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| Will Oremus / OneZero : |
Clubhouse employs an unusually aggressive user onboarding process, pressuring users to upload contacts before ranking those contacts based on total connections — The app pressures you to upload your phone's contacts — and makes them visible in surprising ways
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| William Turton / Bloomberg: |
Some Black medical professionals who are voluntarily countering misinfo on Clubhouse about COVID-19 and its vaccine say they have been harassed and bullied — - Conspiracies flourish on app including about vaccines and 5G — 'Hey, I was skeptical too, but here's where I am now'| Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology: |
Twitter's Spaces is well positioned to challenge Clubhouse as it's intuitive, a logical fit for Twitter, and adds a meaningful new experience to the Twitter app — Why Twitter's Clubhouse clone is poised to give the hottest app on the planet a run for its money. — I live a simple life with a few steadfast rules.
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Google adds some of its Pixel-exclusive photo editing features to Google Photos, but they are paywalled behind Google One — Previously Pixel-exclusive features are coming to other devices — for a price — Google is adding some of its fancy, Pixel-exclusive editing features …
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Microsoft President Brad Smith says the US and other countries should adopt Australia's proposed media rules, which require tech firms to pay for news content — Microsoft President Brad Smith told Axios in an interview that the U.S. and other countries should consider adopting media rules …
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| Sarah Whitten / CNBC: |
Disney says it now has 94.9M Disney+ subscribers — - Disney+ now has more than 94.9 million subscribers. — Last quarter, the company said its streaming service will have 230 million to 260 million subscribers by 2024. — Disney announced Thursday that its streaming platform surpassed 94.9 million subscribers.
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Apple launches its first standalone Apple TV+ AR app, with a For All Mankind backstory and exclusive content for the latest iPad Pro and iPhone 12 Pro models — Apple's rumored augmented reality experience for Apple TV+ has arrived in the form of For All Mankind: Time Capsule.
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| Jenny Leonard / BloombergQuint: |
Biden administration says it is working to address the global chip shortage; Biden is expected to sign an EO directing a supply chain review in the coming weeks — (Bloomberg) — The Biden administration is working to address the global semiconductor shortage that has caused auto manufacturers …
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| Kim Lyons / The Verge: |
Twitter changes its position and says it will add labels to the personal accounts of heads of state starting next week — It's also adding more specificity to the text in the labels that identify such accounts — Beginning next week, Twitter will add labels to the personal accounts …
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| Sami Fathi / MacRumors: |
Starting with iOS 14.5, Apple will proxy the Safe Browsing service in Safari through its own servers instead of Google's to protect user data — Starting with iOS and iPadOS 14.5, Apple will proxy Google's “Safe Browsing” service used in Safari through its own servers instead of relying …
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| Neil Cybart / Above Avalon: |
According to an estimate Apple Watch reached 100M users in December, 30M of which came in 2020; 35% of US iPhone users wear an Apple Watch — More than 100 million people wear an Apple Watch. Based on my estimates, Apple surpassed the important adoption milestone this past December.| Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC: |
Bumble closes up 63.5% on its first day of trading, giving it a valuation of about $13B, after raising $2.15B in its IPO — - Shares of Bumble, which operates a dating app under the same name, began trading Thursday. — The company's stock started trading up nearly 77% at $76 per share.
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| Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
Facebook's Oversight Board co-chair says if the project is a success, other platforms and tech companies would be “more than welcome” to work with the board — The Facebook Oversight Board has only been operational for a short time, but the nascent project is already looking ahead.| Brad Chacos / PCWorld: |
In order to address the global chip shortage, Nvidia is releasing stock of two older GPUs, the RTX 2060 and GTX 1050 Ti, to its board partners — The rumors are true: Nvidia is supplementing the sky-high demand for GeForce RTX 30-series graphics cards by releasing stock of older GPUs to board partners …
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| Stephanie Chan / Sensor Tower Blog: |
Global consumer spending in top 100 non-game subscription apps grew 34% in 2020 to $13B; spending in App Store grew 32% to $10.3B, Play Store grew 42% to $2.7B — Consumer spending in mobile apps reached new heights in 2020, as did revenue generated from in-app subscriptions.
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Facebook says bullying and harassment takedowns reached 6.3M in Q4 2020, up from 2.8M in Q4 2019, due to increased reviewer capacity and AI improvements — It's ramping up moderation after a COVID-19 dip last year — On Thursday, Facebook released a new moderation transparency report showing …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Cybersecurity firm Proofpoint filed a countersuit against Facebook after Facebook forced Namecheap to hand over phishing awareness URLs mimicking Facebook URL — Facebook's crackdown on lookalike domains last year has touched some of the domains security firm Proofpoint was using for security awareness training exercises.
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| Adam Tempkin / Bloomberg: |
SEC filing: Figure, which uses blockchain to provide loans and is led by Mike Cagney, ex-CEO of SoFi, plans to raise $250M via a SPAC — - Ex-Sofi CEO Cagney's blockchain fintech Figure creates SPAC — Ellington Management has ‘economic interest’ in effort: filing
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
US House Committee on Energy and Commerce sent a letter to Apple raising concerns over reports that App Privacy labels offer “misleading and false information” — The U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce this week sent a letter to Apple [PDF] inquiring about the accuracy …
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US House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Pocketnow, Apple Terminal, MUO, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, Insanely Great Mac, and MacRumors. Tweets: @frankpallone
| Bloomberg Law: |
Judge rules Facebook must supply records to RI's public employee pension fund, which is investigating whether FB overpaid the FTC to legally protect Zuckerberg — Listen — Facebook Inc. lost a fight to withhold records in an investor lawsuit probing whether the company overpaid …
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