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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: many Apple US stores will drop mask requirement for vaccinated customers as soon as Tuesday; mask requirement to be dropped at some Cupertino offices — Apple Inc. plans to drop its mask requirement for vaccinated customers at many U.S. stores beginning next week …
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| Brad Smith / Washington Post: |
Secret gag orders imposed by the US government on tech companies must stop, as they abuse citizens' fundamental freedoms and are no longer even used sparingly — Brad Smith is the president of Microsoft. — The past seven days marked another bad week for the collision between technology and democracy.
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[Thread] Former Facebook employee, now Coatue Management Chairman, shares his experiences working with Mark Zuckerberg during Facebook's early days — In my experience the best founders develop a fighter mentality. Mark Zuckerberg was a fighter, and without that mentality Facebook would never have achieved its full potential. Here's what I saw over 13 years working for Zuck:
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| Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: |
UK-based Motorway, which allows professional car dealers to bid for privately-owned cars for sale, raises £48m Series B led by Index Ventures — Motorway, is a UK startup that allows professional car dealers to bid in an auction for privately-owned cars for sale.| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Interview with Apple execs Bob Borchers and Sebastien Marineau-Mes about changes to multitasking in iPadOS 15, SharePlay, Universal Control, Quick Note, more — Apple executives talk about the new iPad software's mental models and multitasking enhancements| Katie Jennings / Forbes: |
CB Insights: VCs invested $1.5B into mental health startups in 2020, a record high, and 5.5x the funding invested in the space in 2016 — I am a staff writer covering healthcare. Email me at kjennings@forbes.com. — Investors poured $1.5 billion into the market in 2020 …
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| Sage Lazzaro / VentureBeat: |
UNESCO: AI and robotics have “dominated scientific output” in recent years; ~150K research articles were published on those subjects in 2019, up 44% from 2015 — Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. — The United Nations Educational … | Yuan Yang / Financial Times: |
A new generation of young workers at China's technology giants is demanding an end to forced rankings, harsh working conditions, and the “996” work culture — By the time he arrived at Alibaba, Tim had been working to get there for years. Raised in a small town in Zhejiang province …
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| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
Profile of DigitalMint, a final-mile crypto broker that helps ransomware victims pay ransoms in cryptocurrency, within 30-60 minutes of contact from the hacker — - A business will fall victim to a ransomware attack every 11 seconds this year, according to research firm Cybersecurity Ventures.| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Q&A with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about its Omniverse, dubbed a “metaverse for engineers”, discouraging miners from buying its GPUs, chip shortages, and more — Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. — Conversations with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang … | MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
Taproot, a significant Bitcoin upgrade promising better transaction privacy and smart contracts, got approved by miners globally, due to take effect in November — - The first bitcoin upgrade in four years has just been approved by miners around the world. It's called Taproot, and it's due to take effect in November.
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| Robert N. Charette / IEEE Spectrum: |
As carmakers integrate 100-150+ chip-based electronic control units in each car, a look at the challenges of an auto industry that is more dependent on software — The trend toward self-driving and electric vehicles will add hundreds of millions of lines of code to cars. Can the auto industry cope?
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