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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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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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Washington Post and John Battelle's Search Blog
Tweets: @marshallk, @alec_sears, @jradoff, @jason, @hraleighspeaks, @bethanyallenebr, @jessicavaugn, @mbrookerhk, @alykhansatchu, @shuvmajumdar, @alykhansatchu, @alykhansatchu, @alykhansatchu, @john_sipher, @andrewbeatty, @bethanyallenebr, @alykhansatchu, @vickerysec, @heytherehaiey, @nataliaantonova, @artjonak, @williamyang120, @lukeobrien, @ericfish85, @jeffjarvis, @c_aashish, @vshih2, @komaramusic, @catecadell, @mor10, @rmack, @pekingmike, @behrouzboochani, @aliceysu, @julianku, @nytimes, @lukeobrien, @dtbyler, @lauriechenwords, @martijnrasser, @rlheinrichs, @david_mulroney, @kenroth, @yaxuecao, @jchengwsj, @nickkristof, @mbrookerhk, @emma_cfa, @paulmozur, @nickschifrin, @baldingsworld, and @kashhill
| 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 … | 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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9to5Mac, iThinkDifferent, MobileSyrup, AppleInsider, The Verge, iPhone in Canada Blog, PhoneArena, Engadget, Appleosophy, iPhone Hacks, TechRadar, WeRSM, AppleTrack, and Cult of Mac
Tweets: @aaplparody, @philletourneau, @apollozac, @bradleychambers, @_inside, and @saranbyte
| 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 — AT&T Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc. rejected a U.S. request to delay this week's launch of a new variation of 5G mobile service …
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Politico, Engadget, CNET, Reuters, and Wall Street Journal
| David Shepardson / Reuters: |
The US Transportation Secretary and the head of the FAA ask AT&T and Verizon to delay new 5G deployments, planned for January 5, over aviation safety concerns — U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and the head of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Friday asked AT&T … | Amitoj Singh / CoinDesk: |
Sources: tax authorities searched some of India's biggest cryptocurrency exchanges after detecting tax evasion of around $6M at Binance's WazirX — India's tax authorities have conducted searches at some of India's biggest cryptocurrency exchanges including CoinSwitch Kuber, CoinDCX …
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pib.gov.in, The Economic Times, Bankless Times, The Block, and Livemint
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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 — Shiba Inu has launched a beta version of a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) to give users more authority to decide on crypto projects …
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Shiba Inu Ecosystem, Benzinga, Bitcoin News, InsideBitcoins.com, and Market Meditations. Tweets: @smartcryptonew1
| 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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PCMag, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, ADIF, Zee News, Gizmodo, SiliconANGLE, iPhone in Canada Blog, iMore, and Slashdot
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| 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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CES, The Paper PC, TechSpot, PCMag, Tom's Guide, Bloomberg, Axios, IGN, Protocol, CNET, and Engadget
Tweets: @ces, @stevesi, @digitalhen, @tonyromm, @mbgelman, @backlon, @edzitron, @philnickinson, @julipuli, @alexeheath, @hughlangley, @benjedwards, @tomwarren, @rdrv3, and @caro_milanesi
| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
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