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| Daniel Van Boom / CNET: |
Australia passes news bargaining code that will require digital platforms like Google and Facebook to pay local media outlets and publishers for their content — Australia on Wednesday passed a new media law that had generated noisy pushback from internet giants Google and Facebook …
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| Nick Clegg / About Facebook: |
Facebook defends its stance in Australia, says it invested $600M since 2018 to support the news industry and plans at least $1B more over the next three years — Last week, in a move that will have felt abrupt and dramatic to many, Facebook announced it was stopping the sharing of news on its service in Australia.
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Tech retailer Fry's Electronics announces it will cease operations effective immediately, blames industry changes and the pandemic for the shutdown — Your best buys are no longer at Fry's, guaranteed — Fry's Electronics, one of the last big brick-and-mortar electronics store chains …
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KRON4, Ars Technica, Mercury News, The Register, VentureBeat, 9to5Mac, Wired, PCWorld, Tom's Hardware, GeekWire, SFGATE, Fast Company, New York Times, New York Times, Newsweek, Mercury News, International Business Times, MacDailyNews, CNET, TechSpot, Looper, East Bay Times, GameSpot, Silicon Valley Business …, NBC New York, Game Rant, AppleInsider, USA Today, SlashGear, Gizmodo, Engadget, Insider, and Silicon Florist
| Maggie Fitzgerald / CNBC: |
GameStop shares closed up nearly 104% on Wednesday, halting twice for volatility; GameStop said on Tuesday its CFO will resign; stock up 80%+ after hours — - GameStop announced Tuesday that its chief financial officer Jim Bell will resign on March 26. — Sources familiar …
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The Verge, Insider, Bloomberg, Gizmodo, The Verge, MarketWatch, IGN, Barron's Online, RT, InvestorPlace, Fox Business, The Motley Fool, New York Post, Mashable, Kotaku, Game Rant, and PC Gamer
Tweets: @jon_bois, @jamestitcomb, @linuswilson, and @levynews
| Scott Chipolina / Decrypt: |
Business intelligence firm MicroStrategy buys 19,452 Bitcoin, worth $1.0261B, and now holds ~90K Bitcoin, worth ~$4.5B at current prices — Business intelligence firm MicroStrategy has purchased 19,452 Bitcoin, worth $1.026 billion, at an average price of $52,765.
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MicroStrategy, CoinDesk, Bitcoin Magazine, BTC Times, TechSpot, Forbes, Ethereum World News, CryptoGlobe, equalocean.com, Cointelegraph, and CryptoSlate
Tweets: @friarhass and @asegpi
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
YouTube to roll out a “supervised” account option in beta in the coming months in more than 80 countries, aimed at kids that are too old for YouTube Kids — YouTube is launching a PG version of the internet's biggest video service. — A new “supervised” YouTube account option …
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YouTube Official Blog, Bloomberg, Engadget, Agence France-Presse, phonearena.com, Social Media Today, Deadline, Android Central, 9to5Google, and CNET
Tweets: @youtube, @youtubecreators, and @xpangler
| Cherlynn Low / Engadget: |
Microsoft announces industry cloud packages for financial services, available in March, and for manufacturing and nonprofits, available in June — new Industry Cloud service with a suite of tools for the healthcare sector last year and unveiling a Retail-specific version in January, Microsoft is ready to introduce more areas of focus.| Alex Leary / Wall Street Journal: |
Biden signs executive order mandating a 100-day review of supply chains, including for semiconductors used in products from cars to phones and rare-earth metals — The president signed an executive order with the aim of eventually increasing domestic production of critical materials
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Tweets: @nikkeiasia, @paragkhanna, and @gwbstr
| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Amazon says its Luna cloud gaming service is available to try for free in the US on select Fire TV devices, after launching as invite-only last year — And anyone in the US can also buy a Luna Controller — Amazon's cloud-gaming service, Luna, is now available to try for free in the US …
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Amazon Luna, Thurrott, AFTVnews, Pocket-lint, TechRadar, KnowTechie, Android Central, 9to5Google, Engadget, MUO, and TalkAndroid.com
| Stephanie Condon / ZDNet: |
Nvidia beats with Q4 revenue of $5B vs. $4.8B expected, up 61% YoY, data center revenue of $1.9B, up 97% YoY, and gaming revenue of $2.5B, up 67% YoY — The GPU maker beat Q4 market expectations with record sales in its two key areas of business. — Nvidia on Wednesday published fourth …
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| ProPublica: |
Emails show how Facebook responded to requests by Turkey to censor content during the authoritarian government's 2018 military offensive against Kurds — Amid a 2018 Turkish military campaign, Facebook ultimately sided with Turkey's demand to block the page of a mostly Kurdish militia.
