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| 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:
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Tweets: @dsccross, @dsccross, @dsccross, @robertrosenfeld, @charlesarthur, and @dsccross
| 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, Macworld, Thurrott, SlashGear, Tom's Hardware, The Mac Observer, iThinkDifferent, 9to5Mac, CNET, iPhone in Canada Blog, Pocket-lint, KnowTechie, HotHardware.com News, BigTechWire, WinBuzzer, Trusted Reviews, Engadget, Pocketnow, XDA Developers, 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, and The Verge
Tweets: @anildash and @tailosivetech
| 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, Decrypt, CoinDesk, Stripe, Protocol, The Irish Times, Crypto Briefing, and Ethereum World News
Tweets: @collision, @tyler, @ldignan, @ryancarson, @petergyang, @galaxyrtk, @melt_dem, @gcockfoster, and @jgarzik
| 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, TechCrunch, TechCrunch, XDA Developers, The Keyword, Protocol, CNET, Thurrott, ZDNet, Android Central, The Verge, iPhone in Canada Blog, PYMNTS.com, Digital Trends, Neowin, Android Authority, Engadget, Phandroid, Gizmodo, Phone Scoop, KnowTechie, Pocket-lint, 9to5Google, AppleInsider, and iMore
Tweets: @techweez, @backlon, @android, @sarahintampa, and @google
| 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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| 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.| 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” — A change in direction. — The founder of DuckDuckGo, a Google-alternative search engine that has touted its “unbiased” …
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Tweets: @yegg, @getongab, @timcast, @elijahschaffer, @texasdom1, @hotepjesus, and @yegg
| 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 … | Reuters: |
Internal emails: Meta to let users in some countries call for violence against Russians, its soldiers, and death of Putin or Lukashenko, in context of Ukraine — Meta Platforms (FB.O) will allow Facebook and Instagram users in some countries to call for violence against Russians …
Tweets: @caseynewton and @eculliford
| 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, Android Police, Рос …, and Interfax
Tweets: @brijeshbsingh, @evanderburg, @laurenweinstein, and @uuallan
| 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.
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| 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, @mariosundar, @tsuvik, @rnoweber, @jaysullivan, @kayvz, @alexeheath, @kayvz, @kayvz, and @alexeheath
| 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 … | 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 … | 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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| Adam Tinworth / One Man & His Blog: |
Substack's app lets users pause email delivery to read only in the app, building a moat for Substack that potentially protects it from competitors — Substack has launched a reader app for iOS, turning itself from a newsletter company into a platform one. Publishers — beware.
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App Store, Nieman Lab, Creator Economy Tips, Scripting News, The Muffin por Mauricio …, Input, CNET, and On Substack
Tweets: @hamishmckenzie, @substackinc, @rsingel, @om, @kantrowitz, @joshelman, @parkermolloy, @adders, and @iroughol
| 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.| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Sources: Apple is working on a Mac mini with M2 eight-core CPU and 10-core GPU and a Mac mini with M2 Pro 12-core CPU; M2 chip design will be based on A15 — Apple this week introduced Mac Studio, which is somewhat based on the Mac mini but with much more powerful hardware - but that doesn't mean it's the end of Mac mini.
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| Christopher Harland-Dunaway / The Verge: |
An investigation into Tron founder and Poloniex investor Justin Sun, who according to an FBI subpoena is facing potential charges for wire fraud and more — Justin Sun, a budding Chinese cryptocurrency mogul, walked through the shiny lofted atrium of the departure terminal at South Korea's Incheon International Airport.
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CryptoPotato, Newslit Daily, Web3 Digest, ZyCrypto, CryptoSlate, and Decrypt
Tweets: @kristenradtke, @mslopatto, @atmos_black, @windmillsz, @silvermanjacob, and @verge
| 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, SiliconANGLE, VentureBeat, UploadVR, Fast Company, and VRScout
Tweets: @johnhanke, @fastcompany, @cathyhackl, and @msquinn
| Kollen Post / The Block: |
Chainalysis launches smart contracts to identify crypto wallets that fall under sanctions and plans to launch a free sanctions screening API later this month — On March 10, blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis announced the launch of new tools for identifying crypto wallets that fall under sanctions.| 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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FinLedger, PR Newswire, and Crowdfund Insider
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Barcelona-based Typeform, which offers low-code marketing tools, raises a $135M Series C led by Sofina, after raising a $35M Series B in September 2017 — It's been several years since Barcelona-based Typeform tapped investors to grow usage of its “conversational data collection platform” … | Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal: |
Meta says Instagram's VP of youth Pavni Diwanji is stepping down as part of a restructuring; Adam Mosseri will oversee youth-focused work — Departure comes amid organizational changes at the company; Instagram for Kids remains paused — The executive overseeing Instagram's development … | Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google says Play Store users in Russia will not be able to buy apps, games, IAPs, and subscriptions, in the coming days, due to a “payment system disruption” — Google today told Android app developers that Play Store users in Russia will soon no longer be able to purchase apps, games, IAPs, or subscriptions.
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