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| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Oppo unveils Air Glass, a 30g “assisted reality” wearable that projects 2D info into the user's FoV with a claimed three-hours usage, coming to China in Q1 2022 — Coming to China early next year — Oppo has announced the Air Glass, an AR device that'll go on sale early next year.
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| Vlad Savov / Bloomberg: |
| Tal Eisner / Check Point Software: |
Analysis: Log4j attacks rose from a few thousand on December 10 to 800K+ within 72 hours; exploits have been attempted on ~44% of corporate networks globally — Precisely one year after the SolarWinds Hack, the groundbreaking supply chain attack the world experienced, and while organizations …
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| Tim Starks / CyberScoop: |
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
LogMeIn plans to spin out password management tool LastPass; LogMeIn acquired LastPass, now used by 30M people and 85K businesses, for $125M in 2015 — LastPass has more than 30 million users — LogMeIn plans to spin out password management tool LastPass as a standalone company, it announced Tuesday.
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
A look back at tech's three eras, from Bell Labs to Facebook, and why the metaverse is the fourth, defined by its bifurcation with the physical world — For the first several years of Stratechery I would write a year end article about “The State of Consumer Technology”; the last one I wrote …
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| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Sources: Instagram passed 2B monthly active users this fall, up from 1B in June 2018, the last time it publicly disclosed the metric — - Instagram now has more than 2 billion monthly active users worldwide, according to employees with knowledge of the key metric.
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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
PwC report details the ransomware attack on Ireland's public health system in May 2021 and finds that IT admins failed to respond to multiple warning signs — The consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers recently published lessons learned from the disruptive and costly ransomware attack in May 2021 on Ireland's public health system.| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
US OSHA is investigating the collapse of an Amazon warehouse in Illinois caused by a tornado, where six workers died, one was injured, and 45 were rescued — - OSHA is investigating a collapse at an Amazon warehouse in Edwardsville, Illinois. — The facility collapsed Friday as a tornado rolled through, killing six employees.
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| Hannah Miller / The Information: |
A look at Solana's early backers including 500 Startups, Slow Ventures, Multicoin Capital, and angels David Quiec and Chris McCann, who have $1B+ stakes — When Solana Labs CEO Anatoly Yakovenko tried to raise money in 2018 to develop his idea for a faster blockchain for financial transactions …
Tweets: @brianmcc, @amir, @bob_wins, and @theinformation
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
The UK's CMA issues an interim report voicing concerns over Apple and Google's “vice-like grip” on the mobile ecosystem, hinting at future antitrust action — The UK's antitrust watchdog has given the clearest signal yet that interventions under an upcoming reform …
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| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Nike acquires RTFKT, an NFT studio founded in 2020, for an undisclosed sum; RTFKT raised an $8M seed in May led by a16z at a $33.3M valuation — Nike is taking a plunge deeper into the world of crypto collectibles, announcing that they're acquiring the NFT studio RTFKT (pronounced “artifact").
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Tweets: @rtfktstudios, @zaptio, @rtfktstudios, @jowyang, @carnage4life, @deray, @lucasmtny, and @cdixon
| CoinDesk: |
Institutional bitcoin broker and custody services provider NYDIG raises $1B led by WestCap, valuing the startup at $7B+ — NYDIG said Tuesday it raised a stunning $1 billion in a funding round that will value the firm at over $7 billion - and potentially expand bitcoin's reach into …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: the NSO Group is considering shuttering its Pegasus unit and selling the company, amid US restrictions and the danger of defaulting on $450M in debt — - Moelis tapped to advise on talks with investment funds — One plan would repurpose product for strictly defensive use
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| Charmaine D'Silva / The Keyword: |
Google details Android 12 Go edition, coming to low-end phones in 2022 with faster app launches, longer battery life, better sharing, and more privacy controls — Android (Go edition) launched in 2017 with the goal to help more people access the best of Android and Google through affordable, entry-level phones.| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
Snap launches a preview of Story Studio, a standalone video editing app for iOS, aimed at users who make more professional content, like Spotlight creators — The app is for users wanting to make more professional content, like Spotlight creators — Snap has launched a standalone video … | Eva Dou / Washington Post: |
Internal Huawei marketing slides show a broader role in surveilling China's population than it has admitted to, including using voice ID and tracking shoppers — The Chinese tech giant Huawei Technologies has long brushed off questions about its role in China's state surveillance, saying it just sells general-purpose networking gear.
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iPhone in Canada Blog and The Hill
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| Sami Fathi / MacRumors: |
Apple delays macOS Monterey's Universal Control until spring 2022, after already delaying it to “later this fall” — Apple has officially delayed Universal Control, a hallmark feature of macOS Monterey and iPadOS 15 announced in June, until Spring 2022.| Janko Roettgers / Protocol: |
VR meeting startup Spatial pivots to NFTs, letting users host galleries and events, and raises $25M, bringing its total funding to $50M — Just a few months after Meta unveiled its own VR meeting platform, a startup known for a similar product is hitting the brakes: Spatial … | Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
Twitter rolls out automatic captions for videos, with support for over 30 languages, but not for previously uploaded videos — Starting today, Twitter is rolling out auto-generated captions on videos. This feature will make videos more accessible for Deaf and hard-of-hearing users.| Louise Matsakis / The Atlantic: |
Investors have poured $1B+ into startups looking to turn mom-and-pop stores into digital retailers and mini-tech hubs, especially in South and Southeast Asia — Corner stores don't look like much. Maybe the one nearest to you has dusty shelves lined with bags of chips and cookies …
Tweets: @cengizyar, @paulbisceglio, @lemonsand, @bcmerchant, and @lmatsakis
| Kyle Alspach / VentureBeat: |
Cloud security remediation startup Dazz raises a $50M Series A and a $10M seed from investors including Insight Partners, Greylock Partners, and Index Ventures — Cloud security remediation startup Dazz, which today announced it has raised $60 million in funding, said it plans to launch …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Tel Aviv-based Guardio, whose cybersecurity browser extension has 1M active users, raises $47M led by Tiger Global — Some say that antivirus software that you install on your PC may have run its course when it comes to the next generation of computing in the cloud.
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