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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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| Steven Levy / Wired: |
Alphabet says that it is shutting down Loon, its internet balloon project, calling it “a successful experiment” — Plus: The moonshot's launch, health care for the mask-less, and a new era's inaugural meme. — DO you detect something missing? Like that unease in your gut that everything has gone to hell?
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple's first VR headset, planned for 2022 with a focus on gaming, video, and communication but with limited AR features, faces development hurdles — Apple Inc.'s first crack at a headset is designed to be a pricey, niche precursor to a more ambitious augmented reality product …
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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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| 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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| 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, HotHardware.com News, Hackaday, XDA Developers, Gizmodo, The Verge, Arduino Blog, SlashGear, TechSpot, SiliconANGLE, Tom's Hardware, Input, Liliputing, PCMag, and Neowin
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| 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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Intel, ZDNet, AnandTech, Tom's Hardware, CNET, AnandTech, Engadget, Tom's Hardware, Japan Today, Thurrott, ZDNet, CNBC, Barron's Online, TheStreet, MarketWatch, PCWorld, Wall Street Journal, Wccftech, Bloomberg, Investor's Business Daily, and Bloomberg
Tweets: @stshank, @quinnypig, @markhachman, @markhachman, @ericjhonsa, @markhachman, @lamonicabuzz, @stevenrodgersgc, @markhachman, and @rogoway. Thanks:@mattrosoff
| 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 …
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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.| Margaret Harding McGill / Axios: |
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The Verge, Federal Communications …, and TechCrunch
Tweets: @khenidak, @willoremus, @gordonachaffin, @mckra1g, @liberalnavyseal, @starfire2258, @kellymakena, @marissarmoss, @sigridellis, @reckless, and @backlon
| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Pebble founder launches Beeper, a $10/month universal chat app promising to bring 15 chat services, including iMessage on Android and Windows, into a single UI — Beeper brings 15 chat apps together into one interface — Beeper is a new universal chat app that's an attempt …
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9to5Google, Android Police, phonearena.com, TechCrunch, appleosophy.com, Gizmodo, Droid Life, Liliputing, Laptop Mag, KnowTechie, iPhone in Canada Blog, Chrome Unboxed, Wccftech, Apple Terminal, TechSpot, and SlashGear
Tweets: @tsuvik, @tomwarren, @steve_holt, @as_w, @osomkeats, @iansherr, @mathewi, and @davidjchie
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Google signs an agreement with French publishers to create a framework of payment for snippet reuse and has reached agreements with three major newspapers — Google has reached an agreement with an association of French publishers over how it will be pay for reuse of snippets of their content.
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Le blog officiel de …, CNBC, CNN, Engadget, Associated Press, Bloomberg, Gizmodo, Android Headlines, Social Media Today, and Android Central
Tweets: @vijayshekhar, @adetolaov, @stephenjadler, @mariamamini, @googlenews, @jason_kint, @googlenews, @glenngabe, @rasmus_kleis, @mathewi, @zachdcarter, and @googlenews
| 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
Tweets: @rmac18, @antonhand, and @martinsfp
| 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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Bluesky, Twitter's decentralized social networking project, releases a review of the existing decentralized web ecosystem, says it still seeks a project lead — Bluesky is still seeking a project lead — Bluesky, Twitter's decentralized social networking effort, has announced its first major update since 2019.| Kim-Mai Cutler / Initialized: |
Survey of portfolio companies: 40% of founders say remote or decentralized is best for a new startup, most with offices will have 2 or 3 days in office per week — Where are tech companies going to go once the pandemic subsides as vaccines reach more and more Americans?
Tweets: @kimmaicutler, @laszlobock, @kimmaicutler, @coryweinberg, @brianmcc, @garrytan, @kimmaicutler, and @sandofsky
| 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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CNET, CNBC, Wired, IGN, Input, The Guardian, Gizmodo, SlashGear, Tom's Guide, and 9to5Mac
Tweets: @raywongy, @thegalox_, @thetechchap, @casey, @backlon, @raywongy, @backlon, @mattrosoff, @mundhrashish, and @backlon
| Kate Clark / The Information: |
Plaid to seek financing that could triple its valuation to ~$15B according to a source, amid a surge in investor interest following Visa's abandoned acquisition — Normally CEOs that opt to sell their companies aren't happy when the government blocks the deal over antitrust concerns.
Tweets: @amir, @villi, @digitallawyer, @iankar_, and @kateclarktweets
| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Podcasters say Anchor's sponsorship feature seems to be seriously lacking in sponsors, and they've received few, if any, ads beyond Anchor or Spotify itself — John Newman is the type of person companies like Spotify want to get involved in podcasting. He has a niche interest …
Tweets: @thebyroncraig, @jake_k, @quinnypig, @mattnavarra, and @ashleyrcarman
| Bloomberg: |
Tastytrade, a Chicago-based online brokerage and financial media company, to be acquired by UK's IG Group in a deal worth over $1B in cash and stock — - U.K. firm to buy Chicago-based platform amid trading boom — Analysts question ‘punchy’ price and scant earnings guidance
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MarketWatch, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, The Times, Business Wire, and Reuters. Tweets: @ophirgottlieb
| Joanna Nelius / Gizmodo: |
Report: 70% of Americans now have access to a broadband plan costing $60 or less, up from 52% at the end of 2019 — It looks like things might be improving—at least a little—when it comes to closing the digital divide in America. The latest quarterly report from BroadbandNow highlights …
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