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Donald Trump pardons ex-Waymo and Uber engineer Anthony Levandowski; Peter Thiel and Palmer Luckey were among those supporting a pardon for Levandowski — Last year Anthony Levandowski pleaded guilty to one count of stealing materials from Google, where he was an engineer for its self-driving car efforts …
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| Zoë Bernard / The Information: |
Sources: Andreessen Horowitz to launch an opinion section on its website that will publish articles related to technology and business from outside contributors — Silicon Valley investment firm Andreessen Horowitz, which once courted attention from the news media, is ramping up its own media efforts.| Eric Newcomer / Newcomer: |
A look at a16z's communication efforts over the years, as the firm expands its own media operations and has largely stopped cooperating with reporters — Why media whisperer Margit Wennmachers is going direct. — Benedict Evans, Andreessen Horowitz's former in-house analyst …
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Jack Ma has resurfaced after months out of public view, addressing teachers on an online conference, quashing intense speculation about his fate — Alibaba and Ant co-founder Jack Ma has resurfaced after months out of public view, quashing intense speculation about the plight …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Malwarebytes says it was hacked by group that breached SolarWinds, via Azure and Office 365 exploits, but attackers only accessed a subset of internal emails — Malwarebytes becomes fourth major security firm targeted by attackers after Microsoft, FireEye, and CrowdStrike.
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Netflix reports Q4 revenue of $6.64B vs. $6.63B est., up 21.5% YoY, and global streaming paid memberships of 203.7M, up 8.5M vs. 6.5M est.; stock up 12%+ — - Netflix reported fourth quarter 2020 earnings Tuesday that beat analyst expectations on revenue and net subscriber additions but fell below EPS estimates.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Netflix says its “Shuffle Play” feature, which lets Netflix's algorithm choose what you watch next, will roll out globally to all users in H1 2021 — Netflix is always in search of a better way to instantly connect users to something to watch, instead of having them waste …
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Valve and five PC video game publishers have been fined a total of €7.8M for restricting cross-border game sales in EU's Digital Single Market — ZeniMax, Capcom, and Bandai Namco were among the publishers fined — Valve and five PC video game publishers have been fined a total of €7.8 million …
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Google is investigating why Margaret Mitchell, who helps lead its ethical AI team, downloaded and shared a large number of files with people outside the company — Google is investigating recent actions by Margaret Mitchell, who helps lead the company's ethical AI team, Axios has confirmed.
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| Alexandra Alper / Reuters: |
Trump signs an executive order that seeks to thwart foreign use of cloud computing products or services for malicious cyber operations against the US — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Outgoing President Donald Trump has signed an executive order aimed at thwarting foreign use of cloud computing products …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Brave becomes the first major browser to natively support IPFS protocol, useful for accessing censored content; Wikipedia and other sites offer IPFS versions — Brave users will now be able to seamlessly access ipfs:// links. — With the release of Brave 1.19 today …
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| Dylan Byers / NBC News: |
Sources: Facebook has no plans to lift Trump's indefinite suspension following his departure from the White House — Facebook has no plan in place to lift the indefinite suspension on President Donald Trump's Facebook account following his departure from the White House on Wednesday, sources familiar with the company's plans said.| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Opera acquires YoYo Games for $10M and launches Opera Gaming division to monetize its gaming efforts; Opera GX gaming browser had 7M MAUs in Dec., up 350% YoY — Web browser maker Opera has acquired YoYo Games, maker of the GameMaker Studio 2 game engine, for $10 million, and it has also launched its Opera Gaming division.
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Instagram head Adam Mosseri on keeping users safe at scale, content moderation, Facebook's actions against Trump, future regulation, Reels, and more — Adam Mosseri has a broad view of Facebook, its capabilities, and its challenges. And Facebook has a lot of challenges right now …
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