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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)
Jan Stryjak / Counterpoint Research: European smartphone market shrank by 14% YoY in 2020, with Xiaomi up 85% and Huawei…
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Apple, Google, and Amazon are training their voice assistants to better understand people with speech disorders such as stutter (Katie Deighton/Wall Street Journal)
Katie Deighton / Wall Street Journal: Apple, Google, and Amazon are training their voice assistants to better understand people with…
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Researchers detected mass scanning activity targeting VMware vCenter servers vulnerable to a remote code execution vulnerability; VMware has issued a patch (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Researchers detected mass scanning activity targeting VMware vCenter servers vulnerable to a remote code execution…
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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)
Ry Crist / CNET: Microsoft says it is investigating a major Xbox Live service outage that is preventing some users…
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In reply to Oversight rulings, Facebook says it won't loosen COVID-19 misinfo policy, but will test letting users know whether a post was removed by a human (Mitchell Clark/The Verge)
Mitchell Clark / The Verge: In reply to Oversight rulings, Facebook says it won’t loosen COVID-19 misinfo policy, but will…
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ByteDance has agreed to a $92M class action settlement over data privacy claims from some US TikTok users, according to court documents (Reuters)
Reuters: ByteDance has agreed to a $92M class action settlement over data privacy claims from some US TikTok users, according…
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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)
Matthew Gault / VICE: Amazon-owned Twitch bans Amazon’s anti-union ads, saying they should never have been allowed to run on…
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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)
Wall Street Journal: Cybersecurity experts and US lawmakers criticize Amazon for a lack of public transparency about the SolarWinds hack,…
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BetterUp, which helps clients provide employees with career coaches and mental health counseling, raises $125M Series D at a $1.73B valuation (Katie Roof/Bloomberg)
Katie Roof / Bloomberg: BetterUp, which helps clients provide employees with career coaches and mental health counseling, raises $125M Series…
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Armorblox, which protects enterprise communications using AI, raises $30M Series B led by Next47, bringing its total raised to $46.5M (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Armorblox, which protects enterprise communications using AI, raises $30M Series B led by Next47, bringing its…
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