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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft partners with Samsung to launch its Xbox TV app on June 30, letting Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers play Xbox games without a console — Samsung's 2022 smart TVs will be the first to get the Xbox app — Microsoft is launching its Xbox TV app later this month …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft details Project Moorcroft, designed to bring early game demos to Xbox Game Pass, rolling out within the next year with a focus on indie developers — Designed to bring back the excitement of E3 game demos — Microsoft is working on Project Moorcroft, a program designed …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is working on a 15" MacBook Air for 2023, a 12" laptop for the end of 2023 or early 2024, and MacBook Pros with M2 Pro or Max for the end of 2022 — Apple Inc. plans to expand the lineup of laptops using its new, speedier in-house chips next year, aiming to grab a bigger share of the market … | Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: |
Ross Young: Apple is developing a 14.1-inch iPad Pro with miniLEDs and ProMotion, likely for release in early 2023; recent rumors corroborate the new model — Apple is reportedly developing an iPad Pro with a 14.1-inch mini-LED display, according to Display Supply Chain Consultants (DSCC) analyst Ross Young.
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| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Source: Meta halts development of a $349 smartwatch with dual cameras, in the works for two years to launch in 2023, and will focus on other wrist devices — Facebook parent company Meta Platforms Inc. has halted development of a smartwatch with dual cameras and is instead working …
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TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, PCMag, New York Post, KnowTechie, PhoneArena, GSMArena.com, The Verge, Gadgets & Wearables, 9to5Google, BGR India, TechSpot, Tech-pigułka, Mashable, TechEBlog, and Insider
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| Ryan Broderick / Garbage Day: |
Critiques of “anti-crypto media personalities” and the “podcast circuit” miss an essential point: Web3 currently sucks and saying so is not a conspiracy — Read to the end for a truly cursed TikTok — Web3 Being Not Very Good Is Not A Conspiracy
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple will handle Apple Pay Later's lending, a first for the company; in-house subsidiary Apple Financing LLC will oversee credit checks and make loan decisions — Apple Inc. will handle the lending itself for a new “buy now, pay later” offering, sidestepping partners as the tech giant pushes deeper …
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| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
TikTok expands its screen time controls, adding a dashboard to monitor usage and letting users set time limits; teens will get additional usage reminders — TikTok is rolling out more screen time controls to help users manage how much time they are spending in the app.
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Microsoft plans to stop adding noncompete clauses to US employment agreements, drop NDAs from US worker settlements, add salary ranges to US job posts, and more — Bending to employee sentiment and legislative mandate, Microsoft announced a series of reforms Wednesday that will curtail …
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| Sheena Vasani / The Verge: |
Browser maker Vivaldi releases a built-in email client, Mail 1.0, with Vivaldi Calendar and RSS integrations — It's available to use starting today — Vivaldi has launched its own free built-in email client, Mail 1.0, with Vivaldi's Calendar and Feed Reader integrated.| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
Dell redesigns the $999 XPS 13 and XPS 13 2-in-1, transforming the 2-in-1 into a detachable Surface rival, adding Intel's 12th Gen CPUs, and more — While all eyes are on the flashy new XPS 13 Plus, Dell hasn't forgotten about its mainstay premium ultraportable or its convertible cousin.| Richard Lawler / The Verge: |
Google says Chrome 102 will use machine learning, running entirely within the browser, to silence unsolicited permission requests from websites — And soon it could swap out your browser buttons — Google Chrome has built-in phishing detection that scans pages to see if they match known fake …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
GitHub is sunsetting Atom, the text editor for developers it launched in 2011, and will archive all projects under the Atom organization on December 15, 2022 — GitHub today announced that it will sunset Atom, the text editor for software development that the company introduced in 2011.
