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2022-01-30 07:05:28 Canadian tech firm TerraZero has issued a mortgage to a VC firm for two parcels in Decentraland. Each parcel was worth about $15,000 and there is a two-year repayment term on the mortgage. TerraZero purchases parcels for the client and then holds the NFTs until the loans are paid back.

More: Curbed
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2022-01-28 13:20:06 Airtel has announced that Google will invest up to $1 billion in Airtel as part of its Google for India Digitization Fund. The deal includes Google investing $700 million to acquire 1.28% ownership in Airtel and up to $300 million towards potential multi-year commercial agreements.

More: Telegraph India
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2022-01-27 17:57:10 Reddit is testing a feature, similar to one recently launched on Twitter, that will let users set any NFT they own as a profile picture. The test is still in a very early stage and the feature is not yet available to public users.

More: Techcrunch
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2022-01-26 14:35:06 • Meta's new AI Research SuperCluster will be one of the world's fastest AI supercomputers.

• Development on the supercomputer is expected to complete later this year.

• It will be used to train a range of systems across Meta's businesses and to design experiences for the metaverse.

More: Facebook
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2022-01-25 16:40:06 Highlights of 'State of Mobile 2022' by App Annie:

• More time than ever before is spent in mobile apps, reaching 4.8 hours per day in the top mobile-first markets.

• Consumers are migrating their attention and wallets to mobile as over $320,000 flowed through the app stores every minute of 2021, an increase of nearly 20% from previous records in 2020.

• Mobile services from both early adopters and mobile-forced players remain in high demand — with global consumers downloading over 435,000 apps per minute.

• Advertisers are taking note of the broad reach and deep engagement of mobile apps with mobile ad spend on track to hit $350 billion in 2022, after surpassing $295 in 2021.

Full report: App Annie
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2022-01-25 10:30:06 Texas, Indiana, Washington State and the District of Columbia sued Google on Monday over what they called deceptive location-tracking practices that invade users’ privacy.

"Google falsely led consumers to believe that changing their account and device settings would allow customers to protect their privacy and control what personal data the company could access," Washington, D.C., Attorney General Karl Racine's office said in a statement.

In May 2020, Arizona filed a similar lawsuit against Google over collection of user location data. That lawsuit is pending.

More: Reuters
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2022-01-23 14:35:07 Robinhood's cryptocurrency wallet beta program is now live. The first 1,000 people on the waitlist now have access to the wallet.

Robinhood plans to scale up to 10,000 users by March. Users will be able to use the wallet to transfer crypto between Robinhood and external wallets.

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2022-01-23 07:30:19 The percentage of the global population that is connected to the internet will rise from 58% currently to reach 70% by 2026, according to market research firm Omdia.

Of the 70%, 30% of the population will have access to the internet via a mobile device, and 40% will have a home fixed broadband connection.

More: EconomicTimes
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2022-01-22 17:34:11 • Twitter has released an official verification mechanism for NFT profile pictures.

• Users can now link their Ethereum wallets to their Twitter accounts, after which they will be presented with a list of NFTs they own.

• NFT verification is only available for users subscribed to Twitter Blue.

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2022-01-22 07:15:06 Neuralink is preparing to launch clinical trials in humans. It is now building a team of people to run the trials while waiting for approval by the Food and Drug Administration. The technology has already been successfully tested in the brains of macaque monkeys and pigs.

More: TheGuardian
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