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| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
Senate passes bill providing $52B for domestic semiconductor manufacturing, a 30% NSF funding bump, and $29B for science directorate; bill now heads to House — The funding is on track to meet Biden's chip goals — This story is part of a group of stories called| Christina Wilkie / CNBC: |
Biden admin announces steps to bolster US supply chains, including for chips and rare earth metals, and a “strike force” to combat unfair trade practices — - The Biden administration announces new actions designed to strengthen critical U.S. supply chains.
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| Adam Mosseri / Instagram: |
In the first of a series of blog posts, Instagram explains how it ranks Feed, Stories, Explore, and Reels, and addresses “shadowbanning” accusations — It's hard to trust what you don't understand. We want to do a better job of explaining how Instagram works.
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| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
Facebook and Instagram will now reward influencers with cash bonuses for hitting certain milestones, like selling a set number of badges in an Instagram stream — new tools to help its creators earn more money from the platform. At its first Creator Week event, Mark Zuckerberg introduced …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple Music debuts Spatial Audio and Lossless Audio and adds Spatial Audio playlists, says Spatial Audio support is “coming soon” for Android devices — Last month, Apple announced it would soon add lossless audio streaming and Spatial Audio with support for Dolby Atmos to its Apple Music subscription at no extra charge.
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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Ad-supported and subscription-only newsletters both have ways to understand audiences without the tracking pixels blocked by Apple's Mail Privacy Protection — How Mail Protection Privacy will force the email economy to adapt — Today, let's talk about one of Apple's many announcements …
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| Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab: |
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| Jackie Borchardt / The Columbus Dispatch: |
Ohio's AG files lawsuit with Delaware County Court alleging that Google's search business is anticompetitive and asks court to declare Google a public utility — Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost has filed a lawsuit asking a court to declare Google a public utility that should be regulated as such.
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| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
As Uber and Lyft aim to become profitable this year, it seems like a golden era of VC-subsidized services, from Uber to Bird and MoviePass, is coming to an end — The price for Ubers, scooters and Airbnb rentals is going up as tech companies aim for profitability.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple opens up the ShazamKit framework to third-party apps, including on Android, allowing them to use Shazam's audio recognition tech — Apple in 2018 closed its $400 million acquisition of music recognition app Shazam. Now, it's bringing Shazam's audio recognition capabilities to app developers in the form of the new ShazamKit.| TechCrunch: |
Many large websites went down Tuesday, including Amazon, Twitch, BBC, NYT, Spotify, Reddit, and FT, due to an issue at the Fastly CDN, which has now been fixed — Countless popular websites including Reddit, Spotify, Twitch, Stack Overflow, GitHub, gov.uk, Hulu, HBO Max, Quora, PayPal …
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Apple's tight integration is how it creates great experiences like SharePlay, but the advantage is imperiled by anticompetitive App Store rules like the 30% cut — Apple acquired Dark Sky, the popular weather app and weather API provider, in March of 2020; the Android version was shut down in July, and the API in December.| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
In a huge sting operation, FBI and Australian Federal Police ran an encrypted chat service AN0M for 3+ years to intercept messages between criminals globally — The FBI and Australian Federal Police ran an encrypted chat platform and intercepted secret messages between criminal gang members …
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| Joanna Ossinger / Bloomberg: |
Chainalysis: American bitcoin traders made $4.1B in profits last year, 3x more than Chinese traders, followed by Japan, UK, Russia, and Germany — - Chainalysis ranks top 25 countries by biggest realized gains — China comes in second, with $1.1 billion in Bitcoin profits
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| Meaghan Tobin / Rest of World: |
Facebook says it fixed a proxy error in its Discover app after researchers found it removed images from other websites more frequently than Facebook's services — Researchers found the new connectivity app favored Facebook's own products. The company said it fixed the issue after Rest of World asked about it.
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| Aoife White / Bloomberg: |
Google will show more mobile search apps to choose from on new Android phones in Europe and make participation free for search providers — - Company will show more mobile search apps and get rid of a fee — Google has faced criticism over compliance with an EU order
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| Wallace Witkowski / MarketWatch: |
After its April IPO, UiPath reports Q1 revenue of $186.2M, up 65% YoY, ARR of $653M, up 64% YoY, and a loss of $239.7M, vs ~$53M YoY; stock down ~7% after hours — Stock closes Tuesday 36% above April IPO price — UiPath Inc. shares fell in the extended session Tuesday even after the … | Rebecca Szkutak / Forbes: |
Grabango, which develops computer vision-based check-out free tech for existing grocery and convenience stores, raises $39M Series B led by Commerce Ventures — In 2016 Will Glaser was consulting for tech companies and found himself increasingly immersed in autonomous vehicles … | Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Adobe launches M1 Mac-native versions of more Creative Cloud apps including Lightroom Classic and Illustrator, claims 80%+ faster performance than Intel Macs — Performance should be about twice as fast as an equivalent Intel Mac — Adobe is now shipping new versions of more Creative Cloud apps …
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| Melissa Heikkilä / Politico: |
An open letter with 170 signatories in 55 countries calls for a ban on biometric recognition tech, after EU proposes AI rules that critics say have loopholes — Activists fear loopholes in the bloc's artificial intelligence bill could allow for widespread facial recognition beyond Europe's borders.
Tweets: @accessnow and @libertyhq
| ProPublica: |
Leaked IRS data shows how billionaires manage to pay little in income tax; in 2007 and 2011, Jeff Bezos paid zero income tax, and Elon Musk did the same in 2018 — The Secret IRS Files — In 2007, Jeff Bezos, then a multibillionaire and now the world's richest man, did not pay a penny in federal income taxes.
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| Aman Sethi / New York Times: |
A look at the legal fight between Amazon and Reliance over Indian retail company Future Group, which has agreed to sell its retail assets to Reliance for $3.4B — The American company sees big potential in the country's nascent e-commerce market. Both sides view a troubled grocery store chain as the key to success.| Bloomberg: |
Under G7's proposed tax rules, tech giants like Facebook and Apple would still be unlikely to shift bases from Ireland, which has perks like a low 12.5% rate — - Irish incentives such as tax treaties continue to be a draw — Tech companies have publicly supported the G7 agreement
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