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Meta paid Republican consulting firm Targeted Victory for a campaign to paint TikTok as a danger to the US, including placing op-eds in regional news outlets — Facebook parent company Meta is paying one of the biggest Republican consulting firms in the country to orchestrate …
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| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Google adds more Markdown support to Docs on the web, letting users format documents using text shortcuts, off by default, as part of its autocorrect feature — ## An alternative to keyboard shortcuts — Google is adding Markdown support to Google Docs on the web, letting you format …
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Arm plans to transfer shares from its China joint venture, which it failed to control and audit for two years, to SoftBank, to speed up a New York IPO — Shifting stake in chip designer's joint venture to a SoftBank special purpose vehicle would ease New York flotation
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| Bloomberg: |
Sky Mavis COO Aleksander Larsen says the company is “fully committed to reimbursing” Axie Infinity players who lost funds and is “still working on a solution” — The company behind the popular Axie Infinity crypto game said it will reimburse online participants …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: China is planning expanded restrictions on its $30B live-streaming industry, including capping daily tipping and tightening content censorship — Regulators are planning rules limiting virtual tipping of live-streaming hosts and time spent by young people on the apps
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Benzinga and TechSpot
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| Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: |
Nova Labs, formerly Helium, a network of 500K+ cryptocurrency-mining hotspots offering p2p networking, confirms it raised a $200M Series D at a $1.2B valuation — Decentralized wireless communication startup Helium Inc. today announced a change of name to Nova Labs Inc. and confirmed …
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| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Google adds a “booking page” to Calendar, letting users present available periods for a meeting — Calendar can now generate a webpage of available time slots for a user to pick from. — Google Calendar's latest update promises to take a lot of the back-and-forth out of booking appointments.| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
WhatsApp says its users send an average of 7B voice messages daily and announces features, including a waveform visualization and out of chat playback — Like most smartphone users in India, I use WhatsApp a lot. But I have never sent anyone a voice message — ever. Turns out, others do.
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WhatsApp.com, CNET, The Verge, Tech Advisor, Thurrott, and Engadget
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| New York Times: |
Sources detail internal confusion from Meta moderators and employees over how to enforce content rules during Russia's invasion of Ukraine — The rules over what war content is permitted on Facebook and Instagram keep changing, causing internal confusion. — Meta, which owns Facebook …
Tweets: @rmac18, @rmac18, @satariano, @shiraovide, @rmac18, @jhdearen, and @rmac18
| Gilad Edelman / Wired: |
A look at the ECASH Act, which would direct the US Treasury to pilot digital dollars that would be stored on hardware and not on a distributed blockchain ledger — If you want the privacy of paper money, you need something that leaves no paper trail. — When you hear the phrase “digital cash,” what comes to mind?
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Congressman Stephen Lynch, The Verge, and TechRadar
Tweets: @jerrybrito, @repstephenlynch, @raulacarrillo, @giladedelman, @repstephenlynch, and @repstephenlynch
| Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: |
The UK's FCA extends a key deadline, set for Thursday, for approving crypto companies; the FCA has so far approved 33 companies — The U.K.'s financial regulator is extending a Thursday deadline for its approval of crypto operations, giving a dozen firms more time to get their applications or affairs in order.
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Bloomberg, CNBC, Finextra, Crypto Daily, CoinDesk, CoinGape, CoinDesk, and The Times
Tweets: @emilyjnicolle, @emilyjnicolle, @emilyjnicolle, and @emilyjnicolle
| James Cridland / Podnews: |
A leaked YouTube presentation for podcast publishers shows it is working on a podcasts homepage with direct RSS feed ingestion, monetization features, and more — - Exclusive: YouTube is planning tighter integration, monetisation and analytics for podcasts
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9to5Google and TechRadar
Tweets: @chrisphin, @davidtvrdon, @misener, @stephenrobles, and @evoterra
| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Google will use its ML learning model MUM to offer better results for those searching in a crisis, including those of a personal nature, directing them to help — Directing more searches to help and support — In a personal crisis, many people turn to an impersonal source of support: Google.
