Microsoft won't block users from getting Windows 11 on most old PCs if they install using ISO files, but they won't get Windows Updates, including security ones
Windows 11 will run on older CPUs — Microsoft is announcing today that it won't block people from installing Windows 11 on most older PCs.
Apple's “clarifications” as part of its settlement will not make much of a difference in the long run for developers or to how the App Store actually works
Apple isn't changing how the App Store works because Apple doesn't want it to change — Apple made waves this week …
[Thread] Hopscotch CEO details the rejection of a minor app update in the App Store and says this was “not even her worst run-in” with Apple's App Review team
oh, thank you so much Apple for that privilege. Apple is committing not to shoot down any carrier pigeons bringing word of outside-of-apps payment mechanisms. Unless the users don't opt-in to carrier ...
New research suggests the internet is not making people who engage in political discussions online more aggressive, but makes their behavior more visible
New research suggests that the internet is not responsible for making people become more aggressive when engaging in political discussions online … Source: PsyArXiv Preprints .
Kuo: iPhone 13 hardware specifications could support LEO satellite communications; Apple may work with Globalstar to enable connectivity when not in 4G/5G range
The iPhone 13 will feature low earth orbit (LEO) satellite communication connectivity to allow users to make calls and send messages …
Filing in AGs' lawsuit against Google: the Play Store hit revenues of $11.2B in 2019, with $8.5B in gross profit and an operating margin of over 62%
Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) Google generated $11.2 billion in revenue from its mobile app store in 2019, according to a court filing unsealed on Saturday …
China starts a two-month campaign to crack down on websites and social media accounts that post financial information that “maliciously bad-mouths” its economy
China kicked off a two-month campaign to crack down on commercial platforms and social media accounts …
Interview with Apple engineer Cher Scarlett, who has become the face of the #AppleToo movement, a group that wants to shed light on workplace issues at Apple
Anna Kramer / Protocol :
The City of Chicago sues DoorDash and Grubhub for allegedly deceiving customers and using unfair business practices
- The City of Chicago filed two sweeping lawsuits against DoorDash and Grubhub for allegedly deceiving customers and using unfair business practices.
The House select committee investigating the January 6 riot demands records from Facebook, Twitter, Google, Reddit, TikTok, and other tech companies
Kevin Breuninger / CNBC :
Amazon partners with Affirm to roll out monthly installments for purchases over $50 to some US customers; Affirm stock is up ~30% after hours
Kate Rooney / CNBC :
CryptoSlam: CryptoPunks, an NFT platform with 10K pixel portraits, crossed $1B in transaction volume, with the cheapest artwork available for sale costing $450K
Hello friends, and welcome back to Week in Review! Last week we dove into Bezos's Blue Origin suing NASA.
China plans to implement rules to control the recommendation algorithms tech companies use, forbidding practices that “encourage addiction or high consumption”
Tel Aviv-based startup Hour One is paying people to use their likenesses to create AI-voiced characters for marketing and educational videos for its clients
AI-powered characters based on real people can star in thousands of videos and say anything, in any language. Tweets: @strwbilly , @timsowula , @pomeranian99 , @carolhtucker , @giano , @funnymonkey , ...
EU's data protection supervisor recommends that personal data such as search queries and browsing history should not be used for the assessment of credit scores
The European Union's lead data protection supervisor has recommended on Thursday that personal data such as search queries … Tweets: @carnage4life , @cubicleapril , @hypervisible , and @campuscodi Twe...
Interview with a16z General Partner Martin Casado as the company rolls out a new $400M fund focused on seed investments
again Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE : Andreessen Horowitz launches new $400M seed fund Jacquelyn Melinek / Blockworks : a16z Launches $400M Seed Fund To Expand Into New Technology Biz Carson / Protoc...
Analysis: a record 19 fintech startups in Europe have become unicorns in 2021 so far, bringing the total number of fintech unicorns on the continent to 39
At the start of 2021, Europe had just one decacorn—a startup valued at $10 billion or more—in the fintech sector to speak of … Tweets: @nicholaskatz and @chris_skinner Tweets: Nick Katz / @nicholaskat...
Didi, which grew by moving in regulatory gray zones before the US IPO, became a bellwether for how far China is ready to go in Big Tech crackdowns
Didi pushed the limits and thrived in legal gray areas. Until China cracked down. — China's leading ride-hailing company, Didi … Tweets: @zhonggg and @liyuan6 Tweets: Raymond Zhong / @zhonggg : Did...
Unity acquires OTO, an AI voice chat analysis company, and releases a report that found ~70% of players have experienced toxic behavior while gaming online
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat : Source: Business Wire and Unity Technologies .
Customer-relations management software provider Freshworks files for an IPO, looking to raise $100M; Freshworks was last valued at $3.5B in 2019
Bloomberg :
BlueCity, owner of China's biggest gay dating app Blued, is navigating a precarious environment for LGBTQI orgs by positioning itself as a sexual health service
and thriving https://restofworld.org/... @aurorachaang : great article by @decka227 and @WilliamYang120 on bluecity, a chinese lgbtq tech company. in order to survive, they have to avoid being mistake...
Chinese AI startup SenseTime files for IPO in Hong Kong two years after being blacklisted by Trump; sources say it is looking to raise at least $2B
Chad Bray / South China Morning Post :
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.
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Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
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