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ConstitutionDAO, which crowdfunded over $40M, loses Sotheby's US Constitution auction to a $43.2M bid from Citadel CEO Kenneth Griffin — The 53-year-old billionaire paid $43.2 million for the historic document, plans to lend it to Crystal Bridges museum in Arkansas
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
The Apple Podcasts app's review score went from 1.8 to 4.6 stars after Apple began prompting users for ratings, confusing some into rating individual podcasts — Apple Podcasts rises above bad reviews, but at what cost? — You pissed off people by somewhat breaking your app, and they're leaving angry reviews.
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| Matt O'Brien / Associated Press: |
NY city council passed a bill that bans employers from using AI hiring tools unless a yearly bias audit shows they won't discriminate based on race or gender — Job candidates rarely know when hidden artificial intelligence tools are rejecting their resumes or analyzing their video interviews.
Tweets: @cendemtech and @fbajak
| Dan Ennis / Banking Dive: |
Berlin-based neobank N26, which was recently valued at $9B, to exit the US after about two years in the country, following its departure from UK last year — Dive Brief: — German neobank N26 is shutting down its U.S. operations to focus on expanding in Europe, the company said Thursday.| Karen Hao / MIT Technology Review: |
Investigation shows how Facebook and Google fund misinformation globally by paying millions of dollars in ad revenue to the operators of clickbait pages — A month after the fall of the democratic government. — In 2015, six of the 10 websites in Myanmar getting the most engagement …
Tweets: @_karenhao, @iansherr, @_karenhao, @_karenhao, @_karenhao, and @mat
| Zoe Schiffer / NBC News: |
Internal memo: Apple affirms that employees have the right to discuss working conditions and pay internally and externally — Following months of internal controversy about how much workers make at one of the highest valued companies in the world, Apple has announced that employees …
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Tweets: @wndu, @veenadubal, @ashleygjovik, @bobpickard, @lazerwalker, @ashleygjovik, and @mikeycampbell81
| CoinDesk: |
Square's TBD division releases a white paper detailing tbDEX, a new decentralized protocol for exchanging digital and other assets — Payments giant Square released a white paper on Friday detailing a new decentralized protocol for exchanging digital and other assets known as tbDEX.
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@TBD54566975, tbDEX, GitHub, Cointelegraph, cryptodaily.co.uk, Crypto Briefing, Decrypt, Blockworks, The Block, and Bitcoin Magazine
Tweets: @tbd54566975, @kr00ney, @jack, and @kelseyhightower
| Steve Knopper / Billboard: |
Profile of Berlin-based Ableton, whose music production software changed the way recordings are produced and how DJs perform by eliminating cumbersome equipment — Gerhard Behles and his partners wrote the code that makes modern pop sing — and makes investors drool. But they're not selling.
Tweets: @henrikberggren, @mattetti, @brigidnz, @markkilborn, and @edmacovaz
| Matt Burgess / Wired UK: |
DuckDuckGo launches App Tracking Protection for Android, a beta feature that blocks third-party trackers from Google and Facebook — The privacy-focused tech company's latest update promises to block invasive data collection across your whole phone. — At the end of April …
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Spread Privacy, Forbes, gHacks Technology News, fossbytes.com, Neowin, TechRadar, Fast Company, KnowTechie, and ExtremeTech
Tweets: @davidharbage, @kdzwinel, @duckduckgo, @mattburgess1, and @duckduckgo
| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Sao Paulo-based social commerce marketplace Facily raises a $250M Series D at a $850M valuation, bringing its total funding to $366M — Facily, a São Paulo-based social commerce marketplace, has quietly raised over $366 million in funding across four different rounds over the last year.
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The Information. Tweets: @ruima, @turnernovak, @bayareawriter, @bayareawriter, and @mfriedrichark
| Gillian Tan / Bloomberg: |
SoundHound, which offers voice AI tech to companies like Mercedes-Benz, Snap, and Mastercard, is going public via a SPAC merger at a ~$2.1B valuation — - Company counts Mercedes-Benz, Snap, Pandora among customers — Shazam competitor's technology can identify a song via humming
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| Maria Volkova / HousingWire: |
nCino, which develops a cloud-based operating system for financial institutions, to acquire mortgage tech vendor SimpleNexus for $1.2B, including $240M in cash — Fintech company plans to accelerate mortgage vendor's platform with banks and credit unions — North Carolina-based fintech firm nCino … Sponsor Posts
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