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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 — For decades, you could test a computer chip's mettle by how small and tightly packed its electronic circuitry was.| 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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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 … | Kashmir Hill / New York Times: |
A father who used his Android phone to send photos of his baby's groin to a doctor says Google disabled his account after flagging CSAM and informing the police — Google has an automated tool to detect abusive images of children. But the system can get it wrong, and the consequences are serious.
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
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.
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| Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: in Q2 Instacart's revenue rose 39% YoY to $621M, orders increased 25% YoY to 60M+, and order volume rose 21% YoY to $7.1B, as the company plans its IPO — Grocery-delivery platform is one of the few Silicon Valley startups headed for a public listing soon| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
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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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Zoom reports Q2 revenue up 8% YoY to $1.1B, vs. $1.12B est., Enterprise customers up 18% YoY to 204.1K, and Q3 guidance below estimates; stock is down 7%+ — - Zoom's revenue growth slowed to 8% from 12% in the year-ago quarter, a lesser result than analysts had predicted.
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| Laura Cooper / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Amazon is among the bidders for Signify Health, which is for sale in an auction that could value the home-health services provider at well over $8B — The home-health services provider is for sale in an auction that could value the company at well over $8 billion.
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| Lora Kolodny / CNBC: |
Elon Musk says Tesla will raise the price of FSD from $12K to $15K in September when Tesla rolls out a new beta that lets drivers test features on public roads — - Tesla plans a 25% price increase for its premium, driver assistance system marketed in the U.S. as the Full Self-Driving, or FSD, option.
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| Varsha Bansal / Wired: |
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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