Microsoft busca adquirir Discord, China presenta nuevos lineamientos sobre la información que los celulares obtienen de sus usuarios y se presenta una propuesta en la cámara de diputados en México para que conductores y repartidores de Uber, DiDi y similares sean considerados trabajadores de las plataformas digitales.
Xiaomi reportedly plans to produce EVs as early as 2023, Mark Zuckerberg pledges to uphold the Facebook Oversight Board decision on President Trump, and Motorola announces the G100 and G50 phones.
Zuckerberg, Pichai, and Dorsey all testified before the House Energy and Commerce committee to discuss spreading disinformation, extremism and misinformation, Facebook announced it took actions to disrupt the group that security researchers call “Evil Eye” or “Poison Carp” and Triumph announced details about its TE-1 electric bike project, in development since 2019.
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The UK’s CMA finds Facebook’s Giphy acquisition would result in a loss of market competition, the US DOJ launches antitrust investigation into Sony’s Crunchroll acquisition, and Qualcomm announces the Snapdragon 780G SoC.
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger announced it will elevate its small foundry business to become a standalone business within Intel called Intel Foundry Services led by Randhir Thakur. Unlike previous efforts, IFS will offer SoCs with not only x86, but Arm, and RISC-V cores, and use industry standard design tools this time, making it easier to work with for third parties. How will these efforts help turn Intel’s ship around and will it be enough?
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Intel Foundry Services is a new standalone company that will make SoCs for third-parties, Qualcomm is reportedly working on a Switch-like 5G gaming console, and Google is not testing FLoC in the EU over GDPR concerns.
Peter Wells wrote a column for the Sydney Morning Herald called “How searching for help online can be healthy.” But should you search online? And what kinds of help can you expect?
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OnePlus announces the much leaked OnePlus 9 series, Microsoft is reportedly in talks to acquire Discord, and China issues new rules on necessary information mobile app developers can collect from users.
Zoom will begin selling access to its API for companies to embed video calling into their own products, Microsoft will start a limited reopening of its headquarters in Redmond and Seattle on March 29th, and preservation group Hidden Palace has obtained 752 PS2 game prototypes for the Project Deluge initiative.
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