Doc: the US is pressing EU officials to revise the Digital Markets Act to focus less on tech giants and ensure that the act covers tech firms outside of the US (Samuel Stolton/Politico)

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Why cows may be hiding something but AI can spot it Farmers are using artificial intelligence to spot lameness in their herd before it gets serious. February 01, 2022 at 05:31AM

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Silvergate Bank confirms it's purchasing the Diem Association's IP and other assets, issuing $132M in stock and paying an additional $50M in cash for the deal (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

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The New York Times acquires Wordle, the simple word game that has amassed "millions of daily players", for "an undisclosed price in the low-seven figures" (The New York Times Company)

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Antenna: Apple TV+, Disney+, HBO Max, and others struggle to retain US subscribers who joined to watch a hit show; some subscribers only stay for a few months (Wall Street Journal)

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Meta introduces 3D avatars for Instagram Stories and updates avatars on Facebook and Messenger in the US, Canada, and Mexico (Kim Lyons/The Verge)

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The London Stock Exchange says UK tech IPOs raised a record £6.6B in 2021, up from £3.1B in 2020, across 37 IPOs, compared to just eight in 2020 (Leah Montebello/City A.M.)

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BlackBerry agrees to sell mobile, messaging, and wireless patents to Catapult IP Innovations for $600M, after ending support for its phones earlier in January (Chavi Mehta/Reuters)

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Sony Interactive Entertainment announces it is buying Bungie, which makes Destiny and other games, for $3.6B; Bungie will become an independent subsidiary (Brendan Sinclair/GamesIndustry.biz)

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Inside Kazakhstan's giant crypto-mine Kazakhstan is now the world's second biggest crypto-currency mining country, thanks partly to a vast mine in the desert. January 31, 2022 at 05:31AM

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A profile of Celsius Network, which has been valued at $3B+ and promises up to 18% annual interest on cryptocurrency deposits, as it attracts SEC scrutiny (Bloomberg)

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Gartner: global chip sales rose 25% YoY in 2021 to a record $583.5B and are projected to grow by 9% this year; capital expenditures grew to at least $146B (Wall Street Journal)

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Spotify: Streaming giant announces plans to clamp down on Covid misinformation The streaming giant says it will add warnings to all podcasts discussing Covid-19 on its platform. January 31, 2022 at 04:41AM

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True story? Lie detection systems go high-tech A number of teams are working on advanced ways to tell more accurately if someone is lying. January 31, 2022 at 05:33AM

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Spotify publishes its long-standing Platform Rules and says it is working to add a content advisory to podcast episodes that include a discussion about COVID-19 (Daniel Ek/Spotify)

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NFT marketplace LooksRare, which launched on Jan. 10, had $9.5B+ in trading volume, $8.3B+ of which seems to be users "wash trading" between their own wallets (Andrew Hayward/Decrypt)

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A look at the fight between six rapid grocery delivery startups in NYC, which raised $5.5B+ since 2020; sources: some are averaging a loss of $20+ per order (Wall Street Journal)

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Profile of artist Seneca, who says she is the lead designer behind the original Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT collection and has seen relatively little compensation (Samantha Hissong/Rolling Stone)

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Blockdaemon, which provides blockchain infrastructure for node management and staking, raises a $207M Series C at a $3.25B post-money valuation (Zack Seward/CoinDesk)

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Filings and interviews with decision makers and legal experts reveal bureaucracy with competing mandates at the FAA and FCC caused the 5G launch blowup (Brian Fung/CNN)

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FCC announces $1.2B in funding through the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund to expand broadband services across 32 states, provided by 23 telecom companies (Emma Roth/The Verge)

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How Lina Khan's FTC is using the concept of "monopsony", a market where one buyer is pre-eminent, to push for Big Tech antitrust regulation (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)

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Visa says customers made $2.5B in payments with its crypto-linked cards in its fiscal Q1 of 2022, which was 70% of its crypto volume for all of FY 2021 (Frank Holland/CNBC)

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France's top administrative court sides with privacy watchdog against Google, in an appeal over a €100M fine for placing cookies before getting user's consent (Gaspard Sebag/Bloomberg)

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Apple adds unlisted app distribution to the App Store, letting developers publish an app that can only be installed via a direct link and not found via search (Benjamin Mayo/9to5Mac)

