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Chip shortage hits Apple at the worst possible time ahead of the holidays, and Meta and Apple are set to be smartwatch and mixed reality headset rivals in 2022 — Apple had seemingly avoided the chip shortage for months, but the company's fortunes have now changed.
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| Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Apple plans a “crash detection” feature next year for iPhones and Watches, which measures a spike in g-forces to detect car accidents and auto-dial 911 — Safety feature is also planned for Apple Watches expected in 2022, according to company documents
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| Paul Vigna / Wall Street Journal: |
Digital Currency Group raises $700M at a $10B+ valuation led by SoftBank's Vision Fund 2 and Latin America Fund, with CapitalG and others participating — The Grayscale and CoinDesk owner sells $700 million of shares at a $10 billion valuation, in a funding round led by two SoftBank funds
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| Zack Zwiezen / Kotaku: |
After a three-day outage, Roblox says it is back online — According to Roblox's status page, all versions of the game have been down since Oct 28 starting at 7 pm EST — Roblox, one of the most popular games in the world, has been down for over a day now and while many frustrated players …
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| Sami Fathi / MacRumors: |
Some Mac owners report that upgrading to macOS Monterey bricked their computer — macOS Monterey, released last week as the latest version of macOS, is bricking older Mac computers, rendering them unusable and unable to even turn on, according to a number of reports from users across social media and online forums.
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| Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: |
ByteDance limits staff working hours from 10am to 7pm on weekdays, becoming one of the first tech companies in China to officially end its “996” culture — - Employees will need to seek permission to work overtime — China's 996 culture has drawn criticism, government scrutiny| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Review of Beats Fit Pro, announced today for $200: comfortable with very good ANC and transparency mode but no wireless charging and little Android support — The latest Beats earbuds are the company's best product since the Powerbeats Pro — Beats has been busy.
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| Richard Waters / Financial Times: |
Dell spins off its 81% stake in VMware, creating a $64B independent software company; Dell's remaining hardware operations have an implied value of $33B — Share sale completes eight-year saga that will unwind part of the 2018 deal for server and storage company EMC| Axios: |
NewsWhip: interest in Facebook, measured by social media interactions per article, declined over 2021, with little mainstream attention for “Facebook Papers” — The Facebook Papers and whistleblower accounts were a public relations nightmare for Facebook, but so far …
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Pinterest to launch a Pinterest TV shoppable live series on November 8, with weekday episodes airing in its app, featuring some of its top creators — The series will feature creators and celebrities, like Olympic athlete Tom Daley and popular makeup artist Manny MUA| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
Amazon says TikTok's app is now available on Fire TV in the US and Canada and is coming soon to Echo Show devices — Amazon announced today that a TikTok app is now available on its Amazon Fire TV for users in the U.S. and Canada. The app is also coming soon to Echo Show devices.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
OctoML, which helps enterprises optimize and deploy their ML models, raises a $85M Series C led by Tiger Global, following its $28M Series B in March — OctoML, a Seattle-based startup that helps enterprises optimize and deploy their machine learning models, today announced that it has raised …
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