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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Source: Facebook is planning to change its company name to reflect its focus on the metaverse as soon as next week at Connect, its annual AR/VR conference — Mark Zuckerberg wants to be known for building the metaverse — Facebook is planning to change its company name next week to reflect …
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| CoinDesk: |
Bitcoin crosses $65,607, an all-time high, after the ProShares Bitcoin Strategy ETF rose by nearly 5% in trading — The latest rally appears fueled by the successful debut on Tuesday of the first U.S. bitcoin futures exchange-traded fund. — Bitcoin, the world's largest cryptocurrency …
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Tom's Hardware, International Business Times, Decrypt, TNW, CNBC, CNN, CoinDesk, Bloomberg, Cointelegraph, Bloomberg, Fortune, MarketWatch, TechSpot, Cointelegraph, Cointelegraph, Forbes, and Coinspeaker
| Michael Wursthorn / Wall Street Journal: |
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: PayPal has approached Pinterest about an acquisition, potentially valuing it at $39B; Pinterest stock has dropped 16% this year — PayPal Holdings Inc. is exploring an acquisition of social media company Pinterest Inc., people with knowledge of the matter said, Bloomberg News reports.
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Protocol, Reuters, and CNBC
Tweets: @kylascan, @kylascan, @modestproposal1, @palmettocapital, @maybebullish, and @morningbrew
| Naman Ramachandran / Variety: |
UK's CMA fines Facebook £50.5M for breaching an order imposed during its ongoing Giphy acquisition investigation, saying Facebook refused to report information — Social media giant Facebook has been fined £50.5 million ($69.1 million) for breaching an order imposed …
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GOV.UK. More:
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Tweets: @cmagovuk, @jimwaterson, @markdistef, @markdistef, and @mikarv
| Cecilia Kang / New York Times: |
District of Columbia AG Karl Racine plans to add Mark Zuckerberg to an ongoing privacy lawsuit, which began in 2018 following the Cambridge Analytica scandal — The District of Columbia case, which grew out of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, could expose the chief executive to financial and other penalties.
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Livemint, CNET, Protocol, Insider, Deadline, CNBC, and Barron's Online
Tweets: @agkarlracine, @agkarlracine, @mikeduncan, @donie, @agkarlracine, and @yonettejo
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft begins letting Windows 11 beta testers try Android apps from the Amazon Appstore, starting with 50 apps — Beta Channel testers get access first — Microsoft is now allowing Windows 11 testers to try out Android apps. A preview version of the Windows Subsystem for Android …
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Windows Blog. More:
Microsoft Docs, XDA Developers, ZDNet, XDA Developers, Thurrott, Thurrott, Windows Blog, OnMSFT.com, MSPoweruser, OnMSFT.com, Neowin, and Digital Trends
| Nikkei Asia: |
Sources: China's Oppo is developing high-end mobile chips, using TSMC's 3nm tech, for its premium handsets due out in 2023 or 2024 — China's top handset maker looks to use TSMC's cutting-edge 3-nm tech — TAIPEI — China's leading smartphone maker Oppo is developing high-end mobile chips …
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Laptop Mag, Tom's Guide, Digital Trends, The Verge, SlashGear, Financial Times, SamMobile, XDA Developers, Android Headlines, Pandaily, and Wccftech. Tweets: @ishanagarwal24
| Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post: |
US Commerce Department announces rules banning the export or resale of hacking tools, such as NSO's Pegasus, to China, Russia, and other countries of concern — The Commerce Department on Wednesday announced a long-awaited rule that officials hope will help stem the export or resale …
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U.S. Department of Commerce. Tweets: @nakashimae, @jsrailton, @bing_chris, @nicoleperlroth, @jsrailton, @msamymacpherson, @janlemnitzer, and @ericgeller
| James Vincent / The Verge: |
A look at Ask Delphi, a research project by the Allen Institute for AI that offers answers to ethical dilemmas, often with bewildering responses — A fascinating project that's best understood as a cautionary tale — Got a moral quandary you don't know how to solve? Fancy making it worse?
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USA Today, Stealth Optional, arXiv.org, and TechRadar
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Activision Blizzard says 20+ employees, including developers and supervisors, “exited” the company and 20+ faced disciplinary action after misconduct complaints — It reprimanded more than 20 others — Activision Blizzard says more than 20 employees have “exited” the company …
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| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Q&A with Google executives on the Pixel 6's new Tensor SoC, which has two big ARM Cortex-X1 cores, 2 medium cores, and 4 efficiency cores — Learn more about the Google Tensor from the people that designed it. — The Pixel 6 is official, with a wild new camera design, incredible pricing, and the new Android 12 OS.
