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Samsung unveils Samsung Gaming Hub, coming to select 2022 Samsung TVs, to add built-in support for Google Stadia, Nvidia's GeForce Now, and Utomik cloud gaming — Plus a mysterious way to pass through your game console's controller signals — Samsung is revealing a new lineup of smart TVs …
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Samsung says its 2022 TVs will support NFTs, including displaying, browsing, purchasing, and showing history and blockchain metadata — Learn about an NFT's blockchain history from the comfort of your couch — Staring at your non-fungible tokens on a smartphone or laptop screen is fine and all …
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| Donie O'Sullivan / CNN: |
Twitter permanently suspends one of Georgia GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's accounts for repeated violations of its COVID-19 misinformation policy — (CNN)Twitter has permanently suspended Georgia GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's Twitter account @mtgreenee, the company confirmed to CNN Sunday morning.
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| Paul Tassi / Forbes: |
Square Enix President Yosuke Matsuda issues a New Year's Letter indicating the company will pursue blockchain games and NFTs in 2022 — Well, we couldn't get more than a few hours without another major company tossing a lit match into the crypto/blockchain/NFT tinderbox, and this time it's (throws dart) Square Enix!
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| Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: |
Kuo: second-generation AirPods Pro will have lossless audio support and a charging case that can emit a sound for location tracking purposes — Apple's second-generation AirPods Pro will feature support for Lossless audio and a charging case that can emit a sound for location tracking purposes, according to Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
In 2022, Apple will likely entirely ditch Intel by WWDC, debut the biggest MacBook Air redesign in history, and launch iPhone 14 with a hole-punch-sized notch — After a modest set of device launches in 2021, Apple Inc. is set for a stronger 2022—with new iPhones, AirPods and potentially a VR headset.
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| Josh Ye / South China Morning Post: |
Report: Chinese regulators have not approved any new video games since July, resulting in about 140K gaming-related companies shutting down in the country — Regulators have not released a list of approved new video game titles since the end of July, marking the longest suspension since … | Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Microsoft releases an emergency fix for a Y2K22 bug in its FIP-FS anti-malware scanning engine that stops Exchange on-premise servers from delivering email — Microsoft has released an emergency fix for a year 2022 bug that is breaking email delivery on on-premise Microsoft Exchange servers.| Bloomberg: |
AT&T and Verizon reject the US Transportation Secretary's and FAA's request to delay rolling out new 5G services near airports, but may pause some deployments — Airlines warned of increased flight delays after AT&T Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc. brushed aside a U.S. government request …
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| Ben Smith / New York Times: |
After leaving Meta, Brandon Silverman, co-founder of Facebook-acquired CrowdTangle, has helped craft a bipartisan bill to boost social networks' transparency — The co-founder of CrowdTangle has been working with Congress on legislation to make tech companies disclose their inner workings.| Brian Newar / Cointelegraph: |
OpenSea freezes 16 Ape NFTs, worth ~$2.3M, after they were reportedly stolen, leading some to point out the lack of decentralization in the NFT space — Art gallery owner Todd Kramer had his valuable NFT collection stolen from his hot wallet yesterday, so OpenSea froze the stolen assets worth about $2.2 million.
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| Stephanie Yang / Wall Street Journal: |
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