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Google One crosses 100M subscribers, highlighting Google's efforts to move users away from its free plans; YouTube Premium also hit 100M subscribers in February — Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced Friday that his company has logged 100 million subscriptions to Google One …
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| Hayden Field / CNBC: |
A look at Aware, whose AI tools let companies track real-time employee sentiment and flag toxicity by monitoring staff chatter on Slack, Teams, and other apps — - Aware, an AI firm specializing in analyzing employee messages, said companies including Walmart, Delta, T-Mobile …
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| Lucas Ropek / Gizmodo: |
A Canadian minister says the government plans to ban devices that copy wireless signals for remote keyless entry, like the Flipper Zero, to combat auto theft — The tiny hacking device has been viewed as a threat by law enforcement. Now it looks like a major western government is trying to ban it.
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| Pranav Dixit / Engadget: |
Arc Search's Browse for Me feature, which creates custom webpages with search result summaries, faces a backlash over concerns about losing monetizable traffic — Arc browser's new feature summarizes search results, cheating those pages' creators out of valuable web traffic.
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New York Attorney General expands her October 2023 lawsuit against DCG, Genesis, and Gemini Trust, tripling the size of their alleged Gemini Earn fraud to $3B+ — New York Attorney General Letitia James on Friday expanded her lawsuit against Digital Currency Group and other cryptocurrency defendants … | Jenny Crawford / Pex: |
Analysis: in 2023, 84.63% of TikTok videos contained music, up from 69.13% in 2019 and 83.06% in 2022, vs. 84% on YouTube, 58% on Instagram, and 49% on Facebook — TikTok, the pandemic's golden child that couldn't be banned, is under fire once again. This time, Universal Music Group (UMG) … | Bloomberg: |
Crypto startups like Blast are offering airline-like loyalty points to attract users without defining rewards; Blast lured $1.3B in crypto since November 2023 — - Blast has lured $1.3 billion worth of crypto since November — Most programs haven't said what their points can be used for
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| Zeyi Yang / MIT Technology Review: |
How chiplet tech could allow Chinese companies to circumvent US sanctions, as the Chinese government and VCs focus on propping up the domestic chiplet industry — By connecting several less-advanced chips into one, Chinese companies could circumvent the sanctions set by the US government.| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Gemini on Android is more useful than regular Assistant thanks to Google services integration, but it's not good at picking up on context and can be frustrating — I don't know how to say this, but sometimes the emotional labor of opening another app on my phone and typing in some text is just too much.
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| Rachel Graf / Bloomberg: |
Joint filing: Apple and Rivos say they reached a deal to settle Apple's 2022 lawsuit accusing the SoC startup of poaching 40+ engineers to steal trade secrets — In a joint court filing Friday, the companies told a judge they're aiming to finalize an accord that resolves their claims against each other by March 15.
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| Alexander Martin / The Record: |
France's privacy regulator says data on 33M+ people, about half the nation's population, was compromised in a cyberattack on two health insurance firms in Jan. — Data on more than 33 million people in France, approximately half the population, was compromised in a cyberattack at the end of January …
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| Bloomberg: |
How cheap power and friendly ties with China made Ethiopia, where almost half the population has no access to electricity, a haven for Chinese Bitcoin miners — Cheap power and friendly relations with China have made the Horn of Africa country a top pick for Chinese Bitcoin miners
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