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Australia says Facebook agreed to reinstate news content in Australia in the coming days after the government promised amendments to its proposed media bill — We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we live, learn, and work.
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Microsoft partners with EU publishing lobbyists to push for payment for news content amid Australia's effort to force Facebook and Google to share their revenue — Seattle-based company aligns with press industry and exploits rivals' difficulties — Microsoft has joined forces …
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Spotify says it will launch a subscription later this year called HiFi that will offer “CD-quality, lossless audio”; Spotify currently tops out at 320kbps audio — Your turn, Apple Music — Spotify is going hi-fi. Well, “HiFi.” It's taken longer than competitors like Tidal …
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| Tim Copeland / Decrypt: |
Bitfinex and Tether agree to an $18.5M settlement with the New York AG and to stop operating in the state following a two-year probe — New York Attorney General Letitia James has required Bitfinex and Tether to stop trading in New York, according to a statement today.
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Kuo: Apple plans to release two new MacBook Pro models with an HDMI port and an SD card reader in the second half of 2021 — Apple plans to release two new MacBook Pro models equipped with an HDMI port and SD card reader in the second half of 2021, according to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo …
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Epic will give Fortnite and Rocket League players who have bought loot boxes ~$8 worth of credits and set aside $26M+ for claims to settle a class action suit — The class action settlement also provides an additional $26 million in benefits — Epic Games will give Fortnite players 1,000 V-Bucks …
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Researchers say China used NSA's EpMe exploit to attack Windows devices for years before the Shadow Brokers leaked the agency's zero-day toolkit online — The hackers used the agency's EpMe exploit to attack Windows devices years before the Shadow Brokers leaked the agency's zero-day arsenal online.
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| Mickey Rapkin / Esquire: |
Profile of Mike Winkelmann, aka Beeple, who has made millions of dollars by selling and auctioning his digital art on marketplaces for non-fungible tokens — He's a dad from Wisconsin who drives a “piece of shit” Corolla. And his brilliantly absurd artwork has made him the face of a crypto market you didn't know existed.
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| Eugene Wei / Remains of the Day: |
TikTok's networks effects, largely driven by remixability of content and features that interconnect, cannot be easily cloned by rivals to recreate the ecosystem — I promised one final piece on TikTok, focused primarily on the network effects of creativity. And this is that, in part.
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| Abhijeet M. / SamMobile: |
Samsung expands EKG support for Galaxy Watch 2 and Watch 3 to 31 markets via the Samsung Health Monitor app — Galaxy Watch Active 2 and Galaxy Watch 3 owners who purchased their watch with the hope of being able to use it for blood pressure and ECG measurement some day will be happy …
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| Sean Highkin / Bleacher Report: |
NBA Top Shot, a marketplace for NBA video highlights, says it has 50K+ users and sales of $60M+ since Oct.; its owner Dapper Labs reportedly just raised $250M — In the third quarter of a regular-season game against the Houston Rockets last February, LeBron James broke away … | Sami Fathi / MacRumors: |
Gartner: in Q4 2020, Apple sold 80M new iPhones globally, overtaking Samsung to become the largest smartphone vendor, increasing its market share by ~15% — Apple overtook Samsung to become the largest smartphone vendor worldwide in the fourth quarter of 2020, a feat not achieved by Apple since 2016 …
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| Malcolm Owen / AppleInsider: |
Apple says it has revoked certificates for dev accounts used by the creator of the “Silver Sparrow” malware, effectively preventing new Macs from being infected — Following the discovery of a new and unusual malware that had the potential to attack Macs running on Apple Silicon …
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| Jimmy Jenkins / KJZZ: |
Whistleblowers: Arizona's inmate management software has been unable to interpret sentencing laws since 2019, leaving hundreds eligible for release incarcerated — According to Arizona Department of Corrections whistleblowers, hundreds of incarcerated people who should be eligible for release …
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| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
A look at the state of 5G in the US, which despite being fairly widespread is only offering 4G-like speeds; true high-speed 5G is still a work in progress — After an introduction from Consumer Technology Association president Gary Shapiro, Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg takes the stage.| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
FundGuard, an AI-powered investment management SaaS startup, raises $12M Series A, bringing its total raised to $16M+ — FundGuard, an AI-powered software-as-a-service investment management platform, today announced that it closed a $12 million funding round.
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