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Twitter announces it is opening up its full tweet archive to academic researchers for free and ups the monthly tweet volume cap for approved applicants to 10M — To help researchers better study online discourse and platform trends — Twitter on Tuesday announced a significant shift …
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Twitter acquires newsletter publishing company Revue; the five-year-old Dutch company has six employees and has raised ~$318K — Twitter on Tuesday said it has acquired Revue, a newsletter platform for writers and publishers. — Why it matters: The deal marks Twitter's first step …
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Microsoft reports Q2 net income of $15.5B, up 33% YoY, Intelligent Cloud revenue of $14.6B, up 23% YoY, More Personal Computing revenue of $15.1B, up 14% YoY — Microsoft Cloud Strength Drives Second Quarter Results REDMOND, Wash. — January 26, 2021 — Microsoft Corp. today announced …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
In today's iOS 14.4 update, Apple fixes three 0-days, tipped by an anonymous researcher, and acknowledges a report that they may have been exploited in the wild — Fixes come after Apple patched another set of three zero-days last November. — Apple has released today security updates …
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Counterpoint and CyberMedia say that Apple has shipped 1.5M iPhone units in India last quarter, doubling its market share in the country to 4% — When Apple reports its earnings on Wednesday, you can expect mentions of India on the call. — Apple shipped more than 1.5 million iPhone units … | Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Plex is launching game subscription service Plex Arcade, starting at $3 per month, which features classic Atari games and requires users run a Plex media server — Games: the final frontier — Plex, well known as a service for streaming movies, music, and TV shows from your own computer … | Jay Bonggolto / Neowin: |
Sony announces Xperia Pro 5G, which has an HDMI input for enabling content creators to turn the smartphone into an external monitor, shipping now for $2,499.99 — Sony announced today its newest 5G smartphone with an HDMI input, the first of its kind to include that feature.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Firefox 85 launches with network partitioning, a new feature to block supercookies by partitioning Firefox's browser cache on a per-website basis — Firefox now joins Chrome and Edge, both of which removed support for Flash earlier this month. — Mozilla has released today Firefox 85 …
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| Tiernan Ray / ZDNet: |
AMD reports Q4 revenue of $3.24B, up 53% YoY, with its Enterprise, Embedded, and Semi-Custom segment revenue up 176% YoY to $1.28B — AMD's first-quarter revenue forecast of $3.1 billion to $3.3 billion is as much as six hundred million higher than analysts' expectations.
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Albert, which helps people automate their finances and connect subscribers to financial advisers, raises $100M Series C led by General Atlantic — Financial services startup Albert has raised $100 million in a Series C funding round led by General Atlantic, the company announced on Tuesday (Jan. 26).| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
New docs from Epic/Apple lawsuit reveal internal Apple discussions on fees to charge paid TV and streaming channels and how that may affect the App Store — In Apple and Epic's ongoing court battle over App Store fees, one of the key sticking points has been Apple's insistence on maintaining …
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| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Google announces it is shutting down internal development of Tilt Brush VR and is open sourcing it, a month after shutting down Poly, a 3D object library — As Facebook and Apple begin to fire up more projects in the AR/VR world, Google has spent the last year shutting down most of their existing projects in that space.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources reveal that sidelining of Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder of DeepMind, from management responsibilities in 2019 was because he bullied staff — Google's parent, Alphabet, has waded through one controversy after another involving its top researchers and executives in the field
Tweets: @iabhinavkhare and @pmddomingos
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Calendly, a popular meeting scheduling service, raises $350M from OpenView Venture Partners and Iconiq at a $3B+ valuation — We're all meeting virtually, and Calendly has raised $350M to help us plan and track it all — One big theme in tech right now is the rise of services …
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| Julia Alexander / The Verge: |
In letter to creators, CEO Susan Wojcicki says YouTube has paid more than $30B to creators, artists, and media organizations over the last three years — The company still has work to do with creator transparency — YouTube has paid out more than $30 billion to creators, artists …
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| Anna Kramer / Protocol: |
Profile of Tracy Chou, diversity activist and founder of Block Party, which provides a tool to filter trolling and harassing posts for later review — When Tracy Chou decided to host a Reddit “Ask Me Anything” about online harassment over the summer, she knew it probably wouldn't be the easiest experience …
Tweets: @thisismissem, @bijanstephen, @alexia, @mjb_sf, @triketora, @primesuspect, and @ekp
| Michael Schwirtz / New York Times: |
Telegram, which helped fuel democracy movements in Iran and Belarus, faces scrutiny as far-right extremists flock to it amid crackdowns by Facebook and Twitter — The app has helped fuel democracy movements in Iran and Belarus but now faces scrutiny as extremists and conspiracy theorists flock …
Tweets: @inteltweet, @timmarchman, @neerajka, @mschwirtz, @bostonjoan, @antontroian, and @nytimes
| Ellen Huet / Bloomberg: |
A look at content moderation on Clubhouse, where discussions have included homophobia, anti-Semitism, harassment, and the like, as media increases its scrutiny — When Clubhouse, a private social app, debuted in March of last year, it was hard for most people to score an invitation.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Intel launches its first Iris Xe desktop graphics cards targeting SMBs and mainstream PCs, after debuting its Iris Xe Max laptop cards in October — Intel's first desktop GPUs in 20 years aren't designed for gaming just yet — Intel is launching its first Iris Xe desktop graphics cards today.
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ClassDojo, a school communications app for teachers, students and families, raises $30M, says it became profitable in 2019, and tripled its revenue in 2020 — ClassDojo's first eight years as an edtech consumer startup could look like failure: zero revenue; no paid users; and a team that hasn't aggressively grown in years.| Financial Times: |
Sources: Ant Group plans to sell its Missouri-based biometric security firm EyeVerify ahead of potential fines and restructuring costs following its aborted IPO — Biometric security firm EyeVerify ‘targeted’ as Trump administration turned spotlight on Chinese companies
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| Joe Williams / Protocol: |
Oracle and SAP target startups with cloud offerings and favorable contract terms; Oracle's startup business grew 400% YoY while SAP added 773 startups in 2020 — In the hunt for their next big-ticket customers, SAP and Oracle are trying to cast off reputations as stodgy tech providers … Sponsor Posts
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Better sleep, better you. — Why the Oura Ring is the perfect companion to other wearables in painting a fuller picture of your health.
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Mobileye's new lidar system-on-a-chip bolsters Intel's XPU strategy — Intel's multi-dimensional roadmap is delivering now the computing and intelligence that will be required for our connected future.
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ClassDojo, a school communications app for teachers, students and families, raises $30M, says it became profitable in 2019, and tripled its revenue in 2020Find
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Counterpoint and CyberMedia say that Apple has shipped 1.5M iPhone units in India last quarter, doubling its market share in the country to 4%Find
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