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Sources: Elon Musk plans to cut ~3,700 jobs at Twitter, or half of the company's workforce, starting on November 4, and reverse its work-from-anywhere policy — Elon Musk plans to eliminate about 3,700 jobs at Twitter Inc., or half of the social media company's workforce …
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Sources: Twitter aims to charge for verification as soon as November 7, give current verified users a multi-month grace period, and make the edit button free — Twitter Inc. aims to start selling blue verification badges for user profiles as soon as next week, part of a plan by new owner Elon Musk …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Gmail now shows package delivery information for order confirmation emails as a label under sender name which is continuously updated as the order progresses — Google announced today a small but useful update to Gmail that will allow users to soon be able to track their upcoming package deliveries directly from their inbox.
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| Kate Irwin / Decrypt: |
Meta is letting select Instagram US creators test a toolkit for minting NFTs and selling them on and off the platform, and says it won't charge fees until 2024 — Instagram will soon have NFT creation and trading tools built in, but in-app purchases will be “subject to applicable app store fees.”
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Sony plans to launch the PlayStation VR2 with Sense controllers and stereo headphones on February 22 for $550, £530, or €600; preorders open on November 15 — Sony will launch its PSVR2 headset on February 22nd priced at $549.99. The PSVR2 will be priced at $549.99 in the US …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Qualcomm expects to provide modem chips for the “vast majority” of iPhones in 2023, retaining its current foothold after previously planning to supply ~20% — Qualcomm Inc. will continue to provide the modem chips for the “vast majority” of iPhones in 2023 …
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
South Korea-based Wemade, which develops the Wemix blockchain gaming platform, raised ~$46M from Microsoft, Shinhan Asset Management, and Kiwoom Securities — Microsoft has backed Wemade, a popular video game developer that has made aggressive bets on blockchain in recent years … | Josh Sisco / Politico: |
Sources: the US DOJ is preparing to open an in-depth probe into Adobe's $20B acquisition of Figma and has been contacting customers, competitors, and investors — The Justice Department is preparing to open an in-depth investigation of Adobe's $20 billion takeover of design collaboration company Figma … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Google expands Google Play Games beta for PC to the US, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, and Singapore, offering 85 Android games — Google Play Games is launching in open beta in the US today, allowing anyone to try out a selection of Android games on PC.| Meagan Simpson / BetaKit: |
Vancouver-based Dapper Labs, the NFT startup behind CryptoKitties and NBA Top Shot, lays off ~134 staff, or ~22% of its workforce; Dapper Labs has raised $600M+ — Dapper Labs has laid off around 22 percent of its staff, BetaKit has learned. — The company confirmed the layoffs to BetaKit … | Bloomberg: |
Apple's unionized Maryland store files a complaint with the NLRB after Apple withheld medical, educational, and other new benefits given to non-union workers — Apple Inc.'s unionized retail store in Maryland is filing a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board after it was excluded …
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| Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: |
Google debuts Code as Policies, a tool that uses AI models to generate code for robots to perform a variety of tasks, under an open-source license on GitHub — Google LLC today debuted an internally developed software tool that can reduce the amount of effort involved in training a robot to perform new tasks.| Kyle Barr / Gizmodo: |
Malwarebytes: four malicious Android apps from developer Mobile apps Group, which has deployed malware before, remain on Google Play with millions of downloads — Google is still failing to catch malicious apps from being listed on its app store, but it seems that some developers …
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Roku reports Q3 revenue up 12% YoY to $761.4M, vs. $694M est., 21.9B streaming hours, and 2.3M active accounts added; the stock drops 18%+ on weak Q4 guidance — Roku handily topped Wall Street estimates for the third quarter of 2022, as the streaming platform and media company packed … | Patrick Clark / Bloomberg: |
Home buying startup Opendoor lays off ~550 employees, or ~18% of its staff, after higher rates and a shift in prices forced the company to sell homes at a loss — Opendoor Technologies Inc. is laying off about 550 employees after higher mortgage rates cratered US housing demand.
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| Elisa Lipsky-Karasz / Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of, and interview with, Jony Ive, covering life before and after Apple, his design philosophy, his company LoveFrom, the importance of words, and more — can always write an awful lot that I can't draw,“ Jony Ive, the mastermind behind Apple's most revolutionary products, says as he holds up a Space Age-style coffee cup. ”
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SEC filing: Coinbase Chief Product Officer Surojit Chatterjee plans to step down on November 30 as the company restructures its product team into four divisions — Chief Product Officer Surojit Chatterjee is set to depart the exchange. — Coinbase revealed plans to overhaul its entire product team … | Ian Allison / CoinDesk: |
A financial document details some ties between Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX and Alameda Research; Alameda's biggest asset is $3.66B of unlocked FTT, an FTX token — Alameda had $14.6 billion of assets as of June 30, according to a private document CoinDesk reviewed.
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| Steven Musil / CNET: |
Former Apple employee Dhirendra Prasad pleaded guilty to mail and wire fraud charges after defrauding Apple of $17M+, including via kickbacks, starting in 2011 — Former parts buyer engaged in theft, taking kickbacks and inflating invoices, prosecutors say. — Steven Musil
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| Masha Borak / Wired: |
Tech insiders and academics say most independent Uyghur-run websites ceased to exist as Beijing's crackdown in the Muslim-majority Xinjiang region unfolded — China's Muslim minority used to have its own budding cluster of websites, forums, and social media. Now that's been erased.| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Facebook expands its Professional Mode, giving all creators globally a chance to earn money with various tools, including Reels Play bonuses and subscriptions — Meta has announced the global expansion of its professional mode profile setting on Facebook to all creators.| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Whenever US politicians talk about regulating websites or changing Section 230, they are almost always talking about imperiling the First Amendment — The First Amendment is one of America's most distinctive pieces of law. But as the midterm — and, quickly, the presidential …
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