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Reddit: Technology
- GameStop, AMC surge after Reddit users lead chaotic revolt against big Wall Street funds
- Discord bans the r/WallStreetBets server
- GameStop’s Massive Surge Creates A New Billionaire As Reddit Traders Bet Against Wall Street
- Facebook spent more on lobbying than any other Big Tech company in 2020
- Google to Stop Collecting Advertising Identifiers in iOS Apps in Response to iOS 14's Upcoming Tr…
- Reddit group WallStreetBets behind massive GameStop, AMC run-ups goes private, invitation required
- TikTok is laying off employees in India as ban becomes permanent
- AT&T is sued for $1.35 billion over technology to synchronize smart devices
- AMC is today's GameStop. A Reddit mob sent its stock more than 200% higher
- Just 1 in 10 companies expect all employees to return to the office
- Police dismantle world's 'most dangerous' criminal hacking network
- US arrests far-right Twitter troll for 2016 election interference
- FTC Brings First-Ever Cases of illegal Bot Ticket Scalpers under the BOTS Act
- How GameStop found itself at the center of a groundbreaking battle between Wall Street and small …
- Lawmakers Are Worried ISPs Can't Deliver on Their Rural Broadband Promises
- Apple just released a security update for your iPhone. Download it now.
- Apple's M1 Chip Poses a Threat to Intel and Other Chip Makers
- The Ultimate Collection of Winsock Software goes offline for good
- Apple ramps up iPhone and iPad output shift to India and Vietnam
- Reddit and Elon Musk's GameStop stock rocket: This 'insane' 'Ponzi scheme' can't last
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- Silicon Valley backlash grows as vocal tech faction boycotts
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Techcrunch
- Elon Musk says Tesla Semi is ready for production, but limited by battery cell output
- Pro-Trump Twitter figure arrested for spreading vote-by-text disinformation in 2016
- Tesla is willing to license Autopilot and has already had “preliminary discussions” about it …
- WallStreetBets goes dark
- Tesla’s power businesses are beginning to take off
- Daily Crunch: GameStop becomes a meme stock
- ProtonMail, Threema, Tresorit and Tutanota warn EU lawmakers over ‘anti-encryption’ push
- This is the new interior of Tesla’s Model S and Model X
- IAC’s Teltech acquired encrypted mobile messaging app Confide
- Squarespace files privately to go public
Engadget
- Tesla's Cybertruck is on track for volume production in 2022
- Tesla's 'transformative' fourth quarter tops a full year of positive revenue
- Mark Zuckerberg wants to reduce political content in News Feed
- Sling TV price hike adds another $5 per month for new customers
- The redesigned Tesla Model S interior swaps in a steering yoke
- Apple reports $111 billion in quarterly revenue, shattering previous record
- Facebook predicts ‘uncertainty' in 2021, blames upcoming iOS 14 update
- Amazon’s motorized Echo Show 10 goes on sale February 25th
- US arrests far-right Twitter troll for 2016 election interference
- Instagram rolls out its new look for Stories on desktop
ZDNet
- Oukitel C22 hands-on: Affordable Android with a good-sized battery
- Apple CEO Cook says 5G is a patchwork quilt, strong in China, U.S., weaker in Europe
- Commonwealth Bank's refreshed digital strategy to focus on the power of AI
- NSW running Data61 de-identification tool across COVID data prior to public release
- Intel rehires 33-year company veteran Sunil Shenoy to lead design engineering group
- Facebook's Zuckerberg takes aim at Apple's privacy pitch, motives with iOS 14
- Eftpos to run Aussie Hedera Node as it joins the DLT platform's governing council
- Apple CEO Cook says iPhone installed base now over one billion
- Oukitel C22 hands-on: Affordable Android with a good-sized battery
- ServiceNow delivers strong Q4 as it expands wallet share
Wired Magazine
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- These Doctors Are Using AI to Screen for Breast Cancer
- Cops Disrupt Emotet, the Internet's ‘Most Dangerous Malware’
- The Ethics of Vaccinating Teachers—and Keeping Schools Closed
- The Real Pleasure and Pain of Making Choices in Video Games
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VentureBeat
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- MIT CSAIL claims its breast cancer prediction AI works equally well across demographic groups
- RP1 debuts a scalable platform for the ‘shardless’ metaverse
Gizmodo
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- Apple Had a Better Holiday Than Literally Anyone Else
- Discord Bans r/WallStreetBets For Hate Speech Violations
- U.S. Navy Documents Discuss Creating a 'Spacetime Modification Weapon'
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- Congressional Panel: We Have a 'Moral Imperative' to At Least Consider Building a Terminator
