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| Salvador Rodriguez / Wall Street Journal: |
Twitter will let iOS users of its Blue subscription service use NFTs as hexagon-shaped profile pictures — Service will be available to some users of the company's Blue subscriber service — Twitter Inc. will start allowing some users to use nonfungible tokens as their profile pictures …
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Twitter Help Center, The Verge, CoinDesk, Engadget, The Block, Benzinga, TheStreet, Ubergizmo, Adweek, Cointelegraph, CoinGape, The Great Onboarding …, Mashable, Crypto Briefing, iPhone in Canada Blog, Social Media Today, and BetaKit
Tweets: @twitterblue, @twitterblue, @tomwarren, @opensea, @quicknode, @jsngr, @kayvz, @g0ffthew, @xanderatallah, @thecaptainsauce, @charlesarthur, @ricmac, @kevinroose, @rdrv3, @dbreunig, @icklenellierose, @thesmarmybum, @_tessr, @joncomms, @anthony, @rjcc, @samfbiddle, and @nitashatiku. Thanks:@sal19
| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Sources: Google's AR headset could launch in 2024, powered by a custom processor, resembling ski goggles, and no need for an external power connection — Meta may be the loudest company building AR and VR hardware. Microsoft has HoloLens. Apple is working on something, too. But don't count out Google.
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CNET, PhoneArena, Ars Technica, Gizmodo, iPhone in Canada Blog, XDA Developers, Android Headlines, MSPoweruser, MobileSyrup, iPhone Hacks, SlashGear, Android Central, Engadget, Mashable, iDownloadBlog.com, TechRadar, SiliconANGLE, TechSpot, and TechCrunch
Tweets: @alexeheath, @daphnehk, @edenthecat, @benbajarin, @starfire2258, @mishaalrahman, @mhbergen, @anshelsag, @willoremus, and @alexeheath
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Meta plans to let users create and sell NFTs on Facebook and Instagram, display NFTs on user profiles, and is considering an NFT marketplace — Facebook's parent draws up plans to allow users to create and sell non-fungible tokens, seeking to enter hype-fuelled $40bn market| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
The Senate Judiciary votes 16-6 to advance the American Innovation and Choice Online Act, which would stop platforms from favoring their products over rivals' — The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 16-6 Thursday to advance a major tech competition bill, which some experts consider lawmakers' best shot …
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wesupportsb2992.medium.com, Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Ars Technica, MacRumors, Big Technology, The White House, Free Press, CNBC, American Prospect, Thurrott, Axios, TechCrunch, The Hill, The Verge, The Verge, Seeking Alpha, Punchbowl News, Congress, iTnews, iPhone Hacks, SiliconANGLE, Engadget, Accountable Tech, and Washington Examiner
Tweets: @neilbradleydc, @wsjpolitics, @duckduckgo, @ggreenwald, @amyklobuchar, @daphnehk, @sentedcruz, @evan_greer, @attorneynora, @judiciarydems, @citizenalex3, @ronmknox, @lutherlowe, @daphnehk, @attorneynora, @matthewstoller, @willoremus, @matthewstoller, @davidcicilline, @attorneynora, @matthewstoller, @mrddmia, @ronmknox, @chuckgrassley, @daphnehk, @senlummis, @alexstamos, @ronmknox, @senlummis, @daphnehk, @brianfishman, @netchoice, @jesselehrich, @duckduckgo, @robpwj, @leah_nylen, @daphnehk, @attorneynora, @jason_kint, @netchoice, @technetupdate, @rileytestut, @daphnehk, @willoremus, @senlummis, and @markwarner
| Andrew Asmakov / Decrypt: |
Crypto.com says its breach affected 483 users, resulting in unauthorized cryptocurrencies withdrawals worth ~$33.84M, and all users were reimbursed the same day — Cryptocurrency exchange Crypto.com has lost roughly $34 million in a recent security incident, according to a post-mortem released on Thursday.
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Crypto.com, Threatpost, SiliconANGLE, Slashdot, CryptoPotato, Security Affairs, Deadline, Cointelegraph, Input, and Crypto Daily
Tweets: @bloomberglive, @cryptocom, @kris_hk, @adam_k_levin, @arossp, and @murfski_
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Netflix reports Q4 revenue of $7.71B, up 16% YoY, net income of $607M, 222M paid subscribers, and $30B in 2021 revenue, up 19%; stock down ~20% on weak guidance — Netflix ended 2021 with a slightly lower-than-expected subscriber gain in the fourth quarter, and its stock took a dive with a weak Q1 outlook.
