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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Apple Studio Display review: sharp 5K screen but an awful webcam, no HDR, local dimming, or variable refresh rate, and pricey at $1,600 plus a $400 height stand — A 5K iMac's panel, six speakers, three mics, and one terrible camera — Oh boy. — Look, people have wanted Apple to sell …
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| Monica Chin / The Verge: |
Apple Mac Studio review: compact design with a lighting fast M1 Ultra and great port selection but expensive, not modular, and unimpressive graphics performance — This computer is a historic achievement — Apple's 2019 desktop release was supposed to be the computer that professional Mac users had been waiting for.
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| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
An interview with three Apple executives about the Pro Workflows Team designing and developing the Mac Studio, Studio Display webcam quality issues, and more — Apple's powerful, capable Mac Studio bears the fruit of a listening attitude — The seeds of the Mac Studio were planted 5 years ago next month …
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| Jennifer Maas / Variety: |
Amazon closes its $8.5B MGM acquisition, two days after the EU's antitrust regulator “unconditionally” approved the deal as the business overlaps are “limited” — Amazon has closed its $8.5 billion acquisition of MGM, the companies said Thursday.
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| Rowland Manthorpe / Sky News: |
The UK's Online Safety Bill, introduced to Parliament, faces competing pressures, raises confusions over basic terms and concerns over free speech, and more — Even after years of debate, there remain substantive differences of opinion about the nature and purpose of the bill …
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| Andrew Hayward / Decrypt: |
Bored Ape Yacht Club's $APE token hit a peak of $39.40 per token during its airdrop, but later sank as low as $7.50 — ApeCoin, the Ethereum token built for the expanding Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT ecosystem, launched this morning and rapidly rose in value before shedding much of its initial momentum.
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| Carly Page / TechCrunch: |
Google details Exotic Lily, a “financially-motivated threat actor” that works as an initial access broker for Russian hackers and ransomware gangs like Conti — Google's Threat Analysis Group has observed a financially-motivated threat actor working as an intermediary for the Russian hackers …
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| Sameer Manekar / Reuters: |
Australia's Competition and Consumer Commission sues Meta for allegedly publishing scam cryptocurrency ads on Facebook with photos of Australian public figures — Australian competition watchdog has begun proceedings against Facebook owner Meta Platforms Inc (FB.O), alleging … | Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Google rolls out Android 13 Developer Preview 2, adding a feature requiring apps to ask permission to post notifications, Bluetooth LE Audio support, and more — The feature is included in the second developer preview — Google is releasing the second Android 13 developer preview on Thursday …
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| PYMNTS.com: |
New York-based online insurance marketplace Policygenius raises a $125M Series E, bringing its total funding to $225M — Policygenius has raised $125 million in new growth capital, the InsurTech firm announced in a news release Thursday (March 17). — The company, based in New York City …
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| Bloomberg: |
Russian rapid grocery delivery service Buyk files for bankruptcy after Russia's sanctions restricted access to funding; Buyk recently furloughed ~900 employees — Rapid grocery delivery app Buyk Corp. filed for bankruptcy on Thursday after fallout from Russia's invasion of Ukraine restricted the startup's access to funding.
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| Reuters: |
Russia's central bank gives the country's largest bank, Sberbank, a license to issue and exchange digital financial assets — Russia's central bank on Thursday said it had given major lender Sberbank a licence to issue and exchange digital financial assets, a move that may open new opportunities …
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
PayPal expands its services to allow users to send money into Ukraine and temporarily waives fees for customers sending funds to Ukrainian PayPal accounts — PayPal is expanding its services to allow its users to send money to Ukrainians, the company announced on Thursday.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Snap updates its app building policies for developers to ban anonymous messaging apps and restrict friend-finding apps to 18+, following teen suicide lawsuits — After a bullied teen died by suicide, a grieving mother last year sued the platform where the abuse had taken place — Snapchat … | Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Clockwork, which says it can provide sync accuracy of less than five nanoseconds for time sensitive apps using hardware timestamps, raises a $21M Series A — Clockwork Systems Inc., the creator of technology that makes it possible to optimize the performance of time-sensitive applications …
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| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Ethereum L2 scaling startup Optimism raises a $150M Series B led by Andreessen Horowitz and Paradigm at a $1.65B valuation — Throughout the most recent crypto bull run, plenty of new crypto users have interacted with the Ethereum network for the first time and have been surprised to find sluggish, expensive transactions.
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Tweets: @optimismpbc, @danrobinson, @danrobinson, @sytaylor, @lucasmtny, and @optimismpbc
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Meta plans to test tools that let brands prevent their ads appearing next to improper Facebook and Instagram content in H2 2022 and roll them out in early 2023 — Meta, formerly known as Facebook, says it will begin testing new content tools designed to give advertisers control over where their ads …
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| Chris Stokel-Walker / Input: |
Anti-war Russians are using Clubhouse to discuss Russia's invasion of Ukraine as the app doesn't seem to be on the radar of the country's social media censors — Masha, a 29-year-old scientist from St. Petersburg, Russia, is one of thousands of Russians who has joined protests against the invasion …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Sophos details how the CryptoRom scam campaign is abusing Apple's TestFlight and Web Clips feature to trick iOS users into installing fake cryptocurrency apps — Getting past the App Store gatekeeper has always been tough. Here are two new ways. — Scammers pushing iOS malware are stepping …
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Tweets: @sophoslabs and @sophos
| FinSMEs: |
Avive, which is building a connected, data-sharing response service for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest emergencies, raises a $22M Series A — Avive Solutions, Inc., a San Francisco, CA-based developer of an intelligent AED and connected response platform for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest …
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