- Twitter User Hit With Criminal Charges for Memetic Voter Suppression in 2016 Election
- How Joe Biden Wins the Climate Messaging War and Fixes the Crisis
- The 10 Best Deals of January 27, 2021
- Intel Launches Its First Desktop Graphics Cards in More Than 20 Years
Techmeme
- As r/WallStreetBets causes GameStop, BlackBerry, and others to surge, online trading platforms li…
- As Reddit's r/WallStreetBets pushes GameStop's stock to record levels, other stocks mentioned in …
- Apple's Q1 net income was $28.8B, up from $22.2B YoY; revenue for iPhone was $65.6B, up from $56B…
- Google details the impact of Apple's upcoming IDFA ad privacy changes, including reducing visibil…
- How the social network Nextdoor is replacing local newspapers as a news and opinion hub, letting …
- Source: Apple is expanding production of iPhones, iPads, Macs, and other products in Vietnam and …
- Zuckerberg says Facebook will stop recommending civic and political groups to users permanently a…
- Amazon's Ring announces $60 Video Doorbell Wired, its cheapest and smallest doorbell, arriving on…
- Iran blocks Signal after Iranians flocked to the messaging service due to privacy concerns about …
- Sources: Bird is finalizing a deal to raise $100M in convertible debt, led by Sequoia Capital and…
The Verge
- r/WallStreetBets went private — and now it’s back with a message
- Reddit vs. Wall Street: the latest in the GameStop saga
- Tesla’s new Model S will apparently play Witcher 3 on a built-in 10 teraflop gaming rig
- Discord bans the r/WallStreetBets server
- Apple says there are now over 1 billion active iPhones
- Cyberpunk 2077 bans unauthorized Keanu Reeves sex
- Disney pulls some movies from Disney Plus Kids profiles because they feature racist stereotypes
- Sling TV is raising prices and sweetening the deal with more free DVR space
- Facebook usage has soared during the pandemic, but the company warns of ‘significant uncertaint…
- Tesla unveils redesigned Model S with new interior and 520-mile range option
TNW
- Scientists say dropping acid can help with social anxiety and alcoholism
- New MIT brain research shows how AI could help us understand consciousness
- This AI chess engine aims to help human players rather than defeat them
- Increase streams to your podcast with this SEO optimized website builder
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- Why Microsoft’s self-driving car strategy is quietly brilliant
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- OnePlus’ co-founder Carl Pei’s new gadget brand is here — and it’s called NOTHING
Slashdot
- Personal Experiences Bridge Moral and Political Divides Better Than Facts, Research Finds
- Clash and Byte, Two of TikTok's Competitors, Are Merging
- Discord Bans the r/WallStreetBets Server As Subreddit Goes Private
- iCloud For Windows Gaining Support For iCloud Passwords Chrome Extension
- Tesla Model S Gets a Radically Redesigned Interior and 520-Mile Range
- GitLab Reshuffles Its Paid Subscription Plans, Drops Its Bronze/Starter Tier
- Miami Uploads Bitcoin White Paper To Municipal Website
- GameStop, AMC Trading Now Being Restricted at TD Ameritrade, Schwab
- China Starts Using Anal Swabs To Test 'High-Risk' People for Covid
- Bill Gates: It's Not Too Soon To Start Thinking About the Next Pandemic
ArsTechnica
- Apple reports double-digit sales booms for every product category in Q1 2021
- Tesla reports its first annual profit
- Sidewalk-robot startup celebrates 1 million deliveries
- Unstable helium adds a limit on the ongoing saga of the proton’s size
- “Warp speed,” “Prime Directive” predate Star Trek, per new reference tool
- Microsoft earnings: Xbox hardware sales shot up 86% with Series X/S
- Samsung’s reportedly ready to supply foldable displays to rival companies
- The complete moron’s guide to GameStop’s stock roller coaster
- AT&T eats a $15.5 billion impairment charge as DirecTV debacle continues
- 84% of Mexican hand sanitizers toxic or flawed; FDA issues drastic alert
CNET
- → Social media-fueled investors are hitting multimillion-dollar paydays while Wall Street los …
- → But the community has been banned from Discord as AMC, GameStop stocks go wild.
- → The company hopes its Galaxy S21 and upcoming new foldables will turn its results around.
- → The social network says upcoming privacy changes to iOS could weigh on its ad business.
- → The tech giant says its fiscal first-quarter iPhone sales grew by more than 17% from the pre…
- → The UK and the EU are the latest to lift Boeing 737 Max grounding orders after two crashes k…
- → The company is reportedly increasing device production in Malaysia, India, Southeast Asia a …
- → Online market players hatched a plan to make GameStop's stock rocket up despite having litt …
- → Following a similar decision in the US, Canada and Brazil, the European Union's Aviation Saf…
- → The vehicle rental company is running trials in Washington and Paris, but plans to expand soon.
