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In an interview, Mark Zuckerberg discusses AR/VR and says that by 2030, he expects people with smart glasses to “teleport” to locations for in-person meetings — - Mark Zuckerberg said on Monday that by 2030, people could use advanced smart glasses to “teleport” to other people's homes …
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Ripple says its partnership with MoneyGram has ended; MoneyGram suspended its use of Ripple's platform in February amid SEC's lawsuit against Ripple — Distributed ledger company Ripple said Monday that its partnership with money transfer firm Moneygram is coming to an end.
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| Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: |
Apple releases iOS 14.4.1 and macOS 11.2.3 to address a WebKit flaw that could allow hackers to run arbitrary code on devices via malicious web content — Apple has released a set of updates it recommends all iPhone, iPad and Mac users download as soon as possible. No, — iOS 14.5 and
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| Vikas SN / The Economic Times: |
Facebook is testing a new opt-in feature for select users in India that will promote their Instagram Reels on Facebook — India is the first market where this feature is being piloted with select creators — Facebook is doubling down on short-form videos by launching the ability to create … | Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Interview with Zapier CEO on Sequoia and Steadfast Financial's January investment via secondary market, acquiring no-code education business Makerpad, and more — Zapier CEO Wade Foster avoids thinking about fundraising as much as possible. Profitable for years, his startup …
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Leaks suggest Microsoft will release Surface Laptop 4 in both AMD and Intel variants; AMD models will come with Ryzen 4000 and Intel models with 11th-gen chips — You can choose your CPU fighter — For a while, Microsoft's Surface Laptop 3 was one of the best laptops you could buy.| Chris O'Brien / Sifted: |
A leading French startup association has filed a privacy complaint against Apple alleging that iOS is collecting users' data without their permission — The allegations would seem to contradict not just Apple's image as a privacy-friendly company, but also the widespread praise iOS 14 has received| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
Secureworks: a second threat actor targeting SolarWinds flaws, by adding backdoors via Orion bugs, has characteristics that suggest the group is based in China — Back in December 2020, days after the massive SolarWinds supply chain attack came to light, Microsoft warned …
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How Facebook, Twitter, Google, and other tech giants let their work on domestic terrorism threats, like QAnon, lag behind foreign threats, like ISIS — On a Friday in August 2017 — years before a mob of armed and very-online extremists took over the U.S. Capitol — a young Black woman … | Dr. Ian Cutress / AnandTech: |
Intel, Microsoft, DARPA announce the DPRIVE program, which aims to make fully homomorphic encryption fast enough for practical use, via custom silicon on Azure — When considering data privacy and protections, there is no data more important than personal data, whether that's medical, financial, or even social.
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| Marty Swant / Forbes: |
Neeva, which is developing an ad-free search engine to be funded by subscriptions, raises $40M, valuing it at $300M and bringing the total raised to $77.5M — It wasn't long ago that Sridhar Ramaswamy was the king of Google advertising. — During his 15-year career at the search startup …
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| Packy McCormick / Not Boring: |
A deep dive into the history of Excel, how it inspired early no-code practitioners of programming, its impact on B2B SaaS market and lessons from its resilience — The Spreadsheet That Launched A Million Companies … This week's Not Boring is brought to you by ... Michael Bolton
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| Jeff John Roberts / Decrypt: |
PayPal says it acquired Tel Aviv-based Curv, which facilitates secure storage of cryptocurrency, source says for nearly $200M — PayPal announced on Monday it has acquired Curv, a Tel Aviv-based startup that uses a novel form of cryptography to safeguard customers' stashes of Bitcoin and other digital assets.
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How Line's Fact Checker program, which lets users voluntarily report suspicious messages, is tackling misinformation without sacrificing user privacy — The chat app's Fact Checker program is proving that private messaging platforms can do more to moderate harmful content.
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