant said in a blog post that it is setting up a new “Development Center” to support Amazon Scout … | David Cohen / Adweek: |
Pinterest updates its ad policies to prohibit ads containing weight loss language and imagery — It worked with the National Eating Disorders Association on its updated policy — Ads promoting healthy lifestyles and habits or fitness services and products will still be allowed| William Turvill / Press Gazette: |
Group M: Google, Facebook, Alibaba, ByteDance, and Amazon claimed 46% of global ad revenues in 2020; in 2010, the then top 5, including News Corp, claimed 17% — Five tech companies today account for nearly half of the world's advertising revenue, a report has found.| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
AT&T joins T-Mobile in making Google's Android Messages the default app for SMS and RCS services on Android phones; Verizon so far has not made the switch — Verizon is the last big carrier not to switch — AT&T and Google have announced that all Android phones on the network …
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