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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Twitter Blue rolls out to the US for $2.99/month with Scroll's ad-free articles across 300+ pubs, an undo button, Nuzzel-like “top articles” roundup, and more — And in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, as part of Twitter Blue — Twitter Blue, the company's subscription service …
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Tweets: @arctictony, @twittercomms, @kateconger, @mariosundar, @carnage4life, @mgsiegler, @tomwarren, @caseynewton, and @backlon
| Zac Bowden / Windows Central: |
Microsoft announces a $249 11.6" Surface Laptop SE, exclusively for schools and students, running Windows 11 SE, and starting with 4GB RAM and 64GB of storage — Microsoft's low-end education PC is official! — What you need to know — Microsoft is adding a new laptop to its Surface hardware portfolio.
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Tweets: @microsoftedu, @panos_panay, @parkerortolani, @epro, @windowscentral, and @daniel_rubino
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft unveils Windows 11 SE, a Chrome OS rival aimed at schools, shipping exclusively on low-cost laptops built for K-8 classrooms later this year — Microsoft's latest effort to beat Chromebooks is a little different — Microsoft has created a new edition of Windows 11 designed for students and schools.
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| Bloomberg: |
Netflix for iOS is rolling out Kids Clips, a TikTok-like feature that shows new daily short videos from its children's library — - Company to test ‘Kids Clips’ on iOS in U.S., other countries — Feature is similar to ‘Fast Laughs’ comedy offering for adults
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| Ashley Gold / Axios: |
Bipartisan group of House lawmakers debuts a companion to a Senate bill to make tech platforms let users switch to an “input-transparent algorithm” for content — A bipartisan group of House lawmakers has introduced a companion to a Senate bill that would let people use algorithm-free versions …
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| Pranob Mehrotra / XDA Developers: |
Samsung unveils 14nm, 16GB LPDDR5X DRAM chip for mobile devices, claims data transfer speeds of 8.5Gbps, 1.3x faster than LPDDR5 while consuming 20% less power — Samsung today announced the world's first LPDDR5 DRAM chip for mobile devices. The new memory module is fabricated using …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
iOS 15.2 beta includes the Communication Safety in Messages feature that Apple announced this summer, as an opt-in feature parents can enable — Apple over the summer announced new Child Safety features that are aimed at keeping children safer online. Apple has confirmed that one of those features …
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| Packy McCormick / Not Boring: |
A deep dive into how Discord, an authentic, at-scale user-generated community, could become the metaverse's natural social infrastructure — A Not Boring x The Generalist Collab on the Internet's New Home … Today's Not Boring is brought to you by... Sprig … Try Sprig Free — Hi friends 👋 ,
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
You.com, an AI-powered open source search engine, launches in beta with $20M in funding led by Salesforce CEO Mark Benioff — You.com, which bills itself as the world's first open source search engine, today announced its public beta launch along with $20 million in funding led …
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| Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
Unpacking some key aspects of what constitutes a metaverse, such as making and owning virtual property, 3D telepresence in a persistent world, and more — Will we all live in the metaverse soon? Or is the idea just Second Life redux? — These days it seems like everybody …
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| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Nvidia makes Omniverse, a real-time collaborative design tool, generally available, and now allows developers to create hyper-realistic, interactive AI avatars — Nvidia Corp. is expanding its hyper-realistic graphics collaboration platform and ecosystem Nvidia Omniverse with a new tool …
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| Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
Clubhouse rolls out Replay on iOS and Android, letting users record live rooms and share them as a podcast or a clip on YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok — Clubhouse hosts and moderators will have a fresh tool in their kit today. The company is pushing a new feature live on both its iOS …
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| Eliza Gkritsi / CoinDesk: |
Crypto exchange WOO Network closes a $30M Series A from various investors, including Singapore-based Three Arrows Capital — WOO Network is betting on deep liquidity to break into the crypto exchange landscape. — Crypto exchange WOO Network closed a $30 million Series A round from various investors … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Jackpocket, an app with 2.5M active users buying lottery tickets in 10 US states, raises a $120M Series D to expand into raffles, social casino games, and more — Apps that let people do virtually what they would have previously had to carry out in person have seen a boom in the last 20 months … | Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
Palantir beats expectations with Q3 revenue of $392M, up 36% YoY, and expects full year revenue of ~$1.53B, up 40% YoY — - Palantir reported third-quarter earnings on Tuesday that beat analyst expectations on revenue and met earnings estimates. — The company said it expects revenue … | CNN: |
US charges a Ukrainian suspect, arrested in Poland last month, and a Russian citizen over REvil attacks, and says it seized $6M in ransom payments — (CNN)Law enforcement officials have seized an estimated $6 million in ransom payments, and the US Justice Department is expected to announce Monday …
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Tweets: @campuscodi, @briankrebs, @fbi, @serghei, @campuscodi, @fbi, @thejusticedept, and @kylegriffin1
| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
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| Don Clark / New York Times: |
The global chip shortage has bolstered the influence of lesser-known chipmakers like Microchip Technology, as market power shifts from buyers to manufacturers — Low-profile chip makers with aging factories have become surprisingly powerful, leading to industry changes that may outlive the pandemic-fueled supply crunch.| Elizabeth Howcroft / Reuters: |
How Christie's and Sotheby's are bringing in crypto-rich NFT buyers; NFTs now account for about 5.5% of contemporary art sales at the world's top auction houses — Little could James Christie have known some 240 years ago, as he sold masterpieces by Rembrandt and Rubens to Catherine the Great … | MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
PayPal reports Q3 revenue of $6.18B, up 13% YoY, vs $6.23B est., Venmo payment volume up 36% YoY to $60B, says Venmo users can make Amazon purchases next year — - PayPal reported a 13% increase in year-over-year revenue for the third quarter. — The company issued a fourth-quarter forecast …
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| Under the Hood: |
Robinhood says an unauthorized party obtained a list of email addresses for ~5M users, full names for another ~2M users, and more info on ~310 others — Late in the evening of November 3, we experienced a data security incident. An unauthorized third party obtained access to a limited amount …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Netflix games arrive on Apple's App Store and users will start being able to access them through Netflix's iOS app tomorrow — Last week, Netflix launched its debut lineup of mobile games to Android users globally. Today, the games are expanding to users on iOS.
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AppleInsider, Variety, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, iMore, and BGR. Tweets: @techcrunch
| Anita Ramaswamy / TechCrunch: |
Socure, a cloud-based identity verification and fraud prevention startup, raises a $450M Series E led by Accel and T. Rowe Price at a $4.5B valuation — Socure, a company that uses AI and machine learning to verify identities, announced today that it raised $450 million in funding for its Series E round led by Accel and T. Rowe Price.
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Helsing, which uses AI to integrate data and create live maps of battlefields, raises €100M from Daniel Ek's European tech investing group — Defence start-up will use AI to build live battlefield maps in ‘ethical, responsible and transparent’ way — A year after launching … Sponsor Posts
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