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Sources: Meta plans to let users create and sell NFTs on Facebook and Instagram, display NFTs on user profiles, and is considering an NFT marketplace — Facebook's parent draws up plans to allow users to create and sell non-fungible tokens, seeking to enter hype-fuelled $40bn market
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Tweets: @mshannahmurphy, @ricmac, @joepompliano, @jessietweeting, @gregisenberg, @beezerism, @apompliano, @film_girl, @martinsfp, @voigaas, @azeem, @jo_rodgers, @max_eyr, and @martyswant
| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Sources: Google's AR headset could launch in 2024, powered by a custom processor, resembling ski goggles, and no need for an external power connection — Meta may be the loudest company building AR and VR hardware. Microsoft has HoloLens. Apple is working on something, too. But don't count out Google.
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XDA Developers, TechCrunch, Engadget, 9to5Google, CNET, MSPoweruser, Android Central, iPhone Hacks, SlashGear, Mashable, Android Headlines, Liliputing, iDownloadBlog.com, KnowTechie, iPhone in Canada Blog, and MACお宝 …
Tweets: @alexeheath, @samsheffer, @daphnehk, @greengart, @starfire2258, @starfire2258, @anshelsag, @dcseifert, @benbajarin, @willoremus, @mhbergen, and @mishaalrahman
| Salvador Rodriguez / Wall Street Journal: |
Twitter will let iOS users of its Blue subscription service use NFTs as their profile pictures — Service will be available to some users of the company's Blue subscriber service — Twitter Inc. will start allowing some users to use nonfungible tokens as their profile pictures …
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CoinDesk, TechCrunch, The Block, and Decrypt
Tweets: @twitterblue, @tomwarren, @opensea, @carnage4life, @rdrv3, @tomaxwell, @kylebaker, @samfbiddle, @thesmarmybum, @kevinroose, @kayvz, @anthony, and @ricmac. Thanks:@sal19
| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE: |
Several services that rely on OpenSea's APIs, including Twitter and MetaMask, are having trouble displaying NFTs as the marketplace suffers a “database outage” — A Thursday outage interfered with the ability of MetaMask, which depends on OpenSea, to automatically display new NFTs.
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KnowTechie. Tweets: @wongmjane, @lorenzofb, @kirbeep, @martinowong, @petersterne, @silvermanjacob, @kevincollier, @caseynewton, @tobypinder, and @ncweaver
| Andrew Asmakov / Decrypt: |
Crypto.com says its breach affected 483 users, resulting in unauthorized cryptocurrencies withdrawals worth ~$33.84M, and all users were reimbursed the same day — Cryptocurrency exchange Crypto.com has lost roughly $34 million in a recent security incident, according to a post-mortem released on Thursday.
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Crypto.com, TechCrunch, The Record, CyberScoop, Slashdot, BleepingComputer, Security Affairs, Cointelegraph, Input, VICE, Crypto Daily, CoinDesk, Cointelegraph, Bloomberg, Blockchain News, The Verge, TechSpot, TechRadar, Bitcoin News, cybernews.com, and Engadget
Tweets: @bloomberglive, @kris_hk, @cryptocom, @kris_hk, @tomaxwell, @arossp, and @chrisblec
| Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire: |
Amazon Style, the company's first physical fashion store, will launch in LA later this year, with an app that lets shoppers send items to the fitting room — Move over books and groceries, Amazon's latest foray into physical retail is focused on fashion. — The e-commerce giant announced Thursday …
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About Amazon, Associated Press, CNBC, The Verge, The Hill, Benzinga, New York Times, Protocol, New York Post, Bloomberg, and Input
Tweets: @backlon, @amazon, @stevenpdennis, @laurenthomas, @amazonnews, @skamille, @profgalloway, @ajassy, and @hypervisible
| Ryne Hager / Android Police: |
Google launches a limited beta of Google Play Games for PC, which brings Android games to Windows 10 and Windows 11, in Hong Kong, South Korea, and Taiwan — You'll need a relatively powerful computer for now. And for once, the US isn't getting a Google thing first
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YouTube, Android Developers, Ars Technica, PCWorld, ExtremeTech, TalkAndroid.com, Droid Life, PhoneArena, OnMSFT.com, Tech Advisor, PC Gamer, and Pocketnow
Tweets: @mishaalrahman and @jollyroger
| Mack DeGeurin / Gizmodo: |
This summer the IRS will require users to log in via ID.me, which uses facial recognition in its authentication process, to file taxes, make payments, and more — You will have to submit sensitive government documents, your Social Security number, credit history, and a face scan to ID.me, a third-party company.
