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As a result of Russia's invasion, Meta says it will temporarily change its rules to allow some violent political speech, like “death to the Russian invaders” — Meta Platforms (FB.O) will allow Facebook and Instagram users in some countries to call for violence against Russians … | Osato Avan-Nomayo / The Block: |
Stripe now supports crypto businesses, including exchanges, wallet providers, and NFT marketplaces, and offers flexible on-ramps for crypto exchanges — Global payments giant Stripe has announced that it now supports crypto businesses including exchanges, wallet providers, and NFT marketplaces, among others.
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Stripe, Stripe, Finextra, PYMNTS.com, Benzinga, TechCrunch, Bitcoinist.com, Ethereum World News, CoinDesk, and The Irish Times
Tweets: @collision, @ryancarson, @petergyang, @ldignan, @galaxyrtk, @tyler, @melt_dem, @gcockfoster, @hhorsley, and @jgarzik
| Sami Fathi / MacRumors: |
Display analyst Ross Young expects Apple will release a 27-inch mini-LED display in June; Kuo says Apple “may not launch” mini-LED products in 2022 due to cost — Apple plans to launch a “Pro” version of its new Studio Display in June of this year that measures 27-inches …
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@dsccross and @mingchikuo. More:
MacRumors, iMore, iMore, MobileSyrup, Digital Trends, Redmond Pie, MacDailyNews, TechRadar, Wccftech, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, Macworld, Daring Fireball, AppleInsider, AppleInsider, iMore, 9to5Mac, Cult of Mac, Pocketnow, iPhone Hacks, and iClarified
| Sami Fathi / MacRumors: |
Apple confirms that its Studio Display will work with Windows; some features, like Center Stage and True Tone, are macOS-only — Apple has confirmed to MacRumors that the brand new Studio Display will work when connected to PCs, but critical new features of the display will not carry …
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The Verge, Ars Technica, ZDNet, The Mac Observer, iPhone in Canada Blog, Macworld, KnowTechie, 9to5Mac, HotHardware.com News, BigTechWire, Tom's Hardware, iThinkDifferent, Thurrott, SlashGear, WinBuzzer, Pocket-lint, CNET, Trusted Reviews, Engadget, Pocketnow, XDA Developers, 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, and The Verge
Tweets: @viticci, @tailosivetech, @thurrott, and @anildash
| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Google rolls out iMessage emoji reactions for Google Messages to all after testing the feature in beta, alongside other updates to the app — We've known for months that Google has been working to make its Messaging app properly display emoji reactions sent by iPhone users.
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The Keyword, The Keyword, TechCrunch, BGR, SlashGear, CNET, The Verge, The Mac Observer, Android Central, Phandroid, Thurrott, ZDNet, PYMNTS.com, XDA Developers, Protocol, Phone Scoop, KnowTechie, Neowin, Pocket-lint, Digital Trends, iPhone in Canada Blog, 9to5Google, AppleInsider, Android Authority, Gizmodo, Engadget, 9to5Google, Slashdot, and iMore
Tweets: @backlon, @android, @sarahintampa, @techweez, and @google
| Tom Parker / Reclaim The Net: |
DuckDuckGo, which has touted its “unbiased” search results for years, says it will down-rank sites “associated with Russian disinformation” — The founder of DuckDuckGo, a Google-alternative search engine that has touted its “unbiased” search results for years …
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Platformer, PCMag, Neowin, PCMag, Mashable, and Slashdot
Tweets: @yegg, @citzenkaine, @platnumaura, @joelcomm, @cernovich, @yegg, @timcast, @elijahschaffer, @texasdom1, @getongab, and @hotepjesus
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google rolls out a rapid Air Raid Alerts system for Android phones in Ukraine — Google today issued an update on its response to the war in Ukraine. Among other ongoing efforts, Android users in Ukraine will soon have rapid Air Raid Alerts natively built into their phones.
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XDA Developers, PCMag, Android Police, Ars Technica, Engadget, The Verge, BleepingComputer, TalkAndroid.com, and TechCrunch
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Twitter and Meta removed posts by Russia's embassy in London that claimed images from the Mariupol hospital bombing in Ukraine were fake — Major social networks aren't done cracking down on Russian misinformation following that country's invasion of Ukraine.
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The Guardian, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, The Hill, The i Paper, The Daily Dot, CNBC, The Independent, Financial Times, Mediaite, Reuters, BBC, Forbes, and CNN
Tweets: @chriscorney1, @embassyofrussia, @donie, @mandoline_blue, @peterjukes, and @jreichelt
| Financial Times: |
Interviews with 30 people detail the rise and fall of Meta's Libra project, later renamed Diem, as lofty goals were undermined by Facebook's reputation — On June 24 2021, Jay Powell and Janet Yellen sat down for their weekly breakfast amid the austere surroundings of the US Treasury building on 1,500 Pennsylvania Avenue.| Kate Clark / The Information: |
Bessemer Venture Partners launches BessemerDAO to discuss crypto trends and share resources, and earmarks $250M of its new $2.5B fund for crypto deals — Venture capitalists' efforts to earn the respect of sought-after cryptocurrency entrepreneurs have reached a new peak … | Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Russia has created its own trusted TLS certificate authority as sanctions prevent Russian sites from renewing existing TLS certificates — Russia has created its own trusted TLS certificate authority (CA) to solve website access problems that have been piling up after sanctions prevent certificate renewals.
