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Twitter Blue rolls out to the US for $2.99/month with Scroll's ad-free articles across 300+ pubs, an undo button, Nuzzel-like “top articles” roundup, and more — And in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, as part of Twitter Blue — Twitter Blue, the company's subscription service …
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| Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch: |
Unity to acquire Peter Jackson's visual effects company Weta Digital, including 275+ engineers, for $1.625B; Weta Digital's FTX artists will form a new entity — Unity has just announced its intent to acquire Weta Digital, the legendary visual effects company co-founded by Peter Jackson, for a massive $1.625 billion.
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Unity Blog, Variety, Unity Technologies, Protocol, Game Developer, thegamer.com, Wccftech, and Hollywood Reporter
Tweets: @unity, @chornesays, @campster, @toadsanime, @parismarx, and @grg
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By January 19, Meta aims to remove ad targeting options based on user interactions with content about health, race, political affiliation, religion, and more — Meta, the social media company formerly known as Facebook, said on Tuesday that it planned to eliminate advertisers' ability …
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| Ashley Gold / Axios: |
Bipartisan House bill would force tech platforms to offer an “input-transparent algorithm” that doesn't require user data to generate recommendations — A bipartisan group of House lawmakers has introduced a companion to a Senate bill that would let people use algorithm-free versions …
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DocumentCloud, Gizmodo, Ars Technica, TechCrunch, Reuters, TechSpot, Insider, Slashdot, and Tech Policy Press
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| Zac Bowden / Windows Central: |
Microsoft announces a $249 11.6" Surface Laptop SE, exclusively for schools and students, running Windows 11 SE, and starting with 4GB RAM and 64GB of storage — Microsoft's low-end education PC is official! — What you need to know — Microsoft is adding a new laptop to its Surface hardware portfolio.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Apple backpedals on breaking Face ID after third-party iPhone 13 screen replacements, will release a software update to no longer require a microcontroller swap — A software update is on the way that won't require repair shops to transfer a microcontroller
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FrontPageTech.com, iThinkDifferent, Gizmodo, CNET, PhoneArena, SlashGear, Tom's Guide, iPhone in Canada Blog, 9to5Mac, iFixit News, AppleInsider, Engadget, MacRumors, MacDailyNews, iClarified, and iDownloadBlog.com
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| Packy McCormick / Not Boring: |
A deep dive into how Discord, an authentic, at-scale user-generated community, could become the metaverse's natural social infrastructure — A Not Boring x The Generalist Collab on the Internet's New Home … Today's Not Boring is brought to you by... Sprig … Try Sprig Free — Hi friends 👋 ,
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| Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: |
Meta shares bullying and harassment numbers for the first time, claims the category represents ~0.14% of Facebook content and ~0.05% of Instagram content — The social media giant published several transparency reports on Tuesday. — Facebook published a series of reports on Tuesday …
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| Issie Lapowsky / Protocol: |
Meta says it can't keep up with its Oversight Board, which has issued 78 recommendations since January, and that the 30-day response deadline is too tight — Depending on who you ask, Facebook's Oversight Board is either a massive PR stunt to deflect blame away from the company or an ambitious … | Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
Coinbase reports Q3 revenue of $1.31B, up from $315M YoY, vs $1.57B est., monthly transacting users fell to 7.4M from 8.8M QoQ; stock down 10%+ — - Coinbase reported weaker-than-expected revenue for the third quarter. — The number of monthly transacting users dropped from the prior period.
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| Pranob Mehrotra / XDA Developers: |
Samsung unveils 14nm, 16GB LPDDR5X DRAM chip for mobile devices, claims data transfer speeds of 8.5Gbps, 1.3x faster than LPDDR5 while consuming 20% less power — Samsung today announced the world's first LPDDR5 DRAM chip for mobile devices. The new memory module is fabricated using …
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Samsung Global Newsroom, MobileSyrup, The Verge, Liliputing, AnandTech, Gizmodo, Phandroid, Techaeris, Gizchina, BGR, TechSpot, HotHardware.com News, and PCMag
Tweets: @vadimyuryev and @samsungsemius
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
iOS 15.2 beta includes the Communication Safety in Messages feature that Apple announced this summer, as an opt-in feature parents can enable — Apple over the summer announced new Child Safety features that are aimed at keeping children safer online. Apple has confirmed that one of those features …
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AppleInsider, Macworld, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, CNET, iThinkDifferent, MacDailyNews, XDA Developers, and iPhone in Canada Blog
Tweets: @normative, @freezydorito, and @stroughtonsmith
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Alex Gorsky, chairman and departing CEO of Johnson & Johnson, joins Apple's board of directors; Tim Cook calls him a “visionary in healthcare” — Apple today announced that Alex Gorsky, the chairman and CEO of Johnson & Johnson, has joined its board of directors.
