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| Nick Clegg / About Facebook: |
Facebook is referring its decision to indefinitely suspend Trump's accounts to the Oversight Board and says the accounts will remain suspended in the meantime — Today, Facebook is referring its decision to indefinitely suspend former US President Donald Trump's access to his Facebook …
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Oversight Board, Wired, The Verge, Axios, Ars Technica, BBC, CNBC, The Economic Times, Engadget, Bloomberg, Protocol, CNET, and Whither news?
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple's first VR headset, planned for 2022 with a focus on gaming, video, and communication but with limited AR features, faces development hurdles — Apple Inc.'s first crack at a headset is designed to be a pricey, niche precursor to a more ambitious augmented reality product …
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TechCrunch, TechRadar, PYMNTS.com, IGN, Light Reading, Laptop Mag, SiliconANGLE, Ars Technica, UploadVR, Tom's Guide, Road to VR, BGR, SlashGear, Business Insider, KnowTechie, VRFocus, Input, Mashable, TechSpot, Developer Tech News, USA Today, phonearena.com, Macworld, MacDailyNews, Gizmodo, Game Rant, Redmond Pie, Trusted Reviews, VentureBeat, The Mac Observer, GameSpot, WinBuzzer, and MakeUseOf
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| Steven Levy / Wired: |
Alphabet says that it is shutting down Loon, its internet balloon project, calling it “a successful experiment” — Plus: The moonshot's launch, health care for the mask-less, and a new era's inaugural meme. — DO you detect something missing? Like that unease in your gut that everything has gone to hell?
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X, the moonshot factory, The Verge, Loon Blog, New York Times, Engadget, and Axios
Tweets: @lutherlowe, @lauramandaro, @ianjohnbuckley, @t1merickson, and @martinsfp
| Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg: |
Instacart cuts 1,877 jobs, including its only union roles, as it shifts to new models, like selling its tech to retailers to have their staff prepare orders — Instacart Inc. plans to terminate about 1,900 employees' jobs, including the only unionized positions in the U.S., representing a fulsome embrace of the gig economy.
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The Verge, VICE, The Instacart Checkout, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, Los Angeles Times, Engadget, PYMNTS.com, Input, and CNN
| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Raspberry Pi Foundation launches $4 Pico, a tiny microcontroller for hardware projects that uses Raspberry Pi's own RP2040 chip — Meet the Raspberry Pi Pico, a tiny little microcontroller that lets you build hardware projects with some code running on the microcontroller.
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Raspberry Pi Blog, HotHardware.com News, Hackaday, XDA Developers, The Verge, Gizmodo, SiliconANGLE, BetaNews, SlashGear, Engadget, TechSpot, Tom's Hardware, Input, Liliputing, PCMag, Neowin, and TechRepublic
Tweets: @dansitu, @blenster, @dominicpajak, @ebenupton, @arduino, @arduino, @mayermakes, @philipcolligan, @raspberry_pi, @ubidefeo, and @aallan
| April Glaser / NBC News: |
Profile of Jessica Rosenworcel, the second woman to lead the FCC as acting chair and a big proponent of net neutrality and expanding broadband access — President Joe Biden has picked Jessica Rosenworcel to run the Federal Communications Commission in an interim position.| Margaret Harding McGill / Axios: |
Biden designates Jessica Rosenworcel, currently a Democratic commissioner at the FCC, as acting chairwoman of the agency — President Biden has designated Jessica Rosenworcel as acting chairwoman of the Federal Communications Commission, according to an agency statement.
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The Verge, TechCrunch, and Federal Communications …
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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Federal judge rejects Parler's demand to be reinstated on AWS — Ruling calls Parler's antitrust evidence ‘dwindlingly slight’ — A Washington judge has denied social network Parler's demand to be reinstated on Amazon Web Services. Following a hearing last week, Judge Barbara Rothstein declined …
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Tweets: @politics1com, @karaswisher, @thedextriarchy, and @maggiejordanacn
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Google signs an agreement with French publishers to create a framework of payment for snippet reuse and has reached agreements with three major newspapers — Google has reached an agreement with an association of French publishers over how it will be pay for reuse of snippets of their content.
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Le blog officiel de …, Ars Technica, CNBC, CNN, Engadget, Associated Press, Gizmodo, Bloomberg, EURACTIV.com, Social Media Today, and Android Headlines
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Intel reports Q4 revenue of $20B, down 1% YoY, Data Center Group revenue of $6.1B, down 16% YoY, as new CEO commits to manufacturing, stock down ~5% after hours — - Intel's earnings report on Thursday is the last with Bob Swan in the CEO role. — Former VMWare CEO Pat Gelsinger takes over as Intel CEO in February.
