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WhatsApp begins a limited test of Meta's Novi digital wallet in the US, letting users send and receive crypto within a chat, after launching a pilot in October — Like Love Haha Wow Sad Angry — Today, WhatsApp is finally announcing a small pilot program to some people in the US …
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Italy's competition authority fines Amazon €1.13B for allegedly abusing its market position and harming competitors in e-commerce logistics — Italy's competition authority announced Thursday it was slapping a €1.13 billion fine on Amazon for abusing its dominant position in the market …
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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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| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
Instagram plans to bring back “a version” of its chronological feed in Q1 2022, as it experiments with other options for users including a “favorites” feed — After more than five years, Instagram plans to bring back “a version” of its chronological feed next year, the company's top executive said on Wednesday.| Bloomberg: |
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Kuo: Apple's AR headset will include four sets of 3D sensors to offer 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 and object detecting user interface …
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9to5Mac, Tech Advisor, iThinkDifferent, Wccftech, PhoneArena, Patently Apple, iPhone Hacks, The Verge, AppleInsider, and iMore. Tweets: @scobleizer
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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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Tweets: @reuters, @edzitron, @stellarorg, @reptomemmer, and @carnage4life
| Moustafa Ayad / Wired: |
Behind the rise of “alt-jihadists” on social media and how they have adopted alt-right's organizational tactics and imagery to fuel their growing movement — The playbook of the “alt-right” is guiding a new generation of fringe jihadists, showing just how complicated extremism is about to become online.
Tweets: @cepineurope, @isdglobal, @bjornih, and @marklittlenews
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: as Ben Horowitz and Marc Andreessen buy Las Vegas properties, they are less involved in a16z's daily operations and cutting down on board memberships — Recently, the Bay Area-based venture capitalist Ben Horowitz took part in a popular pandemic-era pastime: updating the location on his LinkedIn profile.
Tweets: @lucas_shaw, @chafkin, @tomgara, and @chafkin
| Mayank Parmar / BleepingComputer: |
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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Tweets: @harrymccracken, @martinsfp, @carnage4life, @stuartbruce, and @campuscodi
| George Anadiotis / ZDNet: |
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.| New York Times: |
EU Commission proposes rules turning gig workers into employees, affecting up to 4.1M workers; EU estimates 28M work through 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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Tweets: @mamereric, @eu_commission, @carnage4life, @eu_commission, and @saurabhbhbhbh
| Andrew Thurman / CoinDesk: |
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
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Deepmind Blog, Beyond Search, TNW, and EnterpriseAI
Tweets: @deepmind, @techreview, and @iscienceluvr
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
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 … | Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
A US appeals court grants a stay in the Epic v. Apple ruling, letting Apple keep its IAP system as the sole source of iOS in-app payments as the case proceeds — Apple can maintain its App Store payment monopoly while the case proceeds — An appeals court has paused one of the most consequential parts …
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Tweets: @hoeglaw, @johnkoetsier, @reneritchie, @fosspatents, @jake_k, @drbarnard, @drbarnard, @markgurman, @backlon, @backlon, @trevorcroker, and @asymco
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Sources: US will ban investment in SenseTime on Friday citing 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 … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Berlin-based Mambu, which offers embedded financial services and banking APIs, raises a €235M Series E at a €4.9B valuation, after raising $135M in January — Embedded finance — where companies tap into APIs to integrate banking and other financial tools without having …
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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.| 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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Windows Central, MobileSyrup, TNW, reddit, XDA Developers, Android Headlines, Android Central, Pocketnow, Phandroid, and Android Police
Tweets: @caseynewton, @masonpelt, @mattnworb, @jpgillin, @stevesi, and @davidgarywood. Thanks:@technacity
| Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal: |
Work-Bench report: less than 2% of US enterprise software startups, or 354 out of 18,500, have at least one female founder, likely due to issues getting funding — Less than 2% of enterprise software startups in the U.S. feature a female founder, a new report finds
Tweets: @annelibby and @aprilkoh_
| Jackie Davalos / Bloomberg: |
Kickstarter plans to transition its crowdfunding site to a newly created blockchain-based protocol in 2022, and will offer tools for others to build on it — It's creating a new company to develop and distribute the technology. — For more than a decade, Kickstarter PBC has convinced …
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| 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 AmazonSponsor Posts
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