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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Fortnite returns to iOS, iPadOS, and Android through a closed beta in Nvidia's GeForce Now game streaming service designed to run in mobile browsers — Nvidia's GeForce Now is finally bringing Fortnite back to the iPhone — Fortnite is back on iOS today... sort of.
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The Official NVIDIA Blog, 9to5Google, Android Police, MobileSyrup, MacRumors, Game Developer, Laptop Mag, Wccftech, PC Gamer, TechCrunch, IGN, PhoneArena, iPhone in Canada Blog, AppleInsider, Liliputing, PCMag, CNET, thegamer.com, Tom's Hardware, GameRevolution, Game Rant, XDA Developers, Cult of Mac, Mashable, TechSpot, HotHardware.com News, BGR, iPhone Hacks, GameSpot, and Macworld
Tweets: @slightlylate, @slightlylate, @slightlylate, @tomwarren, @never_released, @starfire2258, @duckybtw, and @nibellion
| NBC News: |
The January 6 House committee subpoenas Meta, Alphabet, Reddit, and Twitter after their “inadequate responses” to requests for information about the riot — The House committee investigating Jan. 6 on Thursday subpoenaed Reddit, Twitter and the parent companies of Google and Facebook after their …
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Tweets: @viacristiano, @jesselehrich, @donie, @january6thcmte, @january6thcmte, @sarafischer, @donie, @donie, @byjacobward, @jason_kint, @mattmezz, @january6thcmte, @reportbywilson, @brandi_buchman, @jason_kint, @kylegriffin1, @thekenyeung, @jason_kint, @evelyndouek, @mmpadellan, @hugolowell, @lincolnsbible, @econliberties, @houseinsession, @hugolowell, @caseynewton, @mikesington, @jrubinblogger, @karaswisher, and @danielstrauss4
| Washington Post: |
A bipartisan group of lawmakers introduces the TLDR Act, which would require sites and apps to offer easy-to-digest, nutrition label-like summaries of their TOS — Happy Thursday! Below: The FCC proposes new data breach rules for telecom and the White House meets with tech leaders on cyber.
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trahan.house.gov, 9to5Mac, Gizmodo, The Verge, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy …, PCMag, Engadget, The Hill, Fast Company, govtech.com, CyberScoop, Telecompetitor, SecurityWeek, Pixel Envy, and Tech Policy Press
Tweets: @willoremus, @nsqe, @nsqe, @vmcntosh, @nsqe, @m_karanicolas, @m_karanicolas, @libshipwreck, @bergmayer, @reploritrahan, @gabrielazanfir, @digiphile, @bergmayer, and @reploritrahan
| Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal: |
Second Life founder Philip Rosedale returns to Linden Research, in which his startup High Fidelity made an investment, to take on the metaverse — Philip Rosedale is coming back to the digital world he created to help inject growth — The founder of Second Life, one of the earliest digital-reality worlds …
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Linden Lab, CNET, VentureBeat, The Verge, Protocol, TechCrunch, Second Life Community, Financial Times, ZDNet, The Information, SiliconANGLE, TechSpot, Input, and Forbes
Tweets: @ricmac, @benbajarin, @hunterwalk, @jessedamiani, @ourielohayon, @danackerman, @drfran, @meghanbobrowsky, @stanfordvr, @jangles, @jetscott, and @loudmouthjulia
| Aislinn Keely / The Block: |
Near Foundation, which develops the proof-of-stake Near blockchain, raises $150M led by Three-Arrows Capital, with a16z and others participating — The NEAR Foundation has closed a $150 million funding round less as it looks to become the hub of an open web3.
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NEAR Protocol, SiliconANGLE, Blockworks, and Crypto Briefing
Tweets: @mdudas, @slightlylate, and @near_blockchain
| Kent Walker / The Keyword: |
Following the White House's open-source security summit, Google proposes setting up an organization to serve as a marketplace for open source maintenance — We welcomed the opportunity to participate in the White House Open Source Software Security Summit today, building on our work …
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SiliconANGLE, The Verge, ZDNet, Engadget, PCMag, ZDNet, ASF Blogs, PYMNTS.com, The Verge, and Techaeris
Tweets: @robleathern, @cra, @mrisher, @ronamadeo, @di_codes, @sundarpichai, @kent_walker, and @philvenables
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Austria's data protection watchdog upholds a decision that a website using Google Analytics violates GDPR, a potential issue for US cloud services in Europe — A decision by Austria's data protection watchdog upholding a complaint against a website related to its use of Google Analytics does …
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noyb.eu, The Register, PYMNTS.com, Euractiv, and Fortune
Tweets: @johnkoetsier, @ron_miller, @carnage4life, @mmasnick, @yo_bj, @maxschrems, @maxschrems, @swyx, @andybeard, and @carnage4life
| Aoyon Ashraf / CoinDesk: |
Block says it is building an open-source bitcoin mining system to make mining more “distributed and efficient”, after Jack Dorsey teased the idea in October — The payment services company formerly known as Square is open to building new mining computers and is hiring for a new engineering team.
