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Zuckerberg says he's redirected Facebook teams to serve young adults over older users, and that significant changes to Instagram will lean into video and Reels — Expect changes to Instagram to highlight Reels — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says he's redirected teams within his company to …
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| Washington Post: |
Facebook documents show its News Feed algorithm treated emoji reactions as 5x more valuable than Likes starting in 2017, amplifying controversial content — Five years ago, Facebook gave its users five new ways to react to a post in their news feed beyond the iconic “like” thumbs-up: “love,” “haha,” “wow,” “sad” and “angry.”
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| Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology: |
Docs: Facebook tested turning off News Feed ranking for 0.05% of users in Feb. 2018 and found engagement dropped, Groups content rose, and ad views increased — New leaked Facebook documents show what happened when Facebook tried to remove feed ranking. It didn't go well.
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| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
Adobe announces Photoshop and Illustrator web apps to improve collaboration, make quick edits, and more — Adobe has announced that it's taken “a major step forward for collaboration” by bringing its Photoshop and Illustrator apps to the web. The idea is not to do let you do complex work from a web page …
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| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Adobe announces Content Credentials for Photoshop, letting NFT sellers link their Adobe ID to authenticate the artwork using IPFS, coming soon in preview — Adobe is looking to fight NFT art theft with Content Credentials — Adobe is launching a system built into Photoshop that can …
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| Andrei Frumusanu / AnandTech: |
Apple M1 Pro and Max review: CPU and GPU improvements offer an unparalleled combination of raw performance, unique acceleration, and power efficiency — Last week, Apple had unveiled their new generation MacBook Pro laptop series, a new range of flagship devices that bring with them significant updates …
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| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
macOS 12 Monterey review: automation on Mac is revitalized with Shortcuts, Low Power Mode is nice, and it's packed with tons of small tweaks like AirPlay to Mac — An iterative update to Big Sur that has a little something for everyone. — Big Sur was a landmark release of macOS, in ways both technical and symbolic.
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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Frances Haugen's documents have been useful to groups opposing Facebook and the press, but reporting should now expand to explore Haugen and her backers' goals — At the end of 2019, the group of Facebook employees charged with preventing harms on the network gathered to discuss the year ahead.
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Amazon signs a contract with UK's GCHQ, MI5, and MI6 to host top-secret material, with data stored in the UK; the deal is worth £500M-£1B over a decade — Cloud contract for GCHQ, MI5 and MI6 with US tech group aims to speed analysis but likely to ignite sovereignty fears
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| Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan / Financial Times: |
Stripe partners with Klarna to let retailers in the US, UK, and Europe more easily offer a buy now, pay later option — Tie-up will allow retailers easily to add option for customers to pay in instalments at checkouts — Online payments processor Stripe has entered a strategic partnership with …
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| Emily Graffeo / Bloomberg: |
Study: the top 10K individual bitcoin investors control about one-third of the cryptocurrency in circulation and ~50 miners control 50% of the mining capacity — - Research shines light on Bitcoin's elusive ownership structure — Top 10,000 investors control over one-third of supply| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Internal presentation details Amazon's “Project Mic”, a live audio app that lets users host radio shows, complete with music, focused on the US initially — A new app is in the works — Amazon is next on the list of companies getting into the live audio game.| Issie Lapowsky / Protocol: |
A look at the Integrity Institute, a think tank formed by two former Facebook employees that wants to bring together tech integrity workers studying tech misuse — Shortly before he left Facebook in October 2019, Jeff Allen published his last report as a data scientist for the company's integrity team …
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| Danny Nelson / CoinDesk: |
CoinList, which helps crypto companies raise money via token sales, raises $100M at a $1.5B valuation led by Accomplice VC and Agman Partners — Following a $100 million funding round, the token sale platform is planning to invest heavily in two of its newer business lines.
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| Chris Metinko / Crunchbase News: |
Devo, which offers cloud-based logging and security analytics tools, raises a $250M Series E at a $1.5B valuation led by TCV, bringing total raised to $400M+ — Cambridge, Massachusetts-based cybersecurity firm Devo Technology has closed a $250 million Series E as the company hopes to ride …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
New York-based Sonrai Security, which helps companies manage cloud data, raises a $50M Series C led by Istari, bringing total funding to $88M — Sonrai Security, a public cloud cybersecurity provider based in New York, today announced that it closed a $50 million series C funding round led …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple releases iOS 15.1 and iPadOS 15.1 with SharePlay, iPhone 13 ProRes video capture, a toggle for automatic macro mode, vaccine cards in Wallet, and more — Apple today released iOS and iPadOS 15.1, the first major updates to the iOS 15 operating system that was released …
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| Hema Parmar / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Tiger Global raises $8.8B for its PIP 15 fund, focused on tech startups in US, China, and India, with a $10B target by March — - The PIP 15 fund will invest in internet technology companies — Firm assets have more than tripled to $95 billion since 2018
Tweets: @refsrc, @mylesdanielsen, and @ericjackson
| Jennifer Surane / Bloomberg: |
Mastercard partners with Bakkt to let banks offer cryptocurrency rewards on credit and debit card purchases; Bakkt's stock closes at $30.60, up 234.43% — Mastercard Inc. is making it easier for banks to offer cryptocurrency rewards on their credit and debit cards as part of the payment network's recent embrace of digital currencies.
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| Carly Page / TechCrunch: |
HiveWatch, which uses sensors and AI to help companies improve physical security, raises a $20M Series A led by Dick Costolo and Adam Bain — HiveWatch, an LA-based startup that uses multisensor fusion to help companies better respond to physical security threats, has secured $20 million … | Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Pipefy, which offers low-code workflow management tools, raises a $75M Series C led by SoftBank Latin America Fund, bringing its total raised to $138.7M — Pipefy, a “low-code” workflow management SaaS startup, announced today that it has raised $75 million in Series C funding.| Eyk Henning / Bloomberg: |
Switzerland-based Yokoy, which offers AI tools to manage travel expenses, raises $26M led by Left Lane Capital, source says at a $100M valuation — - Yokoy so far has around 300 corporate customers in Switzerland — Swisscom-backed firm will use funds to grow in Europe, U.S.
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