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| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
Senators grilled Facebook exec Antigone Davis at a hearing about Instagram's impact on teens and were frustrated by her reticence to answer questions directly — Last night, Facebook published two annotated slide decks in an attempt to contextualize the documents that the Wall Street Journal published …
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WSJ publishes six internal Facebook documents it used for its report about Instagram's negative impact on teen girls, after Facebook published two of the docs — The Senate holds a hearing Thursday about the social network's impact, prompted by The Wall Street Journal's coverage
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Facebook shares two annotated internal research docs about Instagram's impact on teen mental health, after being notified of WSJ's plans to publish the docs — The company shared the PDFs Wednesday night — Facebook has shared the internal research about the impact of Instagram …
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| BBC: |
Researchers: a flaw in Apple Pay lets attackers make a Visa payment with a locked iPhone in Express Transit mode; Apple calls it “a concern with a Visa system” — Large unauthorised contactless payments can be made on locked iPhones by exploiting how an Apple Pay feature designed …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Visually impaired users say that iOS 15 appears to have removed call, email, and voicemail Siri features they relied on — With the recent release of iOS 15, Apple appears to have made some changes to Siri functionality that have removed features relied on by low vision and blind iPhone users.
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Chinese AR company Nreal unveils Nreal Air, consumer glasses with micro OLED displays and iOS compatibility, shipping in Dec. in Japan, China, and South Korea — They'll ship later this year in Asia — Augmented reality company Nreal is launching a cheaper, iOS-compatible, more compact version of its smart glasses.
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| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
Facebook announces updates to Messenger, including group chats between Instagram and Messenger contacts — Facebook Messenger is releasing a bundle of products this morning — most notably, including cross-app group chats. Last year, the company introduced cross-app messaging between Messenger …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Intel unveils Loihi 2, a second-generation neuromorphic computing chip, and Lava, an open-source framework for developing “neuro-inspired” applications — Intel today announced a major update to its neuromorphic computing program, including a second-generation chip called Loihi 2 and Lava …
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| Aislinn Keely / The Block: |
TikTok launches Top Moments, an NFT collection featuring six “culturally significant TikTok videos” from creators including Lil Nas X — TikTok is launching a non-fungible token (NFT) collection that will see its top content creators partner with top NFT creators.
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple has quietly begun allowing users to rate and review its built-in iPhone and iPad apps in the App Store with iOS 15 — For the longest time, the App Store did not allow users to rate or review Apple's built-in iPhone and iPad apps, like Mail, Music, News, Stocks and Calculator.
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Macworld, Engadget, iPhone in Canada Blog, iDownloadBlog.com, KnowTechie, Gamereactor UK, XDA Developers, Neowin, iPhone Hacks, MacRumors, and Philip Elmer‑DeWitt
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| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Alloy, which offers an identity verification service for the financial services industry, raises $100M Series C at a $1.35B valuation led by Lightspeed — Alloy, which has built an identity operating system for banks and fintechs, announced Thursday that it has raised $100 million at a $1.35 billion valuation.
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Tweets: @jmover, @jmover, @bayareawriter, @davidcohen, @addielerner, @cbirn, @charleshearn, and @semil
| Karen Weise / New York Times: |
Amazon settles with two former employee activists, Emily Cunningham and Maren Costa, over accusations it illegally fired them for organizing — Amazon has settled with two of its most prominent internal critics, staving off a public hearing over accusations that the company illegally fired the pair …
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Apple, for the first time, shares the top paid podcast subscriptions and free channels globally, counting devices that played at least one second of an episode — Happy International Podcast Day! In today's podcast news roundup, Apple releases the top 10 most-subscribed podcasts and free channels …
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| Samantha Cole / VICE: |
Source: ex-OnlyFans staff had access to highly sensitive user and model data, like bank statements, legal names, and KYC images, long after leaving the company — Addresses, full names, passports, bank statements and other sensitive personal data were viewable. — Samantha Cole
Tweets: @lorenzofb, @jason_koebler, @motherboard, @jason_koebler, and @josephfcox
| Sam Bourgi / Cointelegraph: |
Chainalysis: crypto transaction volume for Central, Northern, and Western Europe reached $1T+ from July 2020-June 2021, comprising 25% of global crypto activity — DeFi has become a major catalyst for Europe's crypto economy. Large institutions have also upped their share of transactions significantly.
