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| Will Oremus / OneZero : |
Clubhouse employs an unusually aggressive user onboarding process, pressuring users to upload contacts before ranking those contacts based on total connections — The app pressures you to upload your phone's contacts — and makes them visible in surprising ways
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| William Turton / Bloomberg: |
Some Black medical professionals who are voluntarily countering misinfo on Clubhouse about COVID-19 and its vaccine say they have been harassed and bullied — - Conspiracies flourish on app including about vaccines and 5G — 'Hey, I was skeptical too, but here's where I am now'| Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology: |
Twitter's Spaces is well positioned to challenge Clubhouse as it's intuitive, a logical fit for Twitter, and adds a meaningful new experience to the Twitter app — Why Twitter's Clubhouse clone is poised to give the hottest app on the planet a run for its money. — I live a simple life with a few steadfast rules.
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Google adds some of its Pixel-exclusive photo editing features to Google Photos, but they are paywalled behind Google One — Previously Pixel-exclusive features are coming to other devices — for a price — Google is adding some of its fancy, Pixel-exclusive editing features …
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Microsoft President Brad Smith says the US and other countries should adopt Australia's proposed media rules, which require tech firms to pay for news content — Microsoft President Brad Smith told Axios in an interview that the U.S. and other countries should consider adopting media rules …
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| Sarah Whitten / CNBC: |
Disney says it now has 94.9M Disney+ subscribers — - Disney+ now has more than 94.9 million subscribers. — Last quarter, the company said its streaming service will have 230 million to 260 million subscribers by 2024. — Disney announced Thursday that its streaming platform surpassed 94.9 million subscribers.
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| Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC: |
Bumble closes up 63.5% on its first day of trading, giving it a valuation of about $13B, after raising $2.15B in its IPO — - Shares of Bumble, which operates a dating app under the same name, began trading Thursday. — The company's stock started trading up nearly 77% at $76 per share.
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| Sami Fathi / MacRumors: |
Starting with iOS 14.5, Apple will proxy the Safe Browsing service in Safari through its own servers instead of Google's to protect user data — Starting with iOS and iPadOS 14.5, Apple will proxy Google's “Safe Browsing” service used in Safari through its own servers instead of relying …
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Apple launches its first standalone Apple TV+ AR app, with a For All Mankind backstory and exclusive content for the latest iPad Pro and iPhone 12 Pro models — Apple's rumored augmented reality experience for Apple TV+ has arrived in the form of For All Mankind: Time Capsule.
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| Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
Facebook's Oversight Board co-chair says if the project is a success, other platforms and tech companies would be “more than welcome” to work with the board — The Facebook Oversight Board has only been operational for a short time, but the nascent project is already looking ahead.| Jenny Leonard / BloombergQuint: |
Biden administration says it is working to address the global chip shortage; Biden is expected to sign an EO directing a supply chain review in the coming weeks — (Bloomberg) — The Biden administration is working to address the global semiconductor shortage that has caused auto manufacturers …
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| Kim Lyons / The Verge: |
Twitter changes its position and says it will add labels to the personal accounts of heads of state starting next week — It's also adding more specificity to the text in the labels that identify such accounts — Beginning next week, Twitter will add labels to the personal accounts …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft drops the price of foldable Surface Duo by $400 to $999 and says it will arrive in the UK, France, Germany, and Canada on Feb. 18, expanding beyond US — The first international release for Microsoft's dual-screen device — Microsoft is dropping the price of its foldable Surface Duo device …
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| Jeremy B. Merrill / The Markup: |
Google says it will update its ad policies after an investigation found advertisers could exclude people who identify as “unknown gender” from job ads and more — Dozens of advertisers instructed the company to not show their ads to people of “unknown” gender … | Brad Chacos / PCWorld: |
In order to address the global chip shortage, Nvidia is releasing stock of two older GPUs, the RTX 2060 and GTX 1050 Ti, to its board partners — The rumors are true: Nvidia is supplementing the sky-high demand for GeForce RTX 30-series graphics cards by releasing stock of older GPUs to board partners …
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Facebook says bullying and harassment takedowns reached 6.3M in Q4 2020, up from 2.8M in Q4 2019, due to increased reviewer capacity and AI improvements — It's ramping up moderation after a COVID-19 dip last year — On Thursday, Facebook released a new moderation transparency report showing …
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Tweets: @guyro, @kingjeff2, @atef, @fbnewsroom, @mosseri, and @evelyndouek
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Cybersecurity firm Proofpoint filed a countersuit against Facebook after Facebook forced Namecheap to hand over phishing awareness URLs mimicking Facebook URL — Facebook's crackdown on lookalike domains last year has touched some of the domains security firm Proofpoint was using for security awareness training exercises.
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| Stephanie Chan / Sensor Tower Blog: |
Global consumer spending in top 100 non-game subscription apps grew 34% in 2020 to $13B; spending in App Store grew 32% to $10.3B, Play Store grew 42% to $2.7B — Consumer spending in mobile apps reached new heights in 2020, as did revenue generated from in-app subscriptions.| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
US House Committee on Energy and Commerce sent a letter to Apple raising concerns over reports that App Privacy labels offer “misleading and false information” — The U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce this week sent a letter to Apple [PDF] inquiring about the accuracy …
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US House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Pocketnow, Apple Terminal, MUO, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, and Insanely Great Mac. Tweets: @frankpallone
| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Microsoft patches a 12-year-old Windows Defender bug that could potentially let an attacker run malicious code, after researchers discovered it last fall — Microsoft has finally patched the bug in its antivirus program after researchers spotted it last fall. — JUST BECAUSE A vulnerability is old doesn't mean it's not useful.| Kerry Flynn / CNN: |
Staffers at Medium in editorial, engineering, design, and product units say they're unionizing; a majority of about 140 employees signed union cards with CWA — New York (CNN Business)Gawker Media made history five years ago for being the first digital news company to ratify a union contract … | Naman Ramachandran / Variety: |
HBO Max to launch in Latin America and the Caribbean in June; existing HBO-branded streaming services in Europe will shift to HBO Max later this year — WarnerMedia's streamer HBO Max is set to launch across 39 Latin American and Caribbean territories in June.| Dave Michaels / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: federal prosecutors are talking to social media companies to find out whether market manipulation fueled the rise of stocks like GameStop and AMC — Justice Department has subpoenaed information from Robinhood Markets, others — WASHINGTON—Federal prosecutors …
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| TechCrunch: |
Russian content on TikTok is becoming increasingly political as free speech advocates and government actors have turned to the app to spread their messaging — TikTok has crafted a number of policies over the years to distance itself from the often-messy political fray, but its users continue to have other agendas in mind.
Tweets: @justiacom
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