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Netflix will launch an “add an extra member” test in Chile, Costa Rica, and Peru to let primary account holders pay a fee for users outside their households — Netflix will soon launch a test letting primary account holders pay an additional fee for users outside their households …
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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
iPad Air (2022) review: fast with the M1 chip and great display but Touch ID is not as convenient as Face ID and the front camera is awkward in landscape mode — The new iPad Air is a blend of familiar features with predictable results — Much of the new iPad Air from Apple is a known quantity.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft unveils the AI-powered Surface Hub 2 Smart Camera, with support for automatic reframing, image correction, and more, available for $799 on May 31 — Microsoft's latest camera has a lot of smarts — Microsoft is launching its first AI-powered camera for the Surface Hub 2.
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| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
Meta adds basic parental controls for Quest VR, almost three years after launching the headset, starting with an unlock pattern for specific apps in April — Despite releasing its first virtual reality headsets in May 2019, Meta is only now adding parental supervision tools to its Meta Quest VR headset.
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| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Bored Ape Yacht Club launches ApeCoin, or the $APE token, with 1B in total supply, and forms the ApeCoin DAO, whose founding members include Alexis Ohanian — Even among the fastest-growing crypto startups, Yuga Labs has had a particularly explosive year. — The startup is behind … | Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
Meta says it removed a deepfake video of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy asking Ukrainians to surrender, citing its misleading manipulated media policy — In the fake video, Zelenskyy surrenders to Russian invasion — On Wednesday, Facebook's parent company, Meta …
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| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
Linktree, which makes “link in bio” landing pages for people and companies, raises a $110M Series B extension led by Index and Coatue at a $1.3B valuation — Who would've thought that an entire swath of startups would spring up all because Instagram, TikTok and Twitter only let you link to one website in your bio?
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| Eliza Gkritsi / CoinDesk: |
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy signs a law legalizing cryptocurrency in the country, after the bill passed through parliament in February — Ukraine has received $100 million in crypto donations during its war with Russia. — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy legalized crypto …
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| Bloomberg: |
Foxconn resumes partial operations at two Shenzhen campuses closed on Monday, one of which makes iPhones, after authorities approved its “closed loop” process — Apple Inc. supplier Foxconn Technology Group has resumed partial operations in the Chinese tech hub of Shenzhen …
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| Ellen Huet / Bloomberg: |
Sam Altman's Worldcoin recently halted operations in at least seven countries due to problems like uneven smartphone access, confused users, and fraud attempts — Worldcoin — the billion-dollar startup that wants to give cryptocurrency to every living human by imaging their eyes …
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| Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
The website of Wordle Archive, which let users play previous Wordle puzzles, says it has been taken down at the request of The New York Times — Move could signal a more aggressive stance on certain Wordle clones. — Wordle Archive—a website that let users play through hundreds …
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Interview with Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg on the company's growth, the future of open-source WordPress, Tumblr moderation, Web3, Bitcoin, Ethereum, and more — Matt Mullenweg is the CEO of Automattic, the company that owns WordPress.com, which he co-founded, and Tumblr … | The Information: |
Sources: Google has struck a deal to acquire Raxium, a five-year-old startup that makes microLED components for AR and VR displays — Google has struck a deal to buy Raxium, a five-year-old startup that develops tiny light-emitting diodes for displays used in augmented and mixed reality devices …
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9to5Google and Seeking Alpha
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| Kenrick Cai / Forbes: |
Webflow, which offers a no-code website building tool, raises a $120M Series C led by YC Continuity at a $4B valuation, bringing its total funding to $335M — Vlad Magdalin says he's been getting odd looks at Starbucks in recent weeks when he tells the baristas his first name.
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| Kerry Flynn / Axios: |
New Delhi-based Amagi, which provides ad software for broadcast and streaming TV, raises $95M led by Accel at a $1B+ valuation, bringing total funding to $245M — Amagi has raised $95 million in new funding, valuing the media tech company at more than $1 billion, CEO and co-founder Baskar Subramanian tells Axios.| Margaret Harding McGill / Axios: |
With Congress divided over passing a national privacy law, tech industry groups are lobbying Utah and other states to pass privacy laws weaker than California's — The tech industry is lobbying statehouses across the country to pass privacy bills that critics call weak.
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9to5Mac, The Mac Observer, and MobileSyrup
Tweets: @accountabletech, @axios, and @fightfortheftr
| Thomas Brewster / Forbes: |
A look at Ukraine's “invisible heroes”, internet technicians who are risking their lives avoiding bombs and thwarting Russian hackers to keep Ukraine online — They're fixing internet in bombed-out buildings, finding rogue operators providing Russians with mobile connections and thwarting hackers.
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CPO Magazine and 9to5Mac
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| Clive Thompson / Wired: |
An in-depth look at GitHub and OpenAI's Copilot, which writes 35% of its users' code, and how AI tools can make developers more efficient and democratize coding — OpenAI's new tool can autocomplete lines of programming or conjure software from a simple prompt. It could also riddle the internet with even more bugs.| Yadarisa Shabong / Reuters: |
The UK's CMA says NortonLifeLock's $8.6B Avast acquisition could result in customers getting a worse deal and asks the companies to submit remedy proposals — U.S. cybersecurity firm NortonLifeLock Inc's $8.6 billion purchase of rival Avast Plc (AVST.L) will face an in-depth probe by Britain …
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
RISC-V chip designer SiFive raises a $175M Series F at a $2.5B valuation led by Coatue Management, bringing its total funding to $350M+ — Chip design firm SiFive has raised $175 million at a $2.5 billion as RISC-V emerges as an alternative processor architecture.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
TruEra, which offers AI quality management tools to optimize and monitor ML models, raises a $25M Series B led by Menlo, bringing its total funding to $42.3M — TruEra, a startup that offers an AI quality management solution to optimize, explain and monitor machine learning models …
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Six months after El Salvador adopted bitcoin as legal tender, dozens of citizens, economists, and developers detail cracks in the country's crypto revolution — As El Salvador prepares to launch its ‘Bitcoin bond’, interviews with citizens, economists and technologists reveal cracks in the country's crypto revolution.
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Crypto Daily, Common Sense, The Overspill, The Daily Hodl, Blockworks, and Emerging World
Tweets: @vickiturk, @skinosian, @ricardovalp, @terencehuynh, @leomschwartz, @restofworld, @somospostpc, @counternotions, and @smdiehl
| Andrés Engler / CoinDesk: |
OXIO, a “carrier-as-a-service” company that lets brands launch mobile services by turning data into blockchain-based digital assets, raises a $40M Series B — The company's white label product allows any brand to serve as a mobile operator. It's already working with Grupo Bimbo and other big brands in Mexico.
Tweets: @coindesk
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