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Amazon is working on letting Alexa mimic any voice after hearing less than a minute of audio, as a way to “make the memories last” of deceased family members — Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) wants to give customers the chance to make Alexa, the company's voice assistant, sound just like their grandmother — or anyone else.
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Brave says its search engine had 411.7M queries in May, up ~5,000% since its June 2021 launch, and launches Goggles, which lets users customize searches — Brave Search, the browser developer's privacy-centric Internet search engine, is celebrating its first anniversary after surpassing 2.5 billion queries …
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| Oliver Knight / CoinDesk: |
eBay acquires NFT marketplace KnownOrigin for an undisclosed sum; DappRadar: KnownOrigin enabled $7.8M in digital collectible trade volume since its 2018 launch — The move comes one month after eBay released its debut collection of NFTs. — E-commerce giant eBay (EBAY) … | Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Meta rebrands Facebook Pay as Meta Pay; Mark Zuckerberg says Meta is working on an interoperable “wallet for the metaverse” that will have “proof of ownership” — Also, the Meta Pay rebrand is here — Mark Zuckerberg announced on Wednesday that Facebook Pay …
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| Zach Schonfeld / The Hill: |
Microsoft report details Russian cyberattacks across 42 countries beyond Ukraine since the war began, with a 29% success rate and mainly targeting NATO allies — Russia has levied dozens of cyber espionage campaigns in 42 countries since it invaded Ukraine in February, according to a new Microsoft report.
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| Francisco Pires / Tom's Hardware: |
Cerebras says its “wafer-scale” chip sets a record for the largest AI model trained on a single device with up to 20B parameters — Democratizing large AI Models without HPC scaling requirements. — Cerebras, the company behind the world's largest accelerator chip in existence …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Deno, the company behind a JavaScript, TypeScript, and WebAssembly runtime based on Rust and the V8 JavaScript engine, raised a $21M Series A led by Sequoia — Deno, the development company behind the eponymous Deno runtime, today announced that it closed a $21 million Series A round led … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Comcast and Google have emerged as the top contenders to help Netflix develop an ad-supported tier, and Netflix has discussed ad partnerships with Roku — Deals with the streaming company could include exclusive agreements and revenue-sharing — Comcast Corp.'s NBCUniversal …
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
India-based Cashify, a marketplace for selling and buying used smartphones and other gadgets, has raised a $90M Series E, bringing its total funding to $130M+ — Cashify, a marketplace for gadgets trade-ins and buybacks in India, has raised $90 million in a new financing round as it looks …
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Tech in Asia, The Economic Times, Business Standard, and YourStory.com
| Sander Lutz / Decrypt: |
Coinbase says it plans to shut down its standalone, trader-focused Pro service by the end of 2022 and replace it with Advanced Trade in the main app and site — The standalone service will be replaced by Advanced Trade, a feature within the main Coinbase app.
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| Monica Chin / The Verge: |
MacBook Pro 13-inch (M2) review: dominant single-core performance with good battery life, but just two USB-C ports, design from 2016, and webcam is still bad — Apple has put a 2022 CPU in a 2016 computer — I don't really care what the M2 MacBook Pro gets on benchmarks.
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| Natasha Mascarenhas / TechCrunch: |
MasterClass, which offers celebrity-taught online classes, lays off ~120 employees, or 20% of its team; sources: MasterClass was valued at $2.75B in May 2021 — MasterClass, an education platform that sells subscriptions to celebrity-taught classes, has cut 20% of its team to … | Sascha Segan / PCMag: |
Nothing confirms phone (1) will not be fully supported by carriers in North America, as the company focuses on “home markets”, including the UK and Europe — It looks like Americans and Canadians are getting ... nothing. — Carl Pei's buzzy phone firm, which he says will be a top alternative …
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Wccftech, TechRadar, Phone Scoop, Input, KnowTechie, iPhone in Canada Blog, SlashGear, Pocketnow, Android Central, MUO, Digital Trends, Liliputing, Tom's Guide, Pocket-lint, TechCrunch, MobileSyrup, Android Authority, Android Police, 9to5Google, PhoneArena, The Verge, Engadget, Notebookcheck.net, Android Headlines, and Droid Life
| Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette: |
Google revamps News, elevating local news and fact checks; News returns to Spain after 7.5 years citing the country adopting EU copyright rules in November 2021 — Google News is relaunching in Spain almost eight years after it shut down to avoid paying publishers when the country introduced …
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| Tomio Geron / Protocol: |
Shopify expands NFT integrations for merchants, including letting their customers unlock special products, perks, and experiences by purchasing NFTs — Despite the crypto crash, Shopify is betting that NFTs will change the way people shop online and in person.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
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| Jason Del Rey / Vox: |
An internal Amazon memo from mid-2021 warns the company could run out of potential US warehouse workers by 2024 and suggests six remedies, such as raising wages — Unions might not be the tech giant's biggest labor threat. — Amazon is facing a looming crisis: It could run out of people …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Mountain View-based Sanas, which develops a call center voice AI that changes users' accents in real time, raised a $32M Series A led by Insight Partners — A startup called Sanas has built voice AI to change accents, now it's raised $32M from GV and others| Annie Njanja / TechCrunch: |
Ghana-based Fido, which offers financial tools and loans to individuals and businesses via its mobile app, raised a $30M Series A led by Fortissimo Capital — After extending credit to thousands of customers over mobile phones since 2015, Ghana-based fintech Fido is now in search …
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PYMNTS.com and FinSMEs
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Sources: eight buyout offers taking Toshiba private value the deal at up to ~$22B, a 27% premium on its stock; Toshiba had two offers that would keep it public — Bidders for Toshiba Corp (6502.T) are considering offering up to 7,000 yen ($51.41) per share to take the troubled Japanese conglomerate private … | Jared Newman / Fast Company: |
Valve's Steam Deck makes a brilliant case against walled gardens by running Arch Linux and allowing software from anywhere, unlike every major game console — The Steam Deck is a portable gaming system that breaks the biggest rule of gaming systems. — Unlike practically every major game … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Courier, which provides tools to send and build notifications across multiple channels including email, web, text, and mobile, raised a $35M Series B led by GV — App notifications, well intentioned or no, have become a part of daily life. A 2018 study out of Duke University estimated that …
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