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Engadget, Protocol, TechCrunch, and The Keyword
| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Waymo plans to offer fully autonomous rides in San Francisco, without a human safety driver, as part of a growing test, and expands in Arizona — The company is also expanding its service area in Phoenix — Waymo plans to start offering rides in its fully autonomous vehicles …
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Waypoint, TechCrunch, 9to5Google, Reuters, Forbes, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, and The Last Driver License Holder
Tweets: @dmitri_dolgov and @waymo
| Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: |
DeepMind says it made changes to its policies after a female former staff member accused the Google-owned company of mishandling sexual misconduct allegations — Former employee at artificial intelligence group raises concerns about grievance procedure following assault and harassment by senior researcher
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Engadget, City A.M., Newslit Daily, and ConcernedDeepMinder
Tweets: @madhumita29, @madhumita29, @georginaclee, @madhumita29, @mikarv, @alphabetworkers, @orientaljanedoe, and @sam_l_shead
| Malique Morris / The Information: |
Sources: Stripe-backed one-click checkout service Fast generated just ~$600K in 2021 revenue; source says Fast tried raising a $100M Series C in late 2021 — Several startups have been racing to sell software known as one-click checkout to retailers such as The Honest Company and Forever 21 …
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TechCrunch. Tweets: @carnage4life, @amir, @lauramandaro, @nikmilanovic, @carnage4life, @bobbyallyn, and @buccocapital
| Dade Hayes / Deadline: |
As Netflix cracks down on password sharing, a survey of 4,400 US consumers shows 33% of subscribers share their password — About one-third of U.S. subscribers to Netflix share their login credentials with others, according to new data from Leichtman Research Group.
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Leichtman Research Group, TIME, Light Reading, BGR, PCMag, and iMore
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A brief overview of Y Combinator's Demo Day for the Winter 2022 batch, with 414 companies in total and the first batch to receive YC's new standard deal — The TechCrunch team spent today covering the first day of Y Combinator's Winter 2022 Demo Day, which featured half of the 394 companies that plan to virtually present.| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Meta updates Messenger with Slack-like shortcuts, /silent to reply without a notification and @everyone to notify all, and plans to add more, like /pay and /gif — There's also one that pings everyone, so please use it responsibly — Meta, the parent company of Facebook …
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Messenger News, Silicon Republic, MacRumors, TechRadar, Gizchina, BGR India, PhoneArena, Android Police, Pocket-lint, and iMore
| Kate Kaye / Protocol: |
Q&A with 2021 Turing Award winner Jack Dongarra, an expert in linear algebra algorithms at the University of Tennessee, on hyperscale cloud computing and more — Even Jack Dongarra has a hard time wrapping his head around the number used to represent “exascale” computing: 1018.| Kris Holt / Engadget: |
FedEx partners with Elroy Air to trial the Chaparral C1 autonomous drone, which can carry up to 500 pounds of packages, in Texas next year — FedEx plans to test a different method of moving goods between depots starting next year, which could speed up the delivery process.
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PCMag, TechSpot, Forbes, Barron's Online, and Mashable
| Reuters: |
Sources: the DOJ is investigating whether Google bundling Maps with its other software illegally stifles competition — The U.S. Justice Department has breathed new life into an investigation of Google Maps to determine if bundling the service together with other Google software illegally …
Tweets: @leah_nylen
| Jim Waterson / The Guardian: |
Ofcom: around 16% of UK three and four-year-olds view TikTok content, rising to around 33% of children aged five to seven — Three-year-olds are on the video-sharing platform and it may be affecting their attention span — British toddlers are increasingly likely to be users of TikTok … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Spotify expands Blend, which lets two friends merge their tastes in a playlist, to up to 10 users and selected artists, including BTS and Charli XCX — Spotify's popular playlist creation tool, Blend, is getting its biggest update since its offiical launch last year.| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
Scammers are advertising access to Facebook's Media Partner Portal, used by media and PR agencies to resolve issues, to allegedly get users verified — Alleged “ghost agencies” advertise their privileged access to the “Facebook Media Partner Portal” for sale to scammers. — Joseph Cox| Giles Turner / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Yandex, which operates a search engine, ride-hailing services, and more, could run out of semiconductors for servers in 12-18 months due to sanctions — Russia's omnipresent tech company, which created products ranging from the country's dominant search engine to its biggest ride-hail service …
Tweets: @tonyhalpin
| Erron Kelly / VentureBeat: |
Anzu, which offers in-game ad services, raises $20M led by NBCUniversal and HTC, bringing its total funding to $37M — It's been a bit of a banger month for Anzu.io, the world's most advanced in-game advertising platform. The very end of February had Anzu announcing a content focused partnership with NBCUniversal.| Michail / GSMArena.com: |
Counterpoint: Motorola was the third largest smartphone OEM in the US in 2021, with a 10% market share, up 131% YoY, filling the void left by LG's exit — LG officially shut down its mobile division last April which left a sizeable hole in the US smartphone market and based …
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Ars Technica, Counterpoint Research, and ZDNet
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