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The Keyword, XDA Developers, Engadget, Android Headlines, Android Authority, TechCircle, 9to5Google, and Telecoms.com
Tweets: @aschilling, @aschilling, @renehaas237, @laurengoode, @ronamadeo, @arstechnica, and @halidecamera
| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Samsung updates Galaxy Watch4 with Fall Detection, new watch faces, gesture controls, and more, rolling out in the US and South Korea — There have been a few minor updates to the Galaxy Watch 4 since the wearable's debut in August, but today Samsung is releasing its first major update for the product.
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Samsung Global Newsroom. More:
CNET, techadvisor.com, Android Police, PCMag, XDA Developers, The Verge, and MSPoweruser
| Financial Times: |
Sources: China tells McDonald's to expand its e-renminbi payments system ahead of the Beijing Winter Olympics; source says Visa and Nike are also under pressure — Digital renminbi issued by central bank draws security concerns from US critics — China has told McDonald's to expand … | Paul Thurrott / Thurrott: |
Brave replaces Google with its own privacy-centric Brave Search as the default search engine in its browser — As part of its ongoing push to eliminate Google as much as possible from our daily web experiences, Brave is removing Google Search as its default search engine.
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Brave Browser. More:
The Verge, PCMag, The Register, fossbytes.com, Gizchina, and Engadget. Tweets: @jaredctate
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Spotify partners with Shopify to let artists list merch on profiles for $29/month to $299/month, starting in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand — Spotify on Wednesday announced a new partnership with ecommerce provider Shopify to let artists list merchandise directly on their profiles …
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TechCrunch, Shopify, Billboard, and Music Business Worldwide
| Ian Bremmer / Foreign Affairs: |
How Facebook, Apple, Google, Amazon, and others increasingly rival states for geopolitical influence and are reshaping the global order as we know it — After rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6, some of the United States' most powerful institutions sprang into action to punish the leaders of the failed insurrection.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Tel Aviv-based Deci, which helps build AI models that can work with available data and compute power, raises a $21M Series A led by Insight Partners — Building usable models to run AI algorithms requires not just adequate data to train systems, but also the right hardware subsequently to run them.| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Apple botched the notch on the MacBook Pros by leaving out Face ID; the bezels are smaller but not ultrathin like on Dell and HP rivals — All the downsides of the notch, without the Face ID benefits — The day that many have been dreading has finally arrived. Apple has added a notch to its new MacBook Pros.
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MacRumors, MacRumors, XDA Developers, 9to5Mac, and iMore
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| The Information: |
Analysis: Andreessen Horowitz's investment team has grown to 70 in the past four years, up by 170%, outpacing Sequoia, Accel, Lightspeed, and others — One of the running jokes among Silicon Valley venture capitalists is that, eventually, all of them will become partners at VC firm Andreessen Horowitz.
Tweets: @jessicalessin and @amir
| William Turton / Bloomberg: |
Sources: the recent ransomware attack against Sinclair is linked to Russian group Evil Corp., which changed names to avoid 2019 US sanctions — - Evil Corp. said to change names to avoid 2019 U.S. sanctions — Broadcaster hit with new ransomware strain called Macaw| Eli Tan / CoinDesk: |
Animoca Brands, which lets players own in-game items as NFTs, raises $65M at a $2.2B valuation, up from $1B in May — Animoca Brands, a prominent investor in non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and decentralized gaming, has completed a capital raise of $65 million at a $2.2 billion valuation, the company announced Wednesday.
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Bloomberg, Decrypt, VentureBeat, and Australian Financial Review
| BBC: |
UK's Royal Mint partners with Canadian startup Excir to extract and recycle gold and precious metals from old smartphones and laptops — Gold and precious metals are to be extracted from old phones and laptops by Britain's coin-maker. — The Royal Mint plans to introduce a world …
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| Bloomberg: |
Draft EU document: finalization of the Digital Markets Act and Digital Services Act has been pushed back further into next year from an initial spring 2022 goal — European Union countries will delay a key target of finalizing new rules hitting tech platforms by the spring of next year … | Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
Profile of Asana as it announces an Enterprise Work Graph, APIs to integrate with CRM tools, and more — When people first started to take note of a fledgling company called Asana a dozen years ago, the big news was that it had been started by Facebook cofounder Dustin Moskovitz along … | Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Invicti Security, which helps companies secure web apps, raises $625M led by Summit Partners; Invicti was created by merging Netsparker and Acunetix in 2017 — Application security testing startup Invicti Security Ltd. will have bags of money to play with after raising a $625 million funding round led by Summit Partners.
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