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A look at the burgeoning drone software and AI industry, a focus for an estimated 65 US startups, often for military uses (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 (Patrick McGee/Financial Times)

Delivery Hero will acquire a ~39.4% majority stake in Spanish delivery app Glovo, valuing Glovo at €2.3B (Sabahatjahan Contractor/Reuters)

Forecasts for tech's near future: AI-driven recommendations kill favorites, users opt into personalized ads, top talent will have Polygamous Careers, and more (Scott Belsky/Positive Slope)

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 (The Moscow Times)

Mexico's central bank plans to issue its own digital currency by 2024, joining Brazil and Peru as Latin American countries working on developing CBDCs (Andrés Engler/CoinDesk)

Devices running BlackBerry 10 or OS 7.1 and earlier will lose key services like calling, texting, data usage, and 911 access starting January 4 (Brad Linder/Liliputing)

African tech startups raised a record $4B+ in 2021, more than 2019 and 2020 combined, with more $100M+ rounds than ever before (Tage Kene-Okafor/TechCrunch)

Umee, which is building a "cross chain DeFi hub" with interoperable tools that work across blockchains, raises $32M by selling its UMEE tokens (Aislinn Keely/The Block)

Metaverse products from Meta, Microsoft, and others are just 3D virtual social spaces, and lack key features of the metaverse concept, chiefly interoperability (Will Oremus/Washington Post)

Google pauses the rollout of its December update for the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro until late January after reports of calls dropping and disconnecting (Tim/Droid Life)

OpenSea bans PHAYC and Phunky Ape Yacht Club, two NFT projects that are dueling over which is the authentic Bored Ape Yacht Club ripoff (Adi Robertson/The Verge)

Justin Kan launches gaming-focused NFT marketplace Fractal, after someone hacked its Discord announcement bot and made off with about $150K last week (Eli Tan/CoinDesk)

Xbox 2021: Microsoft’s ambitious gamble has finally paid off on Xbox Series X/S

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)

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)

Intel closes the first phase of the sale of its SSD and NAND businesses to SK hynix and says SK hynix's Solidigm subsidiary will operate the Dalian fab in China (Paul Alcorn/Tom's Hardware)

Shares of SenseTime, China's most valuable AI startup, rose 23% in early trading, after the company raised $740M in its Hong Kong IPO at a $16.4B valuation (Reuters)

Didi Global reports Q3 revenues of $6.6B, down 11.5% QoQ, and a net loss of $4.7B, as China's cybersecurity probe forced many of its apps to be taken down (Vlad Savov/Bloomberg)

Fortnite servers are back online after a major outage that lasted over five hours prevented players from logging on, among other issues (Richard Lawler/The Verge)

Fortnite is offline, but Epic says it's working on it (Austen Goslin/Polygon)

Google, Microsoft, and Oracle invest in potential cloud clients to beat AWS; Google claims 6% cloud market share, behind AWS at 41% and Microsoft at 20% (Wall Street Journal)

Elon Musk sells another $1 billion in Tesla shares, nearing 10% target

HDMI Forum will introduce HDMI 2.1a, the new standard, at CES 2022, offering minor updates that will further complicate a system with haphazard device support (Chaim Gartenberg/The Verge)

Elon Musk reveals who bitcoin's creator Satoshi Nakamoto might be