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
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
but I love what they are doing with their Oversight Board (even if it's a CYA move & 10 years too late). https://twitter.com/... Brooke Binkowski / @brooklynmarie : Just in time for the 2016, I mean 2...
Alphabet says that it is shutting down Loon, its internet balloon project, calling it “a successful experiment” but not a viable one
Plus: The moonshot's launch, health care for the mask-less, and a new era's inaugural meme. — DO you detect something missing?
Sources: Apple is working on a thinner and lighter 13-inch high-end MacBook Air with MagSafe charging and next-gen processors to launch as soon as this year
Apple Inc. is working on a thinner and lighter version of the MacBook Air, the company's mass-market laptop, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
Intel says it's investigating the leak of an infographic related to its Q4 earnings report, which prompted its release ahead of stock market close on Thu.
Breach forces chipmaker to release earnings early — Intel said it was the victim of a hacker who stole financially sensitive information …
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
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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.
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.
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, ...
Sources: Samsung is considering building a $10B chipmaking plant in Texas, a major investment it hopes will help it catch up with industry leader TSMC
- It's looking to build a cutting-edge wafer fab in the U.S. — It would follow TSMC's decision to build a new site in Arizona
AWS will maintain an open source fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana, after criticism from Elastic which changed its licensing terms to monetize cloud-service use
Fed up with what he sees as unfair competition from AWS, Elastic CEO Shay Banon felt he had no choice but to restrict …
Facebook's Oversight Board decision on Trump's suspension will set important precedents for online deplatforming and for the Board's long-term legitimacy
meaning, even if they uphold the decision to suspend, the way they handle the case, decide on their jurisdiction, and consider the breadth of the issue presented will be important going forward. https...
Google signs an agreement with French publishers to create a framework of payment for snippet reuse and has reached agreements with three major newspapers
FOSS Patents' Florian Mueller files a complaint with US and EU antitrust authorities after Google and Apple reject his COVID-19-related game
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A German app developer has filed a complaint with European Union antitrust authorities against Google and Apple …
Aside from Facebook Oversight Board's binding decision on Trump, Nick Clegg says it'll be interesting if it has guidance for similar situations in the future
Facebook's decision to ask its new independent Oversight Board to review the company's indefinite suspension of former President Trump …
Biden designates Jessica Rosenworcel, currently a Democratic commissioner at the FCC, as acting chairwoman of the agency
Internal memo: Facebook's Andrew Bosworth told staff in Dec. 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
IBM reports Q4 revenue of $20.37B, down 6% YoY, vs $20.67B est., Cloud and Cognitive Software revenue, which includes Red Hat, was $6.84B, down 5% YoY
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Six MEPs file complaint alleging European parliament's COVID-19 testing site transferred personal data to the US without valid legal basis
both members of the Pirate Party, in Germany and the Czech Republic respectively." https://twitter.com/... Noyb / @noybeu : “The European Parliament is being investigated by the EU's lead data regulat...
Tastytrade, a Chicago-based online brokerage and financial media company, to be acquired by UK's IG Group in a deal worth over $1B in cash and stock
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Raspberry Pi Foundation launches $4 Pico, a tiny microcontroller for hardware projects that uses Raspberry Pi's own RP2040 chip
16MB of flash is great for storing models and buffering data, and WiFi/BT is super helpful for collecting data during development. Thoughtful product design 💙 https://twitter.com/... @mayermakes : loo...
NASA has discovered dozens of fresh craters on Mars by using an AI to analyze orbital image data, a promising new method to study planets in our solar system
Daniel Oberhaus / Wired : Tweets: @daamitt , @brianroemmele , and @wired Tweets: Amit Bhor / @daamitt : I'm hungry and read this as “fresh caterers”. https://twitter.com/... Brian Roemmele / @brianro...
Dating Group, which says it has 73M registered users, acquires Once, a Swiss-based app which leverages AI to provide one match per day to each user, for €14.9M
Dating Group, one of the largest companies in the dating industry with 73 million registered users across its portfolio …
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
we've been increasingly funding companies all around the country and lately the world for 6 years now https://twitter.com/...
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
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
Marques Brownlee, aka MKBHD, on starting and scaling one of the biggest YouTube tech channels to 13.5M subscribers, day-to-day work, and future of his business
Nilay Patel / The Verge : Tweets: @reneritchie Tweets: Rene Ritchie / @reneritchie : You can listen to @reckless talk YouTube with @MKBHD... https://www.theverge.com/... ...And then @MKBHD @AndyManga...
Hackers and hobbyists have deployed facial recognition on Parler videos taken at the Capitol on Jan. 6, showing the democratization of facial recognition tech
Joseph Cox / VICE :
Report: 70% of Americans now have access to a broadband plan costing $60 or less, up from 52% at the end of 2019
Joanna Nelius / Gizmodo :
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
> https://www.theinformation.com/ ...
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
Ashley Carman / The Verge : Tweets: @quinnypig , @thebyroncraig , @jake_k , and @ashleyrcarman See also Mediagazer Tweets: Corey Quinn / @quinnypig : Weird, almost like podcasters want to vet the spo...
Singapore-based iSTOX, a digital securities service that lets users make private equity investments as small as $75.50, raises $50M Series A
Catherine Shu / TechCrunch :
Omnipresent, which helps companies hire remote workers in 150 countries, raises $15.8M Series A, five months after raising a $2M seed round
Mike Butcher / TechCrunch : Tweets: @matthewclifford and @jonnyclifford Tweets: Matt Clifford / @matthewclifford : Congratulations to the amazing @TeamOmnipresent on their Series A just 5 months afte...
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
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch :
Bluesky, Twitter's decentralized social networking project, releases a review of the existing decentralized web ecosystem, says it still seeks a project lead
Adi Robertson / The Verge :
Polish postal locker service InPost prices shares at €14 to €16, suggesting a valuation of €7B-€8B, as it seeks to raise as much as €3.2B in its Amsterdam IPO
Georges, which develops software to automate accounting tasks for freelancers and small businesses, raises €35M and rebrands to Indy
Shopify's new AI commerce stack
Their VP of Product digs into just-launched products to help entrepreneurs and developers build with the latest AI and tech.
Email fatigue is real: Here's how smart email tools help you regain control
Picture this: It's Monday morning. You walk into the office feeling energized and ready to take on the week.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.