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9to5Google, TechSpot, Android Police, Рос …, and Interfax
Tweets: @sherrod_im, @dcuthbert, @johnwilander, @laurenweinstein, @uuallan, @evanderburg, and @brijeshbsingh
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Niantic acquires 8th Wall, which helps developers make web-based AR apps, in what the company says is its “largest acquisition to date” — Niantic is acquiring 8th Wall — Niantic is acquiring 8th Wall, a company that helps developers make web-based augmented reality apps …
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Niantic, TechCrunch, GamesIndustry.biz, Fast Company, VentureBeat, VRScout, UploadVR, SiliconANGLE, YouTube, and Slashdot
Tweets: @johnhanke, @cathyhackl, @msquinn, and @fastcompany
| Joseph Menn / Washington Post: |
Some tech companies are helping evacuate their staff from Russia, including by chartering planes and procuring visas, after previously doing the same in Ukraine — Multinational technology companies that last week were helping evacuate their employees from Ukraine now are doing the same in Russia … | Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Interviews with Twitter's three new consumer product leaders about restructuring to ship faster, building stickier features, and decentralization — ‘We need to make the product more participatory and approachable’ — Twitter has an enormous goal: the company wants to add another 100 million daily users …
Tweets: @kayvz, @rnoweber, @jaysullivan, @kayvz, @alexeheath, @mariosundar, @kayvz, @tsuvik, @kayvz, and @alexeheath
| Scott Stein / CNET: |
Hands-on with Magic Leap 2: a notably larger field-of-view, lenses that can dim the real world, and impressive spatial audio, but doesn't work over glasses — Magic Leap CEO Peggy Johnson shows me the new hardware. It's better, and it has one trick I've never seen before.| Peter Eavis / New York Times: |
Microsoft's carbon emissions were up 21.5% in the 12 months to June 2021, driven by energy for data centers and making devices, and power consumed by users — The company aims to be “carbon negative” by the end of the decade, but its emissions rose sharply in the most recent year measured.| Thomas Brewster / Forbes: |
Ukrainian ISP Triolan says it was hacked twice, as parts of Ukraine see internet outages; sources: recovery requires physical access after hackers reset devices — A major Ukrainian internet service provider says it was hacked twice. Sources tell Forbes that the first hack was in February …
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DCD. Tweets: @iblametom, @davemaasland, @netblocks, @iblametom, @cybersecboardrm, and @iblametom
| Chris Metinko / Crunchbase News: |
Capchase, which gives startup founders tools to find nondilutive financing, raises an $80M Series B led by 01 Advisors, bringing its total funding to $400M+ — New York-based Capchase has closed an $80 million Series B as the company looks to expand its funding platform that offers founders nondilutive financing alternatives.| Zhiyuan Sun / Cointelegraph: |
NonFungible: Axie Infinity had $3.5B in NFT transactions in 2021, almost two thirds of the blockchain gaming industry; NBA Top Shot had $827M and Loot $242M — In second and third place were sports highlights marketplace NBA Top Shot with $827 million and community gaming platform Loot with $242 million, respectively.
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CNBC, euronews, VentureBeat, Axios, and Coinspeaker
| FinSMEs: |
Roofstock, an online marketplace for buying and selling single-family rental homes, raises a $240M Series E led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 at a $1.9B valuation — Roofstock, an Oakland, CA-based end-to-end online platform for single-family rental investing raised $240M in Series E funding at $1.9 Billion Valuation.
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The Block, PR Newswire, Crowdfund Insider, and FinLedger
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Oracle reports Q3 revenue of $10.51B, up 4% YoY, cloud services and license support revenue of $7.6B, up 5% YoY, but misses with EPS of $1.13 vs est. of $1.18 — - Oracle met expectations for revenue but fell short on earnings for the fiscal third quarter.
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Reuters, Protocol, SiliconANGLE, Barron's Online, Bloomberg, Reuters, Dow Jones Newswires, MarketWatch, and Yahoo Finance
Tweets: @danielnewmanuv and @mattrosoff
| James Vincent / The Verge: |
DeepMind details Ithaca, an AI model to help restore missing text from ancient Greek inscriptions and offer suggestions about where and when they were written — A ‘complementary tool’ to help historians unravel ancient text — Machine learning techniques are providing new tools …
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Nature and Deepmind. More:
Synced, MSPoweruser, Beyond Search, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Machined, and The Register
Tweets: @deepmind, @deepmind, @nature, @magda_skipper, @emulenews, and @thedextriarchy
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