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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: many Apple US stores to drop mask requirement for vaccinated customers as early 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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| 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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| Dan Rose / @danrose999: |
[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:
| 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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| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Interview with two Apple executives about changes to multitasking in iPadOS 15, SharePlay, Universal Control, Quick Note, and more — Apple executives talk about the new iPad software's mental models and multitasking enhancements — The announcement of new iPad software at this year's WWDC conference …
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| Alex González Ormerod / Rest of World: |
After El Salvador's president, many Latin American politicians are expressing interest in adopting cryptocurrencies, as a PR exercise to elevate their profiles — El Salvador's president Nayib Bukele set off a movement for political opportunists and crypto-enthusiasts alike. — • MEXICO CITY, MEXICO
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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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| 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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| Sophie Zhang / Rest of World: |
Many Latin American Facebook users are self-compromising their accounts to fuel fake engagement through “autoliker” websites and unwittingly joining bot farms — Global South users often share their accounts with shady middlemen. The practice is corrupting civil discourse around the world.| Lingling Wei / Wall Street Journal: |
China pushes to subject data-related activities to government oversight, as it worries tech giants could use collected data to build alternative power centers — Beijing is calling on tech giants to share their information—and asserting its authority over data held by U.S. companies in China as well
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| Caroline Lester / New Yorker: |
A look at the rise of BitClout, a burgeoning crypto service monetizing social influence, valued at more than $1B in April, but operating in a legal gray zone — BitClout collapses everything—art, humor, personhood—into money, laying bare just who, and what, we are willing to pay for.
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