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January 18, 2021, 10:40 AM
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Sources: in a flurry of parting actions against China, Trump's admin has notified Huawei suppliers including Intel that it's revoking licenses to sell to Huawei — NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration notified Huawei suppliers, including chipmaker Intel …
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| Zoe Schiffer / The Verge: |
GitHub apologizes to the employee it fired for using the term “Nazis” on January 6, offers him his job back, and says the company's head of HR has resigned — The company is offering the employee his job back — GitHub is admitting that a Jewish employee was fired in error and is offering him his job back.
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| Sohee Kim / Bloomberg: |
Samsung Electronics heir Jay Y. Lee was sentenced to 30 months in prison over bribery charges; Lee still faces a second prosecution related to succession — - Lee sentenced to two and a half years in jail after court case — Samsung succession scandal has rocked South Korea for years
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| Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal: |
Social media algorithms amplify the reach of incendiary, misinformation-filled, conspiracy theories, and users have no control over them — What you see in your feeds isn't up to you. What's at stake is no longer just missing a birthday. It's your sanity—and world peace.
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OneZero and John Battelle's Search Blog
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| New York Times: |
A look at the incentives, like guaranteed auction win percentages, that Facebook got from Google in the ad partnership that is now a focus of an antitrust suit — Facebook was going to compete with Google for some advertising sales but backed away from the plan after the companies cut a preferential deal, according to court documents.
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| Anshuman Daga / Reuters: |
Sources: Southeast Asian ride-hailing and food delivery giant Grab is considering an IPO in the US this year that could raise at least $2B — SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Southeast Asian ride-hailing and food delivery giant Grab is exploring a listing in the United States this year … | Sebastian Sinclair / CoinDesk: |
Maps.me, an offline mobile map for travelers, raises $50M seed led by Alameda Research, aims to launch “yield earning” DeFi tools inside the app — The funding will go toward the launch of a multi-currency wallet on Maps.me, enabling decentralized finance (DeFi) features for 140 million users.
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Tweets: @coindesk and @jerallaire
| Medium: |
A look at the shady aspects of Tether, the stablecoin being probed by SDNY for over a year, widely used to buy BTC and other cryptocurrencies on many exchanges — This is the story of a Bitcoin trade — the most financially impactful trade I've ever made in my life.
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The Capital and CoinDesk
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| Jason Snell / Six Colors: |
Due to Apple's security limitations and additional work required, few developers are bothering to port Chrome extensions to Safari, despite WebExtensions API — At WWDC 2020, Apple announced it was going to support Chrome-style browser extensions (the WebExtensions API) in Safari.
Intel:
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.
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.Sponsor Post
| Will Knight / Wired: |
A Harvard medical student used OpenAI's GPT-2 to submit comments on Idaho's Medicaid draft proposal; volunteers couldn't tell them apart from those by humans — A Harvard medical student submitted auto-generated comments to Medicaid; volunteers couldn't distinguish them from those penned by humans.
Tweets: @fabian_theis, @kennedy_school, and @wired
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
All-in-one HR service Personio raises $125M Series D at a $1.7B post-money valuation co-led by Index Ventures and Meritech — With the last year changing how (and where) many of us work, organizations have started to rethink how well they manage their employees, and what tools they use to do that.
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Tech.eu, EU-Startups, Silicon Republic, Personio, and Silicon Canals
| Wall Street Journal: |
AT&T, Verizon, and other bidders have spent a record $80.9B during the 5G spectrum auction, expected to lead to a wave of borrowing for the indebted sector — AT&T, Verizon expected to turn to bond markets and banks to finance bids in record-setting FCC airwaves auction
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Zoho:
Introducing sections and advanced layouts in Writer ✨ — The ability to create sections—separate parts with independent layouts and properties unique to the rest of the document—is something a lot of you have been requesting for a while now.
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Oura:
Ten Tips to get Better, Deeper Sleep — Want to feel more rested in the morning? This weekend, try these strategies and see what works for you.
Ten Tips to get Better, Deeper Sleep — Want to feel more rested in the morning? This weekend, try these strategies and see what works for you.
Intel:
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.
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.Who's Hiring In Tech?
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Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal:
Social media algorithms amplify the reach of incendiary, misinformation-filled, conspiracy theories, and users have no control over themFind
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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
All-in-one HR service Personio raises $125M Series D at a $1.7B post-money valuation co-led by Index Ventures and MeritechFind
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AT&T, Verizon, and other bidders have spent a record $80.9B during the 5G spectrum auction, expected to lead to a wave of borrowing for the indebted sectorFind
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Anshuman Daga / Reuters:
Sources: Southeast Asian ride-hailing and food delivery giant Grab is considering an IPO in the US this year that could raise at least $2BFind
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Sebastian Sinclair / CoinDesk:
Maps.me, an offline mobile map for travelers, raises $50M seed led by Alameda Research, aims to launch “yield earning” DeFi tools inside the appFind
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Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
Tencent-backed Hike, once India's answer to WhatsApp and valued at $1.4B in 2016, says it is shutting down its messaging app Sticker ChatFind
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Sohee Kim / Bloomberg:
Samsung Electronics heir Jay Y. Lee was sentenced to 30 months in prison over bribery charges; Lee still faces a second prosecution related to successionFind
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