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DeepMind says in 18 months, AlphaFold has predicted the structure of almost every protein cataloged by science, 200M+ in total, a problem in biology for decades — Artificial intelligence firm DeepMind has transformed biology by predicting the structure of nearly all proteins known to science … | Salvador Rodriguez / Wall Street Journal: |
Meta reports its first-ever YoY quarterly revenue decline and issues a lowered Q3 forecast, citing a weak ad demand environment and macroeconomic uncertainty — Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. META 6.55%▲ posted its first decline in revenue and issued a muted outlook …
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Google rolls out a new Gmail UI, moving the Mail, Meet, Spaces, and Chat buttons onto a rail in the top left, and teases a tablet update for later in 2022 — It's not that different — We've been tracking the progress of Google's interface refresh for Gmail since February, and as promised …
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Sony begins testing support for a 1440p video output option on the PlayStation 5, a widely requested feature, alongside curated gamelists and new social tools — Beta testers get access today — Sony is starting to test 1440p resolution support for its PlayStation 5 console, a highly-requested addition.
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Sources: Jack Ma plans to relinquish control of Alibaba affiliate Ant Group, potentially pushing back Ant's IPO for a year or more; regulators okayed the change — The shift, long under consideration to reduce governance risks, comes as the Chinese fintech giant seeks to move on from a tough year
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| Richard Speed / The Register: |
Microsoft details Austria-based malware group Knotweed, which has used Windows and Adobe zero-day exploits to attack European and Central American organizations — Reports seeing ‘offensive actor’ flinging SubZero malware — Microsoft has published an analysis of a Europe-based …
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| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
Twitter tests a status feature for tweets, letting select users in the US and Australia add a label from a predetermined list “to provide more context” — Facebook is trying to be TikTok, but now, Twitter is bringing us back a little bit of Facebook (or LiveJournal, or Myspace).
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Sources: Meta begins telling its ~50 US news partners that the company will not renew its three-year deals from 2019 to pay for content in Facebook's News Tab — Meta on Tuesday began telling its news partners in the U.S. that the company no longer plans to pay publishers for their content … | The Markup: |
A look at 37 companies in the connected vehicle data marketplace, a largely unregulated industry that analysts estimate will be worth $300B to $800B by 2030 — A firehose of sensitive data from your vehicle is flowing to a group of companies you've probably never heard of
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Google announces new Play Store policies for developers that aim to address issues with intrusive ads, alarms, VPNs, and impersonation of brands and other apps — Google announced new Play Store policies for developers on Wednesday that aim to address issues with intrusive ads, alarms, VPNs, and impersonation of brands and other apps.
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Frontegg, a user management service for B2B SaaS providers, has raised a $40M Series B led by Stripes and Insight Partners, bringing its total funding to $70M — Frontegg, the popular user management service for developers who build B2B SaaS apps, today announced that it has raised …
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| Marguerite Reardon / CNET: |
Senate and House Democrats will introduce a bill to reinstate Obama-era net neutrality rules and reestablish the FCC's authority over broadband networks — Senate and House Democrats are set to introduce a bill to reinstate Obama-era net neutrality rules and to give the FCC authority over broadband networks.
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Sources: Apple has hired Luigi Taraborrelli, who was most recently Lamborghini's head of chassis and vehicle dynamics, to work on its self-driving electric car — Apple Inc. has enlisted one of Lamborghini's top car-development managers in a sign that it's stepping up work …
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The Greater London Authority warns housing developers about a potential new project ban until 2035, citing data centers using “large quantities of electricity” — Greater London Authority warns developers that upgrade might take more than a decade
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Recent AMD and Nvidia leaks show upcoming GPUs will consume excessive power, a high cost environmentally and economically for diminishing returns in graphics — The planet may burn but at least the end will be ray-traced at 8K — A number of recent news items over the past few weeks …
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| Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
An interview with Paytm CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma on the company's $1B annual revenue goal, post-IPO stock price crash, giving investors more info, and more — Paytm was the poster boy for India's tech startups, only to lose two-thirds of its value since its IPO and become a symbol of the industry's crash.
Tweets: @saritharai and @sankalp_sp
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Crypto exchange FTX US expands its no-fee stock trading service to all US users, including non-crypto investors, and plans to offer options trading next — Crypto exchange FTX US is expanding its no-fee stock trading service to all US users, including non-crypto investors … | Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google delays phasing out third-party cookies in Chrome to H2 2024, after deferring the plan from 2022 to 2023, citing the need for more Privacy Sandbox tests — Google was originally planning to get rid of third-party cookies in its browser by 2022, but that was later pushed back to 2023.
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Meta partners with YouGov and Oasis Labs to survey US Instagram users' race and make sure its products operate fairly; Meta will only get aggregate data — Facebook parent Meta plans to partner with an outside group to survey the race of Instagram customers in hopes of better understanding …
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| Callan Quinn / The Block: |
Center, which wants to index and organize every NFT on every chain and says it has indexed 120M NFTs so far, has raised $11M in seed funding — - NFT tooling company Center raised $11 million in a seed funding round. — The company is attempting to index and organize every NFT on every chain …
Tweets: @dangerwillrobin, @dwr, @gauravahujak, and @omarish
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Retool, which provides drag and drop tools for companies to make internal apps, raised a $45M Series C2 at a $3.2B valuation, up from $1.93B in December 2021 — The explosion of cloud computing, broadband networks, smarter devices and a vogue for building SaaS startups has created a universe …
Tweets: @schreier and @nate__medina
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Switchboard, a collaboration app that combines videoconferencing and digital whiteboarding, has raised a $25M Series A at a $200M post-money valuation — Switchboard, a collaboration app that combines features of videoconferencing and digital whiteboarding, today announced that it raised $25 million …
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China smartphone sales fell 14.2% YoY in Q2 2022 to the lowest point since Q4 2012; Honor grew sales 103.3% YoY, boosting its Q2 market share from 7.7% to 18.3% — - China's smartphone sales hit a fresh low in Q2 2022 to reach less than half of the sales of the historical peak in Q4 2016.
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