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Profile of Brewster Kahle and the Internet Archive, which marked its 25th anniversary in May and stores 70PB+ of data, including 635B webpages and 34M books — Meet Brewster Kahle, the internet's chief librarian — Audio player loading... On the same day in 1996, Brewster Kahle founded … | Anton Shilov / AnandTech: |
Report: chipmakers are on track to spend $152B on new fabs and production equipment in 2021, up 34% YoY, which is the strongest YoY growth since 2017 — Semiconductor makers have drastically increased their capital expenditures (CapEx) this year in response to unprecedented demand for chips that is going to last for years.| Ben Bowman / The Streamable: |
YouTube TV reaches a deal with Disney to bring back 17+ channels including ABC, Disney, ESPN, Freeform, FX, and National Geographic — After one day of being dark, YouTube TV and Disney have reached a deal which will see more than 17 Disney-owned channels, including local ABC affiliates, Disney Channel, and ESPN return to the service.
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| Max A. Cherney / Protocol: |
Inside Intel's Ronler complex in Hillsboro, Oregon, where it conducts its most advanced research and houses the company's most important chip manufacturing site — HILLSBORO, Ore. — To create a beam of ultraviolet radiation precise enough to print the world's most advanced microchips …
Tweets: @chernandburn, @chiakokhua, @witeken, @chiakokhua, @witeken, and @tomkrazit
| Alex Pasternack / Fast Company: |
How Chinese Wikipedia volunteers fighting censorship, threats, arrest, and violence expose the challenges to the Wikimedia Foundation's free-knowledge mission — This past July, before he was banned from Wikipedia, Techyan was one of dozens of volunteers preparing to speak at the free-knowledge movement's annual conference, Wikimania.
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| Kate Park / TechCrunch: |
South Korea-based online grocery startup Kurly, which says it plans to IPO in H1 2022 at a ~$5.8B valuation, raises $210M at a $3.3B valuation — Just half a year after its last Series F round announcement, Korean online grocery startup Kurly has closed a $210 million in a pre-IPO round … | Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
Berlin-based Vay, a startup that uses remote operators to drive rental cars to a customer's pick-up spot and from their drop-off site, raises a $95M Series B — Vay, a company that is trying to get self-driving car services to market faster by pursuing a teledriven approach …
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| Andy Maxwell / TorrentFreak: |
Malaysia passes a bill to imprison illegal streaming pirates, primarily those involved in the provision or facilitation of illegal streams, for up to 20 years — Laws that forbid the illegal uploading and downloading of copyrighted content are common around the world but the rise of streaming has sometimes exposed gaps in legislation.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
The case for Apple to offer a 15-inch iPad home hub is made clear by devices like the Portal and Echo Show 15, as well as Apple's ~5% smart speaker market share — I've been testing Amazon.com Inc.'s new Echo Show 15. My takeaway: It's time for Apple Inc. to get serious about the smart home and launch a giant iPad as a new hub.
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PhoneArena, 9to5Mac, and AppleInsider
Tweets: @dan_ness, @johnwilson, @mattbirchler, and @markgurman
| Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: |
Amazon issues an update to fix its Appstore and the issues that left some Android 12 users with apps that didn't work — Amazon has addressed the issue that had left those with Android 12 phones unable to use apps they had downloaded from the company's Appstore.
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9to5Google, Neowin, Android Police, The Verge, PhoneArena, Liliputing, and Android Headlines. Tweets: @gartenberg
| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Interview with Jameel Jaffer of the Knight First Amendment Institute on how Congress can regulate social media platforms while abiding by the First Amendment — One of the hardest problems at the intersection of tech and policy right now is the question of how to regulate social media platforms.
Tweets: @jameeljaffer, @jason_kint, @jason_kint, @jason_kint, @reckless, @jason_kint, @aaschapiro, @jameeljaffer, @marshacollier, and @reckless
| Financial Times: |
Profile of Tether CEO Jean-Louis van der Velde, who previously ran a company in China that faced lawsuits over unpaid bills and fines for late tax payments — Jean-Louis van der Velde's career offered few clues that he would become a key figure in fast-growing industry
Tweets: @claritytoast, @svr13, and @kadhim
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