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Sources: faster iPad Pros may come as early as April with better cameras; Apple aims to use MiniLED on at least the 12.9" model and has tested using Thunderbolt — - Company plans updated iPad Pro line with faster processor — Apple's iPad sales have jumped in work-from-home environment
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| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Kuo: MiniLED displays will be used in the MacBook Air by 2022 and the 2022 iPad Air will feature an OLED display — Rumors have been suggesting that Apple will soon release a new iPad Pro with a Mini-LED display, but the company also plans to bring this technology to other devices in the future.| Eddie Makuch / GameSpot: |
Sony unveils PS5 VR controllers with haptic feedback, adaptive triggers, and finger touch detection — Sony has begun to share more details on its vision for next-gen virtual reality, today announcing and showing off the new controllers that will come with PSVR 2.0 for PS5.
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| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
Facebook, which supported security keys on desktop since 2017, expands support to iOS and Android users — Facebook has supported security keys on desktop since 2017 and will now enable iOS and Android users to log in to their account via the physical key.
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YouTube is rolling out its TikTok rival YouTube Shorts in the US, but the beta is missing features and feels half-baked — Rolling out to everyone in the US ‘over the next several weeks’ — YouTube Shorts, the company's short-form answer to TikTok, is launching in beta in the United States starting today.
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Google says it will invest $7B+ in offices and data centers across the US and create at least 10K new full-time Google jobs in the US this year — One of the best parts of my job is getting the opportunity to visit the communities that Google is a part of across the U.S. Whether it's meeting …
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| Annalee Newitz / The Hypothesis: |
Substack's decision to pay certain writers to write on the platform is an editorial one as leaders decide what kind of writing they want to support — They paid a secret group of writers to make newsletter authorship seem lucrative — I think of myself as having decent critical faculties … | Substack Blog: |
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| Reed Albergotti / Washington Post: |
Developer of Watch app FlickType, who previously called out Apple for allowing scam and copycat apps, sues Apple, for allegedly exploiting its monopoly power — The developer behind FlickType, an Apple Watch keyboard, alleges the company used its power over the App Store to stymie its progress| Austen Goslin / Polygon: |
Nvidia is doubling the price of GeForce Now cloud gaming memberships to $10 a month for new users; its almost 10M “Founder” members will keep the same price — Nvidia will keep the price the same for Founders subscribers — Nvidia is effectively doubling the price of GeForce Now, its cloud streaming service.
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Facebook is working on a neural wristband that reads signals from brain to hands, to go along with its AR glasses; Bosworth insists it can't “read your brain” — “I cannot emphasize this enough: This cannot read your brain,” said a Facebook exec.| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Shelf Engine, which helps grocers manage and streamline their food orders, raises $41M Series B led by General Catalyst, bringing its total raised to $58M — New funding: Shelf Engine raised $41 million to support rapid growth of its tech platform used by grocers such as Kroger and Walmart …
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AT&T says it will no longer exempt HBO Max from mobile data caps starting March 25, after a US court upheld CA's net neutrality law; change will apply beyond CA — - AT&T will no longer exempt viewing of its HBO Max streaming service from data caps after a federal court upheld California's …
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| Kishan Vyas / XDA Developers: |
Google Chrome adds Live Caption as an accessibility feature in Chrome 89, to transcribe speech in videos — Google first showcased its amazing Live Caption accessibility feature at Google I/0 2019. The feature was first rolled out to the Pixel phones with Android 10 update and subsequently arrived …
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Sources: DOJ investigators are asking ad executives whether Google's plan to ban third-party cookies will hobble its smaller rivals — (Reuters) - Google's plan to block a popular web tracking tool called “cookies” is a source of concern for U.S. Justice Department investigators … | Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Spotify launches a site to share how it pays artists, says it paid $5B in 2020, up from $3.3B in 2017, and 13K artists made $50K+ in royalties, up 80% from 2017 — The company's making an effort to be more transparent — Musicians aren't thrilled with Spotify — they say the streaming platform undervalues … | Daniele Lepido / Bloomberg: |
Ghost Data report exposes a multi-million dollar business of wholesalers using Instagram to sell fake Apple accessories such as counterfeit AirPods worldwide — - Report finds Chinese counterfeit Apple goods flood social site — Apple says it urges removal of 1 million online listings| Sam Altman: |
AI will drive a new tech revolution, applying Moore's law to everything; to rebalance the newly created wealth, society should favor taxing capital over labor — My work at OpenAI reminds me every day about the magnitude of the socioeconomic change that is coming sooner than most people believe.
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| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Fireblocks, which lets users store, transfer, and issue digital assets, raises $133M Series C, bringing its total raised to $179M — Fireblocks has raised a $133 million Series C funding round led by Coatue, Ribbit, and Stripes. The company provides several products that let you store, transfer and issue digital assets.
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| Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
Paris-based Cubyn, which lets e-merchants outsource fulfillment and delivery logistics, raises €35M Series C led by Eurazeo and Bpifrance Large Venture — Cubyn, the Paris-based logistics startup that lets e-merchants outsource fulfilment and delivery logistics, has raised another €35 million in funding.
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Tech.eu, FinSMEs, EU-Startups, and 360 Capital
| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Google's Area 120 in-house incubator launches ThreadIt, a short video app for team collaborations, in beta, as a website and a Chrome plug-in — The team at Google's Area 120 in-house incubator says the idea for ThreadIt came well before COVID-19 made remote work a necessity for large swaths of the globe.
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Viz.ai, whose AI software can help doctors diagnose strokes, raises $71M Series C, and says it will use the new funds to expand into other areas like cardiology — The different Viz.ai stroke detection platforms on various smartphones. Courtesy. — Israeli medical imaging startup Viz.ai … | Julia Fioretti / Bloomberg: |
China-based Tuya, which provides a service for businesses to deploy and manage IoT devices, raised $915M in a US IPO — - Tencent-backed firm's shares set to price above marketed range — Company's cloud platform used to manage smart devices — Tuya Inc., a software company backed …
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| Ax Sharma / BleepingComputer: |
Researcher shares method for hiding ~3MB of data, like ZIP archives, in Twitter images and says Twitter ruled out a security bug bounty for an earlier method — Yesterday, a researcher disclosed a method of hiding up to three MB of data inside a Twitter image.
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FBI says victims reported $4.2B in losses as a result of cybercrime and internet fraud to its Internet Crime Complaint Center in 2020, up about 20% YoY — American victims reported $4.2 billion in losses as a result of cybercrime and internet fraud to the FBI in 2020, a roughly 20% uptick …
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