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| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Sources: Apple is testing a new external display with a dedicated Apple-made SoC that includes a Neural Engine — Apple's Pro Display XDR has been available for quite some time now, but there are still no rumors about an updated version of its high-priced display in the near term.| Kris Holt / Engadget: |
Blizzard president calls sexual harassment lawsuit “extremely troubling” in internal memo while a VP says it presents a “distorted and untrue” view of company — Blizzard president J. Allen Brack called the allegations ‘extremely troubling.’
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Alphabet announces Intrinsic, a new company to build software for industrial robots, as part of its “other bets” that includes Waymo, Wing, and Verily — Intrinsic is one of Alphabet's other bets, like Waymo and Wing — Google's parent-company Alphabet has a birth to announce …
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X, the moonshot factory, The Register, Reuters, Fortune, TechCrunch, ZDNet, The Robot Report, CNET, SiliconANGLE, Protocol, fossbytes.com, CNBC, and VentureBeat
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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Facebook brings its cloud gaming service to iPhones and iPads through a progressive web app, with games using Facebook Pay to accept in-game purchases — But will people know how to find it? — Starting Friday, Facebook is bringing its nascent cloud gaming service to iPhones and iPads through …
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Tweets: @migueldeicaza, @natisho, @zatara214, @zatara214, @mikebeas, @protocol, and @alexeheath
| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE: |
After initially taking down posts with the phrase “Death to Khamenei”, Facebook now says it will allow the chant for a two-week period, amid protests in Iran — After the company took down several posts on Instagram that included the popular protest chant against Iran's ruler …
Tweets: @caseynewton, @jason_koebler, @johnwilson, @lorenzofb, @katiedrumm, @gartenberg, @epro, @lorenzofb, @cwarzel, and @hshaban
| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Google Drive is rolling out the ability for users to block other accounts from sharing files with them, to prevent potential harassment and spam on the service — The new feature is rolling out over the next couple of weeks — Google Drive is adding the ability for users to block …
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Google Workspace Updates, MUO, PCMag, Chrome Unboxed, Ars Technica, Laptop Mag, Android Police, and 9to5Google. Tweets: @dcseifert
| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Researchers: Apple and Google should provide more access to iOS and Android, to help catch more attacks by Pegasus-like spyware in real time — Amnesty International sheds alarming light on an NSO Group surveillance tool—and the gaps in Apple and Google's defenses.
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Zero Day, The Verge, Qualys Security Blog, VICE, MacRumors, and CyberNews
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| Jay Greene / Washington Post: |
Amazon says it opened an investigation into AWS' culture after an internal petition criticized it for discrimination against women and under-represented groups — The probe comes as more than 550 workers in a cloud-computing unit supported a petition, citing 'an underlying culture …
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| Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: |
YouTube has avoided criticism by Biden and others for vaccine misinformation, after Biden criticized Facebook, possibly because its content is harder to track — Hi, it's Mark Bergen. Erin Elizabeth was kicked off Facebook. Elizabeth, owner of an alternative health blog, is one of the …
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Tweets: @brianstelter and @oliverdarcy
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Apple MagSafe Battery Pack review: well integrated with iOS and can charge Qi devices, like AirPods, but doesn't provide full iPhone 12 charge and is expensive — Apple's new MagSafe Battery Pack is a white rectangle you can stick to the back of an iPhone 12 to charge it.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: China is considering turning online tutoring companies into non-profits, which can't raise capital or go public, clamping down on the $100B industry — - Edtech firms to be banned from going public, foreign capital — Vacation, weekend tutoring for school subjects will be banned| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Facebook announces the Passthrough API, which allows Oculus Quest 2 developers to use real-world images collected via sensors to create mixed reality apps — Developers will get the experimental feature with Oculus' next SDK — Facebook announced a new API that will let developers incorporate video …
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Road to VR, UploadVR, CNET, MSPoweruser, SlashGear, Next Reality, and Slashdot
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| Kent Duke / Android Police: |
Google is rolling out a fix for a bug in Chrome OS 91, apparently caused by a single typo, which locked Chromebook owners out of devices upon restarting — Google can't seem to catch a break when it comes to Chrome OS 91. First we saw many users reporting their devices using an egregious amount …
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Tweets: @saleemrash1d, @dascandy42, and @trycatchhcf
| Mike Peterson / AppleInsider: |
Apple updates Apple Music for Android with Spatial Audio and lossless quality streaming — The latest update to the Apple Music app on Android officially introduces support for Apple's lossless and spatial audio features. — Version 3.6 of the Apple Music for Android app …
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The Verge, Apple Support, Macworld, TechCrunch, Engadget, MSPoweruser, TechPP, Pocket-lint, 9to5Google, MacRumors, iMore, mobilesyrup.com, and iDownloadBlog.com
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Taboola says it is buying retail- and e-commerce-focused ad network Connexity for $800M in cash and stock — Taboola, the company that operates a popular grid-based advertising and content recommendation network across media properties, today announced an acquisition to expand its reach further …
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Bloomberg, Taboola.com, PYMNTS.com, AdExchanger, CTech, ZDNet, Ad Age, and Adweek
| Joseph Pisani / Associated Press: |
A look at Amazon's Key For Business program, launched in 2018 to let drivers unlock apartment buildings via an app, which it is encouraging landlords to adopt — NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon is tired of ringing doorbells. — The online shopping giant is pushing landlords around the country …
Tweets: @ap and @loganclarkhall
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Twitter transparency report: only 2.3% of active accounts have enabled 2FA between July and December 2020; 79.6% of those who did used SMS-based 2FA — Twitter has revealed in its latest transparency report that only 2.3% of all active accounts have enabled at least one method of two-factor authentication …
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BetaNews. Tweets: @quinnypig, @michaelwilsonds, @db, @jake_mooreuk, @karlbode, @thecrowdfundlaw, and @pndc
| The Cloudflare Blog: |
Cloudflare accuses AWS of massive markups on egress bandwidth fees per region, estimating North American and European customers pay 80x the operational costs — Loading... When web hosting services first emerged in the mid-1990s, you paid for everything on a separate meter: bandwidth, storage, CPU, and memory.
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The Information, The Register, and Google Cloud Blog
Tweets: @eastdakota, @quinnypig, and @prdonahue
| Radhamely De Leon / VICE: |
Researchers say they embedded malware in up to half of the neurons in the benchmark AlexNet AI model and still kept the model's accuracy rate above 93.1% — In a proof-of-concept, researchers reported they could embed malware in up to half of an AI model's nodes and still obtain very high accuracy.
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google publishes a detailed timeline for the Privacy Sandbox rollout in Chrome, reiterating plans it announced earlier to delay cookie phaseout until H2 2023 — Last month, Google announced that it would delay Chrome's plan to phase out support for third-party cookies.
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Outbrain closes flat on its first day of trading, after raising $160M in its IPO at a valuation of $1.25B — Watch now. — Outbrain, which provides recommended web links at the bottom of news stories, raised $160 million at a $1.25 billion valuation in its initial public offering today.| Christine Hall / TechCrunch: |
Paystand, which is building an Ethereum blockchain-based service to enable B2B payments with zero fees, raises $50M Series C, bringing its total raised to $85M — It's pretty easy for individuals to send money back and forth, and there are lots of cash apps from which to choose.Sponsor Posts
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