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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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The Daily Dot, The Daily Beast, The Intercept, Boing Boing, The Mac Observer, and CNET
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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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Cointelegraph, cryptodaily.co.uk, Decrypt, Crypto Briefing, The Block, and Bitcoin Magazine
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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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Benzinga, BBC, iTnews, Pocketnow, Insider, Ubergizmo, Reuters, ZDNet, phonearena.com, MacRumors, iThinkDifferent, iMore, TechRadar, Barron's Online, MarketWatch, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, iPhone in Canada Blog, MacDailyNews, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, and The Verge
Tweets: @htsfhickey and @davemcclure
| 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 … | 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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| 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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| Dave Michaels / Wall Street Journal: |
Frances Haugen's lawyer says the SEC has been communicating with her lawyers over her claims about Facebook — Whistleblower allegations don't resemble a typical securities-fraud case, but the pressure to investigate is strong — WASHINGTON—The controversy over what Facebook Inc …
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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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| 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, iPhone in Canada Blog, Android Headlines, TechCrunch, Engadget, MobileSyrup, and MSPoweruser. Tweets: @glassruss
| 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.
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PR Newswire, FinLedger, and Benzinga
| 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, Forkast, and Decrypt
| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
Instagram says it is testing Activity Feed notifications in the US that will alert users of service outages and technical issues — One week after a massive Facebook outage that took all of the social network's apps offline for more than six hours, Instagram says it's testing notifications …
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Tweets: @instagramcomms, @instagramcomms, @martinsfp, @chrismessina, @instagramcomms, and @karissabe
| Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
Q&A with Sundar Pichai, Thomas Kurian, and other Google executives on Google Cloud's new sustainability features, which help customers track emissions, and more — Many companies are reacting to the climate crisis by hastily formulating long-term plans to go carbon neutral. Not Google.
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Tweets: @googleearth, @maxlenormand, @googlecloud, @googlecloud, @lutherlowe, @uhoelzle, @googlecloud, @qhardy, and @salesforce. Thanks:@technologizer
| 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.”| Financial Times: |
Celsius Network, a DeFi lending platform that uses the Ethereum blockchain, raises $400M led by WestCap and CDPQ at a $3B+ valuation, up from $120M last year — Management hopes investment will open doors in mainstream financial markets — Cryptocurrency lending platform Celsius Network … | 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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Fast Company, Insider, and New York Post
| 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, DealStreetAsia, and Tech in Asia
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
CarDekho, an online marketplace for new and used cars in India, raises a $250M Series E led by LeapFrog Investments at a $1.2B valuation — CarDekho, an Indian search and e-commerce platform for new and used cars, has become the latest startup in the world's second-largest market to reach the unicorn status.
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DealStreetAsia, The Economic Times, and The Economic Times
| Kris Holt / Engadget: |
Twitter now lets web users remove followers without having to block them, after testing the option for over a month — All Twitter users can now remove a follower without having to block them. The company started testing this option last month, and starting today, everyone will have access to it.
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The Verge, BetaNews, Techweez, Insider, and BGR India
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