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The GitHub Blog, Silicon Republic, BetaNews, gHacks Technology News, and GitHub
Tweets: @adrian271, @cra, and @carnage4life
| Washington Post: |
Despite Facebook's ban on gun sales, internal guidance shows users can break its rules 10 times before being banned, down to five if they call for violence — The company discloses little information about how it enforces its prohibition of firearm sales on the site, leaving its punishment system shrouded in secrecy| Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk: |
Orderly Network, a permissionless DEX protocol built on the NEAR blockchain to conduct spot and future order book trading, raises a $20M Series A — The decentralized exchange offers permissionless spot and future order book trading infrastructure. — Orderly Network, a decentralized exchange … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: Chinese regulators have begun early talks with Ant Group about reviving its IPO, a sign that China is dialing back its tech industry crackdown — Chinese financial regulators have started early stage discussions on a potential revival of Ant Group Co.'s initial public offering …
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Nikkei Asia, Reuters, Axios, Benzinga, Quartz, Pandaily, Tech in Asia, and South China Morning Post. Tweets: @tommackenzietv
| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
Snapshot: 54% of ApeCoin owners vote in favor of remaining on Ethereum, after Yuga Labs floated creating its own blockchain after its huge metaverse land sale — ApeCoin owners have decided to keep the token, which is expected to be key to snagging exclusive metaverse game items and deals …
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Decrypt, Cointelegraph, Crypto Briefing, Crypto Briefing, Cryptonews, CryptoPotato, and The Block
| Wall Street Journal: |
Documents show how Cerebral used social media ads to grow its ADHD drug business, as federal prosecutors look into possible Controlled Substance Act violations — The online mental health company surged to a $4.8 billion valuation after it started dispensing ADHD medication …
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Newslit Daily and Forbes
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Amsterdam-based Backbase, which helps banks analyze data, raises €120M from Motive Partners at a €2.5B valuation and says it has 150 banking customers — Larger banks and other financial service providers are getting a lot more serious when it comes to competing with upstarts …
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FinSMEs, Silicon Canals, Backbase, Tech.eu, and Finextra
| Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
Memo: Intel freezes all hiring in its client computing group, which handles desktop and laptop chips, cancels some travel, and makes other cost-cutting measures — Intel Corp (INTC.O) has frozen hiring in the division responsible for PC desktop and laptop chips, according to a memo reviewed by Reuters …
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Tweets: @quinnypig and @stephennellis
| Financial Times: |
Palantir is preparing to bid on a £360M contract to underpin UK NHS' operations, to be awarded in November; Palantir employs 600 in the UK and plans to add 250 — US data analytics group hires health service executives in bid to secure £360mn contract| André Beganski / Decrypt: |
South Korean crypto exchanges Bithumb and Upbit plan to delist Litecoin, saying the token's new privacy features violate the country's anti-money laundering law — Two major exchanges in South Korea said they will delist Litecoin due to new privacy features enabled by the protocol.
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Cointelegraph, crypto.news, Crypto Daily, Xspringdigital's Newsletter, and CoinDesk. Tweets: @twobitidiot
| Bloomberg: |
Sources and filings detail Vy Capital, the third-largest backer of Musk's Twitter bid, a secretive firm run by Alexander Tamas, who has links to Yuri Milner — Elon Musk's bid for Twitter Inc., which has been upended by the billionaire's threat to walk away, attracted a bevy of big-name backers and Silicon Valley mainstays.
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CoinQuora. Tweets: @dzuidijk, @stengel, @paulwallace123, @martinsfp, @benbartenstein, @benbartenstein, @benbartenstein, @benbartenstein, and @benbartenstein
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Shield AI, which makes software and hardware for military drones and other autonomous aircraft, raises a $90M Series E and $75M in debt at a $2.3B valuation — Technology built with defense in mind is getting some significant and serious traction at the moment, spurred by world events … | Cade Metz / New York Times: |
Experts say the lack of publicly available data makes it difficult to verify claims by Tesla and others about the safety of their autonomous driving tech — Automakers and technology companies say they are making driving safer, but verifying these claims is difficult.
Tweets: @2plus2make5, @davidzipper, @parismarx, @garymarcus, @noahgoodall, and @iihs_autosafety
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