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| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
Mark Zuckerberg says NFT support will be coming to Instagram over the next several months and that users will “be able to mint things within that environment” — Love them or hate them, NFTs will soon be coming to Instagram. Speaking at SXSW, Mark Zuckerberg confirmed …
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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
iPad Air (2022) review: fast with the M1 chip and great display but Touch ID is not as convenient as Face ID and front camera is awkward in landscape mode — The new iPad Air is a blend of familiar features with predictable results — Much of the new iPad Air from Apple is a known quantity.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft says an ad in Windows 11 File Explorer “was not intended to be published externally and was turned off” after a Microsoft MVP found it in latest build — We may still see File Explorer ads in the future — Microsoft appears to be testing a new type of ad inside File Explorer on Windows 11.
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| Bloomberg: |
Foxconn says it received approval from Chinese authorities to partially reopen two Shenzhen campuses it closed on Monday, one of which makes iPhones — Apple Inc. supplier Foxconn Technology Group has resumed partial operations in the Chinese tech hub of Shenzhen, deploying a system … | Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
The FBI and CISA warn that Russian state-sponsored hackers accessed an unnamed NGO's network by exploiting default MFA protocols and the PrintNightmare flaw — The FBI says Russian state-backed hackers gained access to a non-governmental organization (NGO) cloud after enrolling their own device …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google says Steam launched in alpha “on select Chromebooks”; code changes previously showed that the PC game store would require a high-performance Chromebook — The long-awaited availability of Steam on Chromebooks was just more or less announced (in alpha) at the 2022 Google for Games Developer Summit.| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
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| Kris Holt / Engadget: |
Google Domains launches out of beta in 26 countries, after seven years, offering 300+ domain endings and “around-the-clock customer support from real people” — Seven long, long years ago, Google started offering users a way to buy a domain without having to deal with a host provider.
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| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Hex Trust, which offers crypto custody, staking, brokerage, and financing services to institutional clients in Hong Kong and Singapore, raises an $88M Series B — Quick Take — Asian crypto custodian Hex Trust has raised $88 million. — Animoca Brands and Liberty City Ventures co-led the round.| Chris Bengel / CBS Sports: |
Spotify signs a sponsorship deal with FC Barcelona, including rebranding the soccer club's stadium to Spotify Camp Nou, reportedly worth $310M over four years — FC Barcelona have agreed to a sponsorship deal with Spotify to have the audio streaming platform become the club's main partner.
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
RISC-V chip designer SiFive raises a $175M Series F at a $2.5B valuation led by Coatue Management, bringing its total funding to $350M+ — Chip design firm SiFive has raised $175 million at a $2.5 billion as RISC-V emerges as an alternative processor architecture.
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| Thomas Brewster / Forbes: |
A look at Ukraine's “invisible heroes”, its internet technicians who are risking their lives battling Russian hackers and avoiding bombs to keep Ukraine online — They're fixing internet in bombed-out buildings, finding rogue operators providing Russians with mobile connections and thwarting hackers.
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| Douglas Soltys / BetaKit: |
Montreal-based job search portal Talent.com raises a $120M Series B led by Inovia and discloses a $30M in debt finance it raised in January from BMO — Co-CEO says startup wants to be Pepsi to Indeed's Coke. — It has been a tumultuous few years for Montréal's Talent.com.| Margaret Harding McGill / Axios: |
With Congress divided over passing a national privacy law, tech industry groups are lobbying Utah and other states to pass privacy laws weaker than California's — The tech industry is lobbying statehouses across the country to pass privacy bills that critics call weak.| Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: |
Multiplier, which lets companies hire and pay remote workers while complying with local laws, raises a $60M Series B at a $400M valuation — Multiplier, a startup that enables companies to hire and pay remote workers while complying with local laws, announced today that it has raised …
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FinSMEs, The Economic Times, and Tech in Asia
| Clive Thompson / Wired: |
An in-depth look at GitHub's AI tool Copilot, which writes 35% of its users' code, and how such tools make programmers more efficient and democratize coding — OpenAI's new tool can autocomplete lines of programming or conjure software from a simple prompt. It could also riddle the internet with even more bugs.| Rest of World: |
Six months after El Salvador adopted Bitcoin as legal tender, citizens, economists, and tech developers reflect on the country's glitch-plagued initiative — As El Salvador prepares to launch its ‘Bitcoin bond’, interviews with citizens, economists and technologists reveal cracks in the country's crypto revolution.
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Common Sense, The Overspill, The Daily Hodl, and Blockworks
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Meta announces Family Center, a hub for parental supervision tools for its apps, starting with Instagram in the US and rolling out globally in the coming months — Allowing parents and guardian to keep a watchful eye — Instagram's new parental controls, announced in December, are launching today in the US.
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| Masha Borak / Wired: |
As China's delivery firms use algorithms to force drivers to work faster, couriers have started to band together and form unofficial unions on WeChat and Douyin — Food delivery drivers are using platforms' data-powered systems, mass WeChat groups, and unofficial unions to fight unfair conditions.
Tweets: @wiredscience and @wired
| Christine Hall / TechCrunch: |
Rutter, whose universal e-commerce API helps companies integrate with commerce, accounting, and payments services, raises a $27M Series A led by a16z — Seven months after publicly launching its company, Rutter is back with a new capital injection, this time $27 million in a Series A financing round led by Andreessen Horowitz.
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Finextra, Crowdfund Insider, PR Newswire, and FinSMEs
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Selector, which develops AI tools to let companies automate and improve IT operations, raises a $28M Series A, bringing its total funding to $33M — AIops — the practice of applying AI to automate and improve IT operations — has gained currency during the pandemic.
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FinSMEs and EnterpriseAI
| Tage Kene-Okafor / TechCrunch: |
Wasoko, formerly Sokowatch, a Kenya-based B2B marketplace that offers a BNPL service to retailers, raises a $125M Series B, source says at a $625M valuation — Informal retail is king in Africa, with hundreds of billions of dollars of consumer goods are sold through its channels yearly.
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FinSMEs, Disrupt Africa, and TechCabal
| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Slack cuts off access for some customers in Russia without notice to comply with US and international sanctions and its parent company Salesforce's policies — Slack has begun cutting off access to some customers in Russia as it looks to comply with both international sanctions and the policies of parent company Salesforce.| Amrita Khalid / Engadget: |
DoorDash launches a gas rewards program to help delivery drivers who hold the company's own DasherDirect Visa cards to mitigate the high cost of fuel — Doordash has launched a gas rewards program aimed at helping delivery drivers mitigate the high cost of fuel.
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| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
Several Patreon creators say Vimeo is forcing them to pay thousands of dollars per year for a custom plan, as Vimeo shifts its focus to large corporate clients — Popular Patreon creators are being hit with unexpected Vimeo price hikes as Vimeo shifts corporate strategy
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