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Social Capital founder and CEO Chamath Palihapitiya says the “ugly truth” is “nobody cares about what's happening” to Uyghurs in China, himself included — - Chamath Palihapitiya said “nobody cares about what's happening” to Uyghur Muslims in China.
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Game publishers' plans to add NFTs to games have sparked a fierce backlash from gamers, who have long resented the growing number of micro transactions in games — Game publishers are offering NFTs, but skeptical gamers smell a moneymaking scheme and are fighting back.| Cho Mu-Hyun / ZDNet: |
Samsung unveils its 4nm Exynos 2200 SoC with an Xclipse GPU using AMD's RDNA 2 architecture, offering hardware-accelerated ray tracing and variable rate shading — The processor packs Samsung's own Xclipse GPU based on AMD RDNA 2 architecture that the South Korean company says will offer …
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Activision Blizzard says 37 employees have “exited” and 44 have been disciplined since July as part of its investigation over workplace misconduct allegations — Company's actions have come in the wake of pressure from investors, business partners and employees to address complaints over its handling of misconduct issues
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| Eric Benjamin Seufert / Mobile Dev Memo: |
Apple clarifies it will still collect a commission from Dutch developers using third-party payments; Google will too in South Korea, just lowering its fee by 4% — On December 24th of last year, the Netherlands' competition regulator, the Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) …
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| Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: |
The Tech Oversight Project, mainly funded by Pierre Omidyar and Chris Hughes' organizations, launches Tuesday to push for Big Tech antitrust regulation — Organizations with ties to eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes are the primary funders of the Tech Oversight Project
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| Tom Simonite / Wired: |
Despite high hopes, AI in health care hasn't been effective because medical data is more complex and scarcer than web data, causing misleading results — Medical information is more complex and less available than the web data that many algorithms were trained on, so results can be misleading.
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
India-based agritech startup Arya, which helps farmers in South Asia store and sell their produce and secure credit, raises a $46M Series C and $14M as debt — Indian agritech startup Arya, which reaches hundreds of thousands of farmers in the South Asian market and helps them store and sell …
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Amazon reverses its plan to ban the use of Visa credit cards in the UK, set to start on January 19; the company had cited high transaction fees — Amazon.com Inc. has emailed U.K. customers to say that a planned ban on Visa credit cards will no longer take place.
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| Brandy Betz / CoinDesk: |
Bahrain-based cryptocurrency exchange Rain Financial raises a $110M Series B co-led by Paradigm and Kleiner Perkins, following a $6M Series A in January 2021 — Kleiner Perkins co-led the funding round, which will go toward geographic expansion. — Bahrain-based cryptocurrency exchange Rain Financial …
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Despite “cringe content”, LinkedIn's ad-free business model and a willingness to stunt virality for healthier engagement make it the only good social network — Hey, thanks for subscribing to SatPost. — Today, we'll breakdown a question everyone has asked at least once in their life …
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South Korean startup flex, which makes tools for automating HR processes and workflows, raises a $32M Series B led by Greenoaks at a $287M valuation — South Korea-based human resources management platform flex announced today it has closed a $32 million Series B round at a valuation of $298 million.| Max Seddon / Financial Times: |
Ukraine's digital transformation ministry says “all evidence points to Russia being behind the attack”, which took down about 70 government websites — Proof of involvement could meet threshold for west to impose sanctions but incident yet to be formally attributed
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