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Sources: Nvidia is planning to abandon its Arm acquisition after making little to no progress with regulators; source says SoftBank is preparing an Arm IPO — Nvidia Corp. is quietly preparing to abandon its purchase of Arm Ltd. from SoftBank Group Corp. after making little to no progress …
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Google shutters FLoC, its controversial ad tech for replacing third-party cookies, and proposes Topics, which categorizes the sites users visit into 300+ topics — FLoC (Federated Learning of Cohorts), Google's controversial project for replacing cookies for interest-based advertising …
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| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Microsoft will keep Activision Blizzard agreements for three new Call of Duty games on PlayStation in the next two years, but long-term plans are hazy — Activision Blizzard Inc., which is being bought by Microsoft Corp., will release at least the next three games in its hit Call …
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Microsoft Q2: revenue of $51.7B, up 20% YoY, net income of $18.8B, up 21% YoY, Windows OEM revenue up 25%, LinkedIn revenue up 37%, and Surface revenue up 8% — Earnings Release FY22 Q2 - REDMOND, Wash. — January 25, 2022 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the following results …
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| Aaron Tilley / Wall Street Journal: |
Microsoft's cloud revenue grew 32% YoY to $22.1B in Q2, with Intelligent Cloud revenue of $18.3B, up 26% YoY, and Azure and other cloud service revenue up 46% — The software giant's cloud business has benefited as the pandemic has forced people to work remotely
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In a YouTube creator update, Susan Wojcicki defends hiding dislikes, discusses adding NFT support, says creators making over $10K/year jumped 40% YoY, and more — YouTube is touting the explosive popularity of its TikTok-style short-form Shorts video feature — and says it's going to test …
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The US Commerce Department says the global chip shortage will stretch into at least H2 2022, based on information from 150+ companies in the chip supply chain — The Biden administration has concluded that a global semiconductor shortage will persist until at least the second half of this year …
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| Aaron Gordon / VICE: |
Google's three years of security updates for its older phones like 2018's Pixel 3 is planned obsolescence; new Pixels get 5 years of support vs. iPhones' ~6 — Three years ago, my Pixel 3 was the latest and greatest Google phone. Now, the company has stopped providing software updates, making it a security risk to use.
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Sources: Meta-backed Diem Association is talking to investment bankers about selling its IP to return capital to investors and giving its engineers a new home — The controversial cryptocurrency project that Mark Zuckerberg once defended in front of Congress is unraveling after regulatory pressure.
Tweets: @jack, @mshannahmurphy, @mdudas, @ivanthek, @gladstein, @amerliberal, and @caseynewton
| Eliza Gkritsi / CoinDesk: |
OpenSea launches a new listing manager to mitigate a UI issue that let attackers flip NFTs at below-market rates, which it says was “not an exploit or a bug” — Yesterday, three attackers bought $1 million worth of NFTs for a fraction of their market value.| Cherlynn Low / Engadget: |
Samsung announces its Galaxy Unpacked “The Epic Standard” event will be held virtually on February 9 at 7am PT, where it's expected to unveil the Galaxy S22 — After its president TM Roh teased “the most noteworthy S series device we've ever created”, Samsung is announcing today when we can learn more.| Matt Wille / Input: |
Twitter code shows it is developing Flock, which lets users create tweets for a curated list of up to 150 people, after teasing the feature in July 2021 — Twitter is developing a feature called Flock that will allow users to curate a list of people to send certain tweets out to, reminiscent of Instagram's Close Friends feature.
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| Sapna Maheshwari / New York Times: |
The FTC and Fashion Nova reach a $4.2M settlement over allegations that the fast-fashion clothing site suppressed product reviews of less than four stars — Fashion Nova held lower-starred reviews for approval before they could be posted, the F.T.C. said in a complaint.
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| Brett Howse / AnandTech: |
Review of Intel's 12th Gen Alder Lake-H Core i9-12900HK, tested in a 17-inch MSI Raider GE76 laptop: excellent outright performance — At CES this year, Intel officially announced its expanded Alder Lake processor lineup, including the performance-laptop focused H-Series chips, which traditionally fit in the 45-Watt range.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Dremio, whose business tools streamline and curate data, raises a $160M Series E led by Adams Street Partners, after a $135M Series D in January 2021 — Data lake platform Dremio today announced that it has raised a $160 million Series E funding round led by Adams Street Partners.| David Lumb / CNET: |
Verizon says a third of its wireless customers now use 5G phones, following aggressive deals and discounts to push new devices — Verizon revealed during its fourth-quarter earnings call Tuesday that one in three of its wireless customers now uses a 5G phone as its 5G network continues to expand.| Anthony Capaccio / Bloomberg: |
Internal Pentagon doc: Microsoft's HoloLens-based Army goggles, part of a program started in 2018 now worth $22B, are behind schedule and not yet combat ready — Microsoft Corp.'s new multifunction goggle system for the U.S. Army shows promise, but the $22 billion program isn't yet ready …
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