The Register
- AMD, Nvidia, HPE tapped to triple the speed of US weather super with $35m upgrade
- Hey, AT&T, you ripped off our smartwatch-phone group call tech – and we want our $1bn, say entr…
- Knock, knock. Who's there? NAT. Nat who? A NAT URL-borne killer
- Stack Overflow 2019 hack was guided by advice from none other than... Stack Overflow
- Time to haul DBaaS: Neo4j joins the fully managed club as doubts linger about its cloudiness
- Command 'n' control botnet of notorious Emotet Windows ransomware shut down in multinational poli…
- Get off my lawn: UK.Gov looks to reform land access laws for network operators weeks after PAC sa…
- Today's 'sophisticated cyber attack' victim is the Woodland Trust: Pre-Xmas breach under investigation
- Four cold calling marketing firms fined almost £500k by ICO
- We regret to inform you the professor teaching your online course is already dead
Medium: Technology
- This A.I.-Powered Dog Collar Tells You If Fido Is Feeling Chill or Anxious
- Send This to Anyone Who Wants to Know WTF Is Up With GameStop Stock
- The Legal Future of Big Tech
- They Found a Way to Limit Big Tech’s Power: Using the Design of Bitcoin
- How Internet Trolls Censor, Assault and Moralize
- The Best Google Assistant Headphones
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- Deconstructing our phones
Vox: Recode
- Exclusive: Mark Zuckerberg is creating a new criminal justice reform group in an overhaul of his …
- A big hurdle for older Americans trying to get vaccinated: Using the internet
- How a bunch of Redditors made GameStop’s stock soar
- Are vaccine providers selling your health data? There’s not much stopping them.
- Poll: Most Americans want to break up Big Tech
- MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell is banned from Twitter
- Some Silicon Valley donors’ next political fight? Trying to oust California’s governor.
- Big Tech nemesis Lina Khan is gaining traction for top Biden antitrust role
- How the Biden administration can save the Postal Service
- Biden picks his new acting FCC chair
ReadWrite
- How is Conversational AI Improving Customer Experience?
- The Main Reasons Startups Fail
- Why Your Business Needs Non-Stop Software Security
- Employee Scheduling Trends that Deserve to Continue Even After the Pandemic
- How Tech Startups Redefined Gig Work (and Where It Goes From Here)
- Top Futurist Speakers to Have at Your Conference in 2021
- What Every Entrepreneur Should Do Before Launching a Startup
- What Is the Future of HR?
- How to Properly Use PR and SEO to Amplify Marketing Results
- The Importance of Cybersecurity for the Investment Banking Industry
Axios Technology
- Commission explores how the U.S. could eliminate pandemic threats by 2030
- Facebook to downplay politics on its platform
- European and North American authorities disrupt massive ransomware network
- Apple's quarterly sales top $100 billion for first time
- Facebook stock whipsaws amid ad targeting concerns
- Pro-Trump Twitter troll charged with election interference in 2016 election
- Rep. Yvette Clarke: Inclusive tech companies "will win in the end"
- North Korean hackers targeted U.S. security researchers
- Watch: Global data-driven change
- The Doomsday Clock is kept unchanged at 100 seconds to midnight
Quartz: Tech
- Climate risk is about to become a much bigger part of the financial system
- India’s freshly minted female entrepreneurs have big hopes from the 2021 budget
- How cities can fill the gaps in Covid-19 vaccine communication
- Inside Amazon, Google, and Apple’s fight to build the smart home of the future
- “Average-yet-confident”: A comedian coined a Chinese equivalent to “mansplaining”
- The time to solve the electric car’s battery problem is now
- Google’s ambitious Loon internet balloon project has crash-landed
- Why Twitter’s “censorship” is not the same as China’s
- How right-wing TV coped with Biden’s inauguration: a timeline
- How law enforcement is using technology to track down US Capitol insurgents
MIT Technology Review
- Biden will direct billions in federal spending power to climate change
- This is how America gets its vaccines
- Envisioning better health outcomes for all
- Digital innovation in the pharmaceuticals and chemicals industries
- Why more countries need covid vaccines, not just the richest ones
- The future of social networks might be audio
- The Green Future Index
- Building a healthier internet: Lessons from fighting covid-19 misinformation
- Tech is having a reckoning. Tech investors? Not so much.
- We could know soon whether vaccines work against a scary new coronavirus variant
BGR
- Good luck finding an Xbox Series X within the next few months
- The trailer for Netflix’s newest crime series utterly terrified me
- Google doesn’t want to ask your permission to let it track your iPhone
- The ‘Wolf Moon’ is coming tonight, so don’t miss it
- HBO Max February 2021: Everything coming and going next month
- These are the only 5 states where coronavirus cases aren’t dropping
- Boeing’s Starliner will attempt to redo its failed flight test in March
- Apple posts Q1 earnings and delivers record-breaking $111 billion in revenue
- Every free PS5 and PS4 game coming to PS Plus in February 2021
- This mask tests for COVID-19 while you’re wearing it
Flipboard: Tech
- Data Privacy Concerns Unavoidable as Cannabis Becomes a High-Tech Industry
- Amazon wants to hire 3,000 workers destined for areas related to programming, finance and among others
- Apple CEO Tim Cook teases 'new things' coming in 2021 – here's what they could be
- Australia takes on Google advertising dominance amid wider media shakeup
- Who Will Pay to Get America Back on Its Feet?
