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Alphabet says that it is shutting down Loon, its internet balloon project, calling it “a successful experiment” but not a viable one — Plus: The moonshot's launch, health care for the mask-less, and a new era's inaugural meme. — DO you detect something missing?
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is working on a thinner and lighter 13-inch high-end MacBook Air with MagSafe charging and next-gen processors to launch as soon as this year — Apple Inc. is working on a thinner and lighter version of the MacBook Air, the company's mass-market laptop, according to people with knowledge of the matter.| Josh Taylor / The Guardian: |
In an Australian Senate hearing, a Google executive said that a law forcing Google to pay news outlets for links could prompt it to stop offering Search — As Google and Facebook face Senate committee, poll finds three in five Australians agree social media companies should prioritise news in feeds
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| Richard Waters / Financial Times: |
Intel says it's investigating the leak of an infographic related to its Q4 earnings report, which prompted its release ahead of stock market close on Thu. — Breach forces chipmaker to release earnings early — Intel said it was the victim of a hacker who stole financially sensitive information … | Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Intel reports Q4 revenue of $20B, down 1% YoY, Data Center Group revenue of $6.1B, down 16% YoY, as new CEO commits to manufacturing, stock down ~5% after hours — - Intel's earnings report on Thursday is the last with Bob Swan in the CEO role. — Former VMWare CEO Pat Gelsinger takes over as Intel CEO in February.
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| Nick Clegg / About Facebook: |
Facebook is referring its decision to indefinitely suspend Trump's accounts to the Oversight Board and says the accounts will remain suspended in the meantime — Today, Facebook is referring its decision to indefinitely suspend former US President Donald Trump's access to his Facebook …
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| Tom Krazit / Protocol: |
AWS will maintain an open source fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana, after criticism from Elastic which changed its licensing terms to monetize cloud-service use — Fed up with what he sees as unfair competition from AWS, Elastic CEO Shay Banon felt he had no choice but to restrict …
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| April Glaser / NBC News: |
Profile of Jessica Rosenworcel, the second woman to lead the FCC as acting chair and a big proponent of net neutrality and expanding broadband access — President Joe Biden has picked Jessica Rosenworcel to run the Federal Communications Commission in an interim position.
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| Margaret Harding McGill / Axios: |
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| Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg: |
Instacart cuts 1,877 jobs, including its only union roles, as it shifts to new models, like selling its tech to retailers to have their staff prepare orders — Instacart Inc. plans to terminate about 1,900 employees' jobs, including the only unionized positions in the U.S., representing a fulsome embrace of the gig economy.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Samsung is considering building a $10B chipmaking plant in Texas, a major investment it hopes will help it catch up with industry leader TSMC — - It's looking to build a cutting-edge wafer fab in the U.S. — It would follow TSMC's decision to build a new site in Arizona
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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Federal judge rejects Parler's demand to be reinstated on AWS — Ruling calls Parler's antitrust evidence ‘dwindlingly slight’ — A Washington judge has denied social network Parler's demand to be reinstated on Amazon Web Services. Following a hearing last week, Judge Barbara Rothstein declined …
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Tweets: @mikaelthalen, @karaswisher, @politics1com, @fryan, @maggiejordanacn, and @thedextriarchy
| Alex Kantrowitz / OneZero : |
Internal memo: Facebook's Andrew Bosworth told staff in Dec. to build products prioritizing privacy, as the public's expectations around privacy have shifted — Facebook VP Andrew Bosworth tells colleagues that privacy matters more than the product experience| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Raspberry Pi Foundation launches $4 Pico, a tiny microcontroller for hardware projects that uses Raspberry Pi's own RP2040 chip — Meet the Raspberry Pi Pico, a tiny little microcontroller that lets you build hardware projects with some code running on the microcontroller.
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Raspberry Pi Blog, The Verge, XDA Developers, and Gizmodo
Tweets: @arduino, @dansitu, @mayermakes, @dominicpajak, @ebenupton, @arduino, @ubidefeo, @philipcolligan, @raspberry_pi, @aallan, and @blenster
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra review: beautiful screen with high refresh rate and a great camera system but let down by software with ads and subpar Bixby — Samsung's “Ultra” phones are meant to be the absolute pinnacle of the company's (non-folding) mobile technology.
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