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| Daisuke Wakabayashi / New York Times: |
The US ITC issues a final ruling declaring Google infringed on five Sonos audio tech patents and is banned from importing products that violate Sonos' IP — The company will not be allowed to import products that infringe on Sonos patents, including smart speakers, video streaming devices, and some computers and phones.
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
ESA says E3 2022 will not be held in person and will be an online-only event in the summer due to COVID-19 concerns — The Entertainment Software Association is shifting the Electronic Entertainment Expo to an online-only event out of concerns around the pandemic.
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Mozilla pauses accepting crypto donations following a widespread backlash, mostly over carbon emissions, including from co-founder Jamie Zawinski — Mozilla is the latest company to take heat for its involvement with cryptocurrency — Mozilla, the nonprofit organization that makes …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Spotify introduces Call-to-Action Cards, a visual ad format for podcasts that puts clickable cards inside show and episode pages — Spotify is today introducing is introducing a new ad format aimed at podcasters which it's calling “Call-to-Action Cards” — or CTA cards, for short.
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| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Twitter says it is testing “Quote Tweet with reaction”, an option to let iOS users retweet and attach a video reaction — Twitter on Thursday launched a new feature in its iOS app for a small group of users. With this option, it's now possible to retweet someone's post and add your own video reaction using your camera.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
LinkedIn plans to launch interactive, audio-only live events this month in beta for some creators and a video version in the spring — LinkedIn, now with more than 800 million people listing their professional profiles to build out their careers, is taking its next steps to get them to spend more time on the platform.
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| Brandy Betz / CoinDesk: |
DeFi credit protocol Goldfinch raises a $25M Series A extension led by a16z, which also led its $11M Series A last year, and announces the Goldfinch Foundation — Decentralized credit protocol Goldfinch has raised $25 million in a Series A extension round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) …
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| Ry Crist / CNET: |
Amazon introduces Sidewalk Bridge Pro by Ring, a dedicated bridge device for farms and other nonresidential settings, capable of relaying data up to five miles — A new, dedicated Sidewalk bridge will bring farms, factories and other nonresidential zones online with Amazon's long-range, low-power IoT network.
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| The Wire: |
How Modi's BJP uses an app called Tek Fog, with ShareChat integration, to spread propaganda, target critics on WhatsApp, and hijack Facebook and Twitter trends — The Wire investigates claims behind the use of ‘Tek Fog’, a highly sophisticated app used by online operatives to hijack major social media …
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| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
Internet disruptions in Kazakhstan, the world's second-biggest bitcoin mining hub, shut down an estimated 15% of the world's miners before internet was restored — - The second-biggest country for bitcoin mining lost its internet access, taking as much as 15% of the network offline.
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| Henry Updegrave / Chainalysis: |
A record $14B flowed to criminal crypto addresses in 2021, up from $7.8B in 2020, driven by DeFi scams; total crypto transaction volume hit $15.8T, up 567% YoY — Cryptocurrency-based crime hit a new all-time high in 2021, with illicit addresses receiving $14 billion over the course of the year, up from $7.8 billion in 2020.
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| Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: |
Clubhouse starts testing Web Listening, letting US users listen to Replays and live rooms with Replays enabled, in most major browsers — Since its debut in 2020, joining a conversation on Clubhouse has involved opening the app. But that's no longer the case.
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BGR India, 9to5Mac, and Pocket-lint
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Signal quietly made its MobileCoin-based cryptocurrency payments feature available to all users globally in November 2021, after a UK beta test in the spring — A beta “payments” feature now lets some users of the popular encrypted messaging app send MobileCoin around the globe.| Sarah E. Needleman / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: GameStop has hired more than 20 people to run a new division developing an NFT marketplace and establishing cryptocurrency partnerships — The retailer is launching a division dedicated to the buzzy new technologies amid a push to turn a profit — GameStop Corp. is launching …
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| José Adorno / 9to5Mac: |
Instagram tests the ability to switch between a Home feed, a Favorites feed, and a Following chronological feed, rolling out to all users in H1 2022 — Head of Instagram, Adam Mosseri, announced today that the app is rolling out for some users the ability to switch between different feeds.
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| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
Tencent's WeChat plans to add support for China's digital yuan, e-CNY, to WeChat Pay, which has 800M+ MAUs — - Tencent-owned WeChat, China's largest messaging app and one of the country's biggest payment services, will begin supporting the digital yuan. — The People's Bank of China …
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