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| Queenie Wong / CNET: |
Facebook debuts tools to promote COVID-19 vaccinations: helping US users find slots, partnering with health authorities on WhatsApp, labeling all vaccine posts — Facebook said Monday it's releasing new tools to make it easier for people to get vaccinated against COVID-19 …
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| Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: |
Internal docs: a Facebook study about US users' vaccine hesitancy finds “substantial harm” from content that doesn't violate the company's rules — Internal study finds a QAnon connection and that content that doesn't break the rules may be causing ‘substantial’ harm
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Kuo: Apple AirPods 3 will not enter mass production until Q3 2021; AirPods shipments will decline from 90M in 2020 to 78M in 2021 due to increasing competition — Despite a flurry of leaks surrounding next-gen AirPods in the last couple of weeks, Ming-Chi Kuo this morning said that new AirPods …
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| AnandTech: |
Review of the 3rd-gen EPYC Milan chips shows AMD continues to strengthen and maintain a very stark one-sided performance advantage against its main rival, Intel — The arrival of AMD's 3rd Generation EPYC processor family, using the new Zen 3 core, has been hotly anticipated.
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| Dylan Martin / CRN: |
AMD launches 3rd-gen EPYC Milan CPUs for enterprise and cloud computing workloads, a few weeks before Intel's expected debut of new Xeon Scalable chips — The new server processors come with big price-performance and total cost of ownership benefits over Intel's Xeon Scalable chips, according to AMD.
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| Financial Times: |
Stripe raises $600M from Sequoia Capital and others at a valuation of $95B, becoming the most valuable private company in Silicon Valley — Payments provider becomes Silicon Valley's most valuable private company — Stripe has become the most valuable private company Silicon Valley has produced …
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| Ben Klayman / Reuters: |
GM says that due to the global chip shortage it will build certain 2021 pickups without a fuel management module, hurting those trucks' fuel economy performance — DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Co said on Monday that due to the global semiconductor chip shortage the U.S. automaker … | New York Times: |
After US intel agencies, FBI, and DHS missed Chinese and Russian hacks, White House is looking to overhaul cyber defenses, including new industry partnerships — The intelligence agencies missed massive intrusions by Russia and China, forcing the administration and Congress to look for solutions …
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| Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: |
Tencent shares fell 4% on Monday and 4.4% on Friday, wiping out $62B, as sources say China's regulators will focus on Tencent following Ant Group crackdown — - Its fintech, payments business worth $120 billion: Bernstein — Shares fall a second day on concern over regulatory scrutiny| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Match Group invests in Garbo, a nonprofit that lets people run background checks with a first name and phone number, and will add the service to Tinder — Only a last name or phone number needed — Tinder and other Match Group-owned apps are going to let their users run background checks on possible dates.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Genesis raises $45M Series B led by Accel to expand its fintech-focused low-code tools to more verticals — Low-code and no-code tools have been a huge hit with enterprises keen to give their operations more of a tech boost, but often lack the resources to handle more complex integrations.| Emily Birnbaum / Protocol: |
Survey of 1,504 tech employees across the US: 78% say the tech industry is too powerful, 40% say it does more harm than good, 73% support more AI regulation — Big Tech executives do a lot of talking. On their platforms, in interviews and on Capitol Hill.| Steven Bertoni / Forbes: |
Low-code database service Airtable raises $270M Series E at a $5.77B valuation led by Greenoaks Capital, following $185M Series D at a $2.5B valuation last year — Howie Liu, the cofounder and CEO of cloud software start-up Airtable, has raised a $270 million Series E round at a valuation of $5.77 billion.
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| Benedict Evans: |
Analysis: Amazon's “Other” business, which is “primarily” ads, had $20B+ revenue in 2020, likely generating between $8.6B and $13.6B in operating income — There's an old and common narrative around Amazon that it doesn't make money, it sells below cost …
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