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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 …
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| 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
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| 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 …
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| 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’
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| 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 …
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| 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 …
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| 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.
Tweets: @operaqueenie, @sirjrg, @jhoronjeff, @mikeolson, @krdonnelly, @mattallen, @gilxhernandez, @danielvlopes, @indievc, @gbennett41, @adamhjk, @cwhogg, @miles_k, and @ceonyc
| 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 … | Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
NYU professor Scott Galloway's Section4, which offers two to three week business education online courses, raises $30M Series A led by General Catalyst — Scott Galloway, the New York University professor, author, and tech entrepreneur, is taking the wraps off a $30 million Series A round …
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| Thomas Macaulay / The Next Web: |
Computer scientists at the University at Buffalo have developed an AI tool that can detect a deepfake photo by analyzing the light reflections in the eyes — THE METHOD HAS PROVEN ACCURATE ON PORTRAIT-STYLE DEEPFAKES — Deepfakes are being used for a range of nefarious purposes … | Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: |
Israel's Cynet, which provides AI-powered endpoint security and response to stop cyberattacks, raises $40M Series C to help it expand in N. America and Europe — Autonomous breach protection startup Cynet Security Ltd. announced today it has raised $40 million in new funding to expand …
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Cynet, NoCamels, Globes Online, Jerusalem Post, FinSMEs, and KrASIA
| 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 …
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