Your round-up of US New Year's Eve TV specials 2021 and how to stream anywhere
Keep reading as we give you a rundown of the schedule across the US's biggest bro…
Google pauses the rollout of its December update for the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro until late January after reports of calls dropping and disconnecting (Tim/Droid Life)
Tim / Droid Life : Google pauses the rollout of its December update for the Pixel 6…
OpenSea bans PHAYC and Phunky Ape Yacht Club, two NFT projects that are dueling over which is the authentic Bored Ape Yacht Club ripoff (Adi Robertson/The Verge)
Adi Robertson / The Verge : OpenSea bans PHAYC and Phunky Ape Yacht Club, two NFT p…
There are more malicious domains online than ever before
Thousands of new domains are registered everyday so that businesses and individuals …
Justin Kan launches gaming-focused NFT marketplace Fractal, after someone hacked its Discord announcement bot and made off with about $150K last week (Eli Tan/CoinDesk)
Eli Tan / CoinDesk : Justin Kan launches gaming-focused NFT marketplace Fractal, af…
Tesla is recalling almost half a million cars over safety issues
Tesla issued recalls for 475,318 Model 3 and Model S all-electric vehicles on Decembe…
Microsoft Teams update minimizes the opportunity for miscommunication
Getting your ideas across in Microsoft Teams will soon be even easier as Microsoft i…
Biden will rely on the private sector to shield US infrastructure from attack
Despite a significant uptick in high-level cyberattacks this year, a new defense bill…
Battlegrounds Mobile India ‘Login Failed’ Error: Krafton Investigating Issue Affecting Some Gamers
Battlegrounds Mobile India users have been experiencing a “login failed” error, develo…
Samsung, Micron Warn China's Xian Lockdown Could Affect Memory Chip Manufacturing
Samsung and Micron, two of the world's largest memory chip makers, warned that a C…
Elon Musk's SpaceX Raises Over $337 Million in Fresh Funding
Elon Musk's SpaceX has raised $337.4 million (roughly Rs. 2,515 crore) in equity f…
Shares of SenseTime, China's most valuable AI startup, rose 23% in early trading, after the company raised $740M in its Hong Kong IPO at a $16.4B valuation (Reuters)
Reuters : Shares of SenseTime, China's most valuable AI startup, rose 23% in ea…
Epic confirms Fortnite is experiencing a major outage preventing players from logging in and causing other issues, and says it is working on a fix (Austen Goslin/Polygon)
Austen Goslin / Polygon : Epic confirms Fortnite is experiencing a major outage pre…
Google, Microsoft, and Oracle invest in potential cloud clients to beat AWS; Google claims 6% cloud market share, behind AWS at 41% and Microsoft at 20% (Wall Street Journal)
Wall Street Journal : Google, Microsoft, and Oracle invest in potential cloud clien…
HDMI Forum will introduce HDMI 2.1a, the new standard, at CES 2022, offering minor updates that will further complicate a system with haphazard device support (Chaim Gartenberg/The Verge)
Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge : HDMI Forum will introduce HDMI 2.1a, the new standar…
As the US faces record COVID-19 infections, effective use of exposure notification apps is unlikely given slow adoption and lack of data on their efficacy (Washington Post)
Washington Post : As the US faces record COVID-19 infections, effective use of expo…
Microsoft Edge is about to give you an excellent new way to procrastinate
Microsoft is giving Edge users yet another way to procrastinate online by adding a n…
Six of the 10 best-performing South Korean stocks in 2021 are linked to the metaverse or NFTs, including Wemade Max, up 1,500%, and Giantstep, up 1,200% (Youkyung Lee/Bloomberg)
Youkyung Lee / Bloomberg : Six of the 10 best-performing South Korean stocks in 202…
T-Mobile confirms reports of a data breach caused by SIM swap attacks on a "very small number of customers", following six other data breaches since 2018 (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer : T-Mobile confirms reports of a data breach cause…
Waymo partners with Chinese automotive company Geely to bring a "rider-first" EV with no steering wheel to its US robotaxi Waymo One fleet in the coming years (Abner Li/9to5Google)
Abner Li / 9to5Google : Waymo partners with Chinese automotive company Geely to bri…