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Engadget. Tweets: @propublica, @dicktofel, @posmarketer, @mattdrange, @jason_kint, @puiwingtam, @jackgillum, @gnuseibeh, @natemcdermott, @justinelliott, @_____mjb, @veryimportant, and @cyberrights
| Bloomberg: |
FCC reveals that for its 5G licenses auction, Verizon spent the most of any carrier with $45.5B, followed by AT&T with $23.4B, and T-Mobile with $9.3B — - AT&T is second at $23 billion in bids, followed by T-Mobile — FCC releases results of so-called C-band airwaves sale
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The Verge, Light Reading, PCMag, Engadget, CNET, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, Android Central, Federal Communications Commission, CNBC, MarketWatch, Executive Gov, Phone Scoop, and Slashdot
Tweets: @dcseifert, @notdan, and @backlon
| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
iRobot, which makes Roomba vacuums, says a software update to fix issues with i7 and s9 models will take several weeks, after users reported them acting “drunk” — Users have reported their robotic helpers acting ‘drunk’ — iRobot, maker of the robotic Roomba vacuums …
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USA Today and Android Police
Tweets: @robaeprice, @internetofshit, @cwarzel, and @wrrrdnrrrdgrrrl
| Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios: |
Source: Dispo, a retro photo sharing app co-founded by YouTube star David Dobrik, raises $20M Series A led by Spark Capital at a $200M valuation — Dispo, a retro photo-sharing app co-founded by YouTube star David Dobrik, recently raised $20 million in Series A funding led by Spark Capital …
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The Information, Protocol, Insider, and dot.LA
Tweets: @martinsfp, @willoremus, @caseynewton, @parkerortolani, and @kateclarktweets
| Taylor Lyles / The Verge: |
HP says it is acquiring gaming peripheral company HyperX for $425M, giving the company a major foothold in the gaming accessory market — The acquisition means HP owns the HyperX brand — HP has announced that it is acquiring gaming peripheral company HyperX for $425 million.
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GlobeNewswire, eWeek, Forbes, PC Gamer, SlashGear, Game Rant, 9to5Toys, GameSpot, Neowin, BetaNews, PCMag, Liliputing, Tom's Hardware, MUO, XDA Developers, PCWorld, Gizmodo, AnandTech, ZDNet, Pocketnow, Laptop Mag, Engadget, KnowTechie, GamesIndustry.biz, TechRadar, Polygon, and MSPoweruser
Tweets: @emanuelmaiberg, @whatthebit, @amandafarough, @starfire2258, @trihex, and @kylebrussell
| Michael McSweeney / The Block: |
Optimism, which plans to help scale the Ethereum blockchain with a Layer 2 protocol, raises $25M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz — Optimism, a startup focused on the scalability of the Ethereum blockchain network, has raised a $25 million Series A funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz.
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Tweets: @optimismpbc, @ariannasimpson, @optimismpbc, and @a16z
| Jeff Cox / CNBC: |
US Federal Reserve's systems that let banks send money back and forth went down for several hours, impacting its automated clearinghouse system and more — Fed operational error brings down payment system — The Federal Reserve's system that allows financial institutions to send money …
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Tweets: @emmakinery, @macaesbruno, @ivanthek, @wongmjane, @iancrossland, @1funnymike, @benpopper, and @northmantrader
| Reuters: |
Thomson Reuters says it will spend $500M-$600M over two years to develop its AI and ML tools as it transitions to a “content-driven technology company” — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Thomson Reuters Corp will streamline technology, close offices and rely more on machines to prepare … | Yimou Lee / Reuters: |
Taiwanese chipmakers are buying water by the truckload for some of their foundries in drought-hit areas as the island widens restrictions on water supply — TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan chipmakers are buying water by the truckload for some of their foundries as the island widens restrictions …
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phonearena.com, ExtremeTech, The Register, Tom's Hardware, AppleInsider, PCMag, and Silicon Republic
| Alfred Ng / The Markup: |
Auditing of algorithms can help address bias but there needs to be industry standards/regulations to hold the auditors or the companies that use them to account — For more than a decade, journalists and researchers have been writing about the dangers of relying on algorithms to make weighty decisions …
Tweets: @alfredwkng, @mannymoss, @blackamazon, @aselbst, and @fabiochiusi
| Tim Anderson / The Register: |
Google says it has been sponsoring two full-time Linux developers at the Linux Foundation for years to improve security and hopes other companies will follow — Plus: Why the Chocolate Factory only uses code it builds from source — Interview Worried about the security of Linux and open-source code …
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ZDNet, XDA Developers, Dark Reading, Insider, BetaNews, VentureBeat, BleepingComputer, TechRadar, Phoronix, and Slashdot. Tweets: @nathanchance
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google Cloud unveils Autopilot, an operating mode for its Kubernetes Engine that turns over management of its clusters to Google's engineers and automated tools — Google Cloud today announced a new operating mode for its Kubernetes Engine (GKE) that turns over the management …
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Google Cloud Blog, 9to5Google, ZDNet, 9to5Google, SiliconANGLE, XDA Developers, and SiliconANGLE
Tweets: @googlecloudtech and @kelseyhightower
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Hubilo, which helps businesses host virtual and hybrid events with real-time analytics, raises $23.5M Series A led by Lightspeed Venture Partners — Hubilo, a platform that helps businesses of all sizes host virtual and hybrid events and gain access to real-time data and analytics …
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FinSMEs and The Economic Times
| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
TikTok says it removed 300K+ videos in the US for election misinformation in H2 2020, and 441K videos from its For You recommendation page for misinformation — And another 400,000 were removed from the For You page — TikTok removed over 340,000 videos in the US for breaking …
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TikTok, Insider, TikTok, Mashable, Tubefilter, MUO, Input, The Wrap, and Engadget. Tweets: @mattnavarra
| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Amazon Echo Show 10 review: adjustable screen angle, good sound quality, silent motorized movement, but photo/video options heavily reliant on Amazon services — Since its inception in 2015, Amazon's Alexa virtual assistant has always been a disembodied digital form trapped in a box of electronics.
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Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, CNET, techadvisor.co.uk, and Engadget
Tweets: @nicnguyen and @dcseifert
| New York Times: |
Myanmar's draconian draft cybersecurity law follows a yearslong effort to build out Myanmar's surveillance capabilities, following cues from China — As the military seized power again, the generals moved quickly to take the country offline, criminalize online dissent and block social media.Sponsor Posts
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