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FCC announces $1.2B in funding through the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund to expand broadband services across 32 states, provided by 23 telecom companies — The FCC plans to deploy broadband service in one million new areas — The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) …
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| Samantha Hissong / Rolling Stone: |
Profile of artist Seneca, who says she is the lead designer behind the original Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT collection and has seen relatively little compensation — The Bored Ape Yacht Club lit up the internet — but its lead designer, Seneca, has been watching from the shadows
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Profile of Ann Lai, who settled a harassment lawsuit against Justin Caldbeck's Binary Capital in 2020, as she talks about her ordeal publicly for the first time — She quit her high-profile job and sounded an alarm about bad behavior in tech—and she was nearly forced from the industry.| JR Raphael / Computerworld: |
A look at Google's history with tablets; Android co-founder Rich Miner's LinkedIn page says he has been working as Google's Android tablets CTO since March 2021 — This wild Android tablet concept could have completely changed the way we interact with our devices. Ready to pop the red pill?
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Many China-based sellers who were kicked off Amazon for rule violations have turned to Walmart's online marketplace to reach US consumers — Ever since Amazon.com Inc. began kicking tens of thousands of Chinese merchants off its platform last April for faking customer reviews … | Zack Seward / CoinDesk: |
Blockdaemon, which provides blockchain infrastructure for node management and staking, raises a $207M Series C at a $3.25B post-money valuation — Sapphire and Tiger Global led the latest round, which follows a $155 million Series B last September. — The unicorn valuations are still … | Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
How Lina Khan's FTC is using the concept of “monopsony”, a market where one buyer is pre-eminent, to push for Big Tech antitrust regulation — Federal Trade Commission chief Lina Khan has developed an innovative way to frame the issue. Whether she has the tools to see it through remains to be seen.
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| Claire L. Evans / The Verge: |
Profile of Susan Headley, an influential hacker of the 1980s, who specialized in social engineering and now leads a quiet life in a large US Midwestern city — She was known, back then, as Susan Thunder. For someone in the business of deception, she stood out: she was unusually tall …
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| Arijit Sarkar / Cointelegraph: |
China launches a pilot in 15 cities and 164 organizations to test the use of blockchain in manufacturing, government data sharing, law enforcement, and more — Some of the key areas of blockchain development include manufacturing, energy, government data sharing and services, law enforcement … | Reuters: |
Meta says it has paused new users from joining its social media tracking tool CrowdTangle as it works “through some staffing constraints” — Facebook's parent company Meta Platforms Inc (FB.O) has paused new users from joining its social media tracking tool CrowdTangle due to staffing constraints.
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| Brian Fung / CNN: |
Filings and interviews with decision makers and legal experts reveal bureaucracy with competing mandates at the FAA and FCC caused the 5G launch blowup — Emirates president blasts 5G rollout: ‘Utterly irresponsible’ — (CNN)From canceled flights to dire warnings of a stalled shipping economy … | Daniel Dale / CNN: |
Twitter says it stopped enforcing its civic integrity policy in March 2021 regarding lies about the 2020 US election as Biden had been president for over a year — (CNN)Twitter quit taking action to try to limit the spread of lies about the 2020 election, the company said on Friday …
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