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OpenSea bans PHAYC and Phunky Ape Yacht Club, two NFT projects dueling over which is the authentic Bored Ape Yacht Club ripoff — And dodging NFT marketplace bans while doing it — A pair of non-fungible token projects are testing the boundary between plagiarism and parody.
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A number of women who believe they were tracked with AirTags say Apple's safeguards against stalking are insufficient — Privacy groups sounded alarms about the coin-sized location-tracking devices when they were introduced. Now people are concerned those fears are being realized.
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| Tim / Droid Life: |
Google pauses the rollout of its December update for the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro until late January after reports of calls dropping and disconnecting — In a bit of frustrating news, Google has confirmed that it has paused the December update for the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro, aka the first Feature Drop update for the two devices.
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| Brian Quarmby / Cointelegraph: |
Ethereum scaling project Polygon says it quietly fixed a bug that put $23.6B in MATIC tokens at risk, but not before $2.04M in tokens was stolen — “Considering how much was at stake, I believe our team has made the best decisions possible given the circumstances,” said Polygon's co-founder Jaynti Kanani.| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Indian antitrust watchdog orders an investigation into Apple's practice of mandating use of its own payments system for iPhone apps in the App Store — Indian antitrust watchdog on Friday ordered an investigation into Apple's business practices — in particular, the mandatory use …
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Devices running BlackBerry 10 or OS 7.1 and earlier will lose key services like calling, texting, data usage, and 911 access starting January 4 — BlackBerry stopped shipping phones and tablets with its own software years ago, switching to Android in 2015 before shifting from a hardware company …
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| Will Oremus / Washington Post: |
Metaverse products from Meta, Microsoft, and others are just 3D virtual social spaces, and lack key features of the metaverse concept, chiefly interoperability — Meta's ‘Horizon Worlds’ app, Microsoft and Roblox are capitalizing on a buzzword that's far from reality
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| Tage Kene-Okafor / TechCrunch: |
African tech startups raised a record $4B+ in 2021, more than 2019 and 2020 combined, with more $100M+ rounds than ever before — African VC reached new heights in 2021 at over $4 billion and there's never been a better time to be bullish — Two years ago, the African tech ecosystem saw newfound attention … | Rebecca Elliott / Wall Street Journal: |
Tesla's software engineering expertise let it navigate the global chip shortage by rewriting software to use alternative chips in its cars — Electric-vehicle maker is expected to manufacture roughly 80% more vehicles this year than it did in 2020 — Tesla Inc. has emerged …
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Samsung cuts output at its two fabs in Xian, China, which account for 42.5% of its NAND production capacity, amid COVID-19 lockdown; Micron output also affected — Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) and Micron Technology (MU.O), two of the world's largest memory chip makers … | Andrés Engler / CoinDesk: |
Mexico's central bank plans to issue its own digital currency by 2024, joining Brazil and Peru as Latin American countries working on developing CBDCs — The Central Bank of Mexico (Banxico) plans to launch a central bank digital currency (CBDC) by 2024, the Mexican government confirmed in a tweet on Wednesday evening.
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Apptopia: Amazon ranked #4 in global shopping app installs in 2021, down from first in 2020, as e-commerce apps Shopee and Shein rose to #1 and #2, respectively — Amazon's leading position in U.S. e-commerce is well-documented, but the latest global rankings for app installs show the potential …
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