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Coinbase, FTX, eToro, and other apps surge in popularity after multiple crypto Super Bowl ads; Coinbase rose from 186th to 2nd on US App Store after QR code ad — Crypto apps shot up App Store download charts in the US on Monday morning, after a Super Bowl studded with digital assets advertising.
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Microsoft tells employees it will fully reopen its facilities in Washington state starting February 28, citing high rates of COVID-19 vaccination in King County — Updated below with information on Expedia reopening. — One of the longest “three weeks” in history will soon come to an end.| John D. McKinnon / Wall Street Journal: |
Texas sues Meta over its use of facial recognition from 2010 to late 2021 in the state; source: Texas seeks hundreds of billions of dollars in civil penalties — State says social-media giant violated privacy protections in lawsuit, seeks hundreds of billions of dollars in civil penalties
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A profile of Peter Thiel, who plans to leave Meta's board to focus on politics, funding far-right MAGA candidates who peddle conspiracies and deny Biden won — Peter Thiel, one of Donald J. Trump's biggest donors in 2016, has re-emerged as a prime financier of the Make America Great Again movement.
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Sources: Intel is close to a deal to buy Israeli chip company Tower Semiconductor for nearly $6B — U.S. semiconductor giant continues spending to expand its manufacturing operations — Intel Corp. is close to a deal to buy Israeli chip company Tower Semiconductor Ltd. for nearly $6 billion … | Billy Perrigo / TIME: |
Interviews and documents reveal traumatic working conditions at a Meta content moderation facility in Kenya, run by Sama, with pay as low as $1.50/hour — This story is based on interviews with more than a dozen current and former Sama employees, as well as hundreds of pages …
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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Samsung has adopted Google Messages as its default messaging app in the US, starting with the Galaxy S22 series — Messaging on Android has been a mess for years, but the tide is finally changing. With Google Messages bringing enhanced RCS messaging to virtually any Android user that wants it, there's finally a “default.”
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SEC fines crypto lending company BlockFi $100M, which will register its high-yield crypto savings product and offer it as a security as part of the settlement — The Securities and Exchange Commission announced Monday that it fined crypto lending firm BlockFi $100 million …
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Tweets: @erikvoorhees, @blockfi, @johnedeaton1, and @ryan_browne_
| Issie Lapowsky / Protocol: |
The White House says 10M+ households have enrolled in the Affordable Connectivity Program, funded by the bipartisan infrastructure bill, for broadband discounts — The White House is taking a victory lap over its efforts to close the digital divide, announcing Monday that 10 million households …
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| Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: |
A video and images show the ability to interact with Android apps on a Pixel running Android 13 from a Windows 11 PC and a Chromebook via a special web app — Google has been preparing a way to stream apps and notifications from your Pixel phone to your Chromebook or PC … | BBC: |
UK's HMRC tax authority seizes three NFTs in a £1.4M fraud case involving 250 alleged fake companies, the first UK law enforcement agency to seize an NFT — The UK tax authority has seized three Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT) as part of a probe into a suspected a VAT fraud involving 250 alleged fake companies.
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Tweets: @hendopolis, @paperghost, @richard_littler, @wublockchain, and @cryptinish
| David Gilbert / VICE: |
Christian fundraising site GiveSendGo is offline, possibly due to a hack, amid a leak of alleged personal info of ~92K donors to the Canadian “Freedom Convoy” — GiveSendGo, the Christian crowdfunding site that helped raise $8.7 million for the anti-vax “freedom convoy” in Canada, was hacked on Sunday night.
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