Apple Car, a Year on TikTok, and SolarWinds still blowing
Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — issue no. 194


🍎 Sources: #Apple is planning to manufacture a car by 2024 which may include self-driving tech, internally developed lidar sensors, and “breakthrough” battery tech 🔗


👉 #Microsoft, #Alphabet, #Cisco, #LinkedIn, #GitHub, #VMware, and the #InternetAssociation file an amicus brief in support of #WhatsApp in the WhatsApp v. #NSOGroup case 🔗


👉 #TikTok launches its first personalized annual recap feature, #YearOnTikTok 🔗


👉 Big tech companies including #Intel, #Nvidia, and #Cisco were all infected during the #SolarWinds #hack 🔗


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XRProblem, Telgram’s voice spaces, and the POTUS that has to start from scratch
Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — issue no. 195


💰 #SEC sues #RippleLabs, its CEO #BradGarlinghouse, and Chairman #ChrisLarsen, alleging they violated federal securities laws in selling #XRP to retail consumers 🔗


👉 Draft lawsuit filed by ten #US states last week says #Facebook and #Google agreed to “cooperate and assist one another” against possible #antitrust action 🔗


🐦 #Biden transition team says #Twitter told it current followers of POTUS won't carry over to Biden, whose #POTUS account will start at zero, a reversal from 2017 🔗


🎙 #Telegram gets a group voice chats 🔗


👉 #Telegram to launch an ad platform as it approaches 500 million users 🔗


👉 #ElonMusk says #Apple & #TimCook refused a meeting to acquire #Tesla 🔗


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Zooming, Apple TV, and Voices on the rise
Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — issue no. 196


👉 #Zoom has begun developing a web email service for businesses, and may trial it next year, and is also considering building a calendar app 🔗


📺 #Apple is planning to release an updated #AppleTV with a focus on gaming, an updated remote, and a new processor next year 🔗


📉 #RippleLab’s #XRP dropped around 25% on Wednesday morning to ~35¢, following the #SEC investigation, after falling by as much as 17% on Tuesday 🔗


👉 #Clubhouse is testing an invite-only Creator Pilot Program, with over 40 members, as the service hits 600,000 registered users 🔗


🇨🇳 #Alibaba is facing an anti-monopoly probe by Chinese regulators 🔗


👉 #Google reportedly tightens grip on research into ‘sensitive topics’ 🔗 #AI


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Facebook outta tax haven, China’s trust issues, and a new jet fuel
Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — issue no. 197


💰 #Facebook closed Irish subsidiary and moved billions in profits back to #US following #IRS suit; Irish subsidiary paid $101M in #tax on $15B profit in 2018 🔗


⛽️ Scientists turn CO2 into jet fuel 🔗


👉 #AppleCar's unclear development schedule means it may launch in 2025-2027, while changes in EV/self-driving market may push the launch to 2028 🔗


🇨🇳 #China's central bank tells #AntGroup it must overhaul its lending, insurance, and wealth management businesses and come up with a timetable as soon as possible 🔗


👉 Analysis of the top 1M pages on the web finds that HTTP/2 is now more common than HTTP/1.1; #jQuery, #GoogleAnalytics were the top #JavaScript libraries by usage 🔗


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XRP’s problems, Trump’s fight with TikTok, and Tesla’s expansions
Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — issue no. 198


✋ #Coinbase says it will suspend trading of #XRP on January 19, 2021, following the #SEC's suit against #RippleLabs 🔗


👉 #FAA lays out its Remote ID 'license plate for #drones' requirements 🔗


🧑‍⚖️ #NewYorkPost’s #HunterBiden laptop source sues #Twitter for defamation 🔗


🇮🇳 #Tesla will reportedly start selling the Model 3 in #India next year 🔗


👉 #Trump administration appeals yet another #TikTok ruling 🔗


🤳 #Canon patents an #Osmo-style camera with interchangeable lenses 🔗


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​​Another vaccine for the UK, Fair use wins against Apple, and Robots
Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — issue no. 199


