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A look at how Apple's rumored iPhone and other hardware subscription programs may work, and the thinking behind forecasted expansion of its financial services — Apple's in-the-works iPhone hardware subscription service will squeeze more revenue from its giant user base.| Neil Cybart / Above Avalon: |
Apple's hardware categories are now gaining record new users after a 2017/2018 strategy change that let product groups independently update major product lines — During Apple's “Peek Performance” event held last month, the company announced not only a brand new Mac category with the Mac Studio … | Kollen Post / The Block: |
Interview with Ukraine's Deputy Minister of Digital Transformation, who says the government's crypto donation platform has raised $70M+ as of April 1 — Quick Take — The Block spoke with Alexander Bornyakov, Deputy Minister of the Ukrainian Ministry of Digital Transformation.
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| damsondao / P — Mirror: |
Unpacking Terra's design for its algorithmic stablecoins and how partial collateralization using bitcoin reserves could impact its price stabilization mechanism — As Terra climbed crypto market cap rankings at the start of 2022 while most of the market dumped or stalled … | Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
Zipline, Flytrex, and Alphabet's Wing, which have started commercial drone deliveries in the US, say they are encouraged by the FAA's evolving regulation — Drone companies have been cleared to expand their operations across the U.S., in cities as well as rural areas, at the same time their tech …
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| Washington Post: |
How Binance, which trades on its own exchange and plays several roles that may pose conflicts of interest, remains mostly unaccountable to its customers — On May 19, 2021, Francis Kim thought he had hit it big. The Australia-based entrepreneur had been dabbling in derivatives trading …
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| Zac Bowden / Windows Central: |
Microsoft moves Surface Duo OS, SwiftKey, Phone Link, Microsoft Launcher, and other teams to a new dedicated Android division under EVP and CPO Panos Panay — A new ‘Microsoft Android’ division houses Duo, SwiftKey, Launcher, and more. — What you need to know
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| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
A deep look at the benefits of content moderation in open forums, and how it can support free speech by creating spaces where more people feel free to talk — Obviously over the past few years there's been all of these debates about the content moderation practices of various websites.
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Justin Kan's game-focused NFT marketplace Fractal has raised a $35M seed led by Paradigm and Multicoin Capital, with a16z, Solana Labs, and others participating — Twitch cofounder Justin Kan's Fractal has raised $35 million to build out its marketplace for gaming non-fungible tokens (NFTs).
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Workers at Amazon's Staten Island facility secure enough votes to unionize, by a 2,654 to 2,131 margin, a first for an Amazon warehouse in the US — - Amazon workers at a Staten Island warehouse voted Friday to join a union, the first time that's happened at one of the company's U.S. facilities.
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| Edward Ongweso Jr / VICE: |
The Discord servers of some NFT projects, including BAYC, were compromised on Friday as part of a phishing scam seeking to trick users into “minting” fake NFTs — This isn't the first hack of Discord-based crypto communities, and it's not likely to be the last.
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Tweets: @breetapp, @bigblackjacobin, @adeldmeyer, @vauldofficial, @officialtravlad, @crypto, @tim, and @stratorob
| BBC: |
UK police charge a 16-year-old with five counts and a 17-year-old with six counts of cyber offenses related to the Lapsus$ gang; the teenagers remain in custody — Two teenagers from the UK have appeared in court charged with hacking for a major cyber-crime gang.
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