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| Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
Discord CEO Jason Citron says the service has no plans to add crypto and NFT tools, following a backlash to an internal concept he shared on Twitter — Discord founder and CEO Jason Citron sought to reassure users Wednesday that the company doesn't have impending plans to shift its business toward NFTs.
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Tweets: @jasoncitron, @packym, @toadsanime, @haydenzadams, @froggyfrogster, @lukellios, @doodlemancyart, @danisylvini, @panley01, @gempaw18, @cazlone, @coinerstakingls, @ithayla, @joewintergreen, @asilbwrites, @ricburton, @antumbral, @flofluoro, @tayhatmaker, @mdudas, @fluffysmolcloud, @balajis, @tomwarren, @dclblogger, and @cdixon
| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
Universal Music Group says it is creating a “band” called Kingship out of four Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs and plans to feature them in video games, VR, and more — Kingship, consisting of four virtual apes, reimagines the idea of a band — and a brand
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| Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Sony cuts PS5 production targets from 16M to 15M by March 2022 due to component and logistics constraints, as first-year PS5 sales fall behind PS4 — - Full-year PS5 sales goal at risk from production snags — Sony CFO warned Covid-19 still affecting output and supply
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Tweets: @6d6f636869, @tomwarren, and @vladsavov
| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Amazon will let Prime users on iOS share video clips up to 30 seconds long for some of its content — You can now help Amazon with its marketing if you have iOS — Amazon has announced that it'll let you easily share video clips showing up to 30 seconds of some of its Prime Video content, right from the iOS app.
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About Amazon, TechCrunch, Engadget, PCMag, Mashable, 9to5Mac, and Android Central. Tweets: @mattnavarra
| Owen Fernau / The Defiant: |
Ethereum Name Service's ENS token hits $1B market cap, just two days after its airdrop in which users received the token for free in their crypto wallets — ENS, the governance token of Ethereum Name Service, hit a market capitalization of $1.1B in early morning trading Eastern Standard Time.
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ENS Airdrop, Bitcoinist.com, Cointelegraph, CoinDesk, and ONE37pm
Tweets: @joshdcaplan, @heromachine_eth, @jakeandbakenft, @stefdelev, @cryptwizz, @lordofthechain, @calicashking, @dappradar, and @coinbase
| Wall Street Journal: |
A look at Binance, which sources say could be worth $300B if it goes public, as its unfettered, unregulated growth comes to an end amid global scrutiny — The trading platform surged by operating from nowhere in particular—without offices, licenses or headquarters. Now governments are insisting on taking some control.
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Cointelegraph. Tweets: @ceostroff, @georgikantchev, @jasonzweigwsj, @kowsmann, @alexfrangos, @tomfairless, and @kowsmann
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google creates a new Labs team under Clay Bavor, comprising its Area 120 incubator, AR and VR efforts, and Project Starline holographic video booth — Google Labs is back, but this time around, it's not a consumer-facing brand delivering a range of experimental products.
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| Rebecca Falconer / Axios: |
US joins a global cybersecurity partnership launched in 2018 with 80 countries and companies like Google and Microsoft, after declining to sign up under Trump — The U.S. is now part of an international agreement on cybersecurity that the Trump administration declined to sign up for …
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The White House, Washington Post, ZDNet, Engadget, The Keyword, The Register, and SecurityWeek
Tweets: @bradsmi, @kent_walker, @vp, @wilsonstip, @mytechmusings, and @herbieziskend46
| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Patreon CEO Jack Conte says the service is building native video hosting, which would reduce creators' reliance on YouTube — CEO Jack Conte: 'We're building a video product' — This story is part of a group of stories called — Patreon is building a video hosting solution and native player.
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hotpodnews.com, Engadget, and SlashGear
Tweets: @ashleyrcarman, @glenngabe, @theryanford, and @backlon
| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE: |
Google researchers found a watering hole attack in August exploiting a macOS zero-day and targeting Hong Kong pro-democracy sites; Apple patched on September 23 — “The nature of the activity and targeting is consistent with a government backed actor,” the Google researchers say.