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Krebs on Security, The Mac Observer, PCMag, Reclaim The Net, and KnowTechie
Tweets: @briankrebs, @libbycwatson, @hypervisible, @donmoyn, @quinta, @anildash, @anildash, @dogsrul94605547, @meanhash, @chancerubbage, @trexpushups, and @adamrg
| Miles Kruppa / Financial Times: |
Sources: by March, a16z plans to raise $3.5B for its latest cryptocurrency fund and up to $1B for a fund focused on seed investments in digital asset startups — Planned fundraising illustrates how Silicon Valley firms are fuelling boom in cryptocurrency start-ups
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Axios, Blockworks, GeekWire, The Block, San Francisco Business Journal, Crypto Briefing, Decrypt, Cointelegraph, The Block, and Coinspeaker
Tweets: @kateclarktweets, @mshannahmurphy, and @alphaseeker21
| Reuters: |
Russia's central bank proposes banning cryptocurrency use and mining, citing threats to financial stability, citizens' wellbeing, and monetary sovereignty — Russia's central bank on Thursday proposed banning the use and mining of cryptocurrencies on Russian territory … | Lydia Moynihan / New York Post: |
Sources: TikTok ousted its marketing chief Nick Tran for “going rogue” with plans like TikTok Kitchen, NFTs by Lil Nas X and others, and TikTok Resumes — TikTok's marketing chief has been ousted after blindsiding top management with a series of increasingly bizarre campaigns, The Post has learned.
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The Verge, Protocol, TechSpot, and Pandaily
Tweets: @_danielsinclair, @dinafierro_, @rmac18, @tomgara, @kaitlin_hatton, @caseynewton, @bmorrissey, and @kh
| Mahira Dayal / The Information: |
TikTok says it is testing letting creators charge subscriptions for their content — TikTok is testing the idea of allowing its creators to charge subscriptions for their content, a spokesperson told The Information. Earlier Wednesday, rival Instagram announced it was offering paid subscriptions to a small group of influencers.
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
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Instagram, PCMag, Neowin, PhoneArena, Android Headlines, After School, GSMArena.com, and Silicon Republic
Tweets: @mosseri, @huddlebrett, @negroprogrammer, @5amuehlpatrick, @junaebrown, @kirawontmiss, @huddlebrett, and @5amuehlpatrick
| Eric Newcomer / Newcomer: |
Profile of Hemant Taneja, who became the sole managing partner of General Catalyst in 2021, as the firm raises a seed, venture, and growth fund totaling $4.6B — General Catalyst's idealist investor Hemant Taneja is quietly running the firm — Hemant Taneja somehow finds time to be an idealist and an operator.
Tweets: @somakc, @ericnewcomer, and @ericnewcomer
| Sean Lyngaas / CNN: |
Red Cross says a cyberattack on a vendor for over 60 Red Cross and Red Crescent societies compromised the personal data of 515,000+ “highly vulnerable people” — (CNN)A cyberattack on a contractor used by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has compromised …
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International Committee …, NPR, Ars Technica, Threatpost, Agence France-Presse, Associated Press, Slashdot, TechCrunch, ComputerWeekly.com, and TGDaily
Tweets: @rmardiniicrc, @samueloakford, @emrys_s, @tom_peyre_costa, @aspi_icpc, and @etaylaw
| Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents: |
Apple countersues Ericsson, seeking a US import ban on mobile base stations and proposes that both parties withdraw all patent infringement actions — The flurry of Ericsson-Apple filings with the United States International Trade Commission (USITC, or just ITC), a U.S. trade agency …
| Kim Lyons / The Verge: |
Meta launches gamified activities on Messenger Kids to help kids learn how to safely use the internet, developed with guidance from online safety experts — Meta (formerly Facebook) knows it has to attract younger users — Facebook parent company Meta has launched new activities …
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Meta, Messenger News, Neowin, iPhone in Canada Blog, SuperParent, and The Statesman. Tweets: @jeramyutgw
| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
The Senate Judiciary votes 16-6 to advance the American Innovation and Choice Online Act, which would stop platforms from favoring their products over rivals' — The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 16-6 Thursday to advance a major tech competition bill, which some experts consider lawmakers' best shot … | Mark Mulligan / MIDiA Research: |
Research: global music subscribers hit 523.9M in Q2 2021, up 26.4% YoY; Spotify had 31% market share; Apple Music, 15%; Amazon Music, 13%, and YouTube Music, 8% — MIDiA's annual music subscriber market shares report is now available here (see below for more details of the report).
