Exploring the Far North Fiber Route and Data Privacy Solutions

Google says YouTube Shorts is keeping pace with TikTok. Meta plans to make Facebook more like TikTok in order to keep pace themselves. That new Sonos Voice Control assistant sounds pretty good to me. Why a bunch of folks are going to string internet cables under the shrinking polar ice. And why the Japanese are freaked out about Internet Explorer going away.

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Links:

• YouTube Says It Is Gaining on TikTok in Short-Video Race (WSJ)
• FACEBOOK IS CHANGING ITS ALGORITHM TO TAKE ON TIKTOK, LEAKED MEMO REVEALS (The Verge)
• Samsung Wallet is back to organize your ID, keys, and crypto (The Verge)
• SONOS VOICE CONTROL REVIEW: A SPEEDY, PRIVATE, MUSIC-FOCUSED ASSISTANT (The Verge)
• A Warming Arctic Emerges as a Route for Subsea Cables (WSJ)
• Internet Explorer shutdown to cause Japan headaches 'for months' (NikkeiAsia)

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