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A number of women who believe they were tracked with AirTags say Apple's safeguards against stalking are insufficient (New York Times) TECH REVIEW
New York Times : A number of women who believe they were tracked with AirTag…
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Indian antitrust watchdog orders an investigation into Apple's practice of mandating use of its own payments system for iPhone apps in the App Store (Manish Singh/TechCrunch) TECH REVIEW
Manish Singh / TechCrunch : Indian antitrust watchdog orders an investigatio…
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South Korea to Develop Technology for Artificial Sun to Maintain 100 Million Degrees for 300 Seconds by 2026 SCIENCE South Korea to Develop Technology for Artificial Sun to Maintain 100 Million Degrees for 300 Seconds by 2026
The Korean government is planning to develop a technology for South Korea's…
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Tesla's software engineering expertise let it navigate the global chip shortage by rewriting software to use alternative chips in its cars (Rebecca Elliott/Wall Street Journal) TECH REVIEW
Rebecca Elliott / Wall Street Journal : Tesla's software engineering exp…
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MIT Engineers Test Idea to Keep Rovers Hovering in Air Using Moon’s Natural Charge SCIENCE MIT Engineers Test Idea to Keep Rovers Hovering in Air Using Moon’s Natural Charge
MIT researchers are trying a new concept to harness the Moon's natural char…
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Why Are There No Rainbows on Mars? NASA Expert Explains SCIENCE Why Are There No Rainbows on Mars? NASA Expert Explains
Are there rainbows on Mars? NASA decided to answer this questions in the latest…
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Mexico's central bank plans to issue its own digital currency by 2024, joining Brazil and Peru as Latin American countries working on developing CBDCs (Andrés Engler/CoinDesk) TECH REVIEW
Andrés Engler / CoinDesk : Mexico's central bank plans to issue its own …
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Devices running BlackBerry 10 or OS 7.1 and earlier will lose key services like calling, texting, data usage, and 911 access starting January 4 (Brad Linder/Liliputing) TECH REVIEW
Brad Linder / Liliputing : Devices running BlackBerry 10 or OS 7.1 and earli…
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African tech startups raised a record $4B+ in 2021, more than 2019 and 2020 combined, with more $100M+ rounds than ever before (Tage Kene-Okafor/TechCrunch) TECH REVIEW
Tage Kene-Okafor / TechCrunch : African tech startups raised a record $4B+ i…
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Umee, which is building a "cross chain DeFi hub" with interoperable tools that work across blockchains, raises $32M by selling its UMEE tokens (Aislinn Keely/The Block) TECH REVIEW
Aislinn Keely / The Block : Umee, which is building a “cross chain DeFi hub”…
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Samsung in Talks to Buy Alzheimer’s Drug Maker Biogen for $42 Billion: Report SCIENCE Samsung in Talks to Buy Alzheimer’s Drug Maker Biogen for $42 Billion: Report
Biogen shares surged following a report that Samsung is in talks to acquire the…
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South Korea tells Apple and Google to remove play-to-earn games, which require in-app purchases before playing, from their app stores (Brian Newar/Cointelegraph) TECH REVIEW
Brian Newar / Cointelegraph : South Korea tells Apple and Google to remove p…
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Elon Musk's SpaceX Raises Over $337 Million in Fresh Funding SCIENCE Elon Musk's SpaceX Raises Over $337 Million in Fresh Funding
Elon Musk's SpaceX has raised $337.4 million (roughly Rs. 2,515 crore) in e…
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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 (Paul Alcorn/Tom's Hardware) TECH REVIEW
Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware : Intel closes the first phase of the sale …
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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 (Reuters) TECH REVIEW
Reuters : Shares of SenseTime, China's most valuable AI startup, rose 23…
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Didi Global reports Q3 revenues of $6.6B, down 11.5% QoQ, and a net loss of $4.7B, as China's cybersecurity probe forced many of its apps to be taken down (Bloomberg) TECH REVIEW
Bloomberg : Didi Global reports Q3 revenues of $6.6B, down 11.5% QoQ, and a …
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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 (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer) TECH REVIEW
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer : T-Mobile confirms reports of a data breac…
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Chinese AI company SenseTime raises ~$700M in a Hong Kong IPO, below its $2B goal after pricing shares at the low end, after delaying its IPO earlier this month (Jacky Wong/Wall Street Journal) TECH REVIEW
Jacky Wong / Wall Street Journal : Chinese AI company SenseTime raises ~$700…
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Sources: Iranian hackers were behind the ransomware attack that took down some live streams for Cox radio and TV stations in early June (Catalin Cimpanu/The Record) TECH REVIEW