Adam Mosseri says in 2022 Instagram will "double down" on video, consolidate its video products around Reels, and focus on creators, transparency, and messaging (Kris Holt/Engadget)
Kris Holt / Engadget : Adam Mosseri says in 2022 Instagram will “double down” on vi…
Zoom could be planning even bigger events
Although Zoom may be best known for its video conferencing software , its platform a…
US appeals court rules in favor of the FCC in its decision to designate a large swath of the 6 GHz band to unlicensed users, after AT&T challenged the FCC (Monica Alleven/Fierce Wireless)
Monica Alleven / Fierce Wireless : US appeals court rules in favor of the FCC in it…
Alexa told a child to try a dangerous stunt because that's what the search engine said
It can be hard to keep children entertained in the week between Christmas and New Yea…
Sources: Apple issued rare bonuses of restricted stock worth $50K-$180K to select engineers, after Meta poached ~100 Apple engineers over the past few months (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg : Sources: Apple issued rare bonuses of restricted stock wo…
Lenovo's new ThinkBook Plus could be the perfect device for content creators
Ahead of CES 2022 , images of a new widescreen laptop from Lenovo's ThinkBook Plu…
Some LastPass users say their master passwords were compromised and used in blocked login attempts from unknown IPs; LastPass blames "credential stuffing" (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer : Some LastPass users say their master passwords w…
OneWeb Launches 36 Satellites Into Orbit to Deliver Global High-Speed Internet Access
OneWeb launched 36 communications satellites into space from the Baikonur cosmodrome i…
A TikTok moderator sues the company for an unsafe workplace that gave her PTSD; her lawyer says TikTok stopped her from working a day after the suit was filed (Kieran Press-Reynolds/Insider)
Kieran Press-Reynolds / Insider : A TikTok moderator sues the company for an unsafe…
Exploring the concept of mirrortables, where a company's cap table is mirrored on-chain with Ethereum and ENS or other Web3 tools, to streamline angel investing (Balaji Srinivasan)
Balaji Srinivasan : Exploring the concept of mirrortables, where a company's ca…
Democrats, eager to rein in social media and other internet platforms, urge Biden to focus on tech regulation, before Republicans can retake the House or Senate (John D. McKinnon/Wall Street Journal)
John D. McKinnon / Wall Street Journal : Democrats, eager to rein in social media a…
The new trailer for The Batman will make you a believer if you aren’t already
We knew the latest Caped Crusader film starring Zoe Kravitz as Catwoman and Robert Pa…
A look at increasing competition in the call center tools market between Genesys, AWS, Salesforce, Microsoft, and others, often focused on AI-driven automation (Joe Williams/Bloomberg)
Joe Williams / Bloomberg : A look at increasing competition in the call center tool…
Final Fantasy 16’s release date just hit a major delay - here's what happened
While Square Enix originally had plans to debut new PS5 footage for Final Fantasy 16…
James Webb Space Telescope Launched Successfully, Sets Off on Million-Mile Voyage
James Webb Space Telescope on December 25 blasted off into orbit, headed to an outpost…
Your next OLED TV could hold your Elf on a Shelf, too
LG Display is almost hell-bent on making its flexible, transparent OLED technology a …
OpenDAO airdrops SOS token for users of OpenSea's NFT marketplace; the token, unaffiliated with OpenSea, is up ~10x in two days as watchers debate its prospects (Robert Stevens/Decrypt)
Robert Stevens / Decrypt : OpenDAO airdrops SOS token for users of OpenSea's NF…
An overview of the efforts by Google, Apple, and Amazon to offer their technology and services for connected cars (Leah Nylen/Politico)
Leah Nylen / Politico : An overview of the efforts by Google, Apple, and Amazon to …
A look at sidewalk delivery robots serving students across US college campuses, an ideal proving ground with pedestrian-friendly designs and eager consumer base (Kyle Stock/Bloomberg)
Kyle Stock / Bloomberg : A look at sidewalk delivery robots serving students across…
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