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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft rolls out the Amazon Appstore Preview, offering over 1,000 Android apps, in the Microsoft Store, alongside other tweaks to Windows 11 — Last October, Microsoft began testing Android apps on Windows 11 PCs in partnership with Amazon and its app store.
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| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Facebook rebrands News Feed to just Feed after more than 15 years — The ‘News Feed’ is now just the ‘Feed’ — Meta is changing the name of Facebook's News Feed, the primary part of the service that users scroll through to see what their friends and family have shared.
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| Monica Chin / The Verge: |
Google announces early access to Chrome OS Flex, a version of Chrome OS for businesses and schools that is designed to run on old PCs and Macs — It's made for schools and businesses — Google has announced early access to a new version of Chrome OS called Chrome OS Flex.
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| Maxwell Strachan / VICE: |
A look at the self-righteous anger in the Web3 community over the identification of the founders of the Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT collection — The self-righteous anger over the identification of the founders of a popular NFT club says a lot about the web3 battles to come in the years ahead.
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| Bloomberg: |
India bans 54 more apps it says are of Chinese origin, including Sea's lucrative Free Fire game, leading the company to a loss of $16B+ in market value — Sea Ltd. lost more than $16 billion of value in its biggest daily market drop after India abruptly banned its most popular mobile gaming title.
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| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Intel agrees to acquire Israeli chip company Tower Semiconductor for around $5.4B, or $53 per share; the deal is expected to close in 12 months — Intel Corp. agreed to acquire Tower Semiconductor Ltd. for about $5.4 billion, part of Chief Executive Officer Pat Gelsinger's push into the outsourced chip-manufacturing business.
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Sources: TSMC's first US chip plant is three to six months behind schedule due to labor shortages and difficulty obtaining licenses — Taiwan chip titan faces fight for workers as Intel also builds in Arizona — TSMC's construction delay in Arizona does not necessarily mean the schedule …
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Computerworld, Tom's Hardware, AppleInsider, iThinkDifferent, iPhone in Canada Blog, 9to5Mac, and iMore. Tweets: @mikepeeljourno
| Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: |
Instagram will let users send a private like in response to a Story, expanding on DMs or emoji reactions — Meta's Instagram is introducing a new way for people to interact with Stories. Starting today, you can send a private like when someone shares an image or video that catches your eye.
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| Mumbi Gitau / Bloomberg: |
After an animal rights group described Neuralink's tests as “invasive and deadly” for 23 monkeys, Neuralink defends testing on animals — Neuralink, the brain-computer interface company founded by Elon Musk, pushed back against criticism of its treatment of monkeys in research …
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Neuralink, New York Post, The Verge, BBC, Input, Fortune, Gizmodo, Futurism, Futurism, Boing Boing, The Daily Beast, Metro.co.uk, The Independent, and Observer
| Queenie Wong / CNET: |
Nextdoor unveils a redesign to improve search and navigation, expand profile pages, and connect users with neighbors; Nextdoor says it has ~33M weekly users — Nextdoor, a social media platform for neighborhoods, hasn't changed much over the past few years but that could start to shift.| Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: |
Android 13 Developer Preview shows two “Cross Device” service apps that will let users interact with Pixel's Android apps on a 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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Computerworld, Ars Technica, Android Police, Android Authority, XDA Developers, CNET, HotHardware.com News, Tom's Guide, Pocketnow, BGR, Android Headlines, WinBuzzer, Android Central, Phandroid, Pocket-lint, Wccftech, PhoneArena, TechRadar, Thurrott, Gizchina, TechSpot, Neowin, MSPoweruser, BGR India, The Verge, Liliputing, MobileSyrup, and PCWorld
Tweets: @dsccross, @kdrag0n, @dsccross, and @mishaalrahman
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: the SEC is probing if Binance properly disclosed to consumers the relationship between its US arm and two market makers with ties to Binance's founder — Regulator is interested in trading firms with links to Binance's founder, people familiar with the probe say| Jeff John Roberts / Decrypt: |
Coinbase partners with Remitly on a pilot to let people in Mexico receive and convert crypto transfers into pesos at 37K+ stores, for free until April — Coinbase announced a pilot program on Tuesday that will let Mexicans receive crypto transfers and then convert the balance into pesos …
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Bloomberg, VentureBeat, Reuters, and The Coinbase Blog
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Court documents: Meta agrees to pay $90M in damages to settle a cookie privacy lawsuit filed in 2012, subject to court approval — Meta, the parent company of Facebook, agreed to pay $90 million to settle a long-running data privacy lawsuit over its use of cookies in 2010-11 to track users' internet use even after they had logged off.
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Reuters, Protocol, The Verge, The Hill, Engadget, Business Wire, ZDNet, and New York Post
| Axios: |
WSC Sports, whose AI software cuts video clips of live sports and distributes them in real-time, raises a $100M Series D; clients include Tencent, NBA, and ESPN — WSC Sports, a B2B sports video company, has raised $100 million in a series D funding round, led by ION Crossover Partners, to expand into new verticals and countries.| 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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Slashdot. Tweets: @anshelsag, @mikethebbop, @carnage4life, @carnage4life, @carnage4life, @muradahmed, and @annasophiegross
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google rolls out Docs updates, including a pageless format announced in May 2021, AI-powered summaries, and Maps embedded previews — One of the first major announcements at I/O 2021 was Google's initiative to offer a more integrated and interactive Workspace experience.
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