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Facebook probably knows what you’re doing on the web, even if you’re not a Facebook user. But exactly what information is it vacuuming up? @JuliaAngwin interviews Gunes Acar, who’s been investigating the company’s overcollection of data for years.

Industry observers believe the anticipated meeting is a barometer for whether the country will loosen the crackdown on the tech sector that began in late 2020 and accelerated last summer.

iOS 16 accessibility features likely to benefit everyone, argues Macworld

Gopuff, the instant delivery upstart, taps ex-Disney head Bob Iger as its newest investor and advisor

The Huawei Watch GT 3 Pro is a nice smartwatch many of us can’t buy

TikTok Shop is trying to be the next evolution in online shopping: more addictive for being powered by its all-knowing algorithm, and more entertaining for being layered onto its infinite scroll of videos

Huawei’s new Watch GT 3 Pro is a stylish upgrade to the GT 3

Last month, nine companies joined The Crunchbase Emerging Unicorn Board, a curated list of global private companies on the path to achieving unicorn status. Meet the almost-unicorns. #emergingunicorn

If Musk has second thoughts about buying Twitter, walking away wouldn’t be as simple as paying a $1 billion break-up fee

Plaid announces two products for Automated Clearing House transfers, including identify verification, putting it in direct competition with Stripe (@tomiogeron / Protocol)

Dismissal of a ByteDance-owned virtual singer prompts backlash, claims of abuse, signalling challenges for booming industry

Blockchain gaming startup N3twork Studios raised $46 million and plans to launch two new games

A minimalist and budget-friendly gaming laptop available in Intel and AMD configurations.

Facebook's IPO 10 years later — new name, same CEO and a familiar problem

HP refreshes its Omen 16 gaming laptop with improved cooling

One angry customer tied his e-scooter to a donkey and paraded it through the streets with a sign that said, “Beware of this fraudulent company, Ola.”

🗣️ Today @tomkrazit is talking to @Chobani's Parag Agrawal and Edgewell Personal Care's Ravi Ponnaganti about how they're navigating this era of digital transformation. Filmed at @SAPSapphire. 🗓️ Presented

HPE building its 4th global 'supercomputer factory'

HP’s new Omen and Victus gaming laptops seem like low-effort refreshes

Elon Musk says his acquisition of Twitter "cannot move forward" until the company provides data on spam accounts and that renegotiating the deal at a lower price is "not out of the question."

Napster joins Limewire and Winamp by jumping on the web3 bandwagon

China is in talks with automakers about extending costly subsidies for EV that were set to expire in 2022, aiming to keep a key market growing as the broader economy slows

China's vice premier Liu He advocates technology and government cooperation

Arctic plant growth may be building new peat, potentially offsetting at least some of the losses of carbon from peat fires and permafrost thaw.

Vivo’s X80 Pro Takes Fingerprint Sensor Tech to the Next Level as Apple Remains Focused on Face ID

Top Chinese leaders meet with tech firms, stress support for platform economy

Apple’s share of China earbuds market falls by 11% as domestic brands rise

The mobile laser system is apparently already being used by troops and can burn a drone out of the sky in 5 seconds.

Heard on the Street: Elon Musk’s new Twitter diligence is as questionable as the bots he wants to ban

Google Messages users in India are reportedly drowning in ads

The secret to tech success? Doing whatever you want

Integrating Google Cloud brings with it real-time ride data, route planning, digital security.

YouTube will let creators co-host shopping livestreams

Bitcoin production has roared back in China thanks to an underground mining scene

Apple says that the missing Apple Card transactions issue has now been resolved

Elon Musk's Twitter deal would increase its annual debt interest burden to an estimated $750M-$1B, up from $51M in 2021, adding pressure to find revenue streams (@pseligson / Bloomberg)

China's top economic official meets dozens of tech execs and industry experts, pledging "support" for Chinese tech companies amid a deepening economic slump (Financial Times)

Sources: despite Elon Musk's tweets, Twitter, Musk's team, and banks are continuing to work to close the deal, including preparing the 139-page SEC filing (Bloomberg)

Amazon launches Smart Commerce in India, helping stores create online storefronts and offering tools for billing and inventory management (@refsrc / TechCrunch)

Tencent revenues fail to grow for first time since 2004 IPO #Tencent #COVID19 #coronavirus

New testing reveals FSR 2.0 is compatible with all kinds of GPUs, and that it can breathe new life into older, unexpected hardware.

