Some doctors, bird watchers, and others still use pagers due to their simplicity; paging company Spok has 800K+ pagers in use in the US, down from 6.6M in 2004 — Fans, including some doctors and bird watchers, appreciate the simplicity of the once-popular devices, even as others move on
Filing: AT&T asks the FCC to block a SpaceX/T-Mobile plan that allows Starlink to service areas lacking T-Mobile coverage, saying “FCC's rules do not permit” it — AT&T and rural telcos say Starlink-fueled phone service would cause interference.
Sources: Lagos-based Sabi, which provides a marketplace, inventory management tools, and more to Africa's SMEs, raised a $38M Series B at a $300M valuation — Sabi, a Lagos-based B2B e-commerce startup providing digital commerce infrastructure to Africa's informal economy …
A UK court throws out a case against Google concerning the transfer of 1.6M patients' data by an NHS trust to DeepMind in 2015 and its alleged misuse — Google on Friday defeated a lawsuit brought on behalf of 1.6 million people over medical records provided to the U.S. tech giant by a British hospital trust.
Sources: media agency GroupM tells clients it no longer considers Twitter “high risk”, a designation given in November, days after Linda Yaccarino's appointment — WPP-owned GroupM removed designation of platform after appointment of Linda Yaccarino
Krafton receives a “trial approval” for three months from Indian authorities to relaunch battle-royale game BGMI, a year after it was banned — The South Korean giant Krafton has secured the approval from the Indian authorities to resume operations of Battlegrounds Mobile India …
Restaurant chefs are increasingly designing food that plays well on video for influencers on TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube — The most important social-media food genre of the past decade is photos of avocado toast, bright and colorful and clean. But innovation is relentless …
Google plans to migrate 1% of Chrome users to Privacy Sandbox and disable third-party cookies for them in Q1 2024 and deprecate third-party cookies in H2 2024 — Google's Privacy Sandbox aims to replace third-party cookies with a more privacy-conscious approach, allowing users to manage …
A survey of 70 cybersecurity experts: 64% favored reauthorization of FISA's Section 702, set to expire at the end of 2023, with some kind of change — Welcome to The Cybersecurity 202! It's good to be back from Denver. There, a 6-year-old repeatedly defeated me and/or incapacitated …
Q&A with FBI's Bryan Smith on how the agency generated over 300 decryption keys from Hive's servers and gave them to victims, saving ~$130M in ransom payments — While there was excitement when they actually got that access, there was no time to kind of enjoy that moment …
At a meeting with Japan's Prime Minister, TSMC, Samsung, Intel, Micron, and other chipmakers announce plans to expand investment and partnerships in the country — Seven of the world's largest semiconductor makers have set out plans to increase manufacturing and deepen tech partnerships …
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter : Disney, Fox, and WBD say they have agreed to discontinue their Venu Sports streaming joint venture...
