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Facebook's NPE division launches BARS, a TikTok-like app for rappers to create and share their raps using professionally created beats, in closed beta (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Facebook's NPE division launches BARS, a TikTok-like app for rappers t...

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Shockingly real deepfakes of Tom Cruise are going viral on TikTok, with the account deeptomcruise amassing 200K+ followers in a few days (Marlow Stern/The Daily Beast)

Shockingly real deepfakes of Tom Cruise are going viral on TikTok, wit...

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Treasury secretary Janet Yellen told G20 ministers that US will drop its "safe harbor" provision for tech companies, allowing a global deal on digital tax (Financial Times)

Treasury secretary Janet Yellen told G20 ministers that US will drop i...

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Inside Google Stadia's failure as sources say it missed targets for controller sales and MAUs by hundreds of thousands after spending tens of millions on games (Jason Schreier/Bloomberg)

Inside Google Stadia's failure as sources say it missed targets for co...

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Fi, whose connected dog collars send users notifications when their dogs travel out of AI-determined geofenced areas, raises $30M Series B at a $200M valuation (Brian Heater/TechCrunch)

Fi, whose connected dog collars send users notifications when their do...

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Twitter's Super Follows represent a surge of interest in tools that let individuals create real economic value for themselves on social networks (Casey Newton/Platformer)

Twitter's Super Follows represent a surge of interest in tools that le...

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Best Buy says it laid off 5,000 workers and will close more stores as it expects 40% of sales to come from online purchases this year, up from 19% two years ago (Nathaniel Meyersohn/CNN)

Best Buy says it laid off 5,000 workers and will close more stores as ...

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Stori, which offers credit cards in Mexico through its app, raises 32.5M Series B led by Lightspeed, bringing its total raised to $50M (Mary Ann Azevedo/TechCrunch)

Stori, which offers credit cards in Mexico through its app, raises 32....

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More than a dozen current and ex-Amazon corporate employees say its Black staff often face direct and insidious bias that harms their careers and personal lives (Jason Del Rey/Vox)

More than a dozen current and ex-Amazon corporate employees say its Bl...

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European smartphone market shrank by 14% YoY in 2020, with Xiaomi up 85% and Huawei down 62%; Apple hit record market share of 30% in Q4 helped by iPhone 12 (Jan Stryjak/Counterpoint Research)

European smartphone market shrank by 14% YoY in 2020, with Xiaomi up 8...

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Apple begins showing a repair index for devices like the iPhone and Mac in France, due to local regulations set by the Minister of Ecological Transition (Filipe Espósito/9to5Mac)

Apple begins showing a repair index for devices like the iPhone and Ma...

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Google debuts Sleep API which uses a phone's light and motion sensors and on-device AI to generate data which developers can use to build wellness apps (Abner Li/9to5Google)

Google debuts Sleep API which uses a phone's light and motion sensors ...

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Microsoft says it is investigating a major Xbox Live service outage that is preventing some users from signing in or making purchases (Ry Crist/CNET)

Microsoft says it is investigating a major Xbox Live service outage th...

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Facebook is rolling out an opt-in feature, allowing "Hey Facebook" to be used as a wake word for its Portal displays and Oculus Quest platform (Cameron Faulkner/The Verge)

Facebook is rolling out an opt-in feature, allowing "Hey Facebook" to ...

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Facebook's Andrew Bosworth told staff that Facebook is considering building facial recognition into future smart glasses products, weighing legal implications (Ryan Mac/BuzzFeed News)

Facebook's Andrew Bosworth told staff that Facebook is considering bui...

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Facebook responds to the Oversight Board's 17 recommendations and commits to action on 11 of them, most of which focus on increasing transparency (Karissa Bell/Engadget)

Facebook responds to the Oversight Board's 17 recommendations and comm...

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Hyas, which maps the "command and control" structure and communication patterns of bad actors to intercept cyberattacks, raises $16M Series B (Chris O'Brien/VentureBeat)

Hyas, which maps the "command and control" structure and communication...

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Amazon-owned Twitch bans Amazon's anti-union ads, saying they should never have been allowed to run on the service (Matthew Gault/VICE)

Amazon-owned Twitch bans Amazon's anti-union ads, saying they should n...

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Twitter announces Super Follow feature to let users charge for tweets, and a Communities feature to let users create and join groups based on specific interests (Jacob Kastrenakes/The Verge)

Twitter announces Super Follow feature to let users charge for tweets,...

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First House antitrust hearing of the new Congress saw bipartisan agreement on antitrust reforms, including on reforming burden of proof in merger cases (Emily Birnbaum/Protocol)

First House antitrust hearing of the new Congress saw bipartisan agree...

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Twitter reveals Super Follow, a feature that will let users get exclusive content, deals, and community access to creators for $4.99/month, and a groups feature (Michael Potuck/9to5Mac)

Twitter reveals Super Follow, a feature that will let users get exclus...

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Cybersecurity experts and US lawmakers criticize Amazon for a lack of public transparency about the SolarWinds hack, which was likely launched using AWS (Wall Street Journal)

Cybersecurity experts and US lawmakers criticize Amazon for a lack of ...

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Otter.ai, which offers an AI-based transcription service, raises $50M Series B, including $10M in convertible notes, led by Spectrum Equity (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

Otter.ai, which offers an AI-based transcription service, raises $50M ...

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Sorare, an ethereum-powered marketplace for creating and trading football NFTs, raises $50M Series A led by Benchmark (Yogita Khatri/The Block)

Sorare, an ethereum-powered marketplace for creating and trading footb...

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US private equity firm Francisco Partners acquires online genealogy tracking pioneer MyHeritage, source says for $600M (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

US private equity firm Francisco Partners acquires online genealogy tr...