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The Verge, Bloomberg, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, Apple, Wall Street Journal, Patently Apple, Apple Must, iMore, iDownloadBlog.com, and iPhone in Canada Blog. Tweets: @markgurman
| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
fuboTV to acquire French multiplatform streaming company Molotov for $190M; Molotov co-founder and CEO Jean-David Blanc will become chief strategy officer — fuboTV is making a significant move in Europe with plans to acquire Molotov, a French startup with a leading television streaming service. fuboTV …
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fuboTV, Benzinga, The Verge, Tech.eu, Sportico, TV Technology, WORLD SCREEN, fuboTV, and The Streamable. Tweets: @fubotv_pr
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Netflix games arrive on Apple's App Store and users will start being able to access them through Netflix's iOS app tomorrow — Last week, Netflix launched its debut lineup of mobile games to Android users globally. Today, the games are expanding to users on iOS.| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
You.com, an AI-powered open source search engine, launches in beta with $20M in funding led by Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff — You.com, which bills itself as the world's first open source search engine, today announced its public beta launch along with $20 million in funding led …
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Axios, TechCrunch, PYMNTS.com, CNET, iTnews, Protocol, Gizmodo, Tom's Guide, Washington Post, TechCrunch, TNW, Fast Company, Fabian Lang, and Forbes. Tweets: @samfbiddle
| Preetika Rana / Wall Street Journal: |
DoorDash reports Q3 revenue of $1.2B, up 45% YoY, and says it will acquire European food delivery company Wolt in an all-stock $8B+ deal — Deal to acquire Wolt comes amid a wave of consolidation in the highlight competitive food-delivery segment — DoorDash Inc. said it has agreed …
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Tech.eu, TechCrunch, San Francisco Business Journal, DoorDash, and CNBC
| Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
Clubhouse rolls out Replay on iOS and Android, letting users record live rooms and share them as a podcast or a clip on YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok — Clubhouse hosts and moderators will have a fresh tool in their kit today. The company is pushing a new feature live on both its iOS …
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Clubhouse Blog, PCMag, KnowTechie, CNBC, and BGR India
Tweets: @affan_imran, @psb_dc, and @brianmcc
| Bloomberg: |
Netflix for iOS is rolling out Kids Clips, a TikTok-like feature that shows new daily short videos from its children's library — - Company to test ‘Kids Clips’ on iOS in U.S., other countries — Feature is similar to ‘Fast Laughs’ comedy offering for adults
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PYMNTS.com, Quartz, Android Central, MobileSyrup, TechCrunch, iDownloadBlog.com, KnowTechie, iThinkDifferent, New York Post, 9to5Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, PCMag, iMore, Mashable, Engadget, Benzinga, and The Verge
Tweets: @markgurman, @lucas_shaw, and @lanceulanoff
| Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
Unpacking some key aspects of what constitutes a metaverse, such as making and owning virtual property, 3D telepresence in a persistent world, and more — Will we all live in the metaverse soon? Or is the idea just Second Life redux? — These days it seems like everybody …
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Tweets: @jbushnell, @nymag, @ap, @ap, @warinthefuture, and @ap
| Wall Street Journal: |
An internal September 2018 Facebook memo found ~40% of traffic to Pages went to those with plagiarized or recycled content — About 40% of traffic to pages in 2018 went to those with content that was plagiarized or recycled, and Facebook has been slow to crack down on copyright infringement
Tweets: @epro, @learmonth, @mattrosoff, @arpcomics, @ericgarland, @danieldrepper, @jeffhorwitz, @jason_kint, @jason_kint, and @jason_kint
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Jackpocket, an app with 2.5M active users buying lottery tickets in 10 US states, raises a $120M Series D to expand into raffles, social casino games, and more — Apps that let people do virtually what they would have previously had to carry out in person have seen a boom in the last 20 months … Sponsor Posts
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