💉 #OxfordAstraZeneca #COVID19 vaccine approved for use in the #UK 🔗


🧑‍⚖️ Federal judge dismisses #Apple's claims that mobile device virtualisation company #Corellium violated copyright law with its software to run #iOS on #PC 🔗


👉 Leaked docs: #Lens, a supplier for #Apple, #Tesla, #Amazon, used alleged forced #Uighur labor; Apple says it has confirmed its suppliers have not used forced labor 🔗


📱 #US #smartphone activations on #ChristmasDay fell 23% YoY as #iPhones dominated the top 10 activated smartphones and budget devices, like #LG K30, surge 🔗


🖨 #Google is shutting down #GoogleCloudPrint this week 🔗


📸 #Google removed the #Pixel 5's and 4a 5G's ultrawide astrophotograhy mode 🔗


🤖 Watch the #BostonDynamics robot family dance like 2020 was a good year 🔗👇


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Amazon goes after Spotify, XRP’s problems continue, and a $10 million fine for hacking a rival
Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — issue no. 200


🎧 #Amazon acquires podcast network #Wondery, which will join #AmazonMusic 🔗


⛔️ #Binance says #US users will not be able to deposit or trade #XRP beginning January 13, joining #Coinbase and several other exchanges in delisting or suspending XRP 🔗


📱 Consumers worldwide spent $407.6M across the #AppStore and #GooglePlay on #Christmas, up 34.5% YoY; mobile games rose 27% YoY to $295.6M, led by Honor of Kings 🔗


👉 #Ticketmaster pays $10 million fine after hacking a startup rival 🔗 #hack


👉 #Google experiments with surfacing #TikTok and #Instagram videos in search 🔗


👉 #Brave's privacy-focused browser rolls out a version for #Apple's M1 Macs 🔗


👉 #Google's #Pixel phones only use adaptive charging if there's an alarm to guide it 🔗


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SolarWinds keep blowing in the US, Zyxel’s backdoor, and Bitcoin’s surge
Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — issue no. 201


💨 Sources: investigators are checking if #SolarWinds was hacked via its offices in #Czechia, #Poland, and #Belarus, where the company moved much of its engineering 🔗 #hack


👉 More than 100K #Zyxel firewalls and #VPN gateways have a hardcoded admin-level backdoor that can grant attackers root access to devices 🔗


📈 #Bitcoin crossed $34K to reach an all-time high, after growing almost 50% in December 🔗


👉 #Facebook says there were 1.4B+ voice and video calls on #WhatsApp on #NYE2020 globally, up 50%+ YoY, and 55M+ live streams across Facebook and #Instagram 🔗


👉 #Samsung announces its #GalaxyUnpacked event will be held on January 14, where it's expected to unveil the Galaxy S21, S21 Plus, and S21 Ultra 🔗


👉 Some #TMobile customers’ call records may have been accessed in a recent breach 🔗 #hack


🚘 #Tesla delivers nearly half a million vehicles in 2020 🔗


🎮 #Sony to launch #PlayStation5 in #India on February 2 🔗


🇮🇳 #Amazon’s first TV is only available in #India 🔗


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​​Unionisation at Google, Update in Instagram Stories, and Apple rumours 2021
Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — issue no. 202


👉 A group of over 200 #Google and #Alphabet workers have announced their plan to form a union, open to both employees and contractors 🔗


👉 #Haven, the #Amazon + #Berkshire + #JPMorgan venture to disrupt healthcare, is disbanding after three years 🔗


🍎 #Apple to release an #AR device, #AirTags item trackers, its first devices with Mini-LED displays, more #AppleSilicon Macs, and new #AirPods in 2021 according to #Kuo 🔗


👉 #Slack confirmed it suffered a widespread outage Monday morning but resolved most problems as of 3pm ET, except for some integrations and email notifications 🔗