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Doubtnut, which helps students learn about math and science concepts using short videos, raises $31M Series B led by James Murdoch's Lupa Systems and SIG (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

Doubtnut, which helps students learn about math and science concepts u...

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Amazon is sending postal mail to warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alabama urging them to "VOTE NO" on unionization, and has also pushed anti-union ads on Twitch (Lauren Kaori Gurley/VICE)

Amazon is sending postal mail to warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alabam...

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Beijing joins Hong Kong, Thailand, and the UAE to explore cross-border payments for digital currencies, like the digital yuan (Coco Feng/South China Morning Post)

Beijing joins Hong Kong, Thailand, and the UAE to explore cross-border...

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Facebook says it banning all Myanmar military and military-controlled entities from Facebook and Instagram, and ads from military-linked commercial entities (Rafael Frankel/About Facebook)

Facebook says it banning all Myanmar military and military-controlled ...

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Tech retailer Fry's Electronics announces it will cease operations effective immediately, blames industry changes and the pandemic for the shutdown (Sean Hollister/The Verge)

Tech retailer Fry's Electronics announces it will cease operations eff...

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Biden signs executive order mandating a 100-day review of supply chains, including for semiconductors used in products from cars to phones and rare-earth metals (Alex Leary/Wall Street Journal)

Biden signs executive order mandating a 100-day review of supply chain...

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Australia passes news bargaining code that will require digital platforms like Google and Facebook to pay local media outlets and publishers for their content (CNET)

Australia passes news bargaining code that will require digital platfo...

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Microsoft announces industry cloud packages for financial services, available in March, and for manufacturing and nonprofits, available in June (Cherlynn Low/Engadget)

Microsoft announces industry cloud packages for financial services, av...

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Optimism, which plans to help scale the Ethereum blockchain with a Layer 2 protocol, raises $25M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz (Michael McSweeney/The Block)

Optimism, which plans to help scale the Ethereum blockchain with a Lay...

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FCC reveals that for its 5G licenses auction, Verizon spent the most of any carrier with $45.5B, followed by AT&T with $23.4B, and T-Mobile with $9.3B (Bloomberg)

FCC reveals that for its 5G licenses auction, Verizon spent the most o...

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Nvidia beats with Q4 revenue of $5B vs. $4.8B expected, up 61% YoY, data center revenue of $1.9B, up 97% YoY, and gaming revenue of $2.5B, up 67% YoY (Stephanie Condon/ZDNet)

Nvidia beats with Q4 revenue of $5B vs. $4.8B expected, up 61% YoY, da...

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Thomson Reuters says it will spend $500M-$600M over two years to develop its AI and ML tools as it transitions to a "content-driven technology company" (Reuters)

Thomson Reuters says it will spend $500M-$600M over two years to devel...

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Amazon says its Luna cloud gaming service is available to try for free in the US on select Fire TV devices, after launching as invite-only last year (Jon Porter/The Verge)

Amazon says its Luna cloud gaming service is available to try for free...

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US Federal Reserve's system that lets banks send money back and forth is down, impacting its automated clearinghouse system, FedCash, Fedwire, and more (Jeff Cox/CNBC)

US Federal Reserve's system that lets banks send money back and forth ...

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iRobot, which makes Roomba vacuums, says a software update to fix issues with i7 and s9 models will take several weeks, after users reported them acting "drunk" (Mitchell Clark/The Verge)

iRobot, which makes Roomba vacuums, says a software update to fix issu...

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Emails show how Facebook responds to requests by authoritarian governments to censor content, as happened in Turkey during its military offensive against Kurds (ProPublica)

Emails show how Facebook responds to requests by authoritarian governm...

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Russian e-commerce giant Wildberries, which controls 14% of the market, has recently expanded into France, Germany, Italy, and Spain (Bloomberg)

Russian e-commerce giant Wildberries, which controls 14% of the market...

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Sources: Beijing-based tutoring app Yuanfudao is seeking to raise $1B+ at a $20B+ valuation, less than six months after raising $2.2B at a $15.5B valuation (Bloomberg)

Sources: Beijing-based tutoring app Yuanfudao is seeking to raise $1B+...

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Berkshire Grey, which develops AI-powered pick-and-place retail and warehouse robots, will go public via SPAC, valuing the company at $2.7B and raising $413M (Jennifer Smith/Wall Street Journal)

Berkshire Grey, which develops AI-powered pick-and-place retail and wa...

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Katana Graph, which helps businesses analyze and manage unstructured data at scale, raises $28.5M Series A led by Intel Capital (Khari Johnson/VentureBeat)

Katana Graph, which helps businesses analyze and manage unstructured d...

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India approves $1B plan to boost local manufacturing and exports of laptops, tablets, and PCs; the plan will likely help Apple assemble some iPads there (Sankalp Phartiyal/Reuters)

India approves $1B plan to boost local manufacturing and exports of la...

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Blueshift, which develops customer data analytics software, raises $30M Series C led by Fort Ross Ventures, bringing its total raised to $65M (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

Blueshift, which develops customer data analytics software, raises $30...

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Emotive, which enables e-commerce businesses talk to customers using conversational text messages, raises $50M Series B led by CRV, at a $400M valuation (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)

Emotive, which enables e-commerce businesses talk to customers using c...

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Facebook says it is testing more tools to combat child exploitation on its platform, including one measure alerting users who share "non-malicious" viral memes (Kris Holt/Engadget)

Facebook says it is testing more tools to combat child exploitation on...

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Internal memo: Amazon SVP Jeff Blackburn, a close lieutenant to Jeff Bezos for more than 22 years, says he is leaving the company, after a year-long sabbatical (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)

Internal memo: Amazon SVP Jeff Blackburn, a close lieutenant to Jeff B...

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