DuckDuckGo appears to have completely removed search results for YouTube-dl and many popular pirate sites including The Pirate Bay, 1337x.to and Fmovies (Ernesto Van der Sar/TorrentFreak)
DuckDuckGo appears to have completely removed search results for YouTube-dl and many popular pirate sites, including The Pirate Bay, 1337x.to, and Fmovies.– Privacy-centric search engine DuckDuckGo has completely removed search…
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Belgium’s data watchdog fines IAB Europe €250K after finding its ad-targeting tool violated GDPR and orders changes within two months (Stephanie Bodoni/Bloomberg)
Belgium’s data watchdog fines IAB Europe €250K after finding its ad-targeting tool violated GDPR and orders changes within two months— IAB Europe, an association for online advertising companies, was fined…
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Mexico-based Flat.mx, an online real estate marketplace for remodeled properties, raises $ 20 million from Series A led by Anthemis and 500 startups (Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch)
Mexico-based Flat.mx, an online real estate marketplace for refurbished properties, raises $ 20 million in Series A led by Anthemis and 500 startups– Flat.mx, which wants to create a real…
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Report: Alphabet, Amazon, Meta and Microsoft laying undersea fiber optic cables helped increase data capacity by 41% in 2020 while reducing costs (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)
Report: Alphabet, Amazon, Meta and Microsoft Installing Undersea Fiber Optic Cables Helped Increase Data Transmission Capacity by 41% in 2020 While Cutting Costs— The Big Four Tech increasingly dominate the…
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Faros AI, which offers an analytics tool for engineering teams, raises a $16M seed led by SignalFire and releases an open source version of its tool (George Anadiotis/ZDNet)
Faros AI, which offers an analytics tool for engineering teams, raises a $16M seed led by SignalFire and releases an open source version of its tool— What if what you…
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Let’s stigmatize the internet – The New York Times
after thoughts It’s time to put our extreme online year (and myself) behind us. April 29, 2021 It should have come as a surprise to anyone who’s ever been on…
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Sydney-based Immutable, which has developed Ethereum-based tools to monetize NFTs in games, raises $ 60 million (Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat)
Sydney-based Immutable, which developed Ethereum-based tools to monetize NFTs in games, raises $ 60 million– A new GamesBeat event is just around the corner! Learn more about what comes next….
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FTC bans spyware maker SpyFone, orders it to notify hacked victims – TechCrunch
The Federal Trade Commission unanimously voted to ban spyware maker SpyFone and its chief executive Scott Zuckerman from the surveillance industry, the first order of its kind, after the agency…
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opinion | Apple’s New Microchip Could Transform Computing
How Apple achieved these gains is an interesting business and technical story. In 2008, about a year after Apple released the first iPhone, it bought a small semiconductor start-up to…
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Sources: Beta versions of iOS 16, codenamed Sydney, are “completely full” references to Apple’s AR headset and its interactions with the iPhone (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
Sources: Beta versions of iOS 16, codenamed Sydney, are full of references to Apple’s AR headset and its interactions with the iPhone— Apple is preparing to hold its developer conference…
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