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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Fortnite returns to iOS, iPadOS, and Android through a closed beta in Nvidia's GeForce Now game streaming service designed to run in mobile browsers — Nvidia's GeForce Now is finally bringing Fortnite back to the iPhone — Fortnite is back on iOS today... sort of.
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The Official NVIDIA Blog, Gizmodo, MacRumors, 9to5Google, Game Developer, Laptop Mag, TechCrunch, CNET, BGR, Wccftech, Mashable, TechSpot, Game Rant, AppleInsider, Tom's Hardware, Macworld, iPhone in Canada Blog, Liliputing, PCMag, thegamer.com, GameRevolution, XDA Developers, Cult of Mac, HotHardware.com News, Kotaku, iPhone Hacks, and GameSpot
Tweets: @starfire2258, @tomwarren, and @duckybtw
| Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal: |
Second Life founder Philip Rosedale says he is returning to parent company Linden Research, which he left in 2010, to help it expand into the metaverse — Philip Rosedale is coming back to the digital world he created to help inject growth — The founder of Second Life …
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Linden Lab, VentureBeat, CNET, The Verge, Protocol, Financial Times, ZDNet, The Information, New World Notes, Forbes, Second Life Community, SiliconANGLE, and Input
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| NBC News: |
The January 6 House committee subpoenas Meta, Alphabet, Reddit, and Twitter after their “inadequate responses” to requests for information about the riot — The House committee investigating Jan. 6 on Thursday subpoenaed Reddit, Twitter and the parent companies of Google and Facebook after their … | Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Austria's data protection watchdog upholds a decision that a website using Google Analytics violates GDPR, a potential issue for US cloud services in Europe — A decision by Austria's data protection watchdog upholding a complaint against a website related to its use of Google Analytics does …
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noyb.eu, The Register, PYMNTS.com, Euractiv, Fortune, and Pixel Envy
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| Martine Paris / Bloomberg: |
Apple confirms it removed several Wordle clones from the App Store, after some app developers capitalized on the online guessing game's popularity — Apple Inc. removed several Wordle games from its App Store after users confused them with another word-play title popularized by Jimmy Fallon and other celebrities.
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| Kent Walker / The Keyword: |
Following the White House's open-source security summit, Google proposes setting up an organization to serve as a marketplace for open source maintenance — We welcomed the opportunity to participate in the White House Open Source Software Security Summit today, building on our work …
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| Aislinn Keely / The Block: |
Near Foundation, which develops the proof-of-stake Near blockchain, raises $150M led by Three-Arrows Capital, with a16z and others participating — The NEAR Foundation has closed a $150 million funding round less as it looks to become the hub of an open web3.| Reuters: |
TSMC reports Q4 revenue rose 24.1% YoY to $15.74B as net profit reached $6.01B; capital spending will reach between $40B and $44B in 2022, up from $30B in 2021 — Taiwanese chip firm TSMC expects strong growth to accelerate in coming years due to booming semiconductor demand …
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PCMag, The Verge, SemiAnalysis, The Register, Windows Central, 9to5Mac, Tom's Hardware, Taiwan Semiconductor …, iThinkDifferent, Bloomberg, Financial Times, Reuters, Pocketnow, TechSpot, Wall Street Journal, South China Morning Post, MacDailyNews, Nikkei Asia, and The Register
Tweets: @iancutress, @tculpan, @iancutress, @iancutress, and @benbajarin
| Coco Feng / South China Morning Post: |
China's state-backed Blockchain Services Network plans to roll out infrastructure this month to support NFTs; the NFTs will not be linked to cryptocurrencies — The BSN-Distributed Digital Certificate does not support crypto-transacted NFTs, and will allow businesses and individuals …
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Cointelegraph, The Block, CryptoPotato, Blockonomi, Coinspeaker, Blockworks, Slashdot, Waivly, and CoinDesk
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| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
A look at Android 12's rollout, one of the buggiest launches in the past few years, as Samsung and OnePlus pause their stable Android 12-based updates — Android 12 is one of the platform's most ambitious updates in recent history, bringing a major design overhaul to every corner of the operating system.