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Variety, Redmond Pie, MobileSyrup, 9to5Mac, Android Police, The Verge, PhoneArena, TechSpot, MacDailyNews, iPhone in Canada Blog, Pocketnow, MacRumors, and Cult of Mac
Tweets: @johnkoetsier and @johnlmacfarlane
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: in recent weeks, CEO Bobby Kotick suggested Activision Blizzard make an acquisition, including of trade publications like Kotaku and PC Gamer — After a lawsuit and a Journal report, the company's stock was falling, board members were getting anxious—and the tech giant was ready to take a gamble
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Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Protocol, BIG by Matt Stoller, HotHardware.com News, Ars Technica, GamesIndustry.biz, TechRadar, The Verge, Windows Central, Destructoid, KnowTechie, Video Games Chronicle, Gameranx, Neowin, TrueAchievements, GamingBolt, Unofficial Partner, thegamer.com, Wccftech, SegmentNext, Tom's Guide, 9to5Toys, Bitcoin News, Laptop Mag, IGN, purexbox.com, OnMSFT.com, GameSpot, Kotaku, and WinBuzzer
Tweets: @gregisenberg, @dinabass, @gibiz, @jorgex, @gibiz, @domsplaying, @edzitron, and @rajeshsawhney
| Reuters: |
Sources: ByteDance revenue grew by 70% YoY to around $58B in 2021, slower than a year earlier when its revenue grew by 100%+ to $34.3B — TikTok owner ByteDance saw its total revenue grow by 70% year on year to around $58 billion in 2021, according to two people familiar with the matter … | Nico Grant / Bloomberg: |
Current and former members of Google's site reliability group Borg SRE say managers, including the team's leader Pierre Aubert, fostered a toxic environment — When Chewy Shaw left Google's site reliability group in April, he told colleagues in a memo that interactions with his managers had made him depressed and suicidal.
Tweets: @ron_miller, @nicoagrant, @nicoagrant, and @nicoagrant
| John Paczkowski / BuzzFeed News: |
Apple names longtime company spokesperson Kristin Huguet as VP of worldwide communications, replacing Stella Low, who is leaving after less than a year — Apple has tapped a new head of PR: longtime company spokesperson Kristin Huguet. She'll replace Stella Low, former communications chief … | Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Atom Computing, which aims to build a quantum computer based on neutral atom tech that uses lasers to manipulate individual qubits, raises a $60M Series B — Investors keep throwing money at the quantum computing market, and this time around it's Atom Computing Inc.'s turn.| Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: |
Vienna-based PlanRadar, which digitizes construction and real estate documents and communication, raises a $70M Series B — Back in March Vienna-based PlanRadar snapped up a €30 million Series A to digitize construction and real estate. The Austrian startup - a platform for documentation …
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FinSMEs, FinLedger, and EU-Startups
| Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: |
Internal email: Google is creating a unit under its Labs division for blockchain and other distributed tech, led by engineering VP Shivakumar Venkataraman — Google is forming a group dedicated to the blockchain and related technologies under a newly appointed executive who has spent … | Kate Park / TechCrunch: |
South Korea's Greenlabs, which wants to digitize the entire value chain of agriculture space from crop production to distribution, raises a $140M Series C — Greenlabs, a South Korean agtech startup, announced this week it has closed a $140 million Series C led by BlueRun Ventures …
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Tech in Asia
| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Mercedes-Benz will use Luminar's lidar tech in future vehicles as part of a deal that includes data sharing and the automaker taking a small stake in Luminar — Mercedes-Benz said Thursday it plans to use Luminar's lidar technology in future vehicles as part of a broader deal …
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The Verge, CNBC, The Economic Times, and Forbes
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google says it will transition organizations using G Suite legacy free edition to an upgraded Google Workspace paid subscription starting on July 1 — In 2020, G Suite became Google Workspace as part of a mass reorganization of the company's apps for the “future of work.”
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Ars Technica, Tom's Guide, TechSpot, JOMO, TNW, cloudpro.co.uk, and BetaNews
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