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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Report: Apple and TSMC plan to produce 3nm chips for Macs as soon as 2023, with as many as four dies and up to 40 CPU cores per chip — Apple is taking the PC world by storm with its first debut of Apple Silicon chips inside of Macs, taking what it learned from developing the iPhone and iPad …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft fixes Windows 11 features that stopped loading due to an expired certificate, including the Snipping Tool, touch keyboard, and emoji panel — Windows 11 features are no longer failing to load — Microsoft has fixed several Windows 11 features failing to load after an expired certificate was discovered earlier this week.
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple says it has identified and fixed a firmware issue with its T2 security chip, which bricked some Macs while upgrading to macOS Monterey — macOS Monterey was released to the public last month with new features such as Focus modes, Shortcuts, and more.
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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Sources: Meta has discussed opening retail stores globally to showcase devices made by its Reality Labs division, like VR headsets and, eventually, AR glasses — The social networking company has discussed opening physical stores to showcase its virtual reality and augmented reality devices.| Wall Street Journal: |
Internal docs: a Facebook well-being team's survey found 12.5% of participants reported compulsive use of Facebook that negatively impacted their lives — The app hurts sleep, work, relationships or parenting for about 12.5% of users, who reported they felt Facebook was more of a problem than other social media
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| Antoine Gara / Financial Times: |
Sources: McAfee is in advanced talks to go private in a deal worth over $14B, including $4B in debt, led by private equity firm Advent International — Buyout would be one of largest this year and mark end of company's brief stint on public markets — Antivirus software company McAfee … | Balaji Srinivasan / @balajis: |
Twitter commentary erupts after Microsoft Ignite speakers described their physical appearance and race and noted the Microsoft campus was built on native land — Woke Capital incarnate. https://twitter.com/...
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| Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware: |
Intel to acquire part of Taiwan-based VIA Technologies' Centaur x86 CPU subsidiary for $125M, including some engineers from VIA's Austin, Texas campus — As Intel speeds up development, Via scales it down. — Via Technologies announced plans to offload part of its Centaur Technology x86 CPU subsidiary to Intel for $125 million.
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| Bloomberg: |
Apple hires CJ Moore, Tesla's Autopilot Software director who in January told the DMV that Musk's “Full-Self Driving” claims didn't “match engineering reality” — - CJ Moore drew controversy for remarks to DMV investigators — Apple continues to develop car technology under new managers
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| Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
Lime raises $523M in convertible debt and term loan financing and says it plans to go public next year — Shared electric micromobility giant Lime has closed a $523 million raise in convertible debt and term loan financing, money that Lime CEO Wayne Ting says is the next step on the company's path to going public next year.
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| Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology: |
Internal docs: In 2019, Facebook researchers found US users are four times more likely to see misinformation when they encounter a post via a share of a share — New leaked document shows Facebook's Share button spreads misinformation pervasively after two hops down the chain.| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google quietly removes Assistant's Your News Update feature, which launched in 2019 to give personalized audio digests based on user data — In November of 2019, Google upgraded Assistant's “play me the news” capability with personalized audio digests. Google Assistant has now removed …
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| Ashley Gold / Axios: |
Senators Klobuchar and Cotton introduce a bill to regulate Big Tech acquisitions, which would force companies to prove proposed mergers aren't anticompetitive — Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Tom Cotton (R-AK) introduced a bill Friday that would make it more difficult for Big Tech …
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| Vishal Singh / Silicon Canals: |
Berlin-based Moonfare, which offers a digital private equity investment service, raises a $125M Series C led by Insight Partners, bringing total raised to $185M — Berlin-based Moonfare, a digital private equity investment platform that provides access to top-tier private markets investment opportunities … Sponsor Posts
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