Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson calls out tech leaders for bailing on SF and being rude about it as they leave, says he is staying and working to make the city better sfchronicle.com · 3 days ago
Analytics firm Zignal Labs: online misinformation about election fraud dropped 73% in the week after several social media sites suspended Trump and key allies washingtonpost.com · 3 days ago
More than 20 current and former CD Projekt staff say development of Cyberpunk 2077 was marred by unchecked ambition, poor planning, and technical shortcomings bloomberg.com · 3 days ago
Facebook says it is temporarily banning ads for gun accessories and military gear through next week's inauguration "out of an abundance of caution" buzzfeednews.com · 3 days ago
Miami PD says it is using facial recognition tech from Clearview AI to identify Capitol rioters, raising concerns among civil liberty and privacy advocates bloomberg.com · 3 days ago
A look at the rise and fall of Xiami, Alibaba's discontinued music streaming service, which only had 22.4M MAUs by Oct. vs. 450M+ for Tencent's three music apps scmp.com · 3 days ago
Biden's COVID-19 relief bill earmarks $9B to beef up the CISA and $200M to hire technology and cyber experts to support the federal CISO and US Digital Service protocol.com · 3 days ago
Parler is not down due to a single company but because the market chose not to do business with it because it's toxic, which is the nature of a free market techdirt.com · 3 days ago
On its 20th anniversary, Wikipedians recount how it began and how it grew to become the definitive digital encyclopedia and the default resource for everything onezero.medium.com · 3 days ago
A look at the raging debate inside Wikipedia, where neutrality is prized above all, on what to call the attack on the Capitol fastcompany.com · 3 days ago
Study: smartwatches like Apple Watch and Fitbit, which can measure heart rate variability, could help detect COVID-19 at least a week before symptoms appear cbsnews.com · 3 days ago
A survey estimates that Apple Pay users reached 507M worldwide in September 2020, about 50% of the total iPhone userbase, adding ~66M users from September 2019 asymco.com · 3 days ago
How a group of Dorsey's lieutenants overcame his reluctance to ban Trump's account when it became clear Trump was using his Twitter presence to incite violence nytimes.com · 3 days ago
Galaxy Buds Pro review: good sound quality, voice detect feature is nice, but the touch controls are finicky and some features only work with Samsung devices theverge.com · 3 days ago
Tencent Music acquires China-based Lazy Audio, a platform for audiobooks, podcasts, and radio shows, for $417M reuters.com · 3 days ago
Sources: investors, including BlackRock, GIC, and Silver Lake, who invested $10.3B in Ant's 2018 pre-IPO round are left with illiquid stakes after canceled IPO t.co · 3 days ago
FAA approves the first fully automated commercial drone flights, letting Massachusetts-based American Robotics operate its drones in rural areas below 400 feet wsj.com · 4 days ago
A security researcher was able to purchase one of the Democratic Republic of Congo's top-level domains, potentially preventing malicious use by attackers techcrunch.com · 4 days ago
Profile of New Zealand-based Letterboxd, a social network for reviewing movies, which has grown to 3M member accounts during the pandemic nytimes.com · 4 days ago
Rob Joyce will replace Anne Neuberger as the director of NSA's Cybersecurity Directorate; Neuberger will join the Biden admin as deputy adviser on the NSC cyberscoop.com · 4 days ago
Ahead of Biden's inauguration, Facebook blocks users from creating new events near the White House and Capitol, restricting features for some users cnbc.com · 4 days ago
Oqton, which is developing a factory OS that combines several fabrication processes like CNC and polymer 3D printing, raises $40M Series A venturebeat.com · 4 days ago
Microsoft is planning to fix a Windows 10 vulnerability that could corrupt a NTFS-formatted hard drive simply by viewing a folder with a malicious shortcut theverge.com · 4 days ago
Israel-based social casino game developer Playtika closes up 17.1% on its first day of trading, valuing the company at $14.5B, after raising $1.88B in its IPO venturebeat.com · 4 days ago
