Study finds no correlation between growing up playing violent video games and increased levels of aggression 10 years later (Gamesage)
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December 31, 2020
Rating: 5
Over 66 SPACs were raised in 2020, according to PitchBook, up from 30 in 2019, amid a year of uncertainty that opened tech companies' eyes to an IPO alternative (Shakeel Hashim/Protocol)
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December 31, 2020
Rating: 5
The Bay Area won't be displaced as the nation's top tech hub anytime soon but lawmakers need to recognize the dangers of bad governance that is fueling backlash (Bloomberg)
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December 31, 2020
Rating: 5
Researchers: NSO Group used location data from thousands of unsuspecting people during its pitch of COVID-19 contact-tracing tech to governments and journalists (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
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December 31, 2020
Rating: 5
Binance says US users will not be able to deposit or trade XRP beginning January 13, joining Coinbase and several other exchanges in delisting or suspending XRP (CoinDesk)
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December 31, 2020
Rating: 5
Gadget trade-in site Gazelle, one of the longest running used smartphone buyers in the US, says it will end its core trade-in program on February 1, 2021 (Nick Statt/The Verge)
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December 31, 2020
Rating: 5
The head scientist for Alexa argues that Turing Test, designed as a thought experiment, is no longer relevant for building AIs that are designed to help humans (Rohit Prasad/Fast Company)
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December 30, 2020
Rating: 5
eMarketer: US e-commerce sales, up 12%-16% in recent years, will have grown by 30%+ in 2020 and Amazon's US retail business grew an estimated 39% YoY in 2020 (Jason Del Rey/Vox)
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December 30, 2020
Rating: 5
Consumers worldwide spent $407.6M across the App Store and Google Play on Christmas, up 34.5% YoY; mobile games rose 27% YoY to $295.6M, led by Honor of Kings (Stephanie Chan/Sensor Tower Blog)
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December 30, 2020
Rating: 5
Over Christmas holiday, Apptopia says HBO Max had ~554K app signups; Sensor Tower says Disney+ had ~2.3M global app installations, up 28% from prior weekend (Christopher Palmeri/Bloomberg)
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December 30, 2020
Rating: 5
FactSet: Amazon's "other" business unit, which is made up almost entirely of its ads business, will make $21B in revenue in 2020, up 47% YoY (Dave Lee/Financial Times)
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December 30, 2020
Rating: 5
New York regulators have authorized a subsidiary of Japan's GMO Internet to issue the world's first publicly available stablecoin backed by the Japanese yen (Kevin Helms/Bitcoin News)
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December 30, 2020
Rating: 5
Fujitsu eyes 20 potential M&A targets as part of a five-year $5.8B plan aiming to strengthen its digital services and capitalize on US-China trade disputes (Kana Inagaki/Financial Times)
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December 30, 2020
Rating: 5
Analysis of internal data at Coinbase through 2018 highlights pay inequity for women and Black employees; Coinbase says it implemented a new compensation plan (Nathaniel Popper/New York Times)
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December 30, 2020
Rating: 5
Graphcore, which designs chips designed for AI workloads, raises $222M Series E led by the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan at a $2.77B post-money valuation (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
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December 29, 2020
Rating: 5