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Craig Federighi says introducing two similar features, iMessage protections for children and CSAM scanning of iCloud photos, at the same time caused confusion — Facing criticism about eroding privacy on the iPhone, Apple's Craig Federighi says new tools aimed at best ensuring privacy while fighting illegal images| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Disney+ beats Q3 subscriber estimates, reaching 116M subscribers vs. 114.5M expected; ESPN+ subscribers rose 75% YoY to 14.9M, Hulu grew 21% YoY to 42.8M — Disney's streaming service is seeing improved growth, after initially seeing slower numbers of subscriber additions in Q2 as Covid lockdowns and mask mandates came to an end.
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Divvy Homes, which buys homes on behalf of renters and helps them become owners, raises $200M at a $2B valuation, co-led by Tiger Global and Caffeinated Capital — - San Francisco company seeks to enable renters to own homes — Caffeinated Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, GIC also invested| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE: |
Nvidia says part of its April keynote was led by a virtual replica of CEO Jensen Huang, created by scanning Huang and then training an AI to mimic his gestures — Nvidia pulled off a stunt to promote and showcase its latest technology by digitizing its CEO Jensen Huang in a conference keynote.| Reuters: |
Poly Network offers a $500K “bug bounty” to the hacker who returned $340M+ in assets and placed the rest in a wallet jointly controlled by the hacker and Poly — Poly Network, the cryptocurrency platform which lost $610 million in a hack earlier this week, confirmed on Friday …
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Head of Twitter India is moving to the US as Senior Director, Revenue Strategy and Operations amid continued tensions between Twitter and the Indian government — Manish Maheshwari, the head of Twitter India, has taken a new role at the company and is relocating to the U.S. …
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Circle announces intention to become a bank, fully regulated by Federal Reserve, OCC, and FDIC, which could make USDC a de facto central bank digital currency — Crypto giant Circle has announced its intention to become a bank, fully regulated by the Federal Reserve, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and the FDIC.
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A look at community NFT projects like Pudgy Penguins, which have become a new kind of financial and social status symbol on the internet — Is this what the metaverse looks like? — Earlier this week, I got attacked by penguins. — Not real ones, mind you.| Shen Lu / Protocol: |
In response to internal calls for reform, Alibaba says it will form a committee of five female execs to handle workplace sexual harassment and related issues — This story contains mention of sexual assault. — After rape allegations of a female employee against her manager …
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Ualá, which offers a finance management app in Argentina, raises $350 Series D led by SoftBank Latin America Fund and Tencent, at a $2.45B valuation — The dollars keep flowing into Latin America. — Today, Argentine personal finance management app Ualá announced …
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How soccer industry database Transfermarkt arrives at its highly influential player valuations, even as its data is crowdsourced from volunteers and staff — Soccer takes the player valuations posted on the website Transfermarkt extremely seriously. It has never really stopped to ask where they come from.
Tweets: @footballcliches, @scott_e_page, @venkatananth, @kevinmdraper, @rorysmith, @nytsports, and @andrewdasnyt
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Equity management software company Carta raises $500M Series G led by Silver Lake at a valuation of $7.4B — Carta raised a $500M Series G, valuing the company at $7.4B. The round was led by Silver Lake. Of our eight rounds of capital raised, this was the largest and also the simplest.
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