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This is the tech news you need to know this Monday. <a href="http://newsletter.businessinsider.com/join/4np/10-things-in-tech&hash=8122c716833601fc1471f79af063b104'nr_email_referer=1&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_content=10_things_tech&utm_campaign=Post%20Blast%20sai:%2010%20things%20in%20tech%20you%20need%20to%20know%20today&utm_term=10%20THINGS%20IN%20TECH%20YOU%20NEED%20TO%20KNOW%20-%20ENGAGED%2C%20ACTIVE%2C%20PASSIVE%2C%20DISENGAGED">Sign up here</a> to get this email in your inbox every morning.</p><p>Have an Amazon Alexa device' Listen to this update by searching "Business Insider" in your flash briefing settings.</p><ol><li><strong>Facebook is creating a smartwatch. </strong>The firm plans to start selling the device to consumers sometime in 2022, <a href="https://www.theinformation.com/articles/facebook-plans-smartwatch-with-focus-on-messaging-health'shared=68804956321ee69c" data-analytics-module="body_link" data-analytics-post-depth="40" data-uri="c9b66c862e0a72cbec9812327f792741">The Information</a> reported on Friday.<br><br></li><li><strong>Mark Zuckerberg wanted 'to inflict pain' on Apple. </strong><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-meets-apple-in-clash-of-the-tech-titanswe-need-to-inflict-pain-11613192406'mod=hp_lead_pos5" data-analytics-module="summary_bullets" data-analytics-post-depth="0" data-uri="086152f692fb0c785bd7b64153cfdee0">The Wall Street Journal</a> reported that Zuckerberg made the remarks in 2018, when the battle between Apple and Facebook over privacy began to heat up.<br><br></li><li><strong>Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey may testify before Congress. </strong><a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/12/facebook-twitter-ceos-testify-468969">Politico reported</a> that Zuckerberg and Dorsey may testify before the House Energy and Commerce Committee.<br><br></li><li><strong>A venture capitalist reportedly suggested doxxing 'vulnerable' journalists. </strong>Balaji Srinivasan <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/venture-capitalist-balaji-srinivasan-suggested-doxxing-journalist-nyt-2021-2">made the suggestion in 2013 in an email</a> to far-right blogger Curtis Yarvin, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/13/technology/slate-star-codex-rationalists.html">the New York Times reported</a> Saturday.<br><br></li><li><strong>A profile of popular blog Slate Star Codex has divided the US tech community. </strong>The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/13/technology/slate-star-codex-rationalists.html">drew a connection</a> between Slate Star Codex, the "Rationalist" community, and secretive figures in Silicon Valley such as Peter Thiel.<br><br></li><li><strong>Exclusive: Publicly traded streaming firm Gaia is a hotbed of misinformation.</strong> The company's <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/inside-gaia-video-streaming-website-conspiracy-theories-2021-1">conspiratorial mindset has bled into the office</a>, with employees speculating their employer is using supernatural means to invade their dreams.<br><br></li><li><strong>Zillow's CEO warned a of a two-tier working system. </strong>Rich Barton warned that <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/hybrid-work-models-could-hurt-remote-workers-zillow-ceo-warns-2021-2">employees who choose to report to the office</a> either some of the time or full-time could be viewed as more dedicated and more engaged than those who choose remote work. <br><br></li><li><strong>Facebook pays Oversight Board members hefty salaries.</strong> The tech giant pays 20 members of its 20-person Oversight Board, an independent committee that can overrule Facebook's content moderation guidelines, "six-figure salaries for putting in about fifteen hours a week," according to <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/inside-the-making-of-facebooks-supreme-court" data-analytics-module="body_link" data-analytics-post-depth="40" data-uri="b980cc589929b3bf0a5815419ea62fde">The New Yorker</a>. <br><br></li><li><strong>Researchers warned of Chinese access to Clubhouse data.</strong> Stanford researchers <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/clubhouse-to-review-policies-after-chinese-data-sharing-discovery-2021-2">said they found some of Clubhouse's back-end infrastructure</a> had been provided by Agora, a Shanghai-based startup with an office in Silicon Valley. <br><br></li><li><strong>Exclusive: UK startup founders don't want a tax hike. </strong>Tech lobby groups <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tech-founders-sucked-dry-capital-gains-tax-rise-2021-2">met with UK lawmakers</a> last week to argue against a rise in Capital Gains Tax.</li></ol><p><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/10-things-in-tech-you-need-to-know-today-february-15-2021#comments">Join the conversation about this story »</a></p> <p>NOW WATCH: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/literacy-test-louisiana-disenfranchise-black-vote-2016-6">We took a 1964 Louisiana literacy test and failed spectacularly</a></p>
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