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Decrypt, Reuters, Bloomberg, Cointelegraph, NewsBTC, CNBC, and Bitcoin Magazine
Tweets: @jack, @templetonthomas, @watcherguru, and @coindesk
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Meta will shut down its video speed dating service Sparked on January 20, after launching it last April and testing it in select markets — Meta is shutting down a video speed-dating service it had tested over a good part of last year, the company informed the service's users via a recent email.| Coco Feng / South China Morning Post: |
China's state-backed Blockchain Services Network plans to roll out infrastructure this month to support NFTs; the NFTs will not be linked to cryptocurrencies — The BSN-Distributed Digital Certificate does not support crypto-transacted NFTs, and will allow businesses and individuals …
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Cointelegraph, Decrypt, The Block, Blockonomi, Coinspeaker, CryptoPotato, and Blockworks
Tweets: @thenftasian, @carnage4life, and @carnage4life
| Nathaniel Mott / PCMag: |
Orca Security discovered two AWS flaws, with one exposing information managed by Glue users and the other affecting AWS CloudFormation; Amazon has patched both — The flaw could be used by AWS Glue users to access other users' data. A second bug with AWS CloudFormation, also fixed, could have been used to leak sensitive files.
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Orca Security, The Register, and BleepingComputer
Tweets: @0xdabbad00, @nonamesecurity, @j0hnnyxm4s, and @pcmag
| Danny Nelson / CoinDesk: |
DeFi Alliance, the incubator of Sushi, Olympus DAO, and other Web3 projects, rebrands as Alliance DAO and raises $50M from 300 investors including Jake Paul — A top crypto accelerator is DAOifying itself to the tune of $50 million. — DeFi Alliance, the incubator of platforms ranging … | Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
A look at Android 12's rollout, one of the buggiest launches in the past few years, as Samsung and OnePlus pause their stable Android 12-based updates — Android 12 is one of the platform's most ambitious updates in recent history, bringing a major design overhaul to every corner of the operating system.
Tweets: @mkbhd, @allisonjo1, @chriswelch, @zaktalkstech, @chriswelch, @theramalmedia, @danielnewmanuv, @tomwarren, @vyyyper, and @jermainejupiter
| Reuters: |
TSMC reports Q4 revenue rose 24.1% YoY to $15.74B as net profit reached $6.01B; capital spending will reach between $40B and $44B in 2022, up from $30B in 2021 — Taiwanese chip firm TSMC expects strong growth to accelerate in coming years due to booming semiconductor demand …
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PCMag, The Verge, SemiAnalysis, The Register, 9to5Mac, Tom's Hardware, Taiwan Semiconductor …, Windows Central, Bloomberg, Financial Times, iThinkDifferent, Pocketnow, TechSpot, MacDailyNews, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, and South China Morning Post
Tweets: @chiakokhua, @asymco, @iancutress, @tculpan, @iancutress, @iancutress, and @benbajarin
| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Canalys: worldwide PC shipments grew 15% YoY in 2021 to 341M, the highest annual number since 2012; Apple shipped 28.3% more units, Acer 21.8%, and Dell 18% — It would be easy to think PC sales dropped worldwide last year amid chip shortages, but that conventional thinking would be wrong.
