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Mike Winkelmann, the digital artist known as Beeple, sold an NFT of his work for $69M, through a first-of-its-kind auction at Christie's — Through a first-of-its-kind auction at Christie's — Until October, the most Mike Winkelmann — the digital artist known as Beeple — had ever sold a print for was $100.
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| Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: |
Kuo: all four iPhone 13 models will feature larger batteries with higher capacities and hence will be heavier than iPhone 12 models — Apple appears to be improving the iPhone's battery life with the iPhone 13 lineup, using a number of design changes, bigger batteries, and efficiency improvements.
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Three former employees say that 100+ employees at Verkada could view the camera feeds of its thousands of customers via widely used super admin accounts — - Former employee said issue was raised with Verkada executives — Hackers gained access to 150,000 customer camera feeds
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| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Facebook is making in-stream ads available on one-minute videos and is testing ads that look like stickers in Stories — Ads integrated into content — Facebook introduced Stories to its platform four years ago, mostly as a way to encourage people to post content that wasn't highly produced or necessarily photogenic.
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| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Crypto lending and borrowing service BlockFi raises $350M Series D at a valuation of $3B, bringing its total raised to around $450M — If there were any doubt about a cryptocurrency boom, we need look no further than at the explosion of growth of certain companies in the space.
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| Matt Day / Bloomberg: |
Amazon has opened 11 Amazon Fresh stores around the US, with plans for at least 28 more — As many businesses struggled to survive the pandemic, Amazon.com Inc. was quietly building a national grocery chain. — The first Amazon Fresh store opened to the public in Los Angeles in September.| Bloomberg: |
Documents: Apple denied Parler reentry into the App Store, citing a lack of changes; source says Parler let its three remaining iOS developers go — - Apple's recent review found ‘Nazi symbols’ on the Parler site — Parler eliminates seven workers, most of whom were contractors
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Adobe rolls out a version of Photoshop optimized for Apple Silicon, claiming a 1.5X performance improvement over most Photoshop tasks on Intel Macs — Adobe says there are a ton of speed and performance gains — Lightroom was the first Adobe creative app to make the leap to Apple Silicon …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: China is considering a record fine, exceeding Qualcomm's $975M fine, against Alibaba, which may face softer treatment if it distances from Jack Ma — E-commerce company to face softer treatment than its Ant affiliate, provided it distances itself from founder Jack Ma
Tweets: @sofiamcfarland, @lingling_wei, and @birdyword
| Vittoria Elliott / Rest of World: |
Experts say Russia accidentally blocked domains with the characters “t.co”, like Microsoft.com, as well as some government websites, while slowing down Twitter — Reminder: Internet censorship can have unintended consequences. — Russian internet users began noticing something strange … | Reuters: |
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| Brent Kendall / Wall Street Journal: |
Facebook says it has filed motions to dismiss antitrust lawsuits brought by the FTC and state AGs, arguing its conduct did not harm competition or consumers — Action marks its first legal salvo since the FTC and 46 states sued the company in December — WASHINGTON— Facebook Inc … | Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Google says it will give an option to Google Pay users to share transaction data with the company to make personalized offers, starting next week — Three and a half years after launching Google Pay in India, the Android-maker is paving the way to tap its users' transaction data for monetization purposes … | Damien Wilde / 9to5Google: |
Oppo unveils Find X3 Pro with Snapdragon 888, 6.7" 120Hz display, 12GB RAM, 50 MP ultrawide camera, and a 3MP “microlens” for microscope style macro shots — The covers have now been lifted from the Oppo Find X3 series with three models — X3 Lite, X3 Neo, and X3 Pro …
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| Stephen Warwick / iMore: |
Twitter says it is testing displaying large images, instead of cropped previews, on iOS and Android and will add support for 4K photo uploads — “Sometimes it's better said with a picture or a video.” — What you need to know — Twitter is testing new features that will let you see a single image in full on your timeline.
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| Bloomberg: |
Coupang priced its IPO at $35 per share, above its target range, to raise $4.2B and give the South Korean e-commerce giant a market value of about $60B — - South Korean e-commerce company sells shares for $35 each — Coupang shares set to begin trading Thursday on NYSE| Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: |
Sources: EU regulators are struggling to gather enough evidence to bring antitrust charges against Amazon despite working on the case for nearly two years — Regulators face difficulties gathering evidence against tech giant nearly two years after probe was announced| Chris Metinko / Crunchbase News: |
Cowbell Cyber, which uses AI to assess risk and offer cyber insurance to companies with less than $1B in revenue, raises $20M Series A — Pleasanton, California-based Cowbell Cyber raised a $20 million Series A as more small and medium-sized enterprises look for insurance against the growing number of cyberattacks.
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| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Q&A with Chris Sacca on his brief retirement, Trump and Biden, investing in climate startups, how investing has changed, NFTs, and more — In 2015, venture capitalist Chris Sacca was one of Silicon Valley's most influential investors, No. 3 on the Midas List with more than one million Twitter followers …
Tweets: @sacca, @alexrkonrad, @samiinkinen, @rsarver, @christianhern, @leepnet, @justinhgillis, @rich_barton, @crystale, @shanumathew93, @ramez, @hkanji, and @teddyschleifer
| Ax Sharma / BleepingComputer: |
Data center operator OVH says a fire destroyed some of its sites in France, affecting cyber threat intelligence company Bad Packets, game maker Rust, and others — In a major unprecedented incident, data centers of OVH located in Strasbourg, France have been destroyed by fire.
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