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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple says a virtual event, titled “Unleashed”, will be held on October 18 at 10am PT, where new MacBook Pros with M1X are expected — Apple today announced that it will be holding a special event on Monday, October 18 at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time.
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| Sam Biddle / The Intercept: |
The Intercept publishes Facebook's secret blacklist of ~4,000 “Dangerous Individuals and Organizations” that users are barred from speaking favorably about — To ward off accusations that it helps terrorists spread propaganda, Facebook has for many years barred users …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple will likely cut its projected iPhone 13 production targets for 2021 by 10M units, due to shortage of Broadcom and Texas Instruments parts — Apple Inc. is likely to slash its projected iPhone 13 production targets for 2021 by as many as 10 million units because of prolonged chip shortages …
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| Eli Tan / CoinDesk: |
Coinbase announces it will let users buy, sell, and showcase Ethereum-based NFTs by the end of the year — Coinbase is joining the non-fungible token (NFT) arms race. — The U.S. crypto exchange is launching “Coinbase NFT,” a marketplace that will allow its users to buy … | Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Samsung announces its Galaxy Unpacked Part 2 event will be held virtually on October 20 at 7am PT — Who's left? — Samsung has just sent out invitations for an event it is holding online on Wednesday, October 20th at 7AM PT / 10AM ET. It's called “Galaxy Unpacked Part 2,” …
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| Danny Nelson / CoinDesk: |
Stripe begins hiring a crypto team to “build the future of Web3 payments”, three years after ending bitcoin support — Payments company Stripe has begun assembling a crypto engineering team to chart its future in digital assets. — The team - described in LinkedIn posts and job listings …
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Bitcoin Magazine, cryptodaily.co.uk, Cointelegraph, Decrypt, Crypto Briefing, and The Block
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| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
1Password launches Psst!, which lets users share login credentials with just a link — Even those who don't have a 1Password account. — Password sharing in the workplace and at home is a common practice, but doing so securely can be tricky. 1Password aims to address that with its new feature …
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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Waze announces a “Drive with Headspace” feature, letting users choose from five “moods” and an accompanying custom Spotify playlist with content from Headspace — Daily commutes to the office can be exhausting and, depending on the amount of traffic you're dealing with, very stressful.
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Waze, Digital Trends, Android Headlines, TechCrunch, iPhone in Canada Blog, Engadget, MSPoweruser, and MobileSyrup. Tweets: @glassruss
| Dave Michaels / Wall Street Journal: |
Frances Haugen's lawyer says the SEC has been communicating with her lawyers, but experts say her allegations don't resemble a typical securities fraud case — Whistleblower allegations don't resemble a typical securities-fraud case, but the pressure to investigate is strong
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Washington Post, Input, The Hill, and OneZero
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| Ellen Cushing / The Atlantic: |
Slack has changed corporate culture, acting as a Trojan horse that flattens the communication hierarchy, largely to the benefit of employees — In 2014, the executives at a brand-new start-up called Andela made a decision whose consequences they would only understand much later.
Tweets: @beccarosen, @patcaldwell, @paulbisceglio, @bernstein, @theatlantic, @yappelbaum, @andersen, @tomgara, @dkthomp, @timothynoah1, @johnghendy, @tabir, @cwarzel, @kantrowitz, and @caseynewton
| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
Microsoft says it mitigated a 2.4Tbps DDoS attack on an Azure customer at the end of August, breaking AWS' record of mitigating a 2.3Tbps attack in Feb. 2020 — Microsoft said its Azure cloud service mitigated a 2.4 terabytes per second (Tbps) distributed denial of service attack this year …
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Tweets: @profwoodward, @tomwarren, @da_667, and @campuscodi
| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Atomic, which offers payroll APIs for consumers to connect their income to services such as neobanks, raises a $22M Series A led by Innovation Capital — Fintech startup Atomic announced this morning that it has closed a $22 million Series A. Core Innovation Capital led the round, which saw participation from preceding investors.| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Mexico City-based buy now, pay later startup Nelo raises a $20M Series A led by Two Sigma Ventures and says it's used by over 100 merchants — Buy now, pay later (BNPL) has been making headlines all over the place this year — from Square's planned acquisition of Afterpay to Affirm going public.| Eli Tan / CoinDesk: |
UK Gambling Commission is investigating soccer NFT trading service Sorare for failing to obtain licenses; Sorare says it does not offer “regulated gambling” — Sorare, the fast-growing European fantasy soccer and digital collectible platform, is being investigated by the U.K. Gambling Commission.
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UK Gambling Commission, Sorare, Coinspeaker, CryptoSlate, cryptodaily.co.uk, CoinJournal, and Forkast
| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
FourFront, a startup creating fictional storylines with actors on TikTok, says it aims to build an interconnected TikTok “universe” and has raised a $1.5M seed — Every popular social media platform has opened up a new type of storytelling to a new generation of users …
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| Julie Weed / New York Times: |
In 2020, the Seattle region was the top US market for large office space leased by tech firms, due in part to a deep talent pool and plenty of undeveloped land — Despite an overall decline in office leasing in the United States, technology companies gobbled up more space in the Seattle area than they had the previous year.
Tweets: @nytimes, @nytimestech, and @stevecase
| The Economic Times: |
ReshaMandi, an online B2B marketplace focused on silk products in India, raises a $30M Series A, a mix of equity and debt, led by Creation Investments — ReshaMandi, a business-to-business marketplace focused on silk products, has raised $30 million, or about Rs 225 crore, in Series A funding round led by Creation Investments.
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Entrackr, Tech in Asia, and DealStreetAsia
| Arielle Pardes / Wired: |
Crunchbase: startups with only female founders raised 2.3% of VC funding in 2021, the lowest in five years; 86% went to startups with only male founders — “Reading these headlines about record rounds, you have to ask, who is having this experience?” one founder says. “Certainly not the women I know.”Sponsor Posts
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