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TikTok launches its first personalized annual recap feature, "Year on TikTok", which highlights what sort of videos were watched the most, favorite tracks, more (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: TikTok launches its first personalized annual recap feature, “Year on TikTok”, which highlights what sort of videos were watched the most, favorite tracks, more  —  Spotify users have Wrapped and Instagram users have their Top 9.  And now TikTok users will have their own year-in-review feature, too. TikTok launches its first

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Netflix and Arthur Conan Doyle’s estate agree to dismiss lawsuit over Sherlock Holmes’ emotions

Image: Netflix Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s estate and the creators of Netflix movie Enola Holmes have agreed to dismiss a copyright lawsuit over Sherlock Holmes’ emotions. Copyright Lately reported on the outcome today, noting that the court didn’t rule on the merits of the case, possibly indicating that the parties settled. So unfortunately, we don’t

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Apartment List, a rental service that earns a fee only when a property is rented, raises $50M and is now valued at $600M+, roughly double its prior valuation (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Apartment List, a rental service that earns a fee only when a property is rented, raises $50M and is now valued at $600M+, roughly double its prior valuation  —  – Public listing ‘realistic’ in the next two years, CEO says  — Company enabled more than 175,000 rentals to new tenants Apartment List, a rental

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Samsung’s Galaxy Buds Pro will have a feature just like ‘spatial audio’ on the AirPods Pro

Image: Evan Blass With its upcoming Galaxy Buds Pro, Samsung is planning to counter one of the differentiating features of Apple’s AirPods Pro (and now AirPods Max): spatial audio. Spatial audio crams an immersive, surround sound-like experience into a set of earbuds or headphones. And it accurately keeps the sound source anchored to your iPhone

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Sources: executives and employees at Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, and others are seeking to place allies in senior roles at government agencies under Biden (Nandita Bose/Reuters)

Nandita Bose / Reuters: Sources: executives and employees at Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, and others are seeking to place allies in senior roles at government agencies under Biden  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Silicon Valley is working behind the scenes to secure senior roles for tech allies in lesser-known … Sources: executives and employees at Amazon, Facebook,

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Interviews with 36+ current and former US officials describe China's strategy of analyzing vast quantities of stolen US personal data to identify CIA operatives (Zach Dorfman/Foreign Policy)

Zach Dorfman / Foreign Policy: Interviews with 36+ current and former US officials describe China’s strategy of analyzing vast quantities of stolen US personal data to identify CIA operatives  —  Around 2013, U.S. intelligence began noticing an alarming pattern: Undercover CIA personnel, flying into countries in Africa … Interviews with 36+ current and former US

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The First Real Palmtop

A Day in My Life Back before COVID-19, I was walking through the airport towards the gate when suddenly I remembered a document I wanted to read on the flight but had forgotten to bring along. No worry, I paused for a bit on the concourse, reached into my pocket and proceeded to download the

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Data science is changing how business is done and this training will keep you ahead of the curve

TLDR: The 2021 Business Intelligence and Data Science Super Bundle offers six courses that make data analysis, machine learning and cutting edge science more accessible than ever. In case you thought data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence were just for eggheads, consider that those ones and zeroes could soon be eliciting cheers and boos

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Congress' COVID-19 relief deal includes $7B in broadband funding, with $1.9B to remove Huawei and ZTE equipment, $3.2B to low-income families, and more (Margaret Harding McGill/Axios)

Margaret Harding McGill / Axios: Congress’ COVID-19 relief deal includes $7B in broadband funding, with $1.9B to remove Huawei and ZTE equipment, $3.2B to low-income families, and more  —  The coronavirus relief package deal that Congressional leaders reached Sunday includes $7 billion in funding for broadband internet access. Congress' COVID-19 relief deal includes B in

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