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Apple expands its Self Service Repair offerings to cover the M1 MacBook Air and M1 MacBook Pros; the repair kit is available to rent for $49 — Four months after opening its Self Service Repair offerings to iPhone owners in the U.S., Apple is adding a handful of MacBooks to the mix.
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Intel will bring “chiplet” packaging to its Meteor Lake chips in 2023 and Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake chips slated for 2024, to better compete with Apple silicon — By packaging “chiplets” into a single, larger uberprocessor, Intel hopes to bring to the masses the kind of premium speeds found in the Apple M1 Ultra.| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
Ethereum's Merge will introduce new participants, called builders, who gather transactions to be sent for validation, potentially altering its power structure — The much-anticipated upgrade of Ethereum will create new participants called builders in the blockchain ecosystem … | Richard Lawler / The Verge: |
Elon Musk subpoenas former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, ahead of his trial with Twitter set to begin on October 17 in the Delaware Court of Chancery — Dorsey joins the battle — As Twitter and Elon Musk prepare for their October 17th trial date in the Delaware Court of Chancery to argue …
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Computer Services, which offers payment processing and compliance tools, agrees to be acquired by Centerbridge and Bridgeport for $1.6B in cash — Showing that the regtech industry remains robust to economic headwinds, private equity firms Centerbridge Partners and Bridgeport Partners today announced plans …
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eBay plans to acquire online trading card marketplace TCGplayer for up to $295M; TCGplayer, which employs 600+, will operate independently — eBay is acquiring TCGplayer, an online marketplace for collectible trading card games, in a deal valued up to $295 million, the company announced on Monday.| Bloomberg: |
CB Insights: VCs invested $257M in crypto auditing and security companies in 2022 so far, up from $185M across 2021, following high-profile crypto bridge hacks — At a time when many crypto companies have seen their fortunes plummet, one corner of the industry is thriving.
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Some neobanks have struggled to uphold lofty promises to consumers as VC funding in the sector declines and traditional banks improve their tech offerings — Digit is a trendy financial technology company in San Francisco that offers traditional banking services online … | Financial Times: |
South Korean chipmakers, historically reluctant to take sides in the US-China rivalry, are tilting toward the US due to their dependence on Western IP and tech — Last December, South Korean semiconductor company Magnachip reluctantly announced the demise of its proposed $1.4bn merger …
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Twitter tests displaying a label on a user's profile that indicates if the user has verified their phone number, according to researcher Jane Manchun Wong — And a view counter for tweets — Elon Musk's bot-baiting aside, Twitter has had many people call for changes to how it identifies accounts … | Kate Park / TechCrunch: |
South Korean car-sharing startup Socar falls after its Seoul market debut, from ~$21 to $19.50, giving the company a ~$642M market cap — Socar, South Korea's largest car-sharing startup, tumbled in its Seoul stock market debut Monday even after pricing shares below the bottom end of a marketed range.
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Police in Delhi, India, who use facial recognition to identify protesters, say they consider 80%+ accuracy a “positive” match, raising concerns among activists — Police in India's capital say they only require an 80 percent accuracy rate for matches, raising new alarm bells for civil liberty advocates.
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