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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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| José Adorno / 9to5Mac: |
Instagram tests the ability to switch between a Home feed, a Favorites feed, and a Following chronological feed, 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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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Meta says it is still working on a “highly specialized OS” for its AR/VR devices, and it is not “halting or scaling back” operations in building AR/VR software — It's still interested in a custom OS — Meta reportedly pulled the plug on a custom operating system …
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| Fatos Bytyci / Reuters: |
Kosovo bans crypto mining in an attempt to curb energy consumption as the country faces its worst power crisis in a decade — Kosovo's government on Tuesday introduced a ban on cryptocurrency mining in an attempt to curb electricity consumption as the country faces the worst energy crisis in a decade due to production outages.
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
HTC announces the Vive Wrist Tracker, a watch-like controller that tracks hand-to-elbow positions for its Vive Focus 3 VR headset, launching in Q1 2022 for $129 — Set to launch later this quarter — HTC is announcing a new wrist-based controller for its Vive Focus 3 virtual reality headset.
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Kazakhstan faces internet disruptions and a subsequent nationwide shutdown since Tuesday evening, amid protests against energy price increases — Network data from NetBlocks confirm a significant disruption to internet service in Kazakhstan from the evening of Tuesday 4 January 2022 …
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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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| Brave Browser: |
Brave reports 15.5M+ DAUs and 50M+ MAUs at the end of 2021, up from 24M MAUs at the end of 2020, 10M+ mobile downloads in 2021, and Brave Ads revenue up 4x YoY — Brave Search now at 2.3 billion annualized queries — Key new products from Brave this year included Brave Search … | 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 … | 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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| 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.| Joanna Ossinger / Bloomberg: |
Sygnum, a Switzerland and Singapore-based digital asset bank and crypto trading platform, raises $90M led by Sun Hung Kai & Co. at an $800M valuation — Sygnum, which runs a digital-asset bank and trading platform, raised $90 million in a funding round that valued it at $800 million …
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