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ConstitutionDAO loses Sotheby's US Constitution auction to an undisclosed winner's $43.2M bid, after crowdfunding over $40M — This story has been updated to reflect the full price that the Constitution sold for after all auction fees. — A rare copy of the U.S. Constitution sold …
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| Matthew Gault / VICE: |
An artist and programmer in Australia creates The NFT Bay, a torrent website where anyone can download 15TB of NFT JPEGs — An artist and programer in Australia has uploaded 15 Terabytes of NFTs to a server. Here's the torrent for them. — Matthew Gault| Shannon Bond / NPR: |
Meta says it's looking at how users from marginalized communities experience its products and releases a paper on changes to how it uses US demographic data — The parent company of Facebook and Instagram is looking into whether its platforms treat users differently based on race …
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Facebook expands tools to help advertisers avoid placement near sensitive News Feed topics, across news, politics, tragedy, conflict, and debated social issues — Facebook on Thursday said it is expanding the controls it gives advertisers to make it easier for them to limit the types of News Feed content their ads show up next to.
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In a staff email, Phil Spencer says he's evaluating Xbox's relationship with Activision Blizzard and will make adjustments; PlayStation head sent a similar note — Microsoft Corp.'s head of Xbox said he's “evaluating all aspects of our relationship with Activision Blizzard …
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A bipartisan coalition of state AGs from CA, FL, KY, MA, NE, NJ, NY, TN, and VT is investigating how Instagram attracts and affects young people — Move raises pressure on parent company Meta Platforms, formerly called Facebook, over the potential harms to its users
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Sources: Facebook is offering musicians and celebrities, via production companies, payments to host Live Audio Rooms; source says up to $50K per session — Facebook is offering to pay musicians and other celebrities tens of thousands of dollars to host sessions on its new live audio feature …
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| Catie Keck / The Verge: |
A look at Open Connect, Netflix's in-house CDN that launched a decade ago and spans 17,000 servers across 158 countries — As hundreds of thousands of households worldwide tapped into Netflix's Squid Game last month, viewers may have taken something fairly extraordinary for granted.
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| Steven Levy / Wired: |
Alphabet X's Everyday Robots says it now has a fleet of 100+ robot prototypes that are autonomously performing tasks like wiping tables around its offices — Plus: The man behind a famous paradox, the laws that will govern the metaverse, and a deadly swarm of scorpions. — Hi, everyone!
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MediaTek announces the Dimensity 9000 mobile chip, which uses TSMC's 4nm process and supports 5G without the faster mmWave standard, WiFi 6E, and Bluetooth 5.3 — MediaTek's new SoC is its most powerful yet — MediaTek has just announced its latest flagship processor: the Dimensity 9000 … | Andy Robinson / Video Games Chronicle: |
As GameCube turns 20 in North America, former Nintendo employees share their memories of the failed console, including the decision to make it purple — ENGINEERS, MARKETING BOSSES AND GAME DEVELOPERS SHARE THEIR MEMORIES OF NINTENDO'S BOLD PURPLE BOX — Until the Wii U claimed …
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Flipkart acquires online pharmacy startup SastaSundar and launches a healthcare vertical called Flipkart Health+ — Walmart-backed Flipkart is acquiring online pharmacy startup SastaSundar to enter the healthcare segment in India as e-commerce battle intensifies in the world's second largest internet market.
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Texas Instruments plans to build as many as four semiconductor wafer fabs in Texas, with production starting by 2025 and a potential total investment of ~$30B — The site has the potential to house up to four semiconductor chip manufacturing plants. — Dallas-based Texas Instruments …
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Defense Department solicits bids from Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Oracle for cloud contracts; DoD canceled its $10B JEDI contract in July — - The U.S. Defense Department expects to dole out cloud contracts to multiple companies. — The new push comes after Pentagon scrapped its plans …
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Flytrex, which is working with Walmart and others on a drone-based delivery service in North Carolina, raises a $40M Series C, bringing total funding to $60M — Flytrex, the Israeli startup working with Walmart, Chilli's, and others in North Carolina in pilots for a drone-based delivery …
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