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Square is changing its name to Block, effective December 10, and renaming Square Crypto to Spiral, as its business shifts toward technologies like blockchain — - Payments giant Square will change its corporate name to Block, effective Dec. 10. — The move comes as Square expands beyond …
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| The Markup: |
Investigation finds US predictive policing tool PredPol, used countrywide, often perpetuates biases, directing police to poor, Black, and Latino neighborhoods — Plainfield, N.J. Plainfield, N.J. Los Angeles — Orange County, Fla.
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Sources: Apple, which cut its projected iPhone 13 production targets for 2021 by up to 10M units, tells suppliers that it may not make up the shortfall in 2022 — Apple Inc., suffering from a global supply crunch, is now confronting a different problem: slowing demand.| Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: |
In its end-of-year threat report, Meta says it took down several global disinformation networks, including anti-vaccine groups and groups linked to state actors — The takedowns described in the company's latest threat report demonstrate how the cat-and-mouse game between Facebook and bad actors is escalating
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Meta expands the number of eligible regulatory licenses for running crypto ads on Facebook and Instagram from three to 27 — - Facebook on Wednesday announced its decision to reverse long-standing policy that prevented most cryptocurrency companies from running ads on its services.
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
DOJ charges an ex-employee of IoT manufacturer Ubiquiti with data theft and for attempting to extort his employer while posing as a whistleblower and a hacker — Nickolas Sharp, a former employee of networking device maker Ubiquiti, was arrested and charged today with data theft and attempting …
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Qualcomm announces Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3, a 5nm chip with 5G and Wi-Fi 6, promising up to 85% better CPU and up to 60% faster GPU performance compared to Gen 2 — Third time's the charm? — Qualcomm has announced its latest flagship chip for PCs: the Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3, which …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple announces the best apps and games of 2021, across iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, and Apple Watch, and the most downloaded apps of the year — Apple today released its anticipated annual list of the best apps and games of the year across iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV and Apple Watch.
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| Berber Jin / The Information: |
Sources: Instacart is planning to launch a 15-minute-or-less grocery delivery pilot for US customers, from existing partner stores — For Instacart, the leading U.S. grocery delivery company, being fast may not be fast enough. — The $39 billion-valuation startup is planning to launch …
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| Tom Simonite / Wired: |
AI researcher Timnit Gebru, who left Google last year, launches Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research, focusing on the responsible use of AI — The researcher, who says Google fired her a year ago, wants to ask questions about responsible use of artificial intelligence. … APPLICATION
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| Michelle Singletary / Washington Post: |
The CFPB's rule that lets debt collectors send texts, emails, and private social media messages to debtors, and requires opt-out instructions, goes into effect — Federal regulators have given debt collectors the okay to pursue debtors via email, text messages and social media sites
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| Reuters: |
Grab begins trading on Nasdaq today after a record SPAC merger valuing it at $40B and raising $4.5B, the largest US listing by a Southeast Asian company — Grab, Southeast Asia's biggest ride-hailing and delivery firm, makes its market debut on Thursday after a record $40 billion merger …
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Uber adds ride booking via WhatsApp in Lucknow, India, a first for Uber and an expansion of WhatsApp's capabilities in the country — - Integration is a global-first for Uber, company says — Users can book a ride with a message on the chat program — Uber Technologies Inc …
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| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Mexico City-based buy now, pay later service and online consumer lender Kueski raises $102M in equity and $100M in debt, bringing its total funding to $300M+ — Kueski, a Mexico City-based “buy now, pay later” and online consumer lender, announced today it has secured $202 million in equity and debt funding.
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Federal judge blocks a Texas law that limits large social media platforms' ability to moderate content, saying it violates the platforms' First Amendment rights — ‘Social media platforms have a First Amendment right to moderate,’ wrote the judge — A federal judge has blocked a Texas law … | Carly Page / TechCrunch: |
Facebook makes 2FA mandatory for high-risk accounts, an expansion of Facebook Protect, which covers 1.5M accounts and will be in 50 countries by the end of 2021 — Facebook, a recently added subsidiary of Meta, said it will make two-factor authentication (2FA) mandatory for high-risk accounts likely …
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| Mack DeGeurin / Gizmodo: |
UN report: 2.9B people, or 37% of the world's population, have never used the internet, while internet users rose from 4.1B in 2019 to 4.9B in 2021 — But the pandemic has fueled a rapid surge of worldwide internet users. — Alerts — Nearly two-thirds of the world's population …
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| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
Five major education publishers sue Shopify for $500M+ for failing to remove listings and stores that sell pirated textbooks and other content — Textbook pirates are selling stolen learning materials on the platform, according to a lawsuit — Five major publishers have sued Shopify …
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| Tim Casey / Forbes: |
100 Thieves, which manages professional esports teams and around 15 video game streamers, raises a $60M Series C at a $460M valuation — During the 2017 NBA Finals, Matt Haag flew to Oakland, Calif., to meet with Dan Gilbert, the owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers.
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| Olivia Solon / NBC News: |
Meta partners with UK-based Revenge Porn Helpline to help people prevent intimate images from appearing online by uploading them to StopNCII.org — Facebook's parent company, Meta, has worked with the U.K.-based nonprofit Revenge Porn Helpline to build a tool that lets people prevent … | Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
LinkedIn adds Hindi support in India after initially supporting only English, which is spoken by less than 20% of India's 1.3B people — Less than 20% of India's 1.3 billion people speak English. But LinkedIn, the largest professional social network globally, has so far catered … | Financial Times: |
Sources: as SenseTime prepares for an IPO, its plan to create the world's first “AI casino” in Genting Singapore is delayed due to technical issues — Artificial intelligence leader SenseTime has run into problems with flagship Singapore project
Tweets: @primroseriordan
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Smartling, which offers automated cloud-based translation tools, raises $160M led by Battery Ventures, bringing its total funding to over $220M — As the pandemic drives businesses online, translation is becoming a key part of the digital transformation equation.
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