Patrick McGee / Financial Times:
Experts say the Apple Watch has yet to change patient management as Apple’s efforts in getting FDA approvals and broader acceptance among doctors are lacking  —  Device touted as ‘future of healt…

Sabahatjahan Contractor / Reuters:
Delivery Hero will acquire a ~39.4% majority stake in Spanish delivery app Glovo, valuing Glovo at €2.3B  —  German food delivery group Delivery Hero (DHER.DE) said on Friday it had signed an ag…

Scott Belsky / Positive Slope:
Forecasts for tech’s near future: AI-driven recommendations kill favorites, users opt into personalized ads, top talent will have Polygamous Careers, and more  —  How will work and life change in a mater…

The Moscow Times:
Russia’s media regulator adds Netflix to its “audio-visual services” register, requiring it to offer 20 major Russian federal TV channels starting in March 2022  —  Russia’s state media watchdog will requ…

Elizabeth Lopatto / The Verge:
CES will end a day earlier, on January 7, as an “additional” COVID-19 safety measure, after Google, Microsoft, and other big companies canceled in-person plans  —  The show now ends on Januar…

U.S. President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin exchanged warnings about Ukraine on Thursday  but were optimistic that diplomatic talks in January could ease rising tensions.In a 50-minute call, their second conversation this month, …

A truck driver, Rogel Aguilera Mederos, whose 110-year prison term caused outrage over a fatal accident, had his sentence reduced to 10 years on Thursday. More than 4.5 million people, including reality TV star Kim Kardashian, called for a reduction in…

South Africa  lifted the nightly curfew at 4 a.m. The course of the pandemic,  vaccination rates in the country and available capacity in the health sector, according to a press release from Mondli Gungubele, Minister of the Presidency, South…

Health experts warned Americans on Thursday  that a rising tide of COVID19 cases, led by the Omicron variant, threatened major disruptions in their lives, from schools to shopping, and urged them to prepare now for a challenging month.The United S…

Image Credit:SamsungSamsung has commenced teasing its subsequent flagship cellphone SoC — predicted to be known as the Exynos 2200 — in advance of a January eleventh statement with a tantalizing tidbit of information: the brand new chipset will functio…