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Intel, Financial Times, AnandTech, ZDNet, Tom's Hardware, CNET, SiliconANGLE, AnandTech, Engadget, Tom's Hardware, ZDNet, Reuters, PCWorld, CNBC, Barron's Online, TheStreet, MarketWatch, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, Wccftech, Investor's Business Daily, and Bloomberg
Tweets: @ericjhonsa, @lamonicabuzz, @stevenrodgersgc, @rogoway, @quinnypig, @markhachman, @markhachman, @markhachman, @markhachman, and @markhachman. Thanks:@mattrosoff
| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Pebble founder launches Beeper, a $10/month universal chat app promising to bring 15 chat services, including iMessage on Android and Windows, into a single UI — Beeper brings 15 chat apps together into one interface — Beeper is a new universal chat app that's an attempt …
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9to5Google, TechCrunch, appleosophy.com, Gizmodo, MacRumors, Laptop Mag, Droid Life, iPhone Hacks, BetaNews, Liliputing, Tom's Guide, Neowin, HotHardware.com News, iDownloadBlog.com, KnowTechie, iPhone in Canada Blog, Chrome Unboxed, Cult of Mac, Wccftech, Android Police, Apple Terminal, TechSpot, SlashGear, Android Central, Android Authority, and Windows Central
Tweets: @tomwarren, @tsuvik, @steve_holt, @as_w, @osomkeats, @iansherr, @mathewi, @davidjchie, and @tomwarren
| Alex Kantrowitz / OneZero : |
Internal memo: Facebook's VP told staff in December to build products prioritizing privacy, as the public's expectations around privacy have shifted — Facebook VP Andrew Bosworth tells colleagues that privacy matters more than the product experience — Facebook VP Andrew “Boz” …
Tweets: @antonhand and @martinsfp
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra review: beautiful screen with high refresh rate and a great camera system but let down by software with ads and subpar Bixby — Samsung's “Ultra” phones are meant to be the absolute pinnacle of the company's (non-folding) mobile technology.
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CNET, CNBC, Wired, 9to5Mac, IGN, Input, The Guardian, Gizmodo, Tom's Guide, and Digital Trends
Tweets: @backlon, @backlon, @mattrosoff, @mundhrashish, and @backlon
| Kim-Mai Cutler / Initialized: |
Survey of portfolio companies: 40% of founders say remote or decentralized is best for a new startup, most with offices will have 2 or 3 days in office per week — Where are tech companies going to go once the pandemic subsides as vaccines reach more and more Americans?
Tweets: @kimmaicutler, @brianmcc, @kimmaicutler, @coryweinberg, @garrytan, @kimmaicutler, @sandofsky, and @rwsimonetti
| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Bluesky, Twitter's decentralized social networking project, releases a review of the existing decentralized web ecosystem, says it still seeks a project lead — Bluesky is still seeking a project lead — Bluesky, Twitter's decentralized social networking effort, has announced its first major update since 2019.| Josh Taylor / The Guardian: |
In an Australian Senate hearing, a Google executive said that a law forcing Google to pay news outlets for links could prompt it to stop offering Search — As Google and Facebook face Senate committee, poll finds three in five Australians agree social media companies should prioritise news in feeds| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Podcasters say Anchor's sponsorship feature seems to be seriously lacking in sponsors, and they've received few, if any, ads beyond Anchor or Spotify itself — John Newman is the type of person companies like Spotify want to get involved in podcasting. He has a niche interest …
Tweets: @thebyroncraig, @jake_k, @quinnypig, @mattnavarra, and @ashleyrcarman
| Kate Clark / The Information: |
Plaid to seek financing that could triple its valuation to ~$15B according to a source, amid a surge in investor interest following Visa's abandoned acquisition — Normally CEOs that opt to sell their companies aren't happy when the government blocks the deal over antitrust concerns.
Tweets: @amir, @villi, @digitallawyer, @henrylmcnamara, @iankar_, and @kateclarktweets
| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Soci, which offers tools to help businesses with “localized marketing” across search and social media, raises $80M Series D, bringing its total raised to $110M — Soci, a startup focused on what it calls “localized marketing,” is announcing that it has raised $80 million in Series D funding.
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SOCi, VentureBeat, and AdExchanger
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
TripActions, a booking and management service with insights into business travel and expenses, raises $155M Series E co-led by a16z — TripActions, a booking and management platform that offers enterprises real-time data, automated reporting, and insights into business travel and expenses …
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TechCrunch, Silicon Valley Business …, Reuters, Fortune, TripActions, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Business Travel Newss, Skift, CNBC, PYMNTS.com, and Business Insider
Tweets: @tripactions, @tripactions, and @orenzeev
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