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Netflix, CNBC, TechCrunch, The Verge, Protocol, Bloomberg, Ad Age, MarketWatch, Wall Street Journal, BBC, Axios, Barron's Online, Bloomberg, The Wrap, MediaPost, Variety, Benzinga, Bloomberg, Associated Press, New York Post, Light Reading, CNBC, Financial Times, Hollywood Reporter, Adweek, Investor's Business Daily, and Variety
Tweets: @xpangler, @awallenstein, @ldignan, and @xpangler
| Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire: |
Amazon Style, the company's first physical fashion store, will launch in LA later this year, with an app that lets shoppers send items to the fitting room — Move over books and groceries, Amazon's latest foray into physical retail is focused on fashion. — The e-commerce giant announced Thursday …
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About Amazon, CNBC, Reuters, The Verge, CNET, CNN, SiliconANGLE, International Business Times, Engadget, Digital Trends, dot.LA, govtech.com, Tech Xplore, and chainstoreage.com
Tweets: @amazon, @ajassy, @lingerie_addict, @philwahba, @nmeyersohn, @mariedenee, @washingtonpost, @latimes, @backlon, @stevenpdennis, @laurenthomas, @amazonnews, @shiraovide, and @skamille
| John Paczkowski / BuzzFeed News: |
Apple names longtime company spokesperson Kristin Huguet as VP of worldwide communications, replacing Stella Low, who is leaving after joining Apple in May 2021 — Apple has tapped a new head of PR: longtime company spokesperson Kristin Huguet. She'll replace Stella Low …
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9to5Mac, AppleInsider, MacDailyNews, MacRumors, and iPhone in Canada Blog
Tweets: @markgurman, @karaswisher, @charlesarthur, @chancehmiller, and @counternotions
| Lydia Moynihan / New York Post: |
Sources: TikTok ousted its marketing chief Nick Tran for “going rogue” with plans like TikTok Kitchen, NFTs by Lil Nas X and others, and TikTok Resumes — TikTok's marketing chief has been ousted after blindsiding top management with a series of increasingly bizarre campaigns, The Post has learned.
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Gizmodo, The Verge, and TechSpot
Tweets: @thebarrywe, @radio_reem, @bmorrissey, @rmac18, @_danielsinclair, @kh, @mcreynoldsjoe, @caseynewton, and @tomgara
| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE: |
Several services that rely on OpenSea's APIs, including Twitter and MetaMask, are having trouble displaying NFTs as the marketplace suffers a “database outage” — A Thursday outage interfered with the ability of MetaMask, which depends on OpenSea, to automatically display new NFTs.
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The Economic Times, ZDNet, PC Gamer, Input, Bitcoinist.com, and CoinGape
Tweets: @wongmjane, @kelseyhightower, @dwr, @mattdesl, @lorenzofb, @petersterne, @jedmund, @edent, @kevincollier, @ncweaver, @ylitvinenko, @caseynewton, @silvermanjacob, @kirbeep, and @anildash
| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Apple releases iOS 15.3 RC and macOS Monterey 12.2 RC with a fix for Safari 15's IndexedDB API, which leaked users' browser history and Google ID to other sites — We recently reported that Apple was working on a fix for a Safari bug that led to the leaking of users' browsing history and Google ID.
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MacRumors, MacRumors, AppleInsider, XDA Developers, Forbes, Softpedia News, MSPoweruser, Wccftech, Digital Trends, Macworld, and Wccftech
Tweets: @samifathi_ and @9to5mac
| Tiernan Ray / ZDNet: |
Meta details Data2vec, a self-supervised algorithm that unifies the process of training a neural network to learn the same across speech, images, and text — By eschewing data-specific outputs for internal representations, Meta aims for a more-general sort of AI.
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Meta AI, MIT Technology Review, TechCrunch, Meta, Meta AI, GitHub, and SiliconANGLE
| Jeff Cox / CNBC: |
The US Federal Reserve releases its long-awaited report on a digital dollar but doesn't take a position on issuing one, and seeks public feedback for 120 days — - The Federal Reserve on Thursday released its long-awaited exploration of a digital dollar but took no position on the issuance of a central bank digital currency.
