The Best News 2021: January 2022

Monday, January 31, 2022

Sony to acquire video game studio Bungie in $3.6 billion deal

Sony is acquiring Bungie, the video game studio that created hit franchises such as "Halo" and "Destiny," in a $3.6 billion deal that further centralizes the rapidly consolidating game industry.


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Alice, the first all-electric passenger airplane, prepares to fly

What hopes to be the world's first all-electric passenger aircraft is preparing to take flight.


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Sunday, January 30, 2022

Shanghai metro sparks Covid panic with festive red QR codes

A Chinese subway system's attempt to spread some Lunar New Year cheer backfired over the weekend, as panicked passengers mistook seasonal red QR codes for positive Covid tests.


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A new crop of shopping tools aims to help consumers beat the supply chain crunch

A small but dedicated community of programmers, journalists and social media content creators has sprung up to announce whenever a big retailer has restocked more product.


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Saturday, January 29, 2022

Meta pauses new users from joining analytics tool CrowdTangle

Facebook's parent company Meta Platforms Inc has paused new users from joining its social media tracking tool CrowdTangle due to staffing constraints.


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Friday, January 28, 2022

How last week's 5G deployment went so wrong

From canceled flights to dire warnings of a stalled shipping economy, this was not how the rollout of 5G networks was supposed to go.


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UK companies told to bolster defenses against Russian cyberattacks

UK companies and organizations have been urged to bolster their defenses against potential Russian cyberattacks as Moscow masses military forces on the Ukrainian border.


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Google is investing another $1 billion in India's smartphone market

Google is investing up to $1 billion in a major Indian telecom company, a move it hopes will drive down the cost of smartphones in a huge and rapidly expanding market.


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US authorities block China Unicom from the nation's telecom market

The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday voted to ban China Unicom, a state-owned Chinese telecommunications carrier, from offering telecom services in the United States.


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Thursday, January 27, 2022

The IRS website will soon require facial recognition to log in to your account

The next time you try to log in to the Internal Revenue Service's website you'll be urged to use facial-recognition software to verify you are who you say you are.


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Is the Fentanyl Market Expanding Across Latin America?

  Is the Fentanyl Market Expanding Across Latin America? Latin American countries have raised alarms about increases in medical fentanyl sei...