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| Ian Sherr / CNET: |
Apple announces Self Service Repair, a program starting next year that will publish repair manuals, let customers buy parts and tools, and more — The tech giant says it will publish repair manuals and allow everyday customers to buy the same parts and tools certified technicians and repair shops use.
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Apple, TechCrunch, The Verge, iFixit News, PCMag, Macworld, NBC News, XDA Developers, Engadget, YouTube, AppleInsider, USA Today, CNN, MacRumors, Reuters, 9to5Mac, Wall Street Journal, VICE, London Evening Standard, The Independent, CNBC, MSPoweruser, MacStories, iMore, Six Colors, The Apple Post, and The Mac Observer
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| Shannon Liao / Washington Post: |
Over 100 Activision Blizzard employees staged a walkout on Tuesday, the second in four months, demanding CEO Bobby Kotick step down, after a WSJ report — This story has been updated from a previous version. — IRVINE, Calif. — Employees at beleaguered video game company Activision Blizzard walked …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Activision CEO failed to inform the board about allegations an employee had been raped by her supervisor in 2016 and 2017, even after a settlement — Top executive didn't inform board of some reports, including alleged rapes; company faces multiple regulatory investigations
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| Bloomberg: |
Amazon tells UK customers it won't accept Visa credit cards issued in the UK from January 19, 2022, citing high transaction fees — - Customers told the change will come into effect in Jan. 2022 — Amazon cites high fees charged by Visa as reason for change
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| Sam Dean / Los Angeles Times: |
LA's iconic Staples Center to be renamed as Crypto.com Arena, sources say in a deal worth $700M+ for 20 years — Staples Center is getting a new name for Christmas: Crypto.com Arena. — The downtown Los Angeles venue — home of the Lakers, Clippers, Kings and Sparks …
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Netflix expands its Top 10 lists to display the most-viewed shows and movies, for English and non-English titles, ranked by aggregate viewing hours — Netflix says it's heard the complaints about how it “cherry picks” the self-reported data it releases about content viewed on its platform.
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| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
iOS 15.2 beta code shows a private “SportsKit” framework, currently integrated with the Apple TV app, Siri, and home screen widgets — It's no secret at this point that Apple is becoming more interested in the sports segment, as the company has been investing and hiring related professionals …
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iMore, MacDailyNews, iThinkDifferent, ElectroGeek, AppleInsider, and iMore
| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Meta details a haptic glove prototype that uses air pockets to simulate touching objects in VR and has been in development for seven years — A new sci-fi interface for the metaverse — You cannot pet a dog in Meta's new, high-tech virtual reality gloves. But researchers are getting closer.
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| Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire: |
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| Gene Maddaus / Variety: |
Miramax sues Quentin Tarantino over copyright infringement for selling NFTs based on Pulp Fiction screenplay excerpts; Miramax says it owns screenplay rights — Miramax filed a lawsuit on Tuesday accusing Quentin Tarantino of copyright infringement by selling NFTs based on the screenplay for “Pulp Fiction.”
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The Block, Quartz, The Hollywood Reporter, TechSpot, Coinspeaker, NewsBTC, Newser, Wall Street Journal, New York Post, Decrypt, Cointelegraph, Deadline, and CoinDesk
Tweets: @gmoneynft, @mmasnick, @emilybest, and @hradzka
| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE: |
Israeli spyware vendor Candiru, recently blacklisted by the US, waged “watering hole” attacks on UK and Middle East websites critical of Saudi Arabia and others — Cybersecurity researchers tracked a hacking campaign spanning more than a year that hit around 20 websites.
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WeLiveSecurity, Forbes, The Hacker News, and The Times of Israel
Tweets: @esetresearch, @iblametom, @rondeibert, and @iblametom
| Axios: |
Analysis: the top five most-followed accounts on TikTok do not rank in the top 50 on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, or Instagram — The creator economy has produced thousands of social media entrepreneurs who have built mega-audiences in the millions — larger than many media companies.| Richard Speed / The Register: |
Mozilla launches Firefox Relay, which offers up to five email aliases, out of beta, and introduces a $0.99/month premium tier for unlimited aliases — You want more than five email aliases? Sure, but it'll cost you — Mozilla hopes to ramp up the monetisation machine with a paid premium version … | Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Brave now has a built-in cryptocurrency wallet, sidestepping the need for extension-based wallets like MetaMask — Why use an extension when it's a built-in tool? — Brave has announced that its web browser now includes a native cryptocurrency wallet, replacing the previous one that was based on the MetaMask wallet extension.
