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Internal messages detail Spotify's lax health content policy; the company told staff multiple Joe Rogan podcast episodes “didn't meet the threshold for removal” — Leaked messages reveal the company has reviewed every Rogan episode and none ‘meet the threshold for removal’
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Twitter stopped enforcing its “civic integrity policy” in March 2021 regarding lies about the 2020 US election — (CNN)Twitter quit taking action to try to limit the spread of lies about the 2020 election, the company said on Friday — a day after another social media platform …
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| Corinne Reichert / CNET: |
Counterpoint and IDC: smartphone shipments grew about 5% to 1.35B+ units in 2021; Samsung took the top spot with 270M+ units, followed by Apple with 235M+ — Companies shipped 1.35 billion smartphones in 2021, a 5.7% increase over the previous year, market researcher IDC said Thursday.
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| JR Raphael / Computerworld: |
A look at Google's history with tablets; Android co-founder Rich Miner's LinkedIn page says he has been working as Google's Android tablets CTO since March 2021 — This wild Android tablet concept could have completely changed the way we interact with our devices. Ready to pop the red pill?
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple adds unlisted app distribution to the App Store, letting developers publish an app that can only be installed via a direct link and not found via search — Apple has deployed an interesting new App Store feature called ‘unlisted app distribution’. This means a developer can now publish …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
iOS 15.4 beta adds Face ID use with a mask for iPhone 12 and newer, without needing Apple Watch authentication, by recognizing “unique features around the eye” — The iOS 15.4 beta that was introduced today added a new feature designed to allow Face ID to be used with a mask and without an Apple Watch for authentication.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
DeFi service Qubit Finance says a hacker stole ~$80M in Binance coins on January 27 and offers them a bug bounty in exchange for returning the cryptocurrency — A threat actor has used an exploit to steal approximately $80 million from Qubit Finance, a decentralized finance (DeFi) …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Crypto-rich buyers are shifting the luxury home market, as real-estate builders jump through hoops to accept crypto and sellers advertise accepting it — People who have made fortunes investing in digital currency, or who helped build the vast crypto industry, are the new darlings of the high-end residential property market
Tweets: @lmatsakis
| Chris Stead / Finder: |
Q&A with two Ubisoft executives, one of whom says NFTs are a paradigm shift in gaming and gamers “don't get what a digital secondary market can bring to them” — We talk to Nicolas Pouard, VP at Ubisoft's Strategic Innovations Lab, about the launch of Ubisoft Quartz and the Digits NFTs.
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Tweets: @kylebrussell, @quinnypig, @bdsams, @tomfromtheweb, @ejwoodgates, @longearedfox, @skillupyt, @scully1888, and @vgc_news
| James Hale / Tubefilter: |
YouTuber Hank Green compares TikTok's creator fund, which pays creators less as more creators join, unfavorably to YouTube, which pays 55% of ad revenue — In 2020, TikTok established a creator fund that distributes $200 million annually to creators based in the U.S.
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Platformer. Tweets: @kris10parisi, @mvzelenks, @shiraovide, @carnage4life, @martinsfp, and @caseynewton
| Shashank Pathak / Entrackr: |
Bengaluru-based Vyapar, which offers accounting, invoicing, and inventory management software to SMBs, raises a $30M Series B led by WestBridge Capital — Business accounting software Vyapar has raised $30 million in its Series B round led by WestBridge Capital.
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| John Gapper / Financial Times: |
An in-depth look at the ongoing patent battle over warehouse automation between Norwegian robotics company AutoStore and UK supermarket giant Ocado — In the village of Nedre Vats, on the edge of a 700m-deep fjord in the west of Norway, there is a white wooden house with a small red barn.
Tweets: @johngapper, @mattvella, @alecurussell, @craigjcalhoun, @arashmassoudi, and @financialtimes
| Claire L. Evans / The Verge: |
Profile of Susan Headley, an influential hacker of the 1980s, who specialized in social engineering and now leads a quiet life in a large US Midwestern city — She was known, back then, as Susan Thunder. For someone in the business of deception, she stood out: she was unusually tall …
Tweets: @viss
| Jonathan Browning / Bloomberg: |
The UK approves extraditing Autonomy founder Mike Lynch to the US to face criminal fraud charges, hours after he lost a court battle with HP; Lynch can appeal — The U.K. government approved the extradition of Mike Lynch to the U.S. to face criminal fraud charges, hours after a London judge ruled …
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