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Yuga Labs raises ~$320M by selling 55K virtual land plots in its Otherside metaverse, causing Ethereum blockchain ripple effects and skyrocketing gas fees — Yuga Labs, the creator of the popular Bored Apes Yacht Club collection of NFTs, launched a sale Saturday of virtual land related …
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| Tripp Mickle / New York Times: |
A look at Jony Ive's evolving responsibilities and frustrations at Apple that eventually led to his June 2019 resignation, adapted from the book “After Steve” — The man who helped give the world candy-colored computers walked out the door as Tim Cook took charge.
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CommandBar, an in-app search and navigation tool that lets web apps personalize user onboarding and offer shortcuts for common actions, raises a $19M Series A — Thanks to the explosion of low- and no-code development tools, building web apps from scratch has become easier — and cheaper — than it once was.| Kate Conger / New York Times: |
Inside Twitter, frustrations mount over Elon Musk's moderation plans and his limited knowledge, ahead of the Brazil general elections and the US midterms — Content moderators warn that Elon Musk doesn't appear to understand the issues that he and the company will face if he drops its guardrails around speech.
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Sources: Google's upcoming Pixel Watch will be powered by a 300mAh battery and will support cellular connectivity — While the look of Google's upcoming Wear OS device has thoroughly leaked, many questions about the internal hardware powering it remain. Sources now tell 9to5Google … | Anita Ramaswamy / TechCrunch: |
Cogni, a digital bank aimed at users aged 18-to-35 with plans to launch crypto and Web3-focused banking services, raises a $23M Series A — Digital banking startup Cogni is joining the ranks of companies hopping on the crypto bandwagon. The mobile-based platform, founded in 2016 … | Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Apple says it will remove apps that haven't been updated in three years and have few downloads from the App Store, extends the time to update from 30 to 90 days — Late last week, controversy erupted after Apple began notifying some developers that their apps that had not been updated …
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| Heather Perlberg / Bloomberg: |
New crypto mortgages in the US real estate market let property buyers pledge their digital holdings as collateral for a loan, with no down payments necessary — It took Vincent Burniske months to get a seven-figure loan to buy two small apartment buildings in a coveted Miami neighborhood.
Tweets: @sami_lynnnnn, @thomdunn, @nilbold, @nastyoldwomyn, @jdcmedlock, and @jeannasmialek
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DeFi lender Rari Capital, which merged with Fei Protocol in December 2021, loses $80M+ in a hack exploiting a reentrancy vulnerability in Rari's Fuse protocol — Decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms Rari Capital and Fei Protocol suffered a more-than-$80 million hack early Saturday.
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| Xinmei Shen / South China Morning Post: |
Government data: China's internet companies raised $3.51B in Q1 2022, down 76.7% YoY from $15B+, while the number of fundraising deals declined 38.3% YoY — Plunge in funding follows an intense period of regulatory action that has targeted some of China's biggest internet companies.
| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at the challenges Apple is facing as it develops its own wireless modem, expected to replace Qualcomm chips in 2023 iPhones — A series of moves by the tech giant, as well as signals from its suppliers, make clear that it aims to start designing the modems of the iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch.
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Adept, which aims to build AI systems that can understand and automate any software process, emerges from stealth with $65M led by Greylock and Addition — In 2016 at TechCrunch Disrupt New York, several of the original developers behind what became Siri unveiled Viv, an AI platform …
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