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| Monica Chin / The Verge: |
Apple debuts Mac Studio, designed like a taller Mac mini, with M1 Max or Ultra, front and back ports, up to 128GB of memory, and support for four 6K displays — It's a Mac Mini but way more powerful — Apple has announced the Mac Studio, a desktop system that looks like the Mac Mini …
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| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
Apple details M1 Ultra, replacing the M1 Max as the top M1 chip, with 114B transistors, 128GB of unified memory, 16 performance cores, and four efficiency cores — Apple rocked the computing world with its M1 chip, the first “Apple Silicon” hardware that turned the MacBook Air, Mac Mini and other computers into portable powerhouses.
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| Ryan Smith / AnandTech: |
An in-depth look at Apple's M1 Ultra: combines two M1 Max chips using UltraFusion, 800GB/second memory bandwidth, 64 GPU cores to exceed the RTX 3090, and more — As part of Apple's spring “Peek Performance” product event this morning, Apple unveiled the fourth and final member of the M1 family of Apple Silicon SoCs, the M1 Ultra.
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Apple says the Mac Studio starts at $1,999 with an M1 Max and at $3,999 with an M1 Ultra; the Studio Display costs $1,599 — Mac Studio with M1 Max and the new M1 Ultra delivers unprecedented performance and extensive connectivity in an incredibly compact design
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple announces an updated iPhone SE with 5G, an A15 Bionic, the classic Touch ID home button design, a 12MP camera, and more, shipping on March 18 for $429 — Apple has officially announced it's all-new iPhone SE with an A15 Bionic chip. The design is the same as the previous-generation iPhone SE.
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| Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
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| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
Twitter launches a Tor onion service using a modified version of the Enterprise Onion Toolkit, letting users access Twitter via any Tor-compatible browser — The site may become the most significant onion service created if it allows people to access Twitter from censored countries. — Joseph Cox
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| Andrew Duehren / Wall Street Journal: |
Biden will sign an EO instructing federal agencies to study the risks posted by digital assets, such as undermining sanctions, and investigate a digital dollar — Federal agencies to explore financial and environmental concerns and inform regulatory action
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| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Better.com lays off 3,000+ employees in the US and India, citing “current market conditions”; some staff learned of layoffs after early rollout of severance pay — The mass layoffs at digital mortgage lender Better.com have reportedly started, according to employees and other sources …
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| Claire Fahy / New York Times: |
Weight Watchers agree to pay a $1.5M penalty for illegally collecting personal information from kids without parental consent through its Kurbo app — Kurbo by WW, a weight loss app geared toward children, illegally collected data from users as young as 8 without their parents' consent …
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Federal Trade Commission, Protocol, The Guardian, and CyberScoop
Tweets: @emilyrpeck, @paulmschwartz, @lyssaslounge, @privacymatters, @iethics, and @linakhanftc
| Washington Post: |
As Western tech companies react to sanctions, Russian streamers on Twitch, gig workers on Upwork, and creators on OnlyFans have all lost their livelihoods — When Arina, a 22-year-old illustrator in Russia, first started using the freelance work platform Upwork last year, it changed her life.
Tweets: @techwontsaveus
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Kuo: the 2022 MacBook Air will have a new form factor, an M1 chip, no mini-LED display, more color options, and is slated for production in late Q2 or Q3 2022 — Following today's event that saw the introduction of the Mac Studio, respected Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has provided some detail …
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Tweets: @mingchikuo, @chancehmiller, @tme_michael, @kevin_noon, and @nilsahrde
| Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: |
Two Austrian entrepreneurs acquire LimeWire, the controversial music sharing service shuttered in 2010, and plan to relaunch it as a music-focused NFT service — A pair of serial entrepreneurs in Austria has bought the rights to defunct music platform LimeWire with plans to revamp its image …
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The Block, Tech.eu, CNBC, Decrypt, Reuters, and Engadget
Tweets: @psawers, @sam_l_shead, @ryan_browne_, and @emilyjnicolle
| Karen Weise / New York Times: |
Amazon stops letting customers in Russia and Belarus open AWS accounts; AWS says its biggest customers in Russia are multinational firms with local dev teams — The policy change for Amazon Web Services started over the weekend but was not publicly announced until Tuesday.
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Washington Post and Silicon Republic
Tweets: @zdroberts, @awscloud, @amanda_m_macias, and @anadoluagency
| Richard Lawler / The Verge: |
After experiencing outages on Tuesday, Spotify and Discord say their services have been restored — Unrelated issues disconnected both services this afternoon — If you can't connect to Spotify or Discord, then no, it's not just you or your internet connection. Both services acknowledged problems on Tuesday afternoon.
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Android Police and The Spotify Community
Tweets: @spotifystatus, @discord, @spotifystatus, @discord, @caseynewton, @c4stamere, @eastdakota, @rndygffe, @markdecarlo, @taradublinrocks, @foxxfiles, @mashable, and @rjcc
| Patricia Nilsson / Financial Times: |
The UK government expands the Online Safety Bill to compel social media services and search engines to restrict fraudulent ads, including “catfishing” scams — Social media and search engines would have to prevent and remove fraudulent ads — The UK is to clamp down on online scams and …
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Tweets: @whichuk, @damianhinds, @nadinedorries, @mattnavarra, @janelytv, and @moneysavingexp
| The Economic Times: |
Indian startup Money View, which offers financial services including BNPL, raises a $75M Series D from Tiger Global and others at a $625M valuation — Bengaluru: Online financial services provider, Money View said it has raised $75 million in a fresh round of funding from Tiger Global, Winter Capital, Evolvence India, and Accel.
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FinSMEs, PR Newswire, Entrackr, and Livemint
| Sarah Emerson / BuzzFeed News: |
How Denton, Texas, which is $140M in debt after a 2021 winter storm, agreed to a crypto mine at its natural gas power plant for millions in annual revenue — A 2021 winter storm overwhelmed Denton's power grid, pushing the city into crushing debt. Then a faceless company arrived with a promise …
Tweets: @sarahnemerson and @documentingbtc
| Brian Steinberg / Variety: |
Apple announces Friday Night Baseball on Apple TV+, comprising two exclusive Major League Baseball games every week — Apple has snared rights to a Friday-night package of Major League Baseball games, extending Silicon Valley's reach into the world of sports.
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| Mathew Di Salvo / Decrypt: |
The SEC charges two siblings with defrauding investors out of $124M through their Ormeus Coin offering, alleging they acted as “modern-day snake-oil salesmen” — The “ground-breaking digital money system” Ormeus Coin was actually a scam, the SEC alleges. — In briefSponsor Posts
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