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Tweets: @wublockchain, @cointelegraph, @cryptounfolded, and @chainalysis
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Sweden's Sinch acquires Pathwire, the cloud-based email provider behind Mailgun, for ~$1.9B in cash and stock, setting up Sinch as a competitor to Twilio — Sinch, the Swedish company that competes with Twilio and others in the world of messaging and other communication APIs is making another big M&A play to build out its platform.| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Mexico City-based Higo, which offers a B2B payments service for SMBs in Latin America, raises $23M Series A led by Accel — Just six months after raising $3.3 million in seed funding, Mexico City-based Higo announced today it has raised $23 million in a Series A round led by Accel.
Tweets: @amitku and @bayareawriter
| Campbell Kwan / ZDNet: |
US and EU will cooperate across various tech areas, including AI, semiconductors, and supply chain security, to ensure sensitive technologies are not misused — The new US-EU Trade and Technology Council aims to keep an eye on how sensitive technologies are used.
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Fairphone, which makes ethically sourced modular phones, announces Fairphone 4 with a 6.3-inch display, 5G, and up to 256GB of storage, starting at €579 — The Fairphone 4's software support should stretch until 2025 — Fairphone, the manufacturer focused on making easy to repair smartphones … | Ana Diaz / Polygon: |
Twitch rolls out the option for streamers to require phone and email-verified accounts in chat, as part of the company's effort to reduce targeted harassment — Curbing harassment continues to be a “top priority” for Twitch — After an upswell in targeted harassment on the streaming platform Twitch …
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Tweets: @darkviperau, @ninagreenbean, @ohkayplays, @majinphil, @rayapollo, @oregonrolleda20, @saysmasonlive, and @iambrandontv
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Massachusetts-based Catalog, which claims to be developing a DNA-based computing platform, raises $35M Series B, bringing total funding to $45M+ — The Transform Technology Summits start October 13th with Low-Code/No Code: Enabling Enterprise Agility. Register now!
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CNET, TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE, HPCwire, BetaNews, and Blocks and Files
| Benjamin Wallace / New York Magazine: |
Miami's mayor has helped turn Miami into the most crypto-friendly US city, even as Florida's governor appears to object to the idea of an influx of tech workers — Silicon Valley's favorite politician, Miami mayor Francis Suarez, has many lures to dangle when he's wooing techies to relocate to his city.
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Washington Post and cryptodaily.co.uk
Tweets: @bishoplawfirm, @francissuarez, @libshipwreck, @chicagosean, @rmb, and @intelligencer
| Financial Times: |
Shares of London-listed Alphawave, which develops chips with fast data flows, dropped up to 50% after FT report highlighted close links to key contract partners — Toronto-based chip designer loses more than £1bn of market value — Alphawave's London-listed shares crashed … | Andrés Engler / CoinDesk: |
Research: startups in Latin America raised a record ~$6.5B in VC funding in H1 2021, up from $4B in all of 2020; cryptocurrency related startups raised $517M — Latin America is experiencing a boom in venture capital (VC) investments. — In the first six months of 2021 …
Tweets: @marceloclaure
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Materialize, which is developing an SQL database service for streaming data, raises $60M Series C, bringing its total raised to $100M+ — The Transform Technology Summits start October 13th with Low-Code/No Code: Enabling Enterprise Agility. Register now!
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PR Newswire
| Bloomberg: |
After raising $155M in April, Patreon plans to invest in original programming by podcasters, video game livestreamers, YouTubers, and major celebrities — In today's Silicon Valley, land of buzzwords, there may be none buzzier than “creator”—the tech industry's chosen way to refer to someone …
Tweets: @business
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