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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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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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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.| 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 … | 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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| 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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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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| 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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| Stephanie Yang / Wall Street Journal: |
The chip industry faces a recruitment gap, as plans for new fabs in the US will require an estimated 70K to 90K more workers by 2025 compared to 2020 levels — Limited supply of qualified workers poses challenge as facilities are built to bolster global supply of semiconductors| 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, The Daily Hodl, Benzinga, Bitcoin News, InsideBitcoins.com, and Market Meditations. Tweets: @smartcryptonew1
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