Catalin Cimpanu / The Record : Sources: Iranian hackers were behind the rans…
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DeBank, which lets users track and analyze their DeFi investments, raises $25M led by Sequoia China at a $200M valuation (Tanzeel Akhtar/CoinDesk) TECH REVIEW
Tanzeel Akhtar / CoinDesk : DeBank, which lets users track and analyze their…
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Biden signs the annual defense bill codifying voluntary cybersecurity frameworks for the private sector, which operates the bulk of US's critical infrastructure (Mariam Baksh/Nextgov) TECH REVIEW
Mariam Baksh / Nextgov : Biden signs the annual defense bill codifying volun…
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MetaMap, formerly Mati, which builds digital trust and reputation tools and APIs to help online services vet consumers, raises a $70M Series B (PYMNTS.com) TECH REVIEW
PYMNTS.com : MetaMap, formerly Mati, which builds digital trust and reputati…
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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 (Abner Li/9to5Google) TECH REVIEW
Abner Li / 9to5Google : Waymo partners with Chinese automotive company Geely…
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Adam Mosseri says in 2022 Instagram will "double down" on video, consolidate its video products around Reels, and focus on creators, transparency, and messaging (Kris Holt/Engadget) TECH REVIEW
Kris Holt / Engadget : Adam Mosseri says in 2022 Instagram will “double down…
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Some LastPass users say their master passwords were compromised and used in blocked login attempts from unknown IPs; LastPass blames "credential stuffing" (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer) TECH REVIEW
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer : Some LastPass users say their master pass…
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In a First, Scientists Measure Oscillations in the Brightness of a Massive Neutron Star During Eruption SCIENCE In a First, Scientists Measure Oscillations in the Brightness of a Massive Neutron Star During Eruption
An international group of scientists has tried to study a neutron star, which i…
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OneWeb Launches 36 Satellites Into Orbit to Deliver Global High-Speed Internet Access SCIENCE OneWeb Launches 36 Satellites Into Orbit to Deliver Global High-Speed Internet Access
OneWeb launched 36 communications satellites into space from the Baikonur cosmo…
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Riot Games agrees to pay $100M to settle a 2018 class-action gender discrimination lawsuit with current and former women employees and California state agencies (Shannon Liao/Washington Post) TECH REVIEW
Shannon Liao / Washington Post : Riot Games agrees to pay $100M to settle a …
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Indian neobank Jupiter raises a $86M Series C at a $711M valuation, up from ~$300M in August, as it prepares to launch lending and wealth management services (Manish Singh/TechCrunch) TECH REVIEW
Manish Singh / TechCrunch : Indian neobank Jupiter raises a $86M Series C at…
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Paradox, which makes Olivia, a conversational AI assistant for recruiting tasks like candidate screening, raises a $200M Series C at a $1.5B valuation (Andy Blye/Phoenix Business Journal) TECH REVIEW
Andy Blye / Phoenix Business Journal : Paradox, which makes Olivia, a conver…
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Ex-Tumblr iOS engineer details the company's difficulties with App Store adult content policies, as communication among reviewers, devs, and Apple is discordant (sreegs) TECH REVIEW
sreegs : Ex-Tumblr iOS engineer details the company's difficulties with A…
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Inside China's Logink, an expansive digital network for tracking global sea cargo that experts fear could give Beijing a commercial or strategic advantage (Daniel Michaels/Wall Street Journal) TECH REVIEW
Daniel Michaels / Wall Street Journal : Inside China's Logink, an expans…
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Scientists Find 'Largest Cluster' of Nearly 100 Free-Floating Planets in a Single Star-Forming Region SCIENCE Scientists Find 'Largest Cluster' of Nearly 100 Free-Floating Planets in a Single Star-Forming Region
Rogue planets have baffled astronomers for ages. Unlike regular planets which r…
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James Webb Space Telescope Successfully Carries Out Time-Critical Mid-Course Correction SCIENCE James Webb Space Telescope Successfully Carries Out Time-Critical Mid-Course Correction
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, which was launched on Christmas Day, had…
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James Webb Space Telescope Launched Successfully, Sets Off on Million-Mile Voyage SCIENCE James Webb Space Telescope Launched Successfully, Sets Off on Million-Mile Voyage
James Webb Space Telescope on December 25 blasted off into orbit, headed to an …
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While unable to meet analog chip demand, Texas Instruments hesitates to expand production capacity because of the industry's history of boom and bust cycles (Yang Jie/Wall Street Journal) TECH REVIEW
Yang Jie / Wall Street Journal : While unable to meet analog chip demand, Te…
