Techmeme
March 14, 2021, 9:35 PM

Top News

Financial Times:
Stripe raises $600M from Sequoia Capital and others at a valuation of $95B, becoming the most valuable private company in Silicon Valley  —  Payments provider becomes Silicon Valley's most valuable private company  —  Stripe has become the most valuable private company Silicon Valley has produced …
Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post:
Internal docs: a Facebook study about US users' vaccine hesitancy finds “substantial harm” from content that doesn't violate the company's rules  —  Internal study finds a QAnon connection and that content that doesn't break the rules may be causing ‘substantial’ harm
Kim Lyons / The Verge:
Clubhouse says it won't require access to users' phone contacts anymore, and announces a creator accelerator program that will initially accept 20 participants  —  The voice chat app will provide users with resources and help them monetize their shows  —  During Clubhouse's weekly town hall on Sunday …
Bloomberg:
Federal judge rules Google must face a class action suit alleging that it collects browsing history and other data even when a user is in private browsing mode  —  - Judge concludes company didn't notify users of data collection  — Class action suit alleges Google knows ‘who your friends are’
Jaron Schneider / PetaPixel:
Adobe adds a new feature to Adobe Camera Raw called Super Resolution, which uses AI to double linear resolution of a photo, increasing its pixel count by 4x  —  Adobe has shipped the first version of Photoshop that can run natively on Macs equipped with Apple Silicon and also has announced …
Jeff John Roberts / Decrypt:
A look at issues arising around digital ownership and NFTs: while they can be a source of revenue for creators, they are spurring new forms of piracy  —  If there was a contest for acronym of the year, “NFT” would be the clear favorite for 2021.  Short for non-fungible tokens …
Bryce Roberts:
In a postmortem, Indie.vc founder shares the reasons why the alternative VC financing experiment failed  —  Last week's post was designed to be a simple and direct announcement that our initial Indie.vc experiment was ending and would no longer be accepting applications.
Clare Duffy / CNN:
Recent FCC auction results: Verizon bid ~$53B to more than double its mid-band spectrum holdings and boost 5G; AT&T bid ~$27B and T-Mobile bid ~$9B on mid-range  —  New York (CNN Business)Excitement around 5G, and its promise of lightning fast download speeds and huge data capacity …
Joseph Cox / VICE:
US DOJ indicts CEO of encrypted phone company Sky for selling devices to drug traffickers, the second such company to face charges after Phantom Secure  —  “The indictment alleges that Sky Global generated hundreds of millions of dollars providing a service that allowed criminal networks around …

Sponsor Posts

Meta:
Open Source AI: Available to all, not just the few  —  Meta's open source AI enables small businesses, start-ups, students, researchers and more to download and build with our models at no cost.
Tribe AI:
Build AI products that matter  —  Tribe AI helps organizations rapidly deploy AI solutions that have real business impact.  We bring together world class AI talent and tooling to drive differentiated results.
Zoho:
Getting things done (GTD): Streamlining productivity  —  Getting Things Done (GTD) is more than just a productivity method; it's a framework designed to help you regain control of your workload, reduce stress, and allow you to focus on what truly matters.
Hamming:
Make AI Voice Agents trustworthy  —  Hamming AI automatically tests AI voice agents and continuously monitors them in production.
Techmeme Ride Home:
(BNS) The Challenger Disaster
The day's tech news, every day at 5pm ET. Fifteen minutes and you're up to date.
Subscribe via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or RSS.
 

About This Page

This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 9:35 PM ET, March 14, 2021.

The most current version of the site as always is available at our home page. To view an earlier snapshot click here and then modify the date indicated.

More News

Hamish McKenzie / Substack Blog:
Micah Singleton / Billboard:

Earlier Picks

Hayden Field / Morning Brew:
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Lora Kolodny / CNBC:
James Tarmy / Bloomberg:
James Vincent / The Verge: