A look at short-form audio apps like Racket, Beams, and Quest that let users record and share voice clips, as Facebook plans to enter the space with Soundbites (Ashley Carman/The Verge)

Ashley Carman / The Verge:
A look at short-form audio apps like Racket, Beams, and Quest that let users record and share voice clips, as Facebook plans to enter the space with Soundbites  —  “So I've identified a few metrics and KPIs that I'm going to start tracking in order to better my overall life experience,” …

A look at the state of community Wi-Fi providers in NYC, including NYC Mesh, a nonprofit covering ~800 households, which seeks to end the "telecom oligopoly" (Bliss Broyard/New York Times)

Bliss Broyard / New York Times:
A look at the state of community Wi-Fi providers in NYC, including NYC Mesh, a nonprofit covering ~800 households, which seeks to end the “telecom oligopoly”  —  NYC Mesh, a band of a few dozen tech volunteers, takes on Verizon and the big “incumbent providers,” with the promise of inexpensive community internet.

Investigation: NSO Group's malware was allegedly used to infect 23 phones belonging to journalists, activists, others from a list of 1K+ people in 50+ countries (Dana Priest/Washington Post)

Dana Priest / Washington Post:
Investigation: NSO Group's malware was allegedly used to infect 23 phones belonging to journalists, activists, others from a list of 1K+ people in 50+ countries  —  Dana Priest, a reporter at The Washington Post for 30 years, covers national security issues.

Telefonica awards Nokia and Ericsson 50-50 use of its Spanish 5G bands

Telefonica said on Friday that it had awarded a contract for its Spanish 5G radio network to Nokia and Ericsson for the frequency bands 3.5GHZ and 700MHZ. https://ift.tt/3kwXwu0

[Thread] The response to Biden from Facebook's VP of Integrity is a textbook example of bluster and obfuscation (Carl T. Bergstrom/@ct_bergstrom)

Carl T. Bergstrom / @ct_bergstrom:
[Thread] The response to Biden from Facebook's VP of Integrity is a textbook example of bluster and obfuscation  —  After Biden's criticism of @Facebook for their inaction on antivax propaganda, @fbnewsroom is going on the offensive. They issued a press release that is a textbook example of bluster, obfuscation, and agnatogenesis. Here's the link. Let's take a look. https://about.fb.com/...

Interviews with digital artists and game makers who are pushing the boundaries in Roblox by creating interactive art projects and MMO games (Lewis Gordon/The Verge)

Lewis Gordon / The Verge:
Interviews with digital artists and game makers who are pushing the boundaries in Roblox by creating interactive art projects and MMO games  —  Like so many Roblox players, digital artist Everest Pipkin has their own abandoned birthday world.  —  Last year, when the pandemic …