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EU Parliament passed Digital Services Act, including provisions banning targeted ads based on highly sensitive personal data, limiting dark patterns, and more — A large majority of MEPs voted in favour of the Digital Services Act on Thursday (20 January), after plenary amendments introduced important changes to the text.
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| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
How advances in semiconductor fabrication equipment are being applied to the production of nano-scale microelectromechanical systems, or MEMS — For years, engineers have made microchips ever smaller and more powerful. Now they're applying the technology to a host of miniature marvels.
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| Tracy Wang / CoinDesk: |
CoinGecko: since Thursday, the cryptocurrency industry's market cap is down ~20% to ~$1.6T; Bitcoin fell ~20% to ~$34K and Ethereum fell ~30% to ~$2.3K — Cryptocurrencies are getting rekt. — Crypto blue-chips bitcoin (BTC) and ether (ETH) breached key $40,000 and $3,000 support levels …
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| Mark Williams / The Columbus Dispatch: |
How Ohio attracted Intel to build semiconductor plants, including pursuing execs for eight months, financial incentives, and sustainability commitments — It was a Christmas morning surprise for Ohio's governor and lieutenant governor: Intel was coming to Ohio.
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| Andrew Dickson / New York Times: |
How UK theater companies are using AR and VR to broadcast productions to viewers at home, as the pandemic pushes companies to experiment with new art forms — The Interactive Storytelling Studio at the National Theater in London is using technology to bring a miniature musical to viewers' homes.
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| Sneha Shah / The Economic Times: |
Bengaluru-based StockGro, a social investment startup with a gamified app for learning about and participating in stock markets, raises a $32M Series A — Mumbai: Social investment startup StockGro has raised $32 million led by marquee global investors such as Bitkraft Ventures, General Catalyst …
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| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Plaid acquires Cognito, which offers ID verification and compliance services to financial firms, source says for ~$250M in cash and stock — Plaid, a fintech unicorn known for its APIs that connect consumer bank accounts to financial applications, announced today that it is buying Cognito.
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| Stefanie Marotta / Bloomberg: |
Shopify confirms it canceled contracts with warehouse and fulfillment partners, but says its capacity to handle orders won't be affected; stock closed down 14% — Shopify Inc. plunged by the most since March 2020 after a report that the Canadian e-commerce company terminated contracts with several warehouse and fulfillment partners.
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| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
A group of 34 QA testers at Activision Blizzard's Raven Software vote to unionize with the CWA, and ask the company to voluntarily recognize their union status — Microsoft Corp.'s planned acquisition of Activision Blizzard Inc. will come with an unexpected and perhaps unwelcome addition: a small group of unionized workers.| Bloomberg: |
A look at ID.me, which will soon be used to verify IRS.gov logins and claims to have uncovered a $400B theft of US pandemic unemployment payments — If you were writing a techno-thriller, you'd give your hero a backstory like Blake Hall's. He's a Harvard MBA, an alumnus …
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Researchers: 40 themes and 53 plugins for WordPress downloaded from AccessPress had backdoors dating back to September, giving attackers full admin control — A massive supply chain attack compromised 93 WordPress themes and plugins to contain a backdoor, giving threat-actors full access to websites.| Christine Hall / TechCrunch: |
Nowsta, which runs an on-demand labor marketplace and develops tools to help companies manage their hourly, gig, and flex workers, raises a $41M Series B — Nowsta attracted venture capital for its approach to help employers better engage with their hourly workforces in this increasingly hybrid work environment.
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