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WhatsApp begins a limited test of Meta's Novi digital wallet in the US, letting users send and receive USDP within a chat — Like Love Haha Wow Sad Angry — Today, WhatsApp is finally announcing a small pilot program to some people in the US, that can finally use the Novi digital wallet within WhatsApp!
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Meta opens its VR social platform Horizon Worlds to all adult users in the US and Canada, after announcing a private beta in September 2019 — Facebook's first stab at the metaverse is Roblox meets the OASIS — More than two years and a company rebrand later, Meta is finally opening … | Politico: |
Italy's competition authority fines Amazon €1.13B for abusing its market position and harming competitors in e-commerce logistics; Amazon plans to appeal — Italy's competition authority announced Thursday it was slapping a €1.13 billion fine on Amazon for abusing its dominant position …
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Kuo: Apple's AR headset will include four sets of 3D sensors to offer a user interface with hand gesture controls and object detection — Apple's long rumored AR headset is predicted to include multiple highly sensitive 3D sensing modules in order to offer an innovative hand gesture …
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Sources: as Ben Horowitz and Marc Andreessen buy Las Vegas properties, they are less involved in a16z's daily operations and are on fewer corporate boards — Recently, the Bay Area-based venture capitalist Ben Horowitz took part in a popular pandemic-era pastime: updating the location on his LinkedIn profile.
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A look at the working processes at Apple's design team, led by VP of industrial design Evans Hankey and VP of human interface design Alan Dye — Global exclusive! Led by Evans Hankey and Alan Dye, the Apple Design Team holds enormous sway over our evolving relationship with technology.
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A look at Cardano, a controversial blockchain project led by Ethereum cofounder Charles Hoskinson that aims to build a national ID system for Ethiopia — There are countless examples of the dangers posed by national ID schemes, including from Kenya, Uganda, Pakistan, India and elsewhere.
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EU Commission proposes rules to turn gig workers into employees, affecting up to 4.1M workers; the EU estimates 28M work via digital labor platforms in the bloc — A proposal with widespread political support would entitle drivers and couriers for companies like Uber to a minimum wage and legal protections.
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Video of Adam Mosseri's testimony before a Senate Commerce subcommittee examining Instagram's negative effects on teen mental health — Instagram CEO testifies on impact of platform on young users before a Senate Commerce subcommittee.
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Amazon says it will shut down its global website ranking system Alexa.com on May 1, 2022, after 26 years of operation — Amazon announced on Wednesday plans to shut down its global website ranking system and competitor analysis tool “Alexa.com”, which has been available for 25 years.
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Crypto derivates market Paradigm, which focuses on large trades, raises a $35M Series A at a $400M valuation led by Jump Capital and Alameda Research — Quick Take — Paradigm is raising $35 million in a fundraise led by Jump Capital and Alameda Research.
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At a congressional hearing with six crypto executives, committee members voiced concerns about stablecoins and exchanges but showed a warming up to crypto — Quick Take — Today's hearing before the House Financial Services Committee confirmed: Congress is warming up to crypto.
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SushiSwap CTO Joseph Delong resigns after reports of project infighting and a 50% drop in the token's price over the past month — Amid a plummeting token price and rumors of infighting, Sushi CTO Joseph Delong announced on Wednesday that he is stepping away from the project “effective immediately.”| Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review: |
DeepMind claims its language model RETRO matches the performance of neural networks 25 times its size, cutting the time and cost to train large language models — RETRO uses an external memory to look up passages of text on the fly, avoiding some of the costs of training a vast neural network| Coco Feng / South China Morning Post: |
Reports suggest large Chinese tech companies like ByteDance, Kuaishou, and iQiyi are laying off more staff than usual, amid regulatory pressure and competition — Companies are reportedly laying off more employees than usual for this time of year, setting off “panic among a lot of people” … | Ivan Levingston / Bloomberg: |
SellerX, which buys and grows businesses on Amazon's marketplace, raises $500M in debt and equity at a $1B+ valuation, bringing its total funding to $750M — - Debt, equity financing of $500 million co-led by Victory Park — Company will use funds to buy up e-commerce brands on Amazon| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google confirms a permanent fix is coming for a bug that prevents some Android users from calling 911 if Microsoft Teams is installed but they are not logged in — Last week, a user reported that their Pixel 3 was not able to dial 911 (emergency services in the US).
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Edge Impulse, which lets developers create custom ML projects, raises a $34M Series B led by Coatue at a $234M valuation, bringing its total funding to $54M — 55.000 projects, 30.000 developers, $54M funding, and customers including the likes of NASA, in a bit over 2 years.| Financial Times: |
Sources: the US will ban investment in SenseTime on Friday over human rights abuses against Uyghurs, as the Chinese AI company prices its shares in Hong Kong — Facial recognition software specialist targeted for allegedly enabling human rights abuses — The US will put SenseTime … | South China Morning Post: |
China orders another 106 smartphone apps, including popular social network Douban and karaoke app Changba, to be removed from app stores, citing data practices — Authorities say more than a hundred apps, including Douban, have failed to rectify data privacy and security violations Douban …
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Danish startup Pleo, which builds expense management tools for SMBs, raises $200M at a $4.7B valuation led by Coatue Management, bringing its Series C to $350M — Danish startup Pleo, a developer of expense management tools aimed at SMBs to let them issue company cards and better manage … | Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
CloudBees, which lets companies automate software deployment and quality monitoring, raises a $150M Series F at a $1B valuation — Enterprise-focused software delivery platform CloudBees has raised $150 million in a series F round of funding at a valuation of $1 billion.
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