GSC Game World decides to “cancel anything NFT-related” in its game Stalker 2 after fans criticize its plans for in-game NFTs in partnership with DMarket
It hasn't been a great week for the GSC Game World team — STALKER 2 developers GSC Game World announced yesterday that they'd be adding NFTs to the game.
TikTok says it is removing “alarmist warnings” about a supposed day of school violence that prompted some US districts to cancel classes on Friday
It hasn't found any videos threatening school violence on Friday, the company said — TikTok said Friday that it's working to remove …
Disney fails to reach a deal with YouTube TV, removing 17+ channels including ABC, Disney, ESPN, Freeform, and FX; YouTube TV drops its price to $49.99/month
After a year of bitter disputes with its partners, YouTube TV just took a gut-punch from one of the entertainment world's biggest titans.
JPMorgan Chase will pay fines of $125M to the SEC and $75M to the CFTC for letting some employees use WhatsApp and other unapproved channels to conduct business
JPMorgan Chase has agreed to pay a $125 million penalty for allowing employees on Wall Street to use smartphone apps …
Two Egyptians living in exile had their iPhones compromised in June 2021 using Predator spyware built by North Macedonian developer Cytrox
Meta bans seven surveillance-for-hire groups, including Cytrox, removing over 1,500 Facebook and Instagram accounts and alerting 50K users who were targeted
Cytrox is one of seven surveillance companies now banned from Meta's platforms — While NSO Group was taking flak for hacking …
TikTok partners with Virtual Dining Concepts to launch TikTok Kitchen, a food delivery service based on viral trends, starting with 300 US locations in March
The video platform is teaming up with Virtual Dining Concepts to deliver those viral foods across the country. Baked feta pasta, anyone?
India's antitrust watchdog CCI suspends Amazon's $200M investment in Future Group and fines Amazon ~$27M for concealing facts while seeking regulatory approval
India's antitrust agency suspended Amazon.com's (AMZN.O) 2019 deal with Future Group on Friday, potentially denting …
How Amazon grew its business in China, including partnering with a government propaganda arm for a books section on Amazon US, AWS-related concessions, and more
Amazon.com Inc was marketing a collection of President Xi Jinping's speeches and writings on its Chinese website about two years ago … Tweets: @neerajka , @aliceysu , @dhakatribune , @_woifgang , @the...
AI language models like GPT-3 can achieve up to 97% accuracy on some Winograd schemas, but understanding language doesn't equate to understanding the world
It's simple enough for AI to seem to comprehend data, but devising a true test of a machine's knowledge has proved difficult.
Windows 11 preview builds signal the end of the Control Panel by moving some settings, including for networks, devices, and app uninstalls, to the Settings app
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A look at Russia's efforts to censor Western social media with fines and takedown requests, as most posts Russia wanted removed in 2021 were pro-Navalny content
Google and Meta face the threat of multi-million-dollar fines for failing to delete content that the Russian government considers illegal … Tweets: @biannagolodryga , @jpmarthoz , and @fujiiponta Twee...
The CFPB probes buy now, pay later practices of Affirm, Afterpay, PayPal, Klarna, and Zip, citing concerns over customers' debt accumulation and data harvesting
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Sources: China is expanding its practice of taking minority stakes in private Chinese tech companies to include firms possessing large amounts of key data
The Chinese government has been expanding its practice of taking minority stakes in private companies beyond those specialising … Tweets: @hraleighspeaks Tweets: Helen Raleigh / @hraleighspeaks : The ...
BandLab, a Singapore-based music creation platform letting artists collaborate and engage with fans, raises a $53M Series B at a $303M post-money valuation
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Ophelia, whose telemedicine platform helps treat people struggling with opioid addiction, raises $50M led by Tiger Global at a $275M valuation
Digital health startup Ophelia has raised $50 million in a funding round led by Tiger Global to beef up its telemedicine platform that provides treatment … Tweets: @meetophelia Tweets: Ophelia / @meet...
ByteDance launches Douyin Box, a fashion-focused shopping app in China akin to its Fanno app in Europe, betting on the Gen Z trend of buying on influencer tips
The stand-alone Douyin Box app signals that ByteDance, the world's most valuable start-up, is betting big on e-commerce in China …
TSMC unveils N4X, a fab process it says enables up to 15% higher clock speeds over N5 and is useful for high-performance computing, such as server CPUs and SoCs
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Thoma Bravo plans to acquire Bottomline Technologies in an all-cash deal valuing the business payments company at ~$2.6B, and take it private
Eight mobile games passed $1B in global revenue on the App Store and Google Play so far in 2021; PUBG Mobile and Honor of Kings led with $2.8B each
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Sigma Computing, which offers no-code, cloud data analytics tools, raises a $300M Series C co-led by D1 Capital and XN, bringing its total funding to $381.3M
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US software executives have cashed in hundreds of millions of dollars of stock this year, as the SEC looks to tighten rules around sales by insiders
Financial Times : Tweets: @jessefelder Tweets: Jesse Felder / @jessefelder : ‘While the spate of selling has made the software sector stand out, the founders of some of the most valuable tech compani...
Sources: California's civil rights regulator is investigating Google's treatment of Black female workers following allegations of harassment and discrimination
Legacy, an NFT-powered game by Peter Molyneux's 22cans studio and Gala Games planned for next year, raises $54M in virtual land NFT sales in less than a week
Dedrone, which lets governments, airports, stadiums, prisons, and others detect and track drones, raises a $30.5M Series C led by Axon
Sources: Google delayed the US launch of News Showcase, live in 14 countries, to at least Q1 2022 as pubs find the offers underwhelming and doubt its efficacy
William Turvill / Press Gazette : Tweets: @newsalliance , @davidclinchnews , and @tomnamako See also Mediagazer Tweets: @newsalliance : .@NewsCEO tells @pressgazette: “We don't know what has been off...
Fable, which provides a social reading platform for online book clubs, raises a $20M Series A led by Tiger Global
The US bans investing in eight Chinese companies, including DJI and Megvii, for their alleged involvement in surveilling Uyghurs and other minority groups
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