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| Cherlynn Low / Engadget: |
Google partners with Acer, HP, and Intel to bring Fast Pair to select Windows PCs later in 2022 and announces improvements to Phone Hub on Chromebooks — Google wants to do for Android and Chrome users what Apple does for people in its ecosystem. It's announcing a set of news today …
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google unveils 13 software features to make its devices work better together, including expanded Fast Pair and unlocking an Android phone with a Wear OS 3 watch — It won't be easy — Google is announcing no fewer than 13 different new software features at CES 2022 …
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| Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
Google announces Home integration with some Volvo cars, allowing control of car systems with Assistant commands, starting in the US and six European countries — Google unveiled at CES on Wednesday a range of new ways to keep its Android devices connected, and that includes cars.| Sylvia Varnham O'Regan / The Information: |
Sources: Meta has stopped developing a new OS for its VR devices and upcoming AR glasses; the multiyear project involved hundreds of employees — Facebook parent company Meta Platforms has stopped development of a new software operating system to power its virtual reality devices …
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| Sam Machkovech / Ars Technica: |
Sony details PlayStation VR2 for PS5: a 4K HDR OLED display, 2000×2040 pixels per eye, 110° FoV, eye tracking, haptic feedback, inside-out cameras, and more — Sexy specs include dedicated eye tracking, over 4 million pixels per eye. — Sony's trickle of information about its future …
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| José Adorno / 9to5Mac: |
Instagram is testing the ability to switch between three feeds, including one that displays posts in chronological order, rolling out to all users in H1 2022 — Head of Instagram, Adam Mosseri, announced today that the app is rolling out for some users the ability to switch between different feeds.
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Intel claims its 12th-gen 14-core Core i9 outperforms Apple's M1 Max and is the fastest CPU ever, although the i9 uses significantly more power than the M1 Max — Intel today unveiled new 12th-generation Core processors suitable for laptops, and as part of the announcement …
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| Monica Chin / The Verge: |
Asus unveils the Zenbook 17 Fold OLED with a 17.3" foldable screen, Intel's 12th-gen CPUs, up to 16GB of RAM and 1TB SSD, and more, coming in Q2 for a TBD price — There's a more traditional 14-inch OLED Zenbook coming as well — Each year, it seems that more companies are trying out devices with foldable screens.
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| Li Yuan / New York Times: |
The number of unemployed Chinese tech workers is growing amid fears that China's tech crackdown could kill the entrepreneurial drive that made it a tech power — The crackdown is killing the entrepreneurial drive that made China a tech power and destroying jobs that used to attract the country's brightest.
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| Lizzy Lawrence / Protocol: |
Online whiteboard tool Miro raises a $400M Series C at a $17.5B post-money valuation, up from $725M in April 2020, and says it has 30M users — Whiteboard tool Miro announced today that it has joined the unicorn ranks with a $17.5 billion post-money valuation.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Walmart says it plans to expand InHome, its grocery service that delivers directly to customer's refrigerators, from 6M US households to 30M by the end of 2022 — Walmart is expanding its service that will deliver your groceries directly to your refrigerator, the company announced today.
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| Anita Ramaswamy / TechCrunch: |
Alto, which offers a self-directed IRA service, raises a $40M Series B to help people make tax-savvy investments in assets like crypto and artwork — Alternative investments are having a moment. Their popularity has surged over the last decade, with the asset class growing from just over $3 trillion …
Tweets: @anitaramaswamy, @fjmkhan, @henrylmcnamara, and @alto_ira
| Gené Teare / Crunchbase News: |
Global VC funding reached $643B in 2021, up from $335B in 2020 and ~$300B in 2019, with $29.4B in seed funding, $201B in early stage, and $413B in late stage — Venture funding in 2021 broke records across the board, Crunchbase data shows, with investment last year up more than 10x what it was a decade earlier.
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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
NFT marketplace OpenSea raises a $300M Series C led by Paradigm and Coatue at a $13.3B post-money valuation — OpenSea, one of the most talked about blockchain start-ups in Silicon Valley, said on Tuesday that had it raised $300 million in new venture capital, making it the latest company …
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| Jordan Finneseth / Cointelegraph: |
Bitcoin falls to ~$43.7K after an all-time high of ~$68K in November 2021, after the Federal Reserve confirmed plans to increase interest rates in March 2022 — Bitcoin price slipped below $44,000 shortly after notes from the Federal Reserve's December FOMC session re-confirmed plans to get the balance sheet under control.| Priya Anand / Bloomberg: |
Popcorn Time, an open-source streaming service for pirated content launched in 2014, shuts down; in 2015, Netflix warned investors about Popcorn Time's rise — The tool made stealing movies and TV shows a little too easy and drew fury from Hollywood. — Popcorn Time, the once-popular app …
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| Elisa Braun / Politico: |
Document: France's data protection agency CNIL is set to fine Google €150M and Meta €60M for failing to let French users easily reject cookie trackers — PARIS — French data regulator the CNIL is set to fine Google €150 million and Facebook €60 million for violating EU privacy rules.| Jared Newman / Fast Company: |
Profile of LumaFusion, a $30 video editing app for iOS and iPadOS that claims 930,000 users, amid speculation that Apple could bring Final Cut Pro to iPad — Bigger video-editing companies haven't committed themselves to bringing advanced tools to Apple's tablet. LumaFusion's creators did—and it's paid off.
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| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Petal, which offers credit cards based on a potential borrower's cash flow rather than credit score, raises a $140M Series D, source says at an $800M valuation — In recent years, there has been a growing number of startups that are trying to make credit more accessible to consumers.| Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: |
Samsung unveils Home Hub, a SmartThings controller with a docked tablet, launching in South Korea in H1 2022, and says it joined the Home Connectivity Alliance — The new smart home controller from Samsung looks like something Apple or Google should make — Samsung introduced …
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Samsung Newsroom, Samsung Newsroom, Telecoms.com, Phandroid, TechHive, Neowin, Android Police, XDA Developers, Wccftech, CNET, Samsung Newsroom, Android Authority, and Gizmodo. Tweets: @dcseifert
| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Livepeer, an Ethereum-based decentralized video streaming service, raises a $40M Series B from Tiger Global and others, bringing its total funding to $51M — Livepeer, a decentralized video streaming platform built on the Ethereum blockchain, has raised $20 million in a Series B extension round.
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CoinDesk, Decrypt, SiliconANGLE, and Blockworks
| Anna Wiener / New Yorker: |
If the metaverse takes off, it could take cues from today's privatized, centralized, financialized tech ecosystem and echo the development of play-to-earn games — In a virtual world full of virtual goods, finance could get weird. — Years ago, while on vacation in the Northwest … | Richard Waters / Financial Times: |
As companies race to find practical applications for quantum computers, the short term focus is on boosting machine learning — Companies are jostling to be the first to find a practical application for quantum computers — The race is on to find the first practical use for quantum computing.
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