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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Apple MacBook Pro with M1 review: great performance, display, and battery life but only two USB ports, RAM limited to 16GB, and a miserable webcam — Apple's M1 processor has many upsides, with few downsides — The easiest, best way to think about the new entry-level MacBook Pro is that it is a MacBook Air with a fan.
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| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
Apple MacBook Air with M1 review: incredibly fast performance with no fan noise, decent gaming performance, and a great keyboard and trackpad — Apple's new MacBook Air is stunningly fast. It's raring to go the instant you open its lid. Want to browse the web?
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Apple Mac mini with M1 review: existing apps run well and the price is appealing, but RAM, limited to 16GB, can't be upgraded and doesn't support external GPUs — Apple's Arm chip punches above its weight class — The Mac mini has always been Apple's most flexible desktop computer.
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| Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: |
Microsoft announces Pluton, its new project with AMD, Intel, and Qualcomm, to create x86 and ARM CPUs that integrate a dedicated security component — Microsoft teamed up with AMD, Intel and Qualcomm to create a T2-like co-processor — The next Windows PC you buy could come …
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| CNBC: |
Amazon launches Amazon Pharmacy, letting customers in the US order prescription medications for home delivery, including free delivery for Prime members — - Amazon is making its biggest move yet into the pharmacy space. — Amazon Pharmacy is designed to make it easy and convenient to order prescription medicines online.
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| David Kirton / Reuters: |
Huawei is selling its Honor smartphone unit to a consortium of over 30 agents and dealers for an undisclosed sum; buyers are creating a new company for purchase — Huawei Technologies Co Ltd is selling its budget brand smartphone unit Honor to a consortium of over 30 agents and dealers …
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| Callum Booth / The Next Web: |
Security researcher demonstrates how Apple's apps on macOS Big Sur bypass firewalls and VPNs, an issue first brought to light in October — DON'T WORRY THOUGH, APPLE REALLY, REALLY, REALLY CARES ABOUT YOUR PRIVACY — For all of Apple's talk of being privacy-first, often its marketing speak …
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| BuzzFeed News: |
Internal Facebook data shows that labels on Trump's election misinformation posts only decreased shares by ~8%, and failed to slow their spread across the site — Internal data shows that labels on President Trump's posts decrease reshares by about 8%. They still account for some of the most engaging posts on the platform.
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| Joseph Menn / Reuters: |
Twitter names Peiter “Mudge” Zatko, veteran of Stripe, Google, and DARPA, to the new position of head of security — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Social media giant Twitter TWTR.N Inc, under increased threat of regulation and plagued by serious security breaches …
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
OpenPhone, which offers businesses a single phone number that entire teams can access through its iOS, Android apps, raises $14M Series A led by Craft Ventures — OpenPhone, a company setting out to replace “antiquated” business phone systems, has raised $14 million in a series A round of funding led by David Sacks' Craft Ventures.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
TikTok expands Family Pairing parental controls for kids age 13 or older to include commenting, account privacy, and the ability to access the search bar — TikTok today announced it's expanding its parental control feature set known as Family Pairing to give parents additional tools … | Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic: |
Barack Obama says today's online information ecosystem, which boosts conspiracy theories like QAnon, is “the single biggest threat to our democracy” — Barack Obama was describing to me the manner in which the Mongol emperor and war-crimes innovator Genghis Khan would besiege a town.
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| Clio Chang / Columbia Journalism Review: |
Profile of Substack, whose founders insist it is a platform, not a media company, and say there is less need for moderation as readers opt in to newsletters — Did a newsletter company create a more equitable media system—or replicate the flaws of the old one?
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| CBS News: |
Livestream of testimonies of Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey before the Senate Judiciary Committee on their companies' actions around the 2020 election — The Senate Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing Tuesday to question Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey …
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| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Airbnb releases public IPO filing, seeks Nasdaq listing under ticker ABNB, reports $219M in net income on revenues of $1.3B last quarter, down nearly 19% YoY — - Airbnb has released its prospectus to debut on public markets. — Brian Chesky, CEO of Airbnb
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| Annie Musgrove / Tech.eu: |
London-based Paddle, which developing a service to help companies manage their revenue infrastructure, raises $68M Series C, bringing its total raised to $93M — Paddle, the London-based company behind a revenue platform for B2B SaaS companies, has raised $68 million (£52 million) in Series C funding.
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| Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat: |
Cato Networks, a cloud-based security service to protect remote workforces, raises $130M Series E at a $1B+ valuation, bringing its total raised to $332M — The global pandemic has accelerated the digital transformation of a wide range of sectors. While consumers and businesses continue …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Adobe releases Arm versions of Photoshop for Windows and macOS in beta, which users can run natively on Surface Pro X or Apple M1 Macs — Just in time for Apple's new M1-powered Macs — Adobe is releasing Arm versions of Photoshop for Windows and macOS today.
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| CNBC: |
Walmart says its US e-commerce sales grew 79% YoY in Q3 — - Walmart's U.S. e-commerce sales soared by 79% in the third quarter, as customers continued to shop online during the coronavirus pandemic. — Instead of browsing store aisles, more customers are shipping purchases to their homes … | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
EdgeQ, which is developing software-programmable 5G and AI chips for both devices and edge infrastructure, comes out of stealth with $51M in funding — EdgeQ, a startup developing 5G systems-on-chip, today emerged from stealth with $51 million in funding. The 90-employee company …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Zoom unveils At-Risk Meeting Notifier, a feature that scans the net for posted Zoom meeting links and alerts meeting organizers to potential Zoombombing attacks — The new “At-Risk Meeting Notifier” Zoom feature scans the internet and alerts conference organizers when a link to their Zoom meeting has been posted online.| Matt Burns / TechCrunch: |
Levels raises $12M seed round led by a16z to help it bring to market its biowearable metabolic sensor that features continuous glucose monitoring — Levels today is announcing a large seed round to help bring its biowearable metabolic sensor to market. The innovative platform pairs … | Bijan Stephen / The Verge: |
Twitch is testing “multiplayer ads” that are chosen by the streamer and seen by everyone in the audience; creators can run polls after, earning them Bits — The ads will be chosen by the streamer, and everyone in the audience will see the same thing
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| Liza Lin / Wall Street Journal: |
Chinese semiconductor companies have raised an estimated $38B so far in 2020, up 100%+ from 2019, through public offerings, private placements, and asset sales — Nation's leadership pours money into grooming semiconductor talent and building new facilities, citing need for self-sufficiency
Tweets: @mattschrader_dc and @jchengwsj
| Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
Autodesk buys Spacemaker, which uses AI to help architects, urban planners, and developers make design decisions, for $240M in a mostly all-cash deal — Autodesk, the U.S. publicly listed software and services company that targets engineering and design industries, has acquired Norway's Spacemaker …
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| Financial Times: |
Max Schrems' campaign group noyb files complaints with German and Spanish regulators, claiming Apple breaks EU law by letting advertisers track users via IDFA — Austrian activist files complaints with German and Spanish data protection authorities — Apple is breaking EU law …
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