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Wired, The Keyword, AppleInsider, and PCMag
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Spotify acquires audiobook distributor Findaway and says it expects the deal to close in Q4 2021 — In an effort to expand beyond music, Spotify has been investing hundreds of millions to build out its podcasts business. Now the company has set its sights on another form of audio …
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Axios, The Verge, Spotify, Reuters, Bloomberg, Engadget, AppleInsider, Good e-Reader, Variety, and Hollywood Reporter
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| Brian Ashcraft / Kotaku: |
Something Awful administrator says founder Richard “Lowtax” Kyanka has died at 45; founded in 1999, SA's influence over the contemporary web has been huge — Kyanka created the influential Something Awful website in 1999 — Longtime Something Awful forum administrator Fragmaster posted … | Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
YouTube starts hiding public dislike counts on videos to keep smaller creators from being targeted by dislike attacks, following a test in March — Creators will still be able to see how many people disliked their videos — YouTube has announced that it'll be hiding public dislike counts on videos across its site, starting today.
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| Emily Bary / MarketWatch: |
Weave Communications, which offers cloud tools for small business communications, drops 21.7% in market debut, after raising $120M in its IPO — ‘What QuickBooks is to small-business accounting, we will be to small-business customer communication,’ CEO says| Helene Braun / CoinDesk: |
Miami Mayor Francis Suarez says the city will give residents a bitcoin yield from staking MiamiCoin — The city's mayor, Francis Suarez, announced the news on CoinDesk TV on Thursday. — The city of Miami will soon give out a “bitcoin yield” to its citizens from the staking of its cryptocurrency …
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Forkast, The Block, refreshmiami.com, The Information, Crypto Briefing, Bitcoin Magazine, and Decrypt
Tweets: @francissuarez and @silvermanjacob
| Priya Anand / Bloomberg: |
Autonomous driving startup Embark Trucks closes at $8.80 per share in its Nasdaq debut, down 4.45%, after going public via a SPAC merger that valued it at $5.2B — Alex Rodrigues of Embark Trucks is one of the youngest to run a multibillion-dollar listed company.| Peter Kafka / Vox: |
Facebook made over 21 acquisitions in the past three years, per PitchBook, including at least four VR startups in 2021; sources say it paid $500M+ for Within — Can Mark Zuckerberg M&A a new monopoly? — Of the many complaints about Facebook, one comes through consistently: It's just too big.| Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch: |
Physical trading cards marketplace and custody service Alt raises a $75M Series B at a $325M+ valuation, says $70M+ worth of cards are stored in its vault — When we last checked in with Alt back in March, it had just raised $31M for its alternative asset platform — a platform, thus far …
Tweets: @rrhoover, @jeff_epstein, @darian314, and @alexisohanian
| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Chile-based Houm, which uses AI to help users find the optimal rental or sale price of a property based on similar properties nearby, raises a $35M Series A — Less than six months after raising $8 million in seed funding, Chilean proptech startup Houm has raised $35 million in a Series …
Tweets: @levynews
| Thomas Brewster / Forbes: |
Researcher details how hacker-for-hire group RocketHack infiltrated the email and Telegram accounts of ~3,500 individuals, including politicians and journalists — An unprecedented peek inside an underground hacker-for-hire operation reveals 3,500 targets, including Belarusian presidential candidates …
Tweets: @rondeibert, @iblametom, and @martijn_grooten
| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
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Trend Micro. More:
Threatpost, The Hacker News, Candid.Technology, infosecurity-magazine.com, and TechRadar
Tweets: @ericgarland, @campuscodi, @iblametom, and @iblametom
| Gabrielle Coppola / Bloomberg: |
Applied Intuition, which makes autonomous vehicle software, raises $175M led by Addition, Coatue, and Elad Gil at a $3.6B valuation, up from $1.25B in 2020 — - Applied Intuition valued at $3.6 billion in financing round — Startup counts GM, Daimler, Toyota and VW as customers
| Bradley Chambers / 9to5Mac: |
Apple unveils Business Essentials for SMBs, with device management, iCloud storage, and more, starting at $2.99/month per user and launching in spring 2022 — Apple is introducing a new business offering called Apple Business Essentials that combines device management … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Instagram is testing Take a Break, an opt-in feature that reminds users to take a break after 10, 20, or 30 minutes — Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced today the comapny has begun testing a new feature this week called “Take a Break” which will allow users to remind themselves …
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PCMag, Notebookcheck.net, MUO, iPhone in Canada Blog, Android Headlines, BGR India, iMore, Wccftech, XDA Developers, Android Central, and iThinkDifferent
Tweets: @mosseri, @ron_miller, @paul__armstrong, @kimcrayton1, @danielhillmedia, @joshuaogundu, and @rsgnl
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