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Board of Governors …, The Block, CoinDesk, PYMNTS.com, Blockworks, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Washington Post, The Block, Crowdfund Insider, Bloomberg, American Banker, Insider, Barron's Online, Reuters, U.Today, Forexlive, Cointelegraph, Crowdfund Insider, Forbes, and Crypto Briefing
Tweets: @mckonomy and @noahseidman
| Sue Halpern / New Yorker: |
Inside DARPA's Air Combat Evolution program, which aims to design AI that can fly a plane and engage in aerial combat without a human pilot — Artificial intelligence is being taught to fly warplanes. Can the technology be trusted? … On a cloudless morning last May …
Tweets: @michaelluo, @newyorker, and @hoanssolo
| Reuters: |
Russia's central bank proposes banning cryptocurrency use and mining, citing threats to financial stability, citizens' wellbeing, and monetary sovereignty — Russia's central bank on Thursday proposed banning the use and mining of cryptocurrencies on Russian territory …
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CoinDesk, Bloomberg, Fortune, Neowin, Wccftech, ZDNet, Agence France-Presse, and Unraveling Crypto
Tweets: @scottmelker, @el33th4xor, @felix_light, @digieconomist, @alphacharts365, @stubbornfacts, and @alexmarrow57
| New York Times: |
DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman is leaving Google to join Greylock Partners; Suleyman was stripped of some duties in 2019 for allegedly bullying staff — Mustafa Suleyman, a pioneer in the field of artificial intelligence, is leaving Google to join the venture capital firm Greylock Partners.
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Greylock, New York Times, Financial Times, Insider, and TechCrunch
| Nesrine Malik / The Guardian: |
How Facebook became indispensable in Africa with its ease of access, importance to small businesses, its facilitating of community organizing, and more — Western users may be logging off, but across the continent of Africa, the social media company is indispensable for everything from running a business to sourcing vaccines.
Tweets: @wa8dzp
| Kim Lyons / The Verge: |
Meta launches gamified activities on Messenger Kids to help kids learn how to safely use the internet, developed with guidance from online safety experts — Meta (formerly Facebook) knows it has to attract younger users — Facebook parent company Meta has launched new activities … | Miles Kruppa / Financial Times: |
Sources: by March, a16z plans to raise $3.5B for its latest cryptocurrency fund and up to $1B for a fund focused on seed investments in digital asset startups — Planned fundraising illustrates how Silicon Valley firms are fuelling boom in cryptocurrency start-ups
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Axios, The Information, Crypto Briefing, and GeekWire
Tweets: @mshannahmurphy, @alphaseeker21, and @kateclarktweets
| Eric Newcomer / Newcomer: |
Profile of Hemant Taneja, who became the sole managing partner of General Catalyst in 2021, as the firm raises a seed, venture, and growth fund totaling $4.6B — General Catalyst's idealist investor Hemant Taneja is quietly running the firm — Hemant Taneja somehow finds time to be an idealist and an operator.
Tweets: @somakc, @ericnewcomer, @ericnewcomer, @ericnewcomer, @robgo, @megan_hernbroth, and @semil
| Washington Post: |
Analysis: many right-wing personalities saw their followers surge on sites like Telegram, Gab, and Gettr after the January 6 riot, but growth has since stalled — After a short surge following the Jan. 6 riot last year, the number of people following noted right-wing personalities on services …
Tweets: @getongab, @inteltweet, @fraying, @coolfacejane, @justsomejoo, @verambergen, @owillis, and @codinghorror
| Alana Semuels / TIME: |
Intel commits $20B to build two semiconductor fabrication plants on a 1,000 acre site, employing ~3,000 people, on outskirts of Columbus, Ohio — The announcement comes amidst a push to increase domestic manufacturing of semiconductors. Partly because of enormous incentives offered …
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Reuters. Tweets: @emmajune, @bsrivastava, @ben_orner, @thedailyseeker, @themindscourge, @jmborchardt, @karenkasler, and @alanasemuels
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Prophecy, which lets data engineers build workflows by switching between a visual interface and a code editor, raises a $25M Series A led by Insight Partners — Prophecy, a low-code platform for data engineering, today announced that it has raised a $25 million Series A round led by Insight Partners.Sponsor Posts
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