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The Verge, Gartner, IDC, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, Thurrott, iMore, iPhone in Canada Blog, Android Authority, Fossbytes, and TheStreet
Tweets: @tomwarren, @bryanbma, and @idc
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Microsoft hires a law firm to review its sexual harassment policies and issue a report in the spring about the investigations, including one involving Gates — - A review that a law firm will conduct for Microsoft's board on the effectiveness of sexual harassment policies will compare … | Bloomberg: |
Twitter's “work from anywhere” policy helped increase the share of US Black and Latinx employees to 9.4% and 8% in 2021, from 6.9% and 5.5% in 2020 — Twitter Inc.'s early shift to a “work from anywhere” model during the pandemic as well as implementation of a requirement to add …
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Next. Up. and Twitter Careers
Tweets: @hshaban, @quinnypig, @perdricof, @daveyalba, @hshaban, and @bcrodriguez
| Blake Brittain / Reuters: |
Krafton, which makes PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, sues Apple and Google, arguing that neither company removed games that allegedly copy PUBG — (Reuters) - The maker of the popular game “PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds” says in a new U.S. lawsuit that a Singapore-based company made rip-off versions …
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TechCrunch, MacRumors, Polygon, Engadget, Cult of Mac, iPhone Hacks, iThinkDifferent, GamesIndustry.biz, Wccftech, 9to5Mac, Game Developer, and AppleInsider
Tweets: @keleftheriou, @carnage4life, @nickstatt, @carnage4life, and @nickstatt
| Joanna Glasner / Crunchbase News: |
Analysis: Vision Fund, with $35.2B, and Tiger Global, with $29.6B, led or co-led the most venture and growth rounds in 2021; YC was the busiest with 642 deals — In a wild year for startup funding, one variable stayed constant: The most active investors and biggest check writers are familiar names who've been at this a long time.| TechCrunch: |
Q&A with Wordle creator Josh Wardle on the game's origin story, reasons for keeping it simple, app clones, and handling the traffic from its newfound popularity — “People have an appetite for things that transparently don't want anything from you.” — The internet loves …
Tweets: @screenrant, @baieric, @asilbwrites, @techcrunch, @jessicalessin, @minimaxir, and @taylor_soper
| Nitasha Tiku / Washington Post: |
As newcomers flood to Puerto Rico seeking to build a crypto paradise, attracted by low taxes, locals are skeptical and house prices across San Juan are rising — SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Gustavo Diaz Skoff met the crypto utopians in 2018 amid the devastation of Hurricane Maria.
Tweets: @drewharwell, @anthrorican, @biancajoanie, @vaurorapub, @verambergen, @nanaisvaxxed, and @kevincollier
| Rachel Pannett / Washington Post: |
Privacy advocates criticize police in the German city of Mainz for using data from the Luca COVID-19 contact tracing app for an investigation into a man's death — Authorities in Germany are under fire for tracking down witnesses to a potential crime by using data from a mobile phone app …
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9to5Mac. Tweets: @matthew_d_green, @agstrait, @satariano, @drewharwell, @cendemtech, and @verambergen
| Martine Paris / Bloomberg: |
Apple confirms it removed several Wordle clones from the App Store, after some app developers capitalized on the online guessing game's popularity — Apple Inc. removed several Wordle games from its App Store after users confused them with another word-play title popularized by Jimmy Fallon and other celebrities.
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Macworld, Reuters, BBC, The Guardian, Cybercultural, TNW, Insider, Washington Post, Forbes, and The i Paper
Tweets: @waxpancake, @zachshakked, @zachshakked, @timsweeneyepic, @zachshakked, @tha_rami, @pkafka, @joannechocolat, @neilcybart, @jessicashortall, @rebeccaslatkin, @kyleorl, @keleftheriou, @crulge, @legalnomads, @reckless, @migueldeicaza, @snazzyq, @gruber, @zachshakked, @migueldeicaza, @migueldeicaza, @migueldeicaza, @zachshakked, @danielpunkass, @gruber, @neilcybart, @mike_enos, @gruber, @daphnehk, @neilcybart, and @gruber
| Michael D McDonald / Bloomberg: |
Analysis: El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele likely lost ~$10M on his bitcoin purchases, after spending $71M on 1,391 BTC at an average price of $51,056 — - Government's process for buying Bitcoin is shrouded in secrecy — Nation's Bitcoins worth 14% less than average acquisition cost| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Baby Shark becomes the first YouTube video to cross 10B views, after becoming the most-viewed YouTube video in November 2020 — I'm sorry if it's stuck in your head now — “Baby Shark” became the most-viewed YouTube video of all time in November 2020, and just over a year later …
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Tubefilter, CNN, Engadget, and Polygon
Tweets: @mattnavarra, @kevzag, @tedcruzcontrol, and @stevekovach
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