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| Cherlynn Low / Engadget: |
Google partners with Acer, HP, and Intel to bring Fast Pair to select Windows PCs later in 2022 and announces improvements to Phone Hub on Chromebooks — Google wants to do for Android and Chrome users what Apple does for people in its ecosystem. It's announcing a set of news today …
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| Maria Shen / Electric Capital: |
Research: with 4K+ monthly active developers, Ethereum has largest open source developer ecosystems in crypto followed by Polkadot, Cosmos, Solana, and Bitcoin — Executive Summary — Web3 developers are at an all-time high and growing faster than ever.| 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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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Meta says it is still working on a “highly specialized OS” for its AR/VR devices, and it is not “halting or scaling back” operations in building AR/VR software — It's still interested in a custom OS — Meta reportedly pulled the plug on a custom operating system …
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| Elisa Braun / Politico: |
Document: France's data regulator, the CNIL, is set to fine Google €150M and Meta €60M for failing to let French users easily reject cookie trackers — PARIS — French data regulator the CNIL is set to fine Google €150 million and Facebook €60 million for violating EU privacy rules.
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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 transaction volume reached $15.8T, up 567% YoY — This blog is a preview of our 2022 Crypto Crime Report. Sign up here to reserve your copy and we'll email you the full report when it comes out in February!
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| NetBlocks: |
Kazakhstan faces internet disruptions and a subsequent nationwide shutdown since Tuesday evening, amid protests against energy price increases — Network data from NetBlocks confirm a significant disruption to internet service in Kazakhstan from the evening of Tuesday 4 January 2022 …
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| Brave Browser: |
Brave reports 15.5M+ DAUs and 50M+ MAUs at the end of 2021, up from 24M MAUs at the end of 2020, 10M+ mobile downloads in 2021, and Brave Ads revenue up 4x YoY — Brave Search now at 2.3 billion annualized queries — Key new products from Brave this year included Brave Search …
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
HTC announces the Vive Wrist Tracker, a watch-like controller that tracks hand-to-elbow positions for its Vive Focus 3 VR headset, launching in Q1 2022 for $129 — Set to launch later this quarter — HTC is announcing a new wrist-based controller for its Vive Focus 3 virtual reality headset.
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| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
France-based PayFit, which offers a payroll and HR SaaS service for SMBs, raises $289M Series E led by General Atlantic at a post money valuation of $2.1B — French startup PayFit just announced that it closed a new $289 million Series E round (€254 million) before the holidays.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
London-based iProov, which offers face authentication tools to governments and other organizations, raises $70M from Sumeru Equity — Biometrics, and specifically facial recognition, have seen a surge of usage in the last several years, first as a tool to help organizations verify identities digitally … | Sam Machkovech / Ars Technica: |
Sony details PlayStation VR2 for PS5: a 4K HDR OLED display, 2000×2040 pixels per eye, 110° FoV, eye tracking, haptic feedback, inside-out cameras, and more — Sexy specs include dedicated eye tracking, over 4 million pixels per eye. — Sony's trickle of information about its future … | Jordan Finneseth / Cointelegraph: |
Bitcoin falls to ~$43.7K, down from an all-time high of ~$68K in November 2021, after the Fed confirmed plans to increase interest rates in March 2022 — Bitcoin price slipped below $44,000 shortly after notes from the Federal Reserve's December FOMC session re-confirmed plans to get the balance sheet under control.
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Bengaluru-based Dunzo, which operates a hyperlocal delivery service in seven Indian cities, raises $240M led by Reliance Retail at a $775M valuation — Reliance Retail has led a $240 million funding round in Google-backed hyperlocal delivery startup Dunzo as the largest Indian retail chain aggressively expands its offerings.| Monica Chin / The Verge: |
Asus unveils the Zenbook 17 Fold OLED with a 17.3" foldable screen, Intel's 12th-gen CPUs, up to 16GB of RAM and 1TB SSD, and more, coming in Q2 for a TBD price — There's a more traditional 14-inch OLED Zenbook coming as well — Each year, it seems that more companies are trying out devices with foldable screens.
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Tweets: @tomwarren, @repaircoalition, @jeffdlowe, @vickerysec, @backlon, @joannastern, @gadgetsboy, and @codinghorror
| Miles Kruppa / Financial Times: |
PitchBook: US startups raised a record $329.8B in 2021, up from a record $166.6B in 2020; over half, or $190.8B, came from $100M+ rounds — Sum nearly doubles from 2020 in a financing rush one fund manager deems ‘not rational’ — Investors poured a record $330bn into private start-ups …
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