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A US appeals court upholds California's net neutrality law, saying a 2017 decision by the FCC to reverse federal internet protections could not bar state action (David Shepardson/Reuters)

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The FAA says it has reached a deal to let Verizon and AT&T expand their 5G cellular service near airports while allowing more aircraft to land safely (Niraj Chokshi/New York Times)

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OpenSea says over 80% of NFTs minted for free on its service are plagiarized works, fake collections, and spam, but reverses decision to limit free NFT creation (Jordan Pearson/VICE)

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The US FCC approves "nutrition labels" forcing ISPs to show prices, speed, and more, plus network management practices like throttling, starting on November 15 (Makena Kelly/The Verge)

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Meta rebrands Oculus Quest as Meta Quest, leading to criticism on social media; the rebrand was originally announced in October (Derrek Lee/Android Central)

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Meta says Messenger's e2ee chats and calls are now available to all users, and adds screenshot notifications, media saving, GIFs, and more to encrypted chats (Richard Lawler/The Verge)

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The EU approves Meta's acquisition of Kustomer, announced in November 2020, after Meta pledged API access and access-parity for rival CRM software providers (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch)

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Sources: SoftBank COO Marcelo Claure is leaving as soon as today; reports said Claure wanted $2B in compensation and clashed with Son over his responsibilities (CNBC)

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Estonia-based Veriff, which uses AI-powered video to verify identities, raises a $100M Series C led by Tiger Global and Alkeon (Mike Butcher/TechCrunch)

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Disney says Disney+ will launch in 42 countries and 11 territories this summer, including South Africa, Turkey, Poland, Egypt, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE (Abid Rahman/Hollywood Reporter)

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Swiss bank UBS to acquire robo-adviser Wealthfront, which has 470K+ clients in the US, for $1.4B, as it looks to use AI to pitch services to the world's wealthy (Bloomberg)

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ID.me backtracks and says it does in fact use "1:many facial recognition" across large databases, a practice that's more "problematic" than "1:1 face matching" (Tonya Riley/CyberScoop)

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Apple releases iOS 15.3 and macOS Monterey 12.2 with a fix for the IndexedDB API bug in Safari, as well as iPadOS 15.3, watchOS 8.4, tvOS 15.3, and HomePod 15.3 (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)

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Verizon says a third of its wireless customers now use 5G phones, following aggressive deals and discounts to push new devices (David Lumb/CNET)

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The FTC and Fashion Nova reach a $4.2M settlement over allegations that the fast-fashion clothing site suppressed product reviews of less than four stars (Sapna Maheshwari/New York Times)

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Google's three years of security updates for its older phones like 2018's Pixel 3 is planned obsolescence; new Pixels get 5 years of support vs. iPhones' ~6 (Aaron Gordon/VICE)

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UK-based Sylvera, which uses ML to analyze visual data like satellite imagery to boost accountability for carbon offsetting projects, raises a $32M Series A (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch)

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Internal Pentagon document: Microsoft's HoloLens-based Army goggles, part of a $22B program started in 2018, are behind schedule and not yet combat ready (Anthony Capaccio/Bloomberg)

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Review of Intel's 12th Gen Alder Lake-H Core i9-12900HK, tested in a 17-inch MSI Raider GE76 laptop: excellent outright performance with poor energy efficiency (Brett Howse/AnandTech)

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US Commerce Department says the global chip shortage will stretch into at least H2 2022, based on information from 150+ companies in the supply chain (Bloomberg)

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Internal docs: Facebook's low-data service for developing countries, advertised as being free, has regularly led to unexpected charges for users for months (Wall Street Journal)

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Meta unveils AI Research SuperCluster, a supercomputer for AI research, claiming it will have 16K GPUs and be the world's fastest upon completion in mid-2022 (James Vincent/The Verge)

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Amid a shift in malware targeting UEFI firmware, Kaspersky details new MoonBounce UEFI bootkit that can survive even after swapping the infected PC's hard drive (Catalin Cimpanu/The Record)

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Fortescue: Firm owned by Australia's richest man buys Williams F1 battery arm Fortescue Metals says the deal will help it to achieve its target to be carbon neutral by 2030. January 24, 2022 at 08:46AM

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DeFi traders complain about network instability that hit Solana this weekend, four months after its last outage; Solana pushes update to fix "the worst effects" (Frank Chaparro/The Block)

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