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Anton Shilov / AnandTech: TSMC unveils N4X, a fab process it says enables 15% improved performance over N5 and tailored for high-performance computing, especially server CPUs and SoCs — TSMC this week announced a new fabrication process that is tailored specifically for high-performance...

Originally published on www.childrenshealthdefense.orgThe pandemic will end when society decides to resume normal life rather than waiting for COVID "dashboards" to register zero cases, said the authors of an article published Tuesday in The BMJread more

The pandemic will end when society decides to resume normal life rather than waiting for COVID “dashboards” to register zero cases, said the authors of an article published Tuesday in The BMJ

Kim Lyons / The Verge: TikTok says it is removing “alarmist warnings” about a supposed day of school violence that prompted some US districts to cancel classes on Friday — It hasn't found any videos threatening school violence on Friday, the company said — TikTok said Friday that it's...

Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: GM's Cruise says CEO Dan Ammann is leaving the company “to pursue other opportunities”, and Cruise co-founder and CTO Kyle Vogt will take over as interim CEO — He will be replaced by Cruise founder Kyle Vogt — Dan Ammann, the CEO of Cruise, the autonomous...

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: France's privacy watchdog says Clearview AI has breached GDPR, orders it to delete user data within two months; Clearview says it has no EU customers — Controversial facial recognition company, Clearview AI, which has amassed a database of some 10 billion images by...

Kris Holt / Engadget: Sidewalk Labs plans to shut down and fold its products into Google, as its CEO says he is stepping down for health-related reasons — Alphabet's smart city project is winding down and Google will take over its products. Sidewalk Labs CEO Dan Doctoroff announced the news...

A Waymo self-driving Jaguar I-Pace that struck a pedestrian in San Francisco on Wednesday evening was in manual mode, the company told TechCrunch in response to an initial report posted on Reddit. Waymo says the vehicle was in manual mode at the time, meaning the human safety driver who was...

Jackie Davalos / Bloomberg: Uber says it plans to launch a driverless food-delivery pilot in Santa Monica next year in partnership with Motional, a joint venture between Hyundai and Aptiv — Uber Technologies Inc. plans to launch a driverless food-delivery pilot program in the U.S. next year...

Liza Lin / Wall Street Journal: TikTok says it will adjust its recommendation algorithm to avoid negative reinforcement and protect mental well-being — The app says it is working to diversify the content it pushes to individual users in order to protect their mental well-being — Popular...

Tanya Basu / MIT Technology Review: Meta says a woman was groped on its Horizon Worlds platform on November 26; an internal review says she should have used its “Safe Zone” tool — Last week, Meta (the umbrella company formerly known as Facebook) opened up access to its virtual-reality social...

Gillian Tan / Bloomberg: Stocktwits, a social network used by traders and investors, raises $30M, source says at a $210M valuation, led by Alameda Research and says it has 1M MAUs — Stocktwits, a social-media platform used by day traders and other retail investors, raised $30 million in a...

Two years into a worldwide pandemic, outfits around the globe are wrestling with how to resume their in-person operations safely. Consider that Apple just scrapped its office-return deadline, while Google, which plans to require its workforce to return to its offices three times a week at some...

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Amazon says it will reduce its Alexa skills commission from 30% to 20% for developers who earn less than $1M per year, starting in Q2 2022 — Amazon is joining other tech giants by lowering its cut of developer revenue generated by voice apps, known as Alexa skills...

Sankalp Phartiyal / Reuters: India approves a $10B plan to attract semiconductor and display manufacturers; source says Foxconn and others want to set up semiconductor factories in India — India's federal cabinet has approved a roughly $10 billion incentive plan to woo semiconductor...

Jay Peters / The Verge: LogMeIn says it will spin out password management tool LastPass; LogMeIn acquired LastPass, used by 30M people and 85K businesses, for $125M in 2015 — LastPass has more than 30 million users — LogMeIn plans to spin out password management tool LastPass as a standalone...

Todd Spangler / Variety: Snap says it paid out over $250M to more than 12,000 creators through its Snapchat Spotlight programs in 2021 — This year, Snap finally caught user-generated content fever: In 2021, the company has paid out more than $250 million to more than 12,000 creators through...

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: Medal.tv raises $60M to expand its platform for short gaming clips, bringing its total funding to $70M, and says it has nearly 1M DAUs — Medal.tv has raised $60 million in funding for its platform for short-form videos for games. And the company is also launching...

Vlad Savov / Bloomberg: Oppo unveils the MariSilicon X, a 6nm smartphone chip produced by TSMC that it says can process real-time RAW images, debuting in Q1 2022 — - Phone giant has invested heavily in cameras and imaging tech — MariSilicon X is the company's first in-house image processor

Annie Palmer / CNBC: US OSHA says it is investigating the deadly collapse of an Amazon warehouse in Illinois caused by a tornado; six workers died, one was injured, 45 were rescued — - OSHA is investigating a collapse at an Amazon warehouse in Edwardsville, Illinois. — The facility collapsed...