- General Dynamics (GD) Q4 2020 Earnings Call Transcript
- Small is Beautiful
- The Big Tech Crackdown Is a Gift to Parler
- Dow drops 630 points, stocks have worst day since October as Big Tech sinks
- European Commission president: Twitter's Trump ban a 'serious interference with freedom of expression'
Mainstream media
NYTimes: Tech
- Facebook Posts a 53 Percent Jump in Profit
- What is a Blockchain? Is It Hype?
- MyPillow C.E.O.’s Trump Conspiracy Theories Put Company on the Spot
- Tony Hsieh’s Fatal Night: An Argument, Drugs, a Locked Door and Sudden Fire
- The Secrets of Instagram Growth-Hacking
- Fashion Trends Are Often Recycled. Now More Clothing Can Be, Too.
- What Do Gamers Wear?
- A Vine Reunion? Video Apps Clash and Byte Join Forces
- Twitter Acquires Revue, a Newsletter Company
- Why Is Big Tech Policing Speech? Because the Government Isn’t
WSJ: Tech
- Tesla Posts First Full-Year Profit
- Facebook's Zuckerberg Sees Battles Escalating With Apple on Privacy, Messaging
- Apple's iPhone 12 Helped Deliver a Record $111.4 Billion Quarter
- AT&T Books $15.5 Billion Charge on DirecTV Unit
- Apple Posts Record Quarterly Profit, Led by iPhone Sales
- Ant Plans Major Revamp in Response to Chinese Pressure
- Microsoft Sales Surge to Record, With Help From Cloud and Videogames
- Commerce Nominee Pledges Tough China Stance
- Twitter to Buy Newsletter Provider Revue
- Verizon Slow to Cash In on iPhone 12
Washington Post: Technology
- Tesla tries to reinvent the wheel. Literally.
- Tesla tries to reinvent the wheel. Literally.
- Zuckerberg slams Apple in an earnings call, casting Facebook as a victim
- Zuckerberg slams Apple in an earnings call, casting Facebook as a victim
- Thanks to 5G, iPhones are selling — and downloading — faster than ever
- Thanks to 5G, iPhones are selling — and downloading — faster than ever
- Video games deserve better than blanket, parachute coverage from reporters who don’t get it
- House opens investigation of pandemic ventilator purchases overseen by White House
- Pressure builds on Biden, Democrats to revive net neutrality rules
- YouTube suspends Rudy Giuliani from its ad revenue sharing program
Guardian: Tech UK
- Too rude for Facebook: the ban on Britain's historic place names
- The Medium review – split-world horror stranded in unsatisfying limbo
- Big tech was allowed to spread misinformation unchecked. Will Biden hold them accountable?
- How GameStop found itself at the center of a groundbreaking battle between Wall Street and small …
- Amazon seeks to block workers from voting by mail in landmark union drive
- YouTube extends ban on Trump amid concerns about further violence
- UK regulator to write to WhatsApp over Facebook data sharing
- Birdwatch: Twitter pilot will allow users to flag misinformation
- Google announces plan to tackle privacy issues in online advertising
- Black images matter: Shade, the powerful podcast unpicking the tumult of 2020
BBC: Tech UK
- Pricey broadband 'locks poorest out' of key services
- What tech can the US president use?
- Apple Christmas sales surge to $111bn amid pandemic
- Gamestop: 'Failing' firm soars in value as amateurs buy stock
- Emotet botnet taken down by international police swoop
- Facebook apologises for Plymouth Hoe 'error'
- Google's Tilt Brush VR painting app goes open source
- Social media damages teenagers' mental health, report says
- Apple watch call saves cyclist swept into River Wye
- Insurers defend covering ransomware payments
Computing UK
- Hacker using Telegram bot to sell Facebook users' data
- Computing launches Cyber Security Festival
- US should not ban AI weapons - panel says autonomous systems can save lives
- Pandemic response: Why IT leaders must get ahead of the security challenge
- How I almost fell for a COVID vaccine scam
- Google: North Korea is targeting security researchers
- Apple hit with €60m lawsuit in Italy over iPhone throttling
- Twitter launches community-based Birdwatch to fight misinformation
- Interview: Zaizi, DevOps Excellence Awards winner
- SonicWall investigates SMA 100 Series appliances for zero-day vulnerabilities after attack
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