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Hannah Miller / The Information: A look at Solana's early backers including 500 Startups, Slow Ventures, Multicoin Capital, and angels David Quiec and Chris McCann, who have $1B+ stakes — When Solana Labs CEO Anatoly Yakovenko tried to raise money in 2018 to develop his idea for a faster...

Eva Dou / Washington Post: Internal Huawei marketing slides show a broader role in tracking China's population than previously acknowledged, including using voice ID and tracking shoppers — The Chinese tech giant Huawei Technologies has long brushed off questions about its role in China's...

BBC: UK MPs propose changes to the UK's Online Safety Bill, including adding more offenses and fines, mandating tech firms appoint a “safety controller”, and more — New criminal offences and major changes have been proposed in the UK's landmark Online Safety Bill, which seeks to regulate...

Issie Lapowsky / Protocol: Biden to sign an order directing 17 US agencies to modernize services for Americans and bring more of them online, including passport photo uploads and taxes — The White House is hoping to spur a major technological overhaul of government services with a new...

Hassan Mujtaba / Wccftech: Intel shares its post-2025 plans for pushing chip performance, including stacking transistors on top of each other to fit 30%-50% more into a given area — At IEDM 2021, Intel unveiled a host of new announcements that will propel and accelerate Moore's Law Beyond 2025.

Coco Feng / South China Morning Post: Reports suggest large Chinese tech companies, including ByteDance and Kuaishou, are laying off more staff than usual, amid regulatory pressure and competition — Companies are reportedly laying off more employees than usual for this time of year, setting...

South China Morning Post: China orders another 106 smartphone apps, including popular social network Douban and karaoke app Changba, to be removed from app stores, citing data practices — Authorities say more than a hundred apps, including Douban, have failed to rectify data privacy and...

Marietje Schaake / Financial Times: A look at the impact of data centers in Europe, including high electricity and water usage, as Big Tech gets tax breaks, subsidized energy and agricultural land — Meanwhile, companies must be more transparent in their planning applications — The writer is...

Queenie Wong / CNET: Meta says its new AI system, Few-Shot Learner, adapts more quickly to tackle new types of harmful content, including COVID-19 misinformation — Meta, formerly known as Facebook , said Wednesday it has created artificial intelligence technology that can adapt more quickly to...

Samuel Gebre / Bloomberg: Research: African startups will raise $5B in 2021, more than the past three years combined, creating four unicorns, including Andela, Flutterwave, and OPay — - There's been greater interest from U.S., China investors — African startups ecosystem has come of age, says...

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Reddit launches Spotify Wrapped-style annual usage statistics for users, including time spent and popular content; users created 366M posts in 2021, up 19% YoY — Reddit is launching a new personalized Spotify Wrapped-like recap feature for all users tomorrow.

Andrew Tangel / Wall Street Journal: FAA outlines flight restrictions, including restricting bad weather automated landing systems, to avoid interference with the C-band 5G spectrum from January 5 — Agency's order could disrupt air travel with limits to cockpit systems needed in poor weather...

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: Researchers discover 27 vulnerabilities in the Eltima SDK, a library used by numerous cloud providers including AWS to remotely mount a local USB device — Researchers have discovered 27 vulnerabilities in Eltima SDK, a library used by numerous cloud providers to...

Richard Lawler / The Verge: An AWS outage that began around 10:45am ET has led to disruptions for many services including Disney+, Tinder, Roku, Coinbase, Cash App, Amazon Music, and Venmo — Amazon says it is working toward a solution — Problems for some of Amazon's AWS cloud servers are...

David McCabe / New York Times: Ahead of a congressional hearing, Adam Mosseri outlines forthcoming parental controls for Instagram, including monitoring time spent and deleting posts in bulk — Adam Mosseri, the head of the company, is expected to face questions from lawmakers this week about...

Financial Times: Researchers describe Meta's roadblocks, including pre-publication review and restrictive contracts, to stifle research that might cast it in a negative light — Last March, Orestis Papakyriakopoulos, a researcher at Princeton University, applied to use a special data access...

The Guardian: The EU has spent hundreds of million euros over the past decade on tech, including drones and sensor systems, to track down refugees at its borders — We map out the rising number of high-tech surveillance and deterrent systems facing asylum seekers along EU borders

PMID: Nutrients. 2021 Apr 28 ;13(5). Epub 2021 Apr 28. PMID: 33924846 Abstract Title: Habitual Miso (Fermented Soybean Paste) Consumption Is Associated with Glycemic Variability in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes: A Cross-Sectional Study. Abstract: Glycemic control, including glycemic...

Anne Steele / Wall Street Journal: Spotify removed the work of hundreds of comedians, including John Mulaney and Kevin Hart, amid a fight with royalty administration agency Spoken Giants — A push for royalty payments on comedic material sidelines work of Kevin Hart, Tiffany Haddish and...

Drew Harwell / Washington Post: Profile of Twitch streamer Tyler Steinkamp, including the loneliness and rage that comes with streaming game battles and real-world moments for 50 hours a week — NEW LONDON, Mo. — Just before midnight, six hours into his 10-hour Twitch live stream, Tyler...