👉 While #Facebook touts e2e #encryption on #WhatsApp, #Apple's privacy labels highlight how much user metadata #WhatsApp collects compared to #iMessage 🔗


👉 #JackDorsey says proposed #cryptocurrency regulation would create ‘perverse incentives’ 🔗


🇸🇬 #Singapore police can access data from the country's contract tracing app 🔗


👉 #Instagram tests new design for #InstagramStories on desktop 🔗


🇬🇧 #Apple temporarily closes all remaining Apple Stores in the #UK 🔗


🎙 #Twitter has acquired social podcasting app #Breaker, whose team will join Twitter to help build #TwitterSpaces; Breaker app will shut down on January 15 🔗


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US-China wrestling, US-Iran sanction exemption, and Amazon buying Boeings
Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — issue no. 203


🇺🇸🇨🇳 #Trump signs an executive order banning transactions with #AntGroup's #Alipay, #Tencent's #WeChatPay and #QQ, and five other Chinese payment apps 🔗


🇺🇸🇨🇳 After #NYSE said it wouldn't delist #ChinaMobile, #ChinaTelecom, and #ChinaUnicom, it now mulls reverting to original plan following #StevenMnuchin call to NYSE’s President #StaceyCunningham 🔗


🛩 #Amazon says it is buying 11 used #Boeing767-300 planes from #Delta and #WestJet, the first time the company has purchased aircraft for its air cargo operation 🔗


🇺🇸🇮🇷 #GitHub says it has secured a license from the #US government to offer GitHub to developers in #Iran, after it was forced to block them in 2019 due to sanctions 🔗


🇬🇧🇪🇺 As #Brexit progresses, 81K .eu domains registered by 50,000 #UK citizens are suspended, with three months given to transfer domains or demonstrate #EU citizenship 🔗


🇮🇳 #Internet shutdowns cost #India $2.8B in 2020, more than double the losses in 2019, and India's shutdowns accounted for about 75% of the $4B lost worldwide 🔗


🇮🇹 A court in #Italy rules a “reliability index” algorithm used by food delivery app #Deliveroo to rank riders was discriminatory, ordering €50K paid to suing parties 🔗


🇳🇴 Electric Vehicles (#EV) made up more than half of car sales in #Norway last year 🔗


📺 #YouTube has suspended a #NewsCorporation-owned radio station for violating YouTube's Community Guidelines 🔗


📱⌚️ #Apple patents point to using your #MacBook to wirelessly charge your #iPhone and #AppleWatch 🔗


🇺🇸 Study of 58 #Facebook users' feeds in Georgia found partisan content elbowed out traditional news sites after Facebook reversed its political ad ban 🔗 #USElection


👉 #Google to add #AppStore #privacy labels to its #iOS apps as soon as this week 🔗


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​​Trump, Pro-Trumps, and Social platforms
Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — issue no. 204


🇺🇸 As a mob of #Trump supporters stormed the #US Capitol building, #Facebook and #Twitter allowed Trump to cheer them on using their platforms 🔗


🐦 #Twitter says #Trump's account will be locked for 12 hours following removal of recent tweets, and further violations will result in permanent suspension 🔗


👉 #Facebook and #YouTube have removed a video of #Trump addressing supporters; Facebook says it risked adding to violence, YouTube says it violated #USElection rules 🔗


🍎 #Apple says #AppStore users spent $1.8B on goods and services between December 24 and New Year's Eve and $540M on New Year's Day alone; #AppleBooks has 90M MAUs 🔗


👉 #WhatsApp updates its Terms and #Privacy Policy to mandate data sharing with #Facebook, including transaction data, mobile device information, IP address, and more 🔗


👉 #Facebook's #AndrewBosworth says its #SmartGlasses, built in partnership with #RayBan, will arrive “sooner than later” in 2021 without #AR features 🔗


👉 #Roku says it now has 51.2M active user accounts, up by about 14M in 2020, and users streamed 58.7B hours in 2020 🔗


👉 #US intelligence agencies say #Russia was likely behind the #SolarWinds #hack 🔗


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Social platforms flexing their power, Jeff Bezos losing his spot, and Boeing’s $b fine
Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — issue no. 205


🇺🇸 #MarkZuckerberg says #Facebook is extending the block it has placed on #Trump's #Facebook and #Instagram accounts “indefinitely and for at least the next two weeks” 🔗

👉 Also, other platforms like #Instagram 🔗, #YouTube 🔗, #Shopify 🔗, and #Twitch 🔗 take action against #Trump and his accounts by bans and restrictions.


