Africa Cup of Nations: Tournament is being 'disrespected', says former England striker Ian Wright

The Africa Cup of Nations is being "disrespected" by some negative media coverage, says former England striker Ian Wright.

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SenseTime closes up 7.3% in its Hong Kong trading debut after rising as much as 23%; the company raised $740M in its IPO at a $16.4B valuation (Rebecca Feng/Wall Street Journal)

Rebecca Feng / Wall Street Journal:
SenseTime closes up 7.3% in its Hong Kong trading debut after rising as much as 23%; the company raised $740M in its IPO at a $16.4B valuation  —  U.S. government had added SenseTime to an investment blacklist that barred Americans from buying shares in the firm

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The Most-Read Food Stories of 2021

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Virginia Confederate monuments likely headed to black history museum

A black history museum and culture centre in Richmond may soon receive the controversial memorials.

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Tesla to recall 475,000 cars in the US

The number of cars being recalled is nearly equivalent to the firm's global deliveries last year.

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Ethereum scaling project Polygon says it quietly fixed a bug that put $23.6B in MATIC tokens at risk, but not before $2.04M in tokens was stolen (Brian Quarmby/Cointelegraph)

Brian Quarmby / Cointelegraph:
Ethereum scaling project Polygon says it quietly fixed a bug that put $23.6B in MATIC tokens at risk, but not before $2.04M in tokens was stolen  —  “Considering how much was at stake, I believe our team has made the best decisions possible given the circumstances,” said Polygon's co-founder Jaynti Kanani.

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Six of the 10 best-performing South Korean stocks in 2021 are linked to the metaverse or NFTs, including Wemade Max, up 1,500%, and Giantstep, up 1,200% (Youkyung Lee/Bloomberg)

Youkyung Lee / Bloomberg:
Six of the 10 best-performing South Korean stocks in 2021 are linked to the metaverse or NFTs, including Wemade Max, up 1,500%, and Giantstep, up 1,200%  —  For equity investors in South Korea, this was the year the metaverse arrived.  —  Six of the nation's 10 best-performing stocks in 2021 …

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How to Clean Suede Boots and Shoes

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Russia orders health and drug checks for foreigners

Business groups criticise a new law requiring mandatory fingerprinting, drug tests and STD checks.

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T-Mobile confirms reports of a data breach caused by SIM swap attacks on a "very small number of customers", following six other data breaches since 2018 (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
T-Mobile confirms reports of a data breach caused by SIM swap attacks on a “very small number of customers”, following six other data breaches since 2018  —  T-Mobile confirmed that recent reports of a new data breach are linked to notifications sent to a “very small number of customers” who fell victim to SIM swap attacks.

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How We Treat Farmed Animals

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Malawians mourn ex-First Lady Anne Chidzira Muluzi

Tributes are paid to Anne Chidzira Muluzi, the first woman to hold the title there, who died aged 69.

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How tech founders and investors use the Qualified Small Business Stock tax break, a 1990s-era provision for SMBs, to minimize taxes on investment profits (New York Times)

New York Times:
How tech founders and investors use the Qualified Small Business Stock tax break, a 1990s-era provision for SMBs, to minimize taxes on investment profits  —  Once aimed at small businesses, a 1990s-era tax break has become a popular way for Silicon Valley founders and investors to avoid taxes on their investment profits.

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Covid: Europe sees record virus case rise

France, Greece and Portugal all announced their highest daily case totals on Tuesday.

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Richard Marcinko: Seal Team Six founder dies at 81

Richard Marcinko played a vital role in boosting America's counter-terrorism capabilities but was a divisive figure.

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Israel tries to contain avian flu outbreak after 5,000 wild cranes die

Some 5,000 wild cranes have died and hundreds of thousands of chickens and turkeys are being culled.

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Sources: Apple issued rare bonuses of restricted stock worth $50K-$180K to select engineers, after Meta poached ~100 Apple engineers over the past few months (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple issued rare bonuses of restricted stock worth $50K-$180K to select engineers, after Meta poached ~100 Apple engineers over the past few months  —  Apple Inc. has issued unusual and significant stock bonuses to some engineers in an effort to retain talent …

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Sharon Gless Admires Eddie Redmayne and L.A.’s Union Station

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Jordan MPs fighting in parliament session live-streamed on local television

The argument began as the chamber debated constitutional reforms, including gender equality.

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Some LastPass users say their master passwords were compromised and used in blocked login attempts from unknown IPs; LastPass blames "credential stuffing" (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
Some LastPass users say their master passwords were compromised and used in blocked login attempts from unknown IPs; LastPass blames “credential stuffing”  —  Many LastPass users report that their master passwords have been compromised after receiving email warnings that someone tried …

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J.D. Crowe, Banjo Virtuoso and Bluegrass Innovator, Dies at 84

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Ghislaine Maxwell jury faces longer hours because of Covid

The judge in Ghislaine Maxwell's sex trafficking trial asks jurors to meet for an extra hour a day.

