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a16z's Marc Andreessen and Packy McCormick failing to coherently explain web3 use cases demonstrate the hollowness of the space, often obscured by boosterism — I cannot stop watching crypto profiteers get owned. … I cannot stop watching videos of Web3 boosters failing to explain the usefulness of the technology.
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| Bloomberg: |
After freezing withdrawals, crypto exchange CoinFlex plans to issue a Recovery Value USD token, offering 20% annual returns, seeking to repay a $47M debt — Cryptocurrency exchange CoinFlex plans to raise funds by issuing a new token that will offer a 20% annual return …
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CoinFLEX, CNBC, CoinDesk, Crypto Briefing, Coinspeaker, Blockchain News, Web3 is going just great, CryptoSlate, Cointelegraph, The Block, Ethereum World News, and Cryptonews
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| TechCrunch: |
Analysis of Stardust period tracking app, the top free app on the US App Store on June 25, shows it shares users' phone numbers with analytics company Mixpanel — The app was found sharing users' phone numbers with an analytics firm — Period tracking app Stardust surged to the top …
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| Olivia Snow / Wired: |
How SCOTUS overturning Roe could be used to curb online freedoms and surveil vulnerable populations, as happened to sex workers following FOSTA/SESTA in 2018 — FOSTA/SESTA—laws that deplatformed sex workers—helped build the gallows for overturning Roe v. Wade.
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| Samantha Cole / VICE: |
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Google says Hangouts will shut down in November as it begins prompting mobile Hangouts users to move to Chat — It'll start moving mobile Hangouts users to Chat today — After sunsetting Google Hangouts for Workspace users in February, Google's now beginning the process of migrating free, personal Hangouts users to Chat.
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| Sarah E. Needleman / Wall Street Journal: |
After Twitter gives Elon Musk access to its firehose and historical tweet data, experts doubt the data will provide conclusive answers on spam and bots — Billionaire has access to the company's fire hose of tweets, but data specialists say analyzing it isn't easy| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Airbnb makes its ban on parties at rented properties, introduced in 2020, permanent, saying the ban “became much more than a public health measure” — But a 16-person cap on rentals has been removed — In 2020, Airbnb introduced a temporary ban on house parties and events … | Anna Gross / Financial Times: |
An interview with Arm CEO Rene Haas on the company's plans to pursue M&A deals and expand hiring following its IPO, after Arm China transitioned its leadership — Chief executive Rene Haas lays out ambitious course of expansion for the UK chip designer despite tech downturn| Stephanie Condon / ZDNet: |
Google makes Google Earth Engine, which tracks the earth's surface, available to any commercial or government organization using Google Cloud — For the past decade, researchers in academia and the nonprofit world have had access to increasingly sophisticated information about the Earth's surface.
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| Shirley Zhao / Bloomberg: |
Netflix plans to grow its investment in the Asia Pacific, which has 15% of Netflix's subscribers and is forecast to be the biggest driver of further expansion — Netflix Inc. is looking to Asia after its shock first-quarter slowdown, seeking to both maintain growth in the one region …
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| Will Knight / Wired: |
A look at DALL-E Mini, a viral image-generation app by Hugging Face based on OpenAI's DALL-E that offers good, absurd fun while showing how AI can warp reality — The viral image-generation app is good, absurd fun. It's also giving the world an education in how artificial intelligence may warp reality.
Tweets: @weirddalle, @wired, @gadgetlab, @willknight, @weirddalle, @weirddalle, @weirddalle, and @weirddalle
| Reuters: |
A Moscow court fines Twitch, Pinterest, Airbnb, and UPS for refusing to store Russian citizens' personal data in Russia — A Moscow court said it had fined video streaming service Twitch, social network Pinterestand United Parcel Service in three of several cases expected on Tuesday …
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| Jacquelyn Melinek / TechCrunch: |
Sam Bankman-Fried says there are no active talks for FTX to acquire Robinhood; Robinhood says no acquisition can go through without the founders' approval — SBF praises Robinhood, hints at possible partnerships — Crypto exchange FTX is open to partnering with Robinhood Markets …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
New York-based Gloat, an AI-powered internal jobs board, raised a $90M Series D led by Generation Investment Management, bringing its total funding to $192M — Gloat, an internal marketplace for corporate talent, today announced that it raised $90 million in a Series D round led …
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| Joey D'Urso / @josephmdurso: |
[Thread] A look at the English Premier League soccer clubs' crypto sponsorships and fan tokens, most of which have tanked in value, exposing fans to big losses — 🚨📉 Months of reporting in one place here. Almost every Premier League club has promoted unregulated cryptocurrencies to fans which have completely tanked in value, exposing fans to big losses. A club-by-club run down. https://theathletic.com/...
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| Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: |
Paris-based Kaiko, which offers crypto analytics tools for institutional investors and businesses, raised a $53M Series B led by Eight Roads — Blockchain analytics firm Kaiko raised $53 million from new and existing investors in its latest financing round, even as crypto-exposed companies struggle through a rout in digital assets.
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