Fortnite servers are back online after a major five-hour outage prevented players from logging on, among other issues
The hit battle royale game told players “You do not have permission to play Fortnite.” — There was some bad news if you're on winter break and hoping to play some Fortnite …
South Korea tells Apple and Google to remove play-to-earn games, which require in-app purchases before playing, from their app stores
The Games Committee has strengthened its stance against P2E games by saying those games should not receive an age rating needed to get listed on app marketplaces.
Six women who work at Foxconn's Indian iPhone plant describe crowded dorms and food crawling with worms, which sickened 250+ workers, leading to protests
For women who assembled iPhones at a Foxconn plant in southern India, crowded dorms without flush toilets and food sometimes crawling …
HDMI Forum will introduce HDMI 2.1a, the latest standard, at CES 2022, with minor updates that only further complicate the system's haphazard device support
Brace yourself for yet another new HDMI standard — The HDMI standards are a mess. HDMI 2.1, in particular, is a uniquely frustrating mess …
As the US faces record COVID-19 infections, effective use of exposure notification apps is unlikely, given slow adoption and poor data on their efficacy
The United States is grappling with record-high infections, but adoption of the system is still far behind what its creators and proponents envisioned
Some LastPass users say their master passwords were compromised and used in blocked login attempts from unknown IPs; LastPass blames “credential stuffing”
what to do Lee Mathews / Forbes : LastPass Users Warned After Suspicious Login Attempts From Strange Locations Chris Smith / BGR : LastPass says there's no data breach, so your passwords were not hack...
Samsung cuts output at its two fabs in Xi'an, China, which account for 42.5% of its NAND production volume, amid COVID-19 lockdown; Micron output also affected
Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) and Micron Technology (MU.O), two of the world's largest memory chip makers …
Intel closes the first phase of the sale of its SSD and NAND businesses to SK hynix and says SK hynix's Solidigm subsidiary will operate the Dalian fab in China
Intel and SK hynix seal the first phase of the deal. — Intel announced this evening that it has closed the first phase …
Apptopia: Amazon ranked #4 in global shopping app installs in 2021, down from first in 2020, as e-commerce apps Shopee and Shein rose to #1 and #2, respectively
Amazon's leading position in U.S. e-commerce is well-documented, but the latest global rankings for app installs show the potential …
How tech founders and investors use the Qualified Small Business Stock tax break, a 1990s-era provision for SMBs, to minimize taxes on their investment profits
Fingers crossed, omicron will be the variant that gets us to the endemic stage of Covid. Tweets: Eric Geller / @ericgeller : Blood-boiling stuff here. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/....
T-Mobile confirms reports of a data breach caused by SIM swap attacks on a “very small number of customers”, following six other data breaches since 2018
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China plans to become a global innovation hub for robotics by 2025; its manufacturing robot density in 2020 was 246 per 10,000 people, double the global average
Chinese robotics market is projected to expand at 20% through to 2025, when the government is aiming to double manufacturing robot density …
Web3 game Axie Infinity's play-to-earn model blurs the lines between “player” and “worker”, creating a Ponzi scheme with built-in deniability
I came across a couple of interesting things today … Raphael Sebban / Bricks & Stones : The Metaverse: A Breakdown of The Current Landscape Tweets: @trubloeu : Gamers have a word, grinding, to describ...
Waymo partners with Chinese automotive company Geely to bring a “rider-first” EV with no steering wheel to its US robotaxi Waymo One fleet in the coming years
Google, Microsoft, and Oracle invest in potential cloud clients to beat AWS; Google claims 6% cloud market share, behind AWS at 41% and Microsoft at 20%
Alphabet company and others invest in potential clients as they look to close gap with Amazon in fast-growing sector
Adam Mosseri says in 2022 Instagram will “double down” on video, consolidate its video products around Reels, and focus on creators, transparency, and messaging
Autonomous trucking startup TuSimple says its semi truck completed an 80-mile route in Arizona without a human on board and no human intervention
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OneCard, which offers an app-based card to help users in India build credit, raises a $75M Series C at a $722M post-money valuation, following a $35M Series B
Mobile-first credit card company OneCard has scooped up $75 million in a new round led by existing investor QED Fund.
Didi Global reports Q3 revenue of $6.6B, down 13%+ QoQ, and a net loss of $4.7B, as China's cybersecurity probe forced it to take down many of its apps
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Research: Binance Coin (BNB), the third largest digital token by market value, Solana, and Fantom gained over 1,000% in 2021; BTC gained 65% and ETH gained 408%
- Binance's BNB surged as Binance Smart Chain rivaled Ethereum — Smaller alt coins also saw returns upward of 1,000% this year
Shares of SenseTime, China's most valuable AI startup, rose 23% in early trading, after the company raised $740M in its Hong Kong IPO at a $16.4B valuation
Sources: following Haugen's leaks, Meta sought to divide lawmakers along partisan lines to forestall regulation, as Zuckerberg told employees not to apologize
> efforts to divide lawmakers along partisan lines and muddy the waters, sources say. https://www.wsj.com/... team effort w/ @keachhagey @georgia_wells @dseetharaman @JeffHorwitz @newley @samschech
DeBank, which lets users track and analyze their DeFi investments, raises $25M led by Sequoia China at a $200M valuation
Six of the 10 best-performing South Korean stocks in 2021 are linked to the metaverse or NFTs, including Wemade Max, up 1,500%, and Giantstep, up 1,200%
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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.
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