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“Cross Device” service apps in Android 13 Developer Preview show users will be able to interact with their Pixel's Android apps on Windows 11 PC or Chromebook — Google has been preparing a way to stream apps and notifications from your Pixel phone to your Chromebook or PC …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
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 …
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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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| New York Times: |
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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| 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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| Lucy Harley-Mckeown / The Block: |
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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| Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
New Zealand-based Soul Machines, which uses AI to create customer-facing avatars for businesses, raises a $70M Series B1 led by Vision Fund 2 — Soul Machines, a New Zealand-based company that uses CGI, AI and natural language processing to create lifelike digital people who can interact … | Financial Times: |
How SoftBank's costly bet on IoT at Arm backfired and distracted the company from the much bigger data center market — UK chip designer changes strategy ahead of planned float with renewed focus on lucrative server market — As Masayoshi Son tried to persuade investors of the wisdom …
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| 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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| The Block: |
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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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Didi plans to cut up to %20 jobs before its Hong Kong IPO; source: some units like Didi Finance and the autonomous driving will be less impacted — Chinese ridehailing giant Didi Global Inc. plans to reduce its overall headcount by as much as 20% as the troubled tech firm pushes ahead … Sponsor Posts
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