Tencent misses estimates with ~$20.1B in Q1 revenue, up 0% YoY, as net income dropped 51% YoY to ~$3.5B; Tencent has lost ~$500B in value since its 2021 peak (@pingroma / Bloomberg)

On our latest podcast: @RiggsReport is at the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce Annual Meeting to take a look at Boston's up-and-coming tech scene

NASA will soon bid farewell to its Mars InSight lander

Japan water leak disrupts supply to plants near Toyota hub.

PSA: Apple Has Resolved an Issue That Prevented Latest Apple Card Transactions From Showing in Wallet App

QuestBook raises $8.3 million to help web3 developers secure funds

China’s economic tsar hinted that Beijing’s crackdown on tech stocks is coming to an end. But investors seem unconvinced

This company crushes old roads—and rebuilds them to store carbon

Tencent’s first-quarter profit falls by more than half amid regulatory uncertainty and economic headwinds under Covid-19 challenges

Amazon launches Smart Commerce in India to help offline stores launch digital storefronts

State of internet crime in Q1 2022: Bot traffic on the rise, and more

The next Big Tech climate challenge: Business travel.

Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal posted a series of tweets defending the company’s ability to fight spam accounts. Elon Musk responded with multiple tweets, including one that solely said

Quick commerce, as it is known locally, became the talk of the town last year as some of India's biggest startups made aggressive moves into the grocery delivery sector, which puts goods on doorsteps in less than 20 minutes.

Executive pay hit a record high for the sixth year in a row, led by a post-pandemic boom in travel and tech

New York City reportedly has more Airbnb listings than rentable apartments

OnePlus launches new lower-priced gaming phone

The iPad has become a great device for playing board games.

Research: despite China's crypto mining ban, its global bitcoin hashrate share grew to 21.1% from Sept. 2021 to Jan. 2022, suggesting a rise in covert mining (Bloomberg)

Sony readies for metaverse revolution with cross-platform push

Apple slows return to office plan, will let employees stay remote and require masks in common spaces

Is Elon Musk being a jerk as a negotiating tactic?

Monero-mining botnet targets Windows, Linux web servers

Huawei phone regains 5G support with the launch of new eSIM case

Cryptocurrency can supplement mobile money in Africa if regulators can be convinced of its benefits, according to the chief executive of Kenya’s biggest lender by market value

At Accenture, 150,000 new hires will spend their first day of work in the metaverse

For Sony, subscription gaming will always come second to its bread and butter: selling full price games at retail for as long as it can maintain high prices and healthy margins.

Many people want Starlink satellite internet even if they don't understand it.

Twitter's board reiterates that it intends to "close the transaction" at the agreed price, saying that it will "enforce the merger agreement" (@brianstelter / CNN)

The suspected shooter in the massacre at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket invited a small group of Discord users to join a private chat room to review his plan about 30 minutes before beginning his attack, The New York Times reported on Tuesday.

Celebrities have been criticized for hyping crypto without highlighting the risks after this month's sell-off, as and FTX scale back on ad spending (@tiffkhsu / New York Times)

Older people using TikTok to defy ageist stereotypes, research finds

This ultralight convertible from Samsung is ready for anything.

Sony LinkBuds S rumored to be the "smallest and lightest" ANC earbuds

Wall Street ends sharply higher, fueled by Apple

Elon Musk has indicated he wants to renegotiate his $44 billion deal to buy Twitter after a battle over bots with the company's CEO.

There may be an indoor drone in the works...

Google keeps legacy G Suite alive and free for personal use

Crypto tycoons become a political force by lavishing Washington with millions of dollars to influence policy