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Apple announces Best of 2020 apps and most downloaded apps: home workout app Wakeout! won App of the Year for iPhone, Zoom for iPad, Disney+ for Apple TV — Apple today released its highly anticipated annual list of the best apps and games of 2020. As in previous years …
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| Michael del Castillo / Forbes: |
Visa says it's connecting its global network of 60M merchants to the US Dollar Coin, a stablecoin created by Circle Internet Financial on ethereum's blockchain — Credit card giant Visa today announced it is connecting its global payments network of 60 million merchants to the U.S. Dollar Coin …
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CoinDesk, SlashGear, Cryptonews, CryptoGlobe, BitcoinExchangeGuide, Crypto Briefing, PYMNTS.com, Decrypt, The Block, and Cointelegraph
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Sources: Amazon is in exclusive talks to buy Wondery, in a deal valuing the podcast network at $300M+; Wondery's on track to increase revenue to $40M+ this year — Venture-backed podcast company is in talks to be sold with a valuation of more than $300 million
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Researcher details a zero-click iOS device exploit using Apple's AWDL protocol, now patched, which could have granted access to device hardware and data — A Google Project Zero researcher found a stunning vulnerability — Ever watch that movie, or play that video game …
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| Mike Wuerthele / AppleInsider: |
Ming-Chi Kuo: Apple to release two new MacBook Pros with an all-new design in 2021 and a more affordable MacBook Air in 2022, all with mini LED panels — Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo believes that as part of Apple's mini LED push, the company will release a pair of new MacBook Pro models …
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9to5Mac, MacRumors, iMore, Better Programming, CNET, Pocketnow, Gizmodo, iPhone in Canada Blog, Trusted Reviews, Patently Apple, CNBC, iDownloadBlog.com, Apple Terminal, and GSMArena.com. Tweets: @chancehmiller
| Chris Velazco / Engadget: |
TikTok appears to be experimenting with allowing three-minute videos, up from its current 60-second limit — The beauty of TikToks is that they're (usually) never long enough to overstay their welcome, but a new report suggests the company behind the app is mulling a big change.
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| Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: |
Telegram tests letting iOS users listen and reply to new messages via Siri, seemingly the first 3rd-party dev to support the Siri API announced over a year ago — The latest beta of messaging app Telegram supports Apple's Announce Messages with Siri feature on AirPods …
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
ESET researchers detail Crutch malware, used by Russian APT Turla to steal sensitive docs from an EU foreign ministry and exfiltrate them via Dropbox accounts — Russian-backed hacking group Turla has used a previously undocumented malware toolset to deploy backdoors and steal sensitive documents …
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Amazon adds webcam support to the 2nd-gen Fire TV Cube, enabling video calls with Alexa-enabled devices, rolling out in the coming weeks in US, UK, elsewhere — Call any Alexa-enabled device with a screen, including smartphones, Fire tablets, and the Echo Show| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Google says News Showcase will soon add free access to select paywalled articles, and it has doubled publisher partners to ~400 since its launch in October — Google News Showcase visitors will soon be able to read select paywalled articles at no extra charge.
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| Zoe Schiffer / The Verge: |
NLRB says in a complaint that Google violated US labor laws by spying on workers who organized staff protests before firing two of them in late 2019 — Company policies violated labor law, according to the complaint — Google violated US labor laws by spying on workers …
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| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Spotify says Anchor powered 80% of its new podcasts, or 1M+ shows, in 2020; overall, Anchor powers 70% of Spotify's total podcast catalog of over 1.9M shows — Anchor powered more than 1 million show launches in 2020 — Spotify's $100 million-plus Anchor acquisition is seemingly paying off.
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Tweets: @backlon, @brendonbigley, @alexwolfco, @mattnavarra, @ashleyrcarman, and @spotifynews
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Hulu's Watch Party feature is now expanding to all subscribers, allows up to seven other subscribers to join, and will have a “click to catch up button” — Hulu was first among the big streamers to embrace the co-watch trend during quarantine — Hulu was first among … | Byron Tau / Wall Street Journal: |
DHS's IG says it's probing the department's practice of tracking Americans via the purchase of brokered cellphone data, after a letter from Democratic senators — Inspector general to investigate legality of tracking Americans without a warrant — WASHINGTON—The Department … | Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
Trump threatened in a tweet on Tuesday to veto the annual defense bill, which authorizes nearly $1T in military spending, unless Congress repeals Section 230 — President Trump on Tuesday threatened to veto an annual defense bill authorizing nearly $1 trillion in military spending unless Congress opens …
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| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
Twitter expands its hate speech policies to “prohibit language that dehumanizes people on the basis of race, ethnicity, or national origin” — Twitter is once again expanding its hate speech policies. The company updated its rules to “prohibit language that dehumanizes people … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
YouTube upgrades Premieres, which gives scheduled videos a landing page, with trailers, themes, and live stream pre-shows that later redirect to the main event — YouTube today is launching three new features designed to improve its “Premieres” experience, including trailers, themes …
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| Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal: |
GroupM expects marketers to spend $110.1B on digital ads in the US this year, accounting for more than half of the year's total ad spend for the first time — Digital ads to account for more than half of year's U.S. advertising expenditures for first time — For the first time …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Step, a mobile banking service aimed at teens, raises a $50M Series B led by Coatue after growing to 500,000+ users only two months after its official launch — Step, a mobile banking service aimed at teens, announced this morning it has raised $50 million in Series B funding after growing …
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dexerto.com, Forbes, VentureBeat, PYMNTS.com, Crowdfund Insider, FinSMEs, Finextra, and Tech News
Tweets: @adetolaov and @kateclarktweets
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google Authenticator for iOS gets dark theme redesign and the ability to transfer 2FA accounts in bulk, useful when migrating to a new phone — Earlier this year, Google's 2FA authentication app received a big Android update that modernized its design. That dark theme, along …
Tweets: @erikanderson
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Google announces it is acquiring Actifio, a data management and continuity company that was valued at over $1B in 2014 and has raised over $460M — In the same week that Amazon is holding its big AWS confab, Google is also announcing a move to raise its own enterprise game with Google Cloud.
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| Manuel Vonau / Android Police: |
Google begins rolling out the ability to schedule sending messages in its Google Messages app — You can already schedule messages in Gmail and Telegram (among others), and now Google's Messages app is joining the club. The functionality showed up for a few people as part of an a/b test … | Michelle Gao / CNBC: |
Discovery to launch its streaming service, Discovery+, in Jan. 2021, with a $4.99 per month ad-supported tier and a $6.99 per month ad-free tier — - Discovery will launch its streaming service, Discovery+, in Jan. 2021. — The service will include a $4.99 per month ad-supported tier and a $6.99 per month ad-free tier.
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Gizmodo, The Streamable, The Verge, CNET, Android Police, TechCrunch, Droid Life, and Cord Cutters News
Tweets: @loudmouthjulia, @scottporch, @dan_gusz, and @brianfagioli
| Tom Krazit / Protocol: |
AWS quietly makes a multicloud push with new versions of AWS' managed containers services, ECS Anywhere and EKS Anywhere, that can work on Azure or Google Cloud — It was easy to miss a line on two slides presented during AWS CEO Andy Jassy's Tuesday morning keynote at re:Invent 2020.| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Varjo unveils new VR/XR headsets promising 115° field of view; VR-3 costs $3,195 with $795/year subscription and XR-3 costs $5,495 with $1,495/year subscription — The VR-3 and XR-3 will ship in early 2021 — Virtual reality company Varjo, known for its unusual dual-resolution displays …
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