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Meta announces that Peter Thiel, one of Facebook's first institutional investors and longest-serving directors, will step down from Meta's board this year — The tech billionaire, who has been on the board of the company formerly known as Facebook since 2005, is backing numerous politicians in the midterm elections.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Nvidia and SoftBank call off Nvidia's Arm acquisition; Arm CEO Simon Segars resigns and Arm's IP group president Rene Haas takes over; Arm is exploring an IPO — Nvidia's deal to acquire Arm is off, the two companies and Arm's owner SoftBank announced (PDF) tonight.
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| Alan Rappeport / New York Times: |
The IRS says it will transition away from using facial recognition for identity verification, after a bipartisan backlash regarding its use of ID.me services — The tax collection agency will transition away from using a service from the authentication service ID.me amid bipartisan backlash.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Source: Apple acquires London-based AI Music, which uses AI and royalty-free music to create dynamic soundtracks that change based on user interactions or moods — Apple Inc. acquired a startup called AI Music that uses artificial intelligence to generate tailor-made music …
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| Chris Duckett / ZDNet: |
Signal now lets users change the phone number associated with their account while retaining their messages, profile information, and groups — Users will still need to be able to send and receive Signal messages on their old number in order to port. — Signal has announced it will allow …
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| Karl Freund / Forbes: |
Intel announces efforts to accelerate RISC-V development and adoption, including licensing plans, chip manufacturing partners, and a $1B IFS Innovation Fund — This announcement will have a long-lasting impact on the entire semiconductor industry: — Intel must fabricate chips …
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Amazon raises its maximum base pay for corporate and tech employees from $160K to $350K, in line with other tech giants, citing a “competitive labor market” — Amazon will boost its maximum base pay to $350,000 for corporate and tech employees, from $160,000 previously …
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| Nikhil Subramaniam / Inc42 Media: |
BharatPe, an Indian fintech unicorn backed by VCs such as Sequoia and Coatue, is facing allegations of embezzlement, impropriety in merchant dealings, and more — Calling CEO Suhail Sameer “a puppet of investors”, Grover has alleged a conspiracy behind sending him away and instituting a probe
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| Michiel Willems / City A.M.: |
In its annual SEC report, Meta repeats its warning that it may be forced to shut down “significant” services in Europe if the EU adopts new data transfer rules — If Meta is not given the option to transfer, store and process data from its European users on US-based servers …
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| Victoria Song / The Verge: |
Samsung adds custom interval training, sleep coaching, and the ability to set body composition goals to Galaxy Watch 4, and confirms Google Assistant is coming — If you were hoping for a Google Assistant update, it's ‘coming soon’ — Samsung isn't expected to launch a new smartwatch …
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A leaked press release says Samsung will unveil three new Galaxy tablets, an 11" Tab S8, a 12.4" Tab S8 Plus, and a 14.6" Tab S8 Ultra, at its Unpacked event — It seems like the tablets are coming very soon — We're less than two days out from Samsung's next Unpacked event.
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Livspace, an online home interiors marketplace that connects customers with designers and vendors, raises a $180M Series F led by KKR at a $1B+ valuation — Livspace raised $180 million in a funding round led by KKR & Co. at a valuation of more than $1 billion as the online home interiors …
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Bluesky, the decentralized social media initiative announced by Twitter in 2019, becomes a Public Benefit LLC with Jack Dorsey as one of the board members — In 2019, Twitter announced bluesky, a project it would fund to create an open and decentralized standard for social media.Sponsor Posts
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