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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple unveils Tap to Pay on iPhone, letting US merchants accept contactless payments via partner-enabled apps later in 2022; partners include Stripe and Shopify — Apple has officially announced a new Tap to Pay feature for iPhone. This feature, coming later this year …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Nvidia and SoftBank call off Nvidia's Arm acquisition, following regulatory scrutiny; Arm CEO Simon Segars resigns, replaced by Arm IP group president Rene Haas — Nvidia's deal to acquire Arm is off, the two companies and Arm's owner SoftBank announced (PDF) tonight.
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| Cara Lombardo / Wall Street Journal: |
Peloton CEO John Foley will step down and ex-Spotify and Netflix CFO Barry McCarthy will take over; Peloton will cut ~2,800 jobs and cancel its Ohio factory — Exercise-equipment maker to name former Spotify CFO Barry McCarthy as successor, overhaul board and cut costs
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| Devlin Barrett / Washington Post: |
US DOJ seizes ~$3.6B worth of bitcoin, the largest seizure in the DOJ's history, and arrests two people in New York in connection with the 2016 Bitfinex hack — The Justice Department announced Tuesday it had seized more than $3.6 billion in bitcoin allegedly stolen as part of a 2016 hack of Bitfinex … | New York Times: |
Meta announces that Peter Thiel, one of Facebook's first institutional investors and longest-serving directors, will step down from Meta's board this year — The tech billionaire, who has been on the board of the company formerly known as Facebook since 2005, is backing numerous politicians in the midterm elections.
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| Shiona McCallum / BBC: |
The UK's Online Safety Bill will mandate porn websites verify users' age or face fines; similar proposals were quietly dropped in 2019 after criticism — Porn websites in the UK will be legally required to verify the age of their users under new internet safety laws.
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GOV.UK, The Guardian, The Register, The Verge, Neowin, KnowTechie, TechCrunch, Engadget, infosecurity-magazine.com, TechSpot, Press Association, ComputerWeekly.com, and Slashdot
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| John Markoff / New York Times: |
As data centers grow, engineers at Meta, Google, and other companies worry about the reliability of ever-smaller chips and hardware failures with unclear causes — As the largest computer networks continue to grow, some engineers fear that their smallest components could prove to be an Achilles' heel.
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| Jeff John Roberts / Decrypt: |
Crypto infrastructure company Alchemy raises a $200M Series C extension from Lightspeed and Silver Lake at a $10.2B valuation, up from $3.5B in October 2021 — Alchemy, a startup that provides blockchain tools, has been growing fast: It raised buckets of money last year and attracted dozens …
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TechCrunch, Financial Times, Forbes, DeCential, Axios, The Block, Alchemy Blog, CNBC, and Cointelegraph. Thanks:@jeffjohnroberts
| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
An in-depth look at Apple's IAP changes in the Netherlands: Apple's proposal seemingly isn't compliant, reducing the commission by 3% is spiteful, and more — The continuing saga of Apple's conflict with the Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) — the Dutch equivalent …
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| Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: |
What to expect from Samsung's Unpacked event: Galaxy S22, S22+, and S22 Ultra, Galaxy Tab S8 series, and more — In a few short days, Samsung will host its first Unpacked of 2022. While the company is sure to stage many more events throughout the year (too many, if you ask us), the first one is always the most exciting.
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| CNBC: |
Amazon Care rolls out its telehealth program nationwide, expands in-person care to more US cities, and lists Whole Foods, Silicon Labs, TrueBlue as customers — - Amazon is launching its telehealth program, known as Amazon Care, nationwide and has signed up a handful of new companies to use its services.| Wall Street Journal: |
The EU details the Chips Act, a plan to make €43B in funding available for R&D and chip production, seeking to compete with the US and Asia — Legislation could mobilize about $49 billion in government and private cash, though critics fear a subsidy race| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Google rolls out Journeys for Chrome on desktop, letting users revisit old browsing sessions based on the subject matter they were searching — Journeys groups your search history together by category — Google Chrome is rolling out Journeys, a feature that lets you revisit …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
TikTok updates its policies to improve safety for LGBTQ users, including banning misgendering, adds tools for age appropriate content, and more — Months after TikTok was hauled into its first-ever major congressional hearing over platform safety, the company is today announcing a series …
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TikTok, Protocol, Engadget, 9to5Mac, Variety, BBC, PhoneArena, and GLAAD
Tweets: @tiktokcomms, @mattnavarra, @issielapowsky, and @issielapowsky
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple plans to improve benefits for full- and part-time US retail workers, including doubling sick pay and increasing PTO, amid a tight labor market — Apple Inc. plans to significantly increase its benefits for U.S. retail store workers as it grapples with a tightening labor market … | Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
Tinder says it will no longer charge older users more for Tinder+, after a report showed users aged 30-49 were charged on average 65.3% more in multiple markets — Tinder says it will no longer charge older users more to use Tinder+, following a new report questioning the dating app's practice …
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Tinder Newsroom, ZDNet, Consumers International, 9to5Mac, PCMag, Input, and Silicon Canals
| Dade Hayes / Deadline: |
Oscar nominations for Netflix and Amazon fell; half of the Best Picture nominees had little to no time in theaters and all major studios relied on hybrid models — This morning's Oscar nominations suggest a rethink — or at least a collective hitting of the pause button — on the status of streaming in the awards conversation.
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MacRumors, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, GeekWire, Engadget, The Hollywood Reporter, Variety, CNET, Benzinga, Axios, The Hollywood Reporter, The Hollywood Reporter, New York Times, and iMore. Tweets: @tedhope
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Source: Apple acquires London-based AI Music, which uses AI and royalty-free music to create dynamic soundtracks that change based on user interactions or moods — Apple Inc. acquired a startup called AI Music that uses artificial intelligence to generate tailor-made music …
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Macworld, KnowTechie, iDownloadBlog.com, PhoneArena, MacRumors, Silicon Republic, iThinkDifferent, and Apple Must
Tweets: @viticci, @9to5mac, and @leaksapplepro
| Chris Duckett / ZDNet: |
Signal now lets users change the phone number associated with their account while retaining their messages, profile information, and groups — Users will still need to be able to send and receive Signal messages on their old number in order to port. — Signal has announced it will allow … | Nikhil Subramaniam / Inc42 Media: |
BharatPe, an Indian fintech unicorn backed by VCs such as Sequoia and Coatue, is facing allegations of embezzlement, impropriety in merchant dealings, and more — Calling CEO Suhail Sameer “a puppet of investors”, Grover has alleged a conspiracy behind sending him away and instituting a probe
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Tweets: @manicontrol2020, @digbijaymishra1, @anantgoenka, and @chandrarsrikant
| Blockworks: |
Blockchain game studio Gala Games plans to allocate $5B within the next year to expand NFTs: $2B for gaming, $1B for music, $1B for movies, $1B for a theme park — Gala Games is seeking to ramp up its presence in the NFT sector and will allocate billions of dollars to further its efforts in the coming year
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| Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: |
Shift5, which develops cybersecurity tools for the military and critical infrastructure, raises a $50M Series B led by Insight, after a $20M Series A in October — Operational technology cybersecurity startup Shift5 Inc. announced today it has raised $50 million in new funding …
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| Charles Mandel / BetaKit: |
Vancouver-based quantum computing startup D-Wave plans to go public via SPAC on the NYSE in Q2, expecting to raise $340M at a $1.2B valuation — Quantum computing startup aiming for a $1.5 billion valuation. — Vancouver quantum computing startup D-Wave is going public … Sponsor Posts
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