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Apple HomePod mini review: has a compact design, is priced accessibly, and Siri is fast, but doesn't sound as good as similarly priced competitors — Apple's newest smart speaker is way more affordable but still chasing Amazon and Google — Two and a half years ago, Apple finally entered the smart speaker market with the HomePod.
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| Mike Allen / Axios: |
Sources: Trump has told friends he wants to start an online media channel, which would be cheaper than cable, to undermine Fox News — President Trump has told friends he wants to start a digital media company to clobber Fox News and undermine the conservative-friendly network, sources tell Axios.| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google will end its free unlimited Photos storage on June 1, 2021, imposing a 15GB cap, but photos and documents uploaded before then will not count against cap — After 15 gigs, you'll need to pony up for Google One — After five years of offering unlimited free photo backups at …
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| Will Oremus / OneZero : |
Google's free unlimited Photos storage offer is an object lesson in anticompetitive behavior that helped drive startups like Everpix and Loom out of the market — A new policy perfectly illustrates a core issue across the industry — After five years of Google Photos offering unlimited …
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Sonos launches Sonos Radio HD, an ad-free lossless-quality tier of its radio service for $7.99 per month, available today in the US and UK — Sonos Radio is already the fourth-most-listened-to service on the platform — After spending years as a platform for showcasing other music and audio services …
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| New York Times: |
Claiming they're censored by Twitter and Facebook, some conservatives say they're moving to alternatives like Parler, which has 8M users, up from 4.5M last week — Since the election, millions have migrated to alternative social media and media sites like Parler, Rumble and Newsmax.
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| Christina Farr / CNBC: |
Amazon unveils Alexa Care Hub, which helps people care for aging relatives, offering an activity feed caregivers can review, and an emergency contact feature — - More seniors than ever are choosing to remain at home and live independently. — Amazon wants to make it easier for caregivers to check in on their aging relatives.
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| Karl Bode / VICE: |
With Ajit Pai likely out as chairman when FCC reverts to Democratic control, experts say Pai's likely to leave and his controversial decisions will be reversed — You can expect most of his more controversial decisions, like the repeal of net neutrality, to be reversed. — His trademark grin.| Bloomberg: |
Venezuela, in the depths of a financial crisis, has seen usage of P2P payments app Zelle, owned by seven US banks, surge as people turn to USD for transactions — When Federico Suárez made an overnight trip to Valencia last month to visit his boyfriend, the 24-year-old Caracas-based lawyer was in the mood to splurge.
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| Patrick Frater / Variety: |
Tencent reports Q3 revenue of $18.4B, up 29% YoY, profit of $5.71B, up 85% YoY, and online game revenue was $6.2B, up 45% YoY; WeChat MAUs were up 5% to 1.21B — But third quarter financial data from social media and entertainment titan Tencent instead showed that the company continues to be a profit generating machine.| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
From 2020's Singles' Day sale, which was extended to 12 days from 24 hours previously, Alibaba and JD.com report around $115B in sales across their platforms — - Alibaba set a new sales record for the annual Singles Day shopping event. — Singles Day is typically a 24-hour shopping event …
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| Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
Railsbank, which aims to be a “utility” on which other companies can build financial services, raises $37M led by MiddleGame Ventures and Ventura Capital — Railsbank, the London-headquartered Banking-as-a-Service platform, has raised $37 million in new growth funding.
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| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
Facebook redesigns layout of Instagram to add dedicated tabs for shopping and Reels in the app's navigation bar — Instagram is redesigning the layout of its home screen to emphasize shopping and Reels. The company introduced a new design that gives shopping and Reels permanent placement in the app's navigation bar.| Michael Novinson / CRN: |
Menlo Security, which offers a cloud-based isolation service that separates enterprise networks from the public web, raises $100M Series E at a $800M valuation — 'Despite the challenges of COVID, we're having a great year. We have a solution that's of high relevance in the COVID era …
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| Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: |
Singapore unveils Tech.Pass, a new visa program launching in January that initially aims to attract 500 highly accomplished tech entrepreneurs and experts — - Government seeks “flywheel effect” to create regional tech hub — New program will open in January to select 500 top talent
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
YouTube, YouTube TV, and Google TV are back online after suffering video playback issues worldwide on Wednesday evening — There were issues loading videos during the outage — YouTube has recovered from a seemingly worldwide outage that prevented videos from loading for roughly an hour.
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Tweets: @teamyoutube, @teamyoutube, @jacksfilms, @matthewkeyslive, and @downdetector
| Andrei Frumusanu / AnandTech: |
Samsung unveils Exynos 1080, a 5nm SoC with a 5G modem capable of both sub-6GHz frequencies and mmWave — Today Samsung LSI announced the new Exynos 1080 SoC, a successor to last year's Exynos 980. This year's 1080 is seemingly positioned a little above the 980 in terms of performance …
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