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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple says a virtual event, titled “Unleashed”, will be held on October 18 at 10am PT, where new MacBook Pros with M1X are expected — Apple today announced that it will be holding a special event on Monday, October 18 at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time.
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| Sam Biddle / The Intercept: |
The Intercept publishes Facebook's secret blacklist of ~4,000 “Dangerous Individuals and Organizations” that users are barred from speaking favorably about — To ward off accusations that it helps terrorists spread propaganda, Facebook has for many years barred users …
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| Danny Nelson / CoinDesk: |
Stripe begins hiring a crypto team to “build the future of Web3 payments”, three years after ending bitcoin support — Payments company Stripe has begun assembling a crypto engineering team to chart its future in digital assets. — The team - described in LinkedIn posts and job listings …
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| Dave Michaels / Wall Street Journal: |
Frances Haugen's lawyer says the SEC has been communicating with her lawyers over her claims about Facebook — Whistleblower allegations don't resemble a typical securities-fraud case, but the pressure to investigate is strong — WASHINGTON—The controversy over what Facebook Inc …
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| Eli Tan / CoinDesk: |
Coinbase announces it will let users buy, sell, and showcase Ethereum-based NFTs by the end of the year — Coinbase is joining the non-fungible token (NFT) arms race. — The U.S. crypto exchange is launching “Coinbase NFT,” a marketplace that will allow its users to buy … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple will likely cut its projected iPhone 13 production targets for 2021 by 10M units, due to shortage of Broadcom and Texas Instruments parts — Apple Inc. is likely to slash its projected iPhone 13 production targets for 2021 by as many as 10 million units because of prolonged chip shortages …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
Microsoft says it mitigated a 2.4Tbps DDoS attack on an Azure customer at the end of August, breaking AWS' record of mitigating a 2.3Tbps attack in Feb. 2020 — Microsoft said its Azure cloud service mitigated a 2.4 terabytes per second (Tbps) distributed denial of service attack this year …
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| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
1Password launches Psst!, which lets users share login credentials with just a link — Even those who don't have a 1Password account. — Password sharing in the workplace and at home is a common practice, but doing so securely can be tricky. 1Password aims to address that with its new feature …
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| Ellen Cushing / The Atlantic: |
Slack has changed corporate culture, acting as a Trojan horse that flattens the communication hierarchy, largely to the benefit of employees — In 2014, the executives at a brand-new start-up called Andela made a decision whose consequences they would only understand much later.
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| Eli Tan / CoinDesk: |
UK Gambling Commission is investigating soccer NFT trading service Sorare for failing to obtain licenses; Sorare says it does not offer “regulated gambling” — Sorare, the fast-growing European fantasy soccer and digital collectible platform, is being investigated by the U.K. Gambling Commission.
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| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
Instagram says it is testing Activity Feed notifications in the US that will alert users of service outages and technical issues — One week after a massive Facebook outage that took all of the social network's apps offline for more than six hours, Instagram says it's testing notifications …
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| Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
Q&A with Sundar Pichai, Thomas Kurian, and other Google executives on Google Cloud's new sustainability features, which help customers track emissions, and more — Many companies are reacting to the climate crisis by hastily formulating long-term plans to go carbon neutral. Not Google.
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| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Atomic, which offers payroll APIs for consumers to connect their income to services such as neobanks, raises a $22M Series A led by Innovation Capital — Fintech startup Atomic announced this morning that it has closed a $22 million Series A. Core Innovation Capital led the round, which saw participation from preceding investors.| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Waze announces a “Drive with Headspace” feature, letting users choose from five “moods” and an accompanying custom Spotify playlist with content from Headspace — Daily commutes to the office can be exhausting and, depending on the amount of traffic you're dealing with, very stressful.
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| Financial Times: |
Celsius Network, a DeFi lending platform that uses the Ethereum blockchain, raises $400M led by WestCap and CDPQ at a $3B+ valuation, up from $120M last year — Management hopes investment will open doors in mainstream financial markets — Cryptocurrency lending platform Celsius Network … | Arielle Pardes / Wired: |
Crunchbase: startups with only female founders raised 2.3% of VC funding in 2021, the lowest in five years; 86% went to startups with only male founders — “Reading these headlines about record rounds, you have to ask, who is having this experience?” one founder says. “Certainly not the women I know.”
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft makes a preview version of Windows Subsystem for Linux for Windows 11 available in the Microsoft Store, decoupling the app from the Windows image — Microsoft is taking the first step toward making WSL available as a decoupled app available via the Microsoft Store via a first preview release.
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| Victoria Song / Gizmodo: |
Tile revamps its lineup with IP67 water resistance, longer ranges, and safety features to avoid unwanted tracking, and announces Tile Ultra with UWB support — Tile adds a new lost and found feature, safety from unwanted tracking, and a new ultra-wideband tracker. Sound familiar? — Alerts| Bloomberg: |
Sources: China is expanding its anti-monopoly bureau, increasing its headcount from over 40 to 100, as its yearlong crackdown on monopolies continues — - SAMR plans to more than double antitrust staff to 100 people — Alibaba, Meituan were targeted during 1-year-old crackdown| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Mexico City-based buy now, pay later startup Nelo raises a $20M Series A led by Two Sigma Ventures and says it's used by over 100 merchants — Buy now, pay later (BNPL) has been making headlines all over the place this year — from Square's planned acquisition of Afterpay to Affirm going public.| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
CarDekho, an online marketplace for new and used cars in India, raises a $250M Series E led by LeapFrog Investments at a $1.2B valuation — CarDekho, an Indian search and e-commerce platform for new and used cars, has become the latest startup in the world's second-largest market to reach the unicorn status.
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| Tim Culpan / Bloomberg: |
Despite fears in the West, China's alleged AI prowess is mostly limited to computer vision, useful in domestic control of citizens, while the US' is far broader — The nation excels in computer vision and facial recognition, but practical applications are limited to surveillance.
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