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Brave Browser. More:
PCMag, cryptodaily.co.uk, and gHacks Technology News
Tweets: @brianbondy, @dwightkurt_, and @brave
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Tel Aviv-based Laminar, which helps companies manage public cloud data security, emerges from stealth with $37M across seed and Series A — The cloud may be the direction that much of enterprise IT is moving today, but it still remains a major source of security issues …
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| Bloomberg: |
Source: BlockFi faces SEC scrutiny for offering high interest rates for lending out crypto; Texas, New Jersey, and others are already investigating BlockFi — - U.S. regulator examining whether lending product is a security — Fast-growing firm already responding to state-level inquires
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CoinDesk
| Kate Park / TechCrunch: |
QuEra Computing, which is building a commercially accessible cloud-based quantum device, emerges from stealth with $17M from Rakuten and others — QuEra Computing, a Boston-based quantum computer developer, is coming out of stealth mode today with $17 million in funding from Rakuten, Day One Ventures and Frontiers Capital.
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MIT Technology Review, Livemint, The Boston Globe, and Fast Company
| Wall Street Journal: |
Micfo CEO Amir Golestan pleads guilty to wire fraud charges after fraudulently acquiring thousands of IP addresses from nonprofit ARIN, a first-of-its-kind case — Amir Golestan was accused of using his web-services company Micfo to win scarce IP addresses by fraudulent means| Charles Daly / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft launches a datacenter region in Sweden that runs solely on renewable energy, in partnership with state-owned utility Vattenfall — - Customers for the centers include Handelsbanken, PostNord — Facilities to use green energy supplied by utility Vattenfall
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Microsoft, Silicon Republic, Benzinga, and Technology Record
Tweets: @vattenfallgroup, @judsonalthoff, @mseurope, and @bradsmi
| Charlie Osborne / ZDNet: |
Cybersecurity firm Mandiant says it has “high confidence” that Belarus is partially responsible for Ghostwriter, a hack-and-leak operation in some EU states — Mandiant says the government is likely to blame for anti-NATO campaigns, and more. — The Belarusian government … | Celestine Bohlen / New York Times: |
As Moscow Metro introduces Face Pay, digital privacy activists express alarm at the implications of introducing city-wide facial recognition — The latest example is Face Pay, which replaces a Metro card with facial recognition. It may be advanced, but activists are sounding the alarm on privacy issues.
Tweets: @davidzipper
| The Economic Times: |
Indian startup GoKwik, which helps e-commerce merchants improve conversions and lower return rates, raises a $15M Series A led by Sequoia Capital India — GoKwik plans to use the funds to expand its client base to social commerce startups, scale up the product and technology teams and launch new products.
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Tech in Asia, Business Standard, Business Matters, Entrackr, and Inc42 Media
| Ashley Gold / Axios: |
Microsoft and Uber leave the Internet Association; Microsoft says its decision was part of a periodic review to “ensure alignment with our policy agenda” — Microsoft and Uber are leaving the Internet Association, a trade group that lobbies on behalf of companies in the internet and tech industry, Axios has confirmed.| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Tel Aviv-based Overwolf, a modding service for game developers, raises a $75M Series D led by a16z, following a $52.5M raise in March, and says it has 20M MAUs — Overwolf has raised $75 million in funding to jumpstart community-created mod experiences for games.
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Overwolf Blog and Pocket Gamer.biz
| Sophia Kunthara / Crunchbase News: |
Place, which offers tools for real estate agents covering accounting, hiring, ads, and more, raises a $100M Series A led by Goldman Sachs at a $1B valuation — Proptech startup Place raised $100 million in a Series A round led by Goldman Sachs, the company said Wednesday. — Subscribe to the Crunchbase Daily
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SiliconANGLE, Finextra, TechCrunch, and Seattle Business Journal
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Qualcomm CFO says the company expects to supply just 20% of Apple's modem chips by 2023, supporting rumors that Apple's modem chips are launching soon — Qualcomm is preparing for the launch of Apple's own modem chips, which will cut into Qualcomm's modem business starting in 2023.
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Reuters and Coinspeaker
Tweets: @donal888, @stephennellis, @epro, @oablanchard, @mytechmusings, @patrickmoorhead, and @danielnewmanuv
| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
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Macworld, iPhone in Canada Blog, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, iPhone Hacks, fossbytes.com, The Economic Times, Pocket-lint, The Overspill, and iMore. Tweets: @mishaalrahman
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