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A look at increasing competition in the call center tools market between Genesys, AWS, Salesforce, Microsoft, and others, often focused on AI-driven automation (Joe Williams/Bloomberg)

Joe Williams / Bloomberg:
A look at increasing competition in the call center tools market between Genesys, AWS, Salesforce, Microsoft, and others, often focused on AI-driven automation  —  Customer support has become a crowded battlefield in enterprise technology as software vendors from Microsoft Corp …

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For Pop Music, 2021 Was the Year of the Deep Dive

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Most VC-backed startups that went public via a SPAC in 2021 have seen their stock drop; Metromile, View, Owlet, and Clover Health are among the worst performers (Joanna Glasner/Crunchbase News)

Joanna Glasner / Crunchbase News:
Most VC-backed startups that went public via a SPAC in 2021 have seen their stock drop; Metromile, View, Owlet, and Clover Health are among the worst performers  —  The overwhelming majority of venture-backed companies that went public via special-purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs …

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Sweeping private-sector vaccine mandate goes into effect in N.Y.C.

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A critique of much-hyped crypto-based virtual real estate projects, such as Decentraland, which are often buggy, empty, and lack moderation tools (Eric Ravenscraft/Wired)

Eric Ravenscraft / Wired:
A critique of much-hyped crypto-based virtual real estate projects, such as Decentraland, which are often buggy, empty, and lack moderation tools  —  The “real estate of the future” is plagued by buggy software, empty servers, and huge opportunities for abuse.

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I’ve Spent 25 Years as a Joan Didion Thief

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OpenDAO airdrops SOS token for users of OpenSea's NFT marketplace; the token, unaffiliated with OpenSea, is up ~10x in two days as watchers debate its prospects (Robert Stevens/Decrypt)

Robert Stevens / Decrypt:
OpenDAO airdrops SOS token for users of OpenSea's NFT marketplace; the token, unaffiliated with OpenSea, is up ~10x in two days as watchers debate its prospects  —  In brief  — SOS is an airdrop from OpenDAO, distributed to people who have spent money on OpenSea transactions.

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Declaration of Mark Kroll, Ph.D.

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Trial Testimony Declaration of Dr. Tom Neuman

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An overview of the efforts by Google, Apple, and Amazon to offer their technology and services for connected cars (Leah Nylen/Politico)

Leah Nylen / Politico:
An overview of the efforts by Google, Apple, and Amazon to offer their technology and services for connected cars  —  Leah Nylen is a technology reporter who covers antitrust and investigations for POLITICO.  —  When Ford announced that starting in 2023 its cars and trucks would come with Google Maps …

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Is Disney the Met’s Fairy Godmother?

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Is Disney the Met’s Fairy Godmother?

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Fauci warns against complacency amid data that Omicron causes milder illness

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A look at autonomous sidewalk delivery robots serving students across US college campuses, which are an ideal proving ground for the sidewalk delivery concept (Kyle Stock/Bloomberg)

Kyle Stock / Bloomberg:
A look at autonomous sidewalk delivery robots serving students across US college campuses, which are an ideal proving ground for the sidewalk delivery concept  —  Robot 509 from Starship Technologies is both patient and skittish.  The autonomous machine, which resembles a Yeti cooler crossed …

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India, wounded by Delta’s disastrous spring surge, expands vaccinations and starts boosters to fight Omicron.

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U.S. Covid hospitalizations are rising among children. New York urges parents to vaccinate the young.

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Anti-Coup Protesters in Sudan Press Their Demand for Return to Civilian Rule

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A U.S. Navy combat ship is stranded in Guantánamo Bay with a virus outbreak.

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Winter Storms Threaten to Disrupt Travel in the Northwest

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Sardi’s, Broadway’s iconic watering hole, is back, just in time for Omicron show closures.

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Q&A with Clubhouse CEO Paul Davison: copycat features from big rivals have not impacted the company "in any real way" and making money is not a pressing concern (Financial Times)

Financial Times:
Q&A with Clubhouse CEO Paul Davison: copycat features from big rivals have not impacted the company “in any real way” and making money is not a pressing concern  —  The app was pegged as the future of social media.  After a lukewarm end to 2021, it faces an uphill battle to turn a profit

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As Prices Rise, Biden Turns to Antitrust Enforcers

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Is It Safe to Have a New Year’s Eve Party?

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As Russian Threat Looms, Ukraine’s Government Is No Laughing Matter

By BY ANDREW E. KRAMER from NYT World https://ift.tt/3yWWOvh