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Several women who believe they were tracked with AirTags say Apple's safeguards against stalking are insufficient — Privacy groups sounded alarms about the coin-sized location-tracking devices when they were introduced. Now people are concerned those fears are being realized.
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Investigation: how China identifies, tracks, and pressures its critics on Facebook and Twitter, including Chinese living abroad and citizens of other nations — Authorities in China have turned to sophisticated investigative software to track and silence obscure critics on overseas social media.
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Indian antitrust watchdog orders an investigation into Apple's practice of mandating use of its payments system for iPhone apps in the App Store — Indian antitrust watchdog on Friday ordered an investigation into Apple's business practices — in particular, the mandatory use …
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| Aoyon Ashraf / CoinDesk: |
Shiba Inu launches Doggy DAO in beta to let users decide on crypto projects and pairs on the ShibaSwap platform, and how $BONE rewards are distributed — The Dogecoin rival is aiming to provide its users with more control over crypto projects and pairs on the ShibaSwap platform.| Elizabeth Lopatto / The Verge: |
CES will end a day earlier, on January 7, as an “additional” COVID-19 safety measure, after Google, Microsoft, and other big companies canceled in-person plans — The show now ends on January 7th — CES has dropped the last day of its 2022 tech conference in Las Vegas …
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| Tom Parsons / What Hi-Fi?: |
Interview with Apple's VP of Acoustics and head of AirPods marketing about designing AirPods 3, Spatial Audio, Bluetooth's limitations, and more — First, a qualification: Gary Geaves isn't quite “the man who made the AirPods”, and I'm sure he'd never describe himself as such.
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Russia's media regulator adds Netflix to its “audio-visual services” register, requiring it to offer 20 major Russian federal TV channels starting in March 2022 — Russia's state media watchdog will require Netflix to offer state television channels to its Russian customers … | Tim / Droid Life: |
Google pauses the rollout of its December update for the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro until late January after reports of calls dropping and disconnecting — In a bit of frustrating news, Google has confirmed that it has paused the December update for the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro, aka the first Feature Drop update for the two devices.| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
OpenSea bans PHAYC and Phunky Ape Yacht Club, two NFT projects dueling over which is the authentic Bored Ape Yacht Club ripoff — And dodging NFT marketplace bans while doing it — A pair of non-fungible token projects are testing the boundary between plagiarism and parody.
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| Brian Quarmby / Cointelegraph: |
Ethereum scaling project Polygon says it quietly fixed a bug that put $23.6B in MATIC tokens at risk, but not before $2.04M in tokens was stolen — “Considering how much was at stake, I believe our team has made the best decisions possible given the circumstances,” said Polygon's co-founder Jaynti Kanani.
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Metacurity, The Block, Polygon | Blog, Bitcoinist.com, The Crypto Basic, CryptoPotato, Tom's Hardware, InsideBitcoins.com, Decrypt, The Mac Observer, and CoinDesk
Tweets: @0xpolygon, @kaibadefi, @wublockchain, and @evai_io
| Patrick McGee / Financial Times: |
Experts say the Apple Watch has yet to change patient management as Apple's efforts in getting FDA approvals and broader acceptance among doctors are lacking — Device touted as ‘future of health’ has yet to change the way patients are treated, say experts
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AppleInsider and Patently Apple
| Jennifer Smith / Wall Street Journal: |
PitchBook: supply-chain tech startups raised $24.3B in venture funding in the first three quarters of 2021, 58% more than all of 2020 — A flood of big money is pumping up valuations of logistics startups as global bottlenecks raise the profile of a once-overlooked sector
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