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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google releases the first Android 13 developer preview, emphasizing security and privacy, dynamic colors, and more, available exclusively on Pixels — Right on schedule, Google today announced the first developer release of Android 13. These very early releases, which are only meant …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Google says Samsung, OnePlus, Oppo, Vivo, Realme, Xiaomi, and others will adopt Android 12's dynamic color themes; currently, the feature is mostly on Pixels — One of Android 12's signature features is coming to more phones — Google's Material You dynamic color theming …
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| Hugh Son / CNBC: |
Binance invests $200M to help Forbes with its plan to go public via a SPAC in Q1 2022, making Binance one of Forbes' biggest two owners after its listing — - Binance, the world's biggest cryptocurrency exchange, is making a $200 million strategic investment in Forbes, the 104-year old magazine and digital publisher, CNBC has learned.
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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
The Senate Judiciary Committee advances the EARN IT Act, targeting Section 230 sexual exploitation content protections, despite numerous free speech concerns — Critics say the EARN IT Act would ‘make it far riskier for platforms to host user-generated content’
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| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
Senator Blumenthal admits the EARN IT Act won't “offer a blanket exemption to using encryption as evidence”, after denying for two years it targets encryption — Senator Richard Blumenthal has now admitted that EARN IT is targeting encryption, something he denied for two years, and then just out and said it.
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple plans AirTags updates to reduce stalking: Precision Finding for unknown AirTags, displaying alerts with sound, earlier tracking alerts, and louder sounds — Apple today announced that it is making some updates to AirTags with the aim of cutting down on unwanted tracking.
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Twitter misses with Q4 revenue of $1.57B, up 22% YoY, net income of $182M, down 18% YoY; 217M mDAUs, up from 192M YoY; FY 2021 revenue hit $5.08B, up 37% YoY — - Twitter reported earnings for the fourth quarter of 2021 Thursday that missed analyst estimates on earnings, revenue and user growth.
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| Catie Keck / The Verge: |
YouTube details creator updates: new video effects, editing capabilities, and monetization tools for Shorts, Shopping expansion, Studio improvements, and more — A lot of new features are in the works for 2022 — YouTube is expanding the ways creators can monetize their content …
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| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
Kioxia and WD report contamination at two NAND production factories, impacting up to 6.5EB of storage; TrendForce says NAND prices could rise 5%-10% in Q2 — Update 2/10/2022, 3am PT: Analyst firm TrendForce has now reported that the incident could cause NAND flash prices to spike 5 to 10% in Q2 … | Debby Wu / Bloomberg: |
Foxconn says there will be a major improvement in component shortages in Q1; TSMC and others have indicated shortages will continue through 2022 — The biggest assembler of iPhones said component shortages that have plagued electronics production for more than a year are showing signs of easing … | Reed Albergotti / Washington Post: |
Apple confirms it changes every ex-employee's job title to “associate” in job verification databases, after #AppleToo leader Cher Scarlett's SEC complaint — In job databases used by employers to verify resume information, every former Apple employee's title gets erased and replaced with a generic title
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Apple Music on Android beta code suggests Apple's classical music streaming service, coming in early 2022, is called Apple Classical — The latest beta version of Apple Music is rolling out on Android this evening with a very sizable upgrade to homescreen widgets, while possibly also revealing … | Stephanie Bodoni / Bloomberg: |
France's CNIL data regulator says Google Analytics fails to sufficiently protect EU citizens' data from potentially illegal US surveillance and could be banned — Alphabet Inc.'s Google Analytics doesn't sufficiently protect European Union citizens' data from potentially illegal U.S. surveillance and could be banned altogether.
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cnil.fr, TechCrunch, noyb.eu, Politico, Euractiv, Reuters, The Register, Forbes, Silicon Republic, and AppleInsider
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
References to “realityOS” appear to have briefly shown up again in Apple's code, this time in a GitHub repo; reports of a new AR headset OS date back to 2017 — The long-rumored Apple headset could have a new OS — Apple's long-rumored virtual or augmented reality headset might …
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ZDNet, XDA Developers, MacRumors, KnowTechie, PhoneArena, Tom's Guide, iPhone in Canada Blog, Mike's List, Ars Technica, AppleTrack, AppleInsider, and MacDailyNews
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
ShareChat and MX Player agree to merge Moj and MX TakaTak, a move that would create India's largest-short video platform; a source says the deal is worth $900M — Tiger Global-backed ShareChat and Times Internet-owned on-demand video streaming service MX Player have agreed to “strategically merge” …
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Salt Security, which develops AI-based software to protect API libraries from malicious use, raises a $140M Series D led by CapitalG at a $1.4B valuation — Salt Security, an API vulnerability and protection platform used by companies such as Equinix and Telefónica, has raised $140 million in a series D round of funding.
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| Mars W. Mosqueda Jr / DealStreetAsia: |
Philippine Digital Asset Exchange, which lets Filipinos buy and sell cryptocurrencies, raises a $50M+ Series B led by Tiger Global and says it has 500K users — Editor's note: An earlier version of this story pegged Tiger Global's latest investment in PDAX at $28.93 million and the Series B funds … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Superconductive, which is planning to release a commercial version of its Great Expectations open source data quality tool this year, raises a $40M Series B — Data quality — the practice of testing and ensuring that the data and data sets you are using are what you expect them to be …
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| Nikita Richardson / New York Times: |
How The Sims, which lets avatars eat or cook 300+ dishes, has evolved into a world where players can farm, forage, cook, and learn how people experience food — The 22-year-old life-simulation video game has evolved into a world where players can farm, forage, cook and learn about the many ways people experience food.
Tweets: @zoescaman, @tanyasic, @nikitarbk, @hamburger, @lilsimsie, @bykatherineross, @juliey4, and @thesims
| Wall Street Journal: |
The US Senate follows the House in approving a bill barring companies from using forced arbitration in sexual assault or harassment claims; Biden will sign it — Some lawmakers want to ban such clauses for other complaints, such as racial discrimination — WASHINGTON—Companies would no longer …
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| Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal: |
LinkedIn is testing a no-politics setting for some US users' feeds that filters out content about political parties and candidates, election outcomes, and more — CEO Ryan Roslansky lays out new features arriving on the professional networking platform, including a no-politics button and live video and audio events
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ZDNet, OnMSFT.com, Input, Newslit Daily, KnowTechie, The Overspill, and Fortune
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Micropsi, which trains industrial robots to perform actions using human demonstrations, raises $30M led by Metaplanet, bringing its total raised to $45M — As the pandemic places an increasing strain on the supply chain, manufacturers and warehouse operators are piloting … | Michael Wayland / CNBC: |
Alfa Romeo plans to mint an NFT for each of its new Tonale SUVs to record vehicle data and verify proper maintenance on a blockchain during the car's life cycle — - Alfa Romeo's new subcompact Tonale SUV will include a NFT and blockchain technology, the company said Tuesday.Sponsor Posts
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