Federal judge denies Apple's appeal of a $502.8M patent infringement verdict favoring VirnetX; Apple's total payout in two lawsuits could cross $1.1B reuters.com · 4 days ago
Apple has started to block the sideloading of unsupported iOS and iPadOS apps onto M1 Macs using third party software 9to5mac.com · 4 days ago
Sources: Apple has begun preliminary work on an iPhone model with a foldable screen, while testing an in-screen fingerprint reader for 2021 bloomberg.com · 4 days ago
A deep dive into the WhatsApp privacy policy change that prompted an exodus of users from the app and why Facebook struggled to communicate what was in it gizmodo.com · 4 days ago
Leaked screenshots show GitHub employees using the term "Nazi" in its internal Slack to protest the unexplained firing of an employee that used the same word theverge.com · 4 days ago
Sources: Apple to launch redesigned iMacs this year with a Pro Display XDR-like design, and is working on two new Mac Pros, one of which may use Intel CPUs bloomberg.com · 4 days ago
Bumble files for an IPO, says it had 42M MAUs, 2.4M total paying users, and lost $117M on revenue of $417M in the first nine months of 2020 techcrunch.com · 4 days ago
WhatsApp to delay new privacy policy by three months following widespread confusion over whether the policy would mandate data sharing with Facebook theverge.com · 4 days ago
GitLab is considering going public after an employee share sale valued it at $6B; GitLab revenue crossed $150M annually after growing 74% in the latest quarter cnbc.com · 4 days ago
Google says it will remove the inadvertent ability for Chromium browsers to access Chrome bookmarks and other sync features when users are logged into Google 9to5google.com · 4 days ago
New research outlines how insights into thriving public spaces in the physical world can help social media platforms in building healthy online communities platformer.news · 4 days ago
OneWeb, which to date launched 110 out of a planned constellation of 648 satellites to provide internet access, raises $1.4B with $400M from SoftBank and Hughes techcrunch.com · 4 days ago
Amazon launches Amazon Custom Assistant, which will let car makers build their own custom AI assistants with their own wake words, custom voices, and more theverge.com · 4 days ago
US commerce department finalizes powers for commerce secretary to issue licenses or block imports of foreign tech including drones and surveillance cameras t.co · 4 days ago
Kuo: Apple is "aggressively" testing vapor chamber thermal systems to cool its upcoming iPhones appleinsider.com · 4 days ago
As Snapchat starts competing with TikTok via its Spotlight program, some creators begin earning small fortunes and look for ways to expand nytimes.com · 4 days ago
Smaller services like Substack, Spotify, and Clubhouse are coming under scrutiny now that the big platforms have warmed to aggressive moderation onezero.medium.com · 4 days ago
Interview with Walmart's e-commerce chief Marc Lore, who is leaving the company at the end of the month vox.com · 4 days ago
Twitter outlines its plans for Wednesday's Inauguration Day, including transitioning @POTUS and other handles to Biden and archiving several official accounts cnbc.com · 4 days ago
Sources: at an all-hands staff meeting, incoming CEO says Intel has to deliver better products for PCs than what a "lifestyle company in Cupertino" makes oregonlive.com · 4 days ago
Sources: Apple is discussing launching a new subscription service that would charge people to listen to podcasts theinformation.com · 4 days ago
238M units of true wireless stereo hearables were shipped in 2020, up 83% YoY, with Apple devices comprising 29% market share, Xiaomi 13%, and Samsung 5% counterpointresearch.com · 4 days ago
Kuo: 14" and 16" MacBook Pros coming in 2021 with Apple Silicon, MagSafe charging, no Touch Bar, new design with squared-off sides and more built-in IO ports 9to5mac.com · 4 days ago
X1 Card, which offers a credit card with limits based on current and future income instead of credit score, raises $12M funding round led by Spark Capital techcrunch.com · 5 days ago
Nayya, which uses AI to help guide employees in selecting a health plan offered by their employers, raises $11M Series A led by Felicis Ventures venturebeat.com · 5 days ago
Intel updates its NUC desktop line with 11th-gen processors, adds a gaming-focused model called NUC 11 Enthusiast, and a NUC Pro line that can drive 8K displays theverge.com · 5 days ago