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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
The Pentagon says Microsoft will build 120K custom HoloLens headsets for the US Army; Microsoft says the contract could be worth up to $21.88B over 10 years — - Microsoft will deliver to the U.S. Army more than 120,000 devices based on its HoloLens augmented reality headset.
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| Nick Clegg / Medium: |
Nick Clegg defends Facebook, saying it is not in the company's interest, financially or reputationally, to continually push users toward more extreme content — In — a recent article for The Atlantic, Adrienne LaFrance compared Facebook to a Doomsday Machine: “a device built with the sole purpose of destroying all human life.”
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| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Apple says it is introducing two new Siri voices for English speakers and eliminating the default selection of a female voice, as part of iOS 14.5 beta 6 — Apple is adding two new voices to Siri's English offerings, and eliminating the default ‘female voice’ selection in the latest beta version of iOS.
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Memo: Google tells employees that it expects some US-based workers to return to the office in April, but won't require employees to come in until at least Sept. — Google told workers in an email Wednesday that it expects some U.S. employees to be able to return to the office in the coming month.
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| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
Biden announces $2T American Jobs Plan focused on improving US infrastructure, with $100B allocated for high-speed broadband access over eight years — It sets aside $100 billion for the effort — President Biden plans to announce a sweeping infrastructure plan Wednesday that includes $100 billion …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Discord debuts Stage Channels, a Clubhouse-like way of broadcasting audio to a room, available on all platforms; only Community servers can make Stage Channels — Another app adding live audio spaces — Discord is the latest company to introduce a Clubhouse-like feature …
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| Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
Facebook says a now-removed interview with Trump posted by daughter-in-law Lara Trump falls under its ban as it spoke “in the voice of President Trump” — Trump's daughter-in-law Lara Trump promoted a new interview with the former president on Facebook and Instagram Tuesday …
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| Financial Times: |
Deliveroo closed down 26% in its LSE debut, after pricing shares at £3.90, valuing it at £5.2B — Fall comes after food delivery company priced its shares at bottom end of range — Deliveroo's shares plunged 26 per cent in the company's London debut on Wednesday …
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| Katie Roof / Bloomberg: |
Squarespace says it is acquiring online restaurant services provider Tock for over $400M in cash and stock — - IPO candidate Squarespace raised funds at $10 billion value — Chicago-based Tock works with restaurants on reservations — Website-hosting service Squarespace Inc. …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Instagram announces Remix, a way to record Reels alongside other users, similar to TikTok's Duets — Instagram today is officially launching a new feature called Remix, which offers a way to record your Reels video alongside a video from another user. The option is similar …
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| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Enjin, a blockchain startup that created the NFT standard used by Microsoft and Nike, raises $18.9M to build a Polkadot-based blockchain network — Quick Take — Enjin has raised $18.9 million to build a Polkadot-based blockchain network, dubbed Efinity, with a focus on non-fungible tokens or NFTs.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
App Annie: users spent $32B on apps across iOS and Play Store globally in Q1 2021, up 40% YoY and the largest quarter on record; iOS beat Android $21B to $11B — The pandemic's remarkable impact on the app industry has not slowed down in 2021. In fact, consumer spending in apps has hit …
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| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Comcast's NBCUniversal is considering pulling its movies from HBO Max and Netflix and keeping future releases for Peacock — Media giant's NBCUniversal division wants to boost its own streaming service, Peacock — Comcast Corp.'s NBCUniversal is considering pulling its movies …
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| Debby Wu / Bloomberg: |
TSMC says it plans to spend $100B over the next three years to expand its chip fabrication capacity — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. plans to spend $100 billion over the next three years to expand its chip fabrication capacity, the company said Thursday.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: draft Biden executive order would require companies doing business with the federal government to report hacks of their networks within a few days — - Biden using cyber crisis to mandate tighter security practices — Order would require basic security practices for U.S. agencies| Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
Microsoft has officially discontinued its Cortana mobile app for both iOS and Android — As expected, Microsoft today discontinued its Cortana mobile app. As a result, the company has ended all support for third-party Cortana skills and eliminated the Cortana app for iOS and Android devices.
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| Riley de León / CNBC: |
Coursera closes at $45 per share, up 36% from its IPO price of $33 per share, giving Coursera a market cap of ~$5.9B — - Education tech company Coursera made its market debut Wednesday on the New York Stock Exchange through an IPO and is now trading under the ticker symbol “COUR.”
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| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Common Room, a service to track online interactions with products, used by Figma and others, raises $32.3M Series B led by Greylock — Linda Lian believes the next generation of software businesses will find customers differently - not through account managers and top-down company-wide contracts … | Emily Feng / NPR: |
How Wuhan's HSMC created an unusable chip factory, becoming one of six multibillion-dollar Chinese chip project failures in the last two years — WUHAN, China — In 2019, the U.S. sanctioned two major Chinese telecom firms, temporarily cutting them off from a vital supply of semiconductor chips …
Tweets: @emilyzfeng, @counternotions, @emilyzfeng, and @emilyzfeng
| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
Turing Award goes to Jeffrey Ullman and Alfred Aho for their work on compilers, which underpin computer programming languages — Jeffrey Ullman and Alfred Aho developed many of the fundamental concepts that researchers use when they build new software. — When Alfred Aho and Jeffrey Ullman met …
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| JP Mangalindan / TechCrunch: |
Tonal, which makes a smart home strength training workout system, raises $250M Series E at a $1.6B valuation; Tonal's sales rose 800% from Dec. 2019-Dec. 2020 — When the pandemic unfolded last year, demand for at-home fitness equipment skyrocketed, and Tonal was no exception.| Nandita Bose / Reuters: |
During an address, President Biden said Amazon uses “various loopholes” to avoid paying any federal income taxes, but says he doesn't want to “punish” them — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden on Wednesday singled out Amazon.com Inc for not paying federal taxes during …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Source: Apple is planning to announce a mixed reality headset “sometime” in the next several months, possibly at an in-person event — On Tuesday, Apple Inc. announced what will be at least its fifth virtual product launch in a row and one of its most important events of the year …
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Tweets: @toddheberlein, @lanceulanoff, @scobleizer, and @markgurman
| Peter Rubin / Wired: |
A reflection on Facebook's VR efforts as the Oculus Rift turns five: an astonishing number of problems have been solved but many big challenges remain — A lot's happened since Facebook's first headset brought virtual reality to the masses. Facebook might have been a first mover, but it also wants to be the last one.
Tweets: @wired, @techatfacebook, @tomgara, and @jonostrower
| Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg: |
Google promises not to silence workers discussing pay, as part of a settlement with a new union that represents hundreds of employees and contract workers — - Alphabet Workers Union accused Google and vendor of wrongdoing — Contract worker said pro-union Facebook post got her suspended
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