Analysis: half of Apple's top 200 suppliers have facilities in and around Shanghai, where China's COVID-19 lockdowns are disrupting activity (Nikkei Asia)

Nikkei Asia:
Analysis: half of Apple's top 200 suppliers have facilities in and around Shanghai, where China's COVID-19 lockdowns are disrupting activity  —  slong COVID lockdown in Shanghai is creating chaos for Apple suppliers based in and around the city.  (Source photos by Getty Images and Reuters) …

Google and Meta restrict the accounts of Hong Kong's sole chief executive candidate, John Lee, citing US sanctions from 2020 on Lee for crushing protests (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
Google and Meta restrict the accounts of Hong Kong's sole chief executive candidate, John Lee, citing US sanctions from 2020 on Lee for crushing protests  —  Google and Meta Platforms Inc. moved on Wednesday to curtail the social media presence of Hong Kong's sole chief executive candidate …

Microsoft's Chris Novak, currently head of Xbox R&D, is leaving after nearly 20 years; Novak has previously worked on Xbox Game Pass and Live (Nicole Carpenter/Polygon)

Nicole Carpenter / Polygon:
Microsoft's Chris Novak, currently head of Xbox R&D, is leaving after nearly 20 years; Novak has previously worked on Xbox Game Pass and Live  —  From Xbox design director, to architect, to leading Xbox research and design  —  If you've subscribed to Game Pass or obsessed over Xbox achievements …

Just Eat Takeaway says it is exploring a partial or full sale of Grubhub, less than one year after buying it for $7.3B (Ivan Levingston/Bloomberg)

Ivan Levingston / Bloomberg:
Just Eat Takeaway says it is exploring a partial or full sale of Grubhub, less than one year after buying it for $7.3B  —  Just Eat Takeaway.com NV said it's considering a partial or full sale of its Grubhub unit, just as the end of the pandemic has soured investors on food-delivery firms.

Amazon reportedly working on a 'new-to-world' AR smart home product

The tech giant is looking to hire a user experience (UX) designer to work on "the core system interface along with end-user applications spanning from multi-modal interfaces to 3D AR entertainment experiences". https://ift.tt/oxZtUYu

DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg says reports of the service removing piracy websites are "made up" and blames an issue with its site:operator search function (Umar Shakir/The Verge)

Umar Shakir / The Verge:
DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg says reports of the service removing piracy websites are “made up” and blames an issue with its site:operator search function  —  Blank site search results for The Pirate Bay gave users reason to believe otherwise