Tweets: @mkbhd
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Microsoft hires a law firm to review sexual harassment policies, will issue a report in the spring on results of investigations, including one involving Gates — - A review that a law firm will conduct for Microsoft's board on the effectiveness of sexual harassment policies will compare …
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| Blake Brittain / Reuters: |
Krafton, which makes PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, sues Apple and Google, arguing that neither company removed games that allegedly copy PUBG — (Reuters) - The maker of the popular game “PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds” says in a new U.S. lawsuit that a Singapore-based company made rip-off versions …
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MacRumors, TechCrunch, iThinkDifferent, Game Developer, AppleInsider, Cult of Mac, iPhone Hacks, 9to5Mac, Wccftech, and Law360
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Baby Shark becomes the first YouTube video to cross 10B views, after becoming the most-viewed YouTube video in November 2020 — I'm sorry if it's stuck in your head now — “Baby Shark” became the most-viewed YouTube video of all time in November 2020, and just over a year later …
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Tubefilter, Engadget, and Polygon
Tweets: @tedcruzcontrol, @mattnavarra, @kevzag, and @stevekovach
| Bloomberg: |
Twitter's “work from anywhere” policy helped increase the share of US Black and Latinx employees to 9.4% and 8% in 2021, from 6.9% and 5.5% in 2020 — Twitter Inc.'s early shift to a “work from anywhere” model during the pandemic as well as implementation of a requirement to add …
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Next. Up., Twitter Careers, Adweek, and Protocol
Tweets: @hshaban, @quinnypig, @perdricof, @daveyalba, and @hshaban
| Danny Nelson / CoinDesk: |
DeFi Alliance, the incubator of Sushi, Olympus DAO, and other Web3 projects, rebrands as Alliance DAO and raises $50M from 300 investors including Jake Paul — A top crypto accelerator is DAOifying itself to the tune of $50 million. — DeFi Alliance, the incubator of platforms ranging …
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defialliance.co, Blockworks, and Crypto Briefing
| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Canalys: worldwide PC shipments grew 15% YoY in 2021 to 341M, the highest annual number since 2012; Apple shipped 28.3% more units, Acer 21.8%, and Dell 18% — It would be easy to think PC sales dropped worldwide last year amid chip shortages, but that conventional thinking would be wrong.
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Gartner, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, IDC, Thurrott, The Verge, ZDNet, Fossbytes, Android Authority, and TheStreet
Tweets: @bryanbma, @idc, @ldignan, @stshank, and @benbajarin
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Meta will shut down its video speed dating service Sparked on January 20, after launching it last April and testing it in select markets — Meta is shutting down a video speed-dating service it had tested over a good part of last year, the company informed the service's users via a recent email.| Washington Post: |
A bipartisan group of lawmakers introduces the TLDR Act, which would require sites and apps to offer easy-to-digest, nutrition label-like summaries of their TOS — Happy Thursday! Below: The FCC proposes new data breach rules for telecom and the White House meets with tech leaders on cyber.
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9to5Mac, trahan.house.gov, PCMag, The Verge, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy …, Pixel Envy, The Hill, The Mac Observer, and Tech Policy Press
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| Rachel Pannett / Washington Post: |
Privacy advocates criticize police in the German city of Mainz for using data from the Luca COVID-19 contact tracing app for an investigation into a man's death — Authorities in Germany are under fire for tracking down witnesses to a potential crime by using data from a mobile phone app … | Michael D McDonald / Bloomberg: |
Analysis: El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele likely lost ~$10M on his bitcoin purchases, after spending $71M on 1,391 BTC at an average price of $51,056 — - Government's process for buying Bitcoin is shrouded in secrecy — Nation's Bitcoins worth 14% less than average acquisition cost| Joanna Glasner / Crunchbase News: |
Analysis: Vision Fund, with $35.2B, and Tiger Global, with $29.6B, led or co-led the most venture and growth rounds in 2021; YC was the busiest with 642 deals — In a wild year for startup funding, one variable stayed constant: The most active investors and biggest check writers are familiar names who've been at this a long time.| Andrew Deck / Rest of World: |
A look at Line's sticker economy, made up of over 4M hobbyist and professional designers; Line's revenue from direct sticker sales was $200M+ in 2020 — A handful of designers have made their fortunes on the Line app, but now creators fear the market has become saturated.
Tweets: @mvzelenks, @dlberes, @anupkaphle, @decka227, and @restofworld
| Michael McSweeney / The Block: |
Coinbase says it is acquiring FairX, a CFTC-regulated derivatives exchange, and plans to bring crypto derivatives to its US customers — Coinbase is acquiring FairX, a CFTC-regulated derivatives exchange. — The exchange company announced the move on Wednesday, saying …
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The Coinbase Blog, CoinDesk, Blockchain News, CoinGape, Cryptonews, TheBitTimes.Com's Newsletter, CryptoSlate, Cryptopolitan, Crypto Daily, and Cointelegraph
Tweets: @coinbase, @jeffjohnroberts, and @shanaggarwal
| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Apple says no changes were made in iOS 15.2 that would've toggled iCloud Private Relay off and that no carriers have blocked its users from using the feature — Some iPhone users this week noticed that iCloud Private Relay suddenly stopped working with their cellular connections.
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MacRumors, MacRumors, AppleInsider, iThinkDifferent, Michael Tsai, Gizmodo, Ubergizmo, Wired, Engadget, PhoneArena, iPhone Hacks, The Verge, and SlashGear
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