💰 #ElonMusk dethrones #JeffBezos as the world’s richest person 🔗


📱 #Signal sees surge in new signups after boost from #ElonMusk and #WhatsApp controversy 🔗


🛬 #Boeing criminally charged for lying about 737 Max crashes, fined $2.5 billion 🔗


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​​Trump got banned from Twitter, tried to cheat it, but it didn’t work
Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — issue no. 206


🐦 #Twitter permanently suspended #Trump's realDonaldTrump account “due to the risk of further incitement of violence” 🔗

🤦‍♂️ Then, #Trump tried to evade his ban with POTUS, but those tweets were instantly deleted 🔗


👉 #Google suspends #Parler from the #PlayStore over moderation and enforcement policies, citing an “ongoing and urgent public safety threat” 🔗

👉 And #Apple gives #Parler 24 hours to institute a full moderation policy or face expulsion from the #AppStore, according to emails between the two companies 🔗


👉 #Roku has acquired global rights for #Quibi content, apparently for less than $100M, and will make it available free to stream in 2021 on the Roku Channel 🔗


👉 #Substack says it plans to roll out a “multipub” tool, which will let users aggregate newsletters and podcasts they manage under one publication, in February 🔗

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Apple Car, Trump bans, and two weeks of battery
Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — issue no. 207


🍎🚗 #Hyundai and #Apple plan to sign a partnership deal on autonomous electric cars by March and start production in the #US as early as 2024 🔗


🚫 A list of platforms that banned or limited #Trump-affiliated accounts: #Facebook, #Twitter, #Google, #YouTube, #Apple, #Snapchat, #TikTok, #Shopify, #Pinterest, and more 🔗


👉 #Stripe will no longer process payments for #Trump's campaign website and fundraising efforts, after violations of policies against encouraging violence 🔗


🇨🇳 #China’s search giant #Baidu to set up an #EV making venture 🔗


⌚️ #OnePlus’ first wearable is a budget fitness tracker with two week battery 🔗


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Another Muslim prayer app selling data, the livestreaming boom, and a Trumpless Twitter
Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — issue no. 208


🕋 #SalaatFirst, an app used by millions of Muslims for prayer times and to determine the direction of Mecca, tracked the precise movements of its users and sold them to Predicio, which is linked to a #US contractor which works with #ICE and #DHS 🔗


🎥 #Livestreaming report: #Twitch had 17B watch hours in 2020, up 83% YoY; #FacebookGaming had 3.59B, up 166%; #YouTube had 100B watch hours across live and VOD 🔗


📉 #Twitter stock fell 7%+ in first trading since permanently banning #Trump 🔗


🇩🇪 #Germany's #AngelaMerkel calls #Twitter banning #Trump “problematic”, arguing speech moderation should happen by law, not corporate decision, a sentiment echoed by #France 🔗


👉 #Parler sues #Amazon after its #AmazonAWS suspension, levelling far-fetched #antitrust allegations including Amazon hoping to reduce competition for #Twitter 🔗


👉 #Facebook says it’s banning the phrase #StopTheSteal 🔗


👉 #Snap acquires location data startup #StreetCred 🔗


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Parler’s data, metadata, and breaches, WhatsApp’s clarification, and Samsung’s next Exynos
Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — issue no. 209


👉 GPS metadata from videos posted to #Parler on Jan. 6 shows several users deep inside the #Capitol; source: #FBI has expressed interest in examining the data 🔗


