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| Kate Klonick / New Yorker: |
A look at the making of Facebook's Oversight Board, its members, Zuckerberg's rationale for its existence, and criticisms of the endeavor — The company has created a board that can overrule even Mark Zuckerberg. Soon, it will decide whether to allow Trump back on Facebook.
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| Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
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| Sam Shead / CNBC: |
Sources: Qualcomm has told regulators around the world, including the FTC and UK's CMA, that it is against Nvidia's $40B acquisition of Arm — - Qualcomm has told regulators around the world that it is against Nvidia's $40 billion acquisition of British chip designer Arm, according to sources familiar with the matter.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Google, Microsoft, and Qualcomm are among companies asking US to intervene in Nvidia's Arm acquisition, and at least one company wants the deal killed — Some of the world's largest technology companies are complaining to U.S. antitrust regulators about Nvidia Corp.'s acquisition … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: US investigators say hardware and firmware of Supermicro servers were tampered, with an extra chip loaded with a backdoor to send data to China — In 2010, the U.S. Department of Defense found thousands of its computer servers sending military network data to China …
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| TechCrunch: |
Jack Dorsey and Jay Z create ₿trust endowment with 500 bitcoin, worth $23M+, to fund teams working on Bitcoin development, initially in Africa and India — Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey and rapper Jay Z have created an endowment to fund bitcoin development initially in Africa and India, Dorsey said Friday.
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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.
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| Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC: |
Spotify says it is adapting a Work From Anywhere model and will provide co-working space memberships for employees who choose to work remotely — - Spotify is adapting a “Work from Anywhere” model, which will allow employees to choose whether they want to be in the office full time, be at home full time or a combination of the two.
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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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| 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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Tweets: @ohmdee, @glenngabe, @googlephotos, and @maxwinebach
| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
Facebook says it is limiting the distribution of all content posted by Myanmar's military, which has been using the platform to spread misinformation — detailed how it's handling the political situation Myanmar in a new post, where it has revealed that it's limiting the distribution of all content posted by the country's military.
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| David Pierce / Protocol: |
Interview with Vimeo's CEO Anjali Sud, who oversaw the streaming service's transition to a B2B SaaS company offering tools for making videos — Anjali Sud's first day as Vimeo CEO was an eventful one. Not only was she standing in front of the company as its new leader, she was telling them that things were about to change.
Tweets: @protocol, @jamshedwadia, @pierce, and @protocol
| 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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Microsoft On the Issues, Associated Press, The Keyword, Axios, International Business Times, The Guardian, Windows Central, ABC, Insider, WinBuzzer, Gizmodo, CNET, MediaNama, The Economic Times, Wall Street Journal, TechRadar, and SiliconANGLE
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| Matt Day / Bloomberg: |
Amazon sues NY state AG, seeking to prevent her from penalizing Amazon for alleged retaliation against staff and failures in its safety response to the pandemic — - Covid-19 worker safety claims are federal matters, Amazon says — Company has been at odds with AG since firing worker activists
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CNBC, New York Post, Forbes, South China Morning Post, Al Jazeera, and Insider. Tweets: @rjaviervasquez
| Elise Reuter / MedCity News: |
Zocdoc, which pivoted from patient scheduling to offering telehealth services during the pandemic, raises a $150M growth round from Francisco Partners — Zocdoc, which had built its business as an online scheduling platform for doctors, quickly pivoted at the beginning of the pandemic to offer telehealth visits.
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FierceHealthcare and MobiHealthNews
| 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: |
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