👉 After reports of all of #Parler's data being downloaded by third parties, analysis shows Parler lacked basic security measures to prevent such a data breach 🔗


🙃 #WhatsApp clarifies its new data sharing policy with #Facebook, which mostly concerns businesses, after recent backlash and surge in #Telegram and #Signal downloads 🔗


🍎🚘 #Apple held talks with #EV startup #Canoo in 2020 🔗


👉 #Samsung unveils the #Exynos 2100 flagship SoC, produced on a 5nm process node, touting 19% better single core and 33% better multi-core performance than the last gen 🔗


👉 #Nvidia unveils RTX 3060, 3070, and 3080 GPUs, suited for mobile gaming, and says laptops with the RTX 3070 and 3080 will start rolling out this month 🔗


🇨🇳 Chinese startup #Socialarks leaked 400GB of scraped data of 200M+ #Facebook, #Instagram, and #LinkedIn users 🔗


👉 #Twitter says it has suspended over 70K accounts involved in spreading harmful #QAnon-associated content since Friday 🔗


🇺🇸 #Airbnb is banning anyone who took part in the attempted coup at the #Capitol 🔗


🚖💉 #Uber and #Moderna partner on #COVID19 #vaccine access and information 🔗


🧑‍⚖️ #Bitcoin exchange owner who helped #scam #eBay buyers sentenced to 10 years in prison 🔗


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No Airbnb in DC, More bans for Trump, and A little more privacy on TikTok
Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — issue no. 210


👉 #Airbnb says it is canceling and blocking reservations made for the week of #Biden's inauguration in the Washington, DC 🔗


👉 #Qualcomm acquires chip startup #Nuvia for $1.4B 🔗


✋ #TikTok makes accounts of users aged 13 to 15 private by default, limiting who can comment on the videos and how other users can download or remix their videos 🔗 #privacy


👻 #Snapchat will permanently terminate #Trump’s account 🔗


🚫 #Telegram blocks ‘dozens’ of channels threatening violence 🔗


🤝 #Intel CEO #BobSwan will step down on February 15 and #VMware CEO #PatGelsinger will replace him 🔗


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​​Samsung’s new lineup, Windows 10X leaks, TouchBar-less MacBook Pros
Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — issue no. 211


📱 #Samsung unveils $799 #GalaxyS21, $999 Galaxy S21+, and $1,199 Galaxy S21 Ultra, available now to preorder and launching on January 29 🔗


👉 #Samsung announces #GalaxySmartTag, a $29.99 #Tile competitor that works only with #SamsungGalaxy devices 🔗


🔐 #Samsung partners with #Audi, #BMW, #Ford, and #Genesis to turn your phone into a car key 🔗


👉 A #leak of a near-final version of #Windows10X shows a strong similarity to #ChromeOS, with the Start button centered on the taskbar, lack of Live Tiles, more 🔗


💻 2021 #Apple’s #MacBookPro will ditch the Touch Bar and bring back MagSafe, says #Kuo 🔗


🏃 #Google completes #Fitbit acquisition, vows to protect users' #privacy, says “deal has always been about devices, not data” 🔗


👉 #Spotify’s Car Thing shows up in FCC filings with a new design and bigger screen 🔗


👉 #Facebook says it has filed a suit against the makers of four malicious #GoogleChrome extensions used for scraping user data and other info from Facebook's website 🔗 #privacy


🇨🇳 #PayPal has become the first foreign operator with 100% control of a payment platform in #China, after buying the remaining 30% stake in #GoPay on December 31 🔗


👉 #Netflix #Diversity report: women make up 47.1% of its global workforce; 8% of US staff are Black, more than 2x the share in 2017; 8.1% of employees are Hispanic 🔗


🇺🇸🇨🇳 #Trump administration adds #China’s #Xiaomi and #Comac along with 7 other firms, to a blacklist of alleged Chinese military companies, forcing #US investors to divest by Nov. 11 🔗


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