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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Sources: Meta plans two AR glasses for 2024, one codenamed Nazare, independent from phones with holograms to interact, and another cheap set codenamed Hypernova — Mark Zuckerberg has a grandiose vision for the metaverse, and he hopes that you'll one day see the same thing, too …
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UploadVR, 9to5Mac, The Information, Protocol, 9to5Google, MobileSyrup, SlashGear, iPhone in Canada Blog, TechSpot, Redmond Pie, Engadget, and Slashdot
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| Sandali Handagama / CoinDesk: |
An NFT of Jack Dorsey's first-ever tweet, which sold for $2.9M last year, has been up for sale since last week and has failed to garner a bid over $1K — Crypto entrepreneur Sina Estavi bought Twitter founder Jack Dorsey's first ever tweet as an NFT for $2.9 million last year.
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Web3 is going just great, Bloomberg, and afrotech.com
| Daniel Van Boom / CNET: |
Meta's plan to take up to a 47.5% cut of each virtual transaction on Horizon Worlds draws criticism from NFT proponents; OpenSea takes a 2.5% cut — Meta, previously known as Facebook, is figuring out how to monetize the metaverse. … It's been nearly six months since the company formerly known …
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CNBC, MacRumors, Reuters, Platformer, The Register, Road to VR, HotHardware.com News, New York Times, Fast Company, Protocol, SiliconANGLE, CryptoSlate, stillearly, Fortune, 9to5Mac, Engadget, and DappRadar Blog
Tweets: @caseynewton, @degentraland, @punk6529, @neerajka, @levynews, @nizzynft, @boredape93, @punk6529, @puffyatty, @stevekovach, @jameshercher, @winterskiis, @kwebbelkop, @paultassi, @punk6529, @jemgold_, @skrrt__vonnegut, @twobitidiot, @adamsinger, @bartsimsonreal, @punk6529, @slhamlet, @emilyjnicolle, @aridavidpaul, @evan_lorenz, @rationalwalk, @kwebbelkop, @caseynewton, @stevekovach, @axieaur, @3dpunker, @karlbode, @bergmayer, @dominic_w, @mdudas, @loopifyyy, @iandaos, @muneeb, and @skillupyt
| Gergely Orosz / The Pragmatic Engineer: |
An Atlassian outage that began on April 4 left ~400 companies without access to Atlassian Cloud services for many days, and only 45% have since regained access — Hundreds of companies have no access to JIRA, Confluence and OpsGenie. What can engineering teams learn from the poor handling of this outage?
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| Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: |
Google quietly launches its Switch to Android app for iOS as an unlisted app — Google is preparing to launch a brand new way to move from Apple's iPhones to an Android device. Here's your first look at Google's “Switch to Android” app running on an iPhone.| Stacy Elliott / Decrypt: |
An anonymous crypto trader seems to have bought $400K of tokens that were later listed on Coinbase, before the list was public; the tokens are now worth $572K+ — An Ethereum wallet went on a token shopping spree, focusing entirely on assets Coinbase later revealed it is considering listing.
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| Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica: |
Wikipedia editors vote 232 to 94 to request the Wikimedia Foundation stop accepting crypto donations; the foundation is not legally bound by the proposal — Critics argue the bitcoin and ethereum networks consume too much energy. — More than 200 long-time Wikipedia editors have requested … | Giles Turner / Bloomberg: |
Google says it will invest $9.5B across 2022 to build US offices and data centers, with plans to create 12,000 jobs, up from the $7B announced in 2021 — Google said it will invest $9.5 billion in offices and data centers in the U.S. over 2022., putting money behind its bid to get more workers back in its buildings.
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| Lesley Goldberg / The Hollywood Reporter: |
Amazon will rebrand IMDb TV as Freevee starting April 27 and plans to grow its slate of originals by 70% in 2022 — The ad-supported streamer, home to ‘Alex Rider’ and a growing slate of original series and movies, will change its name starting April 27. — Amazon-backed IMDb TV is being rebranded.
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| Will Oremus / Washington Post: |
Research details the impact of TikTok's decision to block outside content from appearing to Russian users while allowing state propaganda — Last month, as many tech companies sided with Ukraine over Russia's invasion, TikTok appeared to follow suit by suspending new video uploads and live streams from Russia.
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| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
A look at Jack Dorsey's life after Twitter, as 30+ people who have worked with him say his “favorite child” is promoting bitcoin, not working at Block — As he walked onstage at the Bitcoin 2021 conference in Miami, Jack Dorsey was still technically the chief executive officer …
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Angeline's Thoughts. Tweets: @kurtwagner8, @crypto, @bponsot, @bw, @documentingbtc, @bw, @chafkin, and @apompliano
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple customers say delivery estimates for orders of some MacBook Pro models have been pushed back, in some cases as far as mid-June, amid China's lockdowns — Apple Inc. shoppers are facing longer wait times for the company's flagship MacBook Pro laptops, a sign that Covid-19 lockdowns in China may be contributing to delays.| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
TikTok is testing a way for users to dislike comments to help users “feel more in control” of what they see; dislike counts will be hidden — TikTok is testing a way for users to “dislike” comments in an effort to help people “feel more in control” over what they are seeing.| Rebecca Jennings / Vox: |
A look at the burgeoning cottage industry devoted to teaching children and teens about Web3, including Crypto Kids Camp, which operates a $500 weeklong camp — Today's parents must ask the age-old question: When's the right time to teach my 5-year-old about NFTs?
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Digital Threat Digest. Tweets: @rebexxxxa, @jilliancyork, @smdiehl, @josh_wills, @ahcastor, @evan_greer, @adamsinger, @kellymakena, and @rebexxxxa
| Danielle Partis / GamesIndustry.biz: |
Sony and Nintendo commit to updating auto-renewal practices for their online service subscriptions, concluding a multi-year UK CMA investigation — Platform holders join Microsoft's efforts to update online services following CMA's investigation — Both Sony and Nintendo have agreed …
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GOV.UK, The Verge, Engadget, Tom's Guide, NME, euronews, Destructoid, IGN, Game Rant, OnMSFT.com, TheGamer, purexbox.com, Digital Trends, Reuters, Gameranx, Wccftech, City A.M., and Video Games Chronicle. Tweets: @toadsanime
| JD Shadel / Them: |
Analysis of Google search results for 50+ trans celebrities shows transphobic suggestions, such as “before surgery” or “as a guy”; Google says it fixed an issue — When the world has a question, we Google it. Processing more than three billion searches a day … | Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
In two weeks, Amazon will add a ~5% fuel and inflation surcharge to US sellers using its fulfillment services, says it is lower than surcharges at UPS and FedEx — - Amazon said Wednesday it's adding a 5% fuel and inflation surcharge to U.S. sellers who use its fulfillment services.
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Tweets: @brianroemmele, @tcarmody, @matthewstoller, @cnbci, @ethanbaron, and @stevekovach
| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
OpenAI's DALL-E 2 and other AI models' ability to generate new content at zero marginal cost has major implications for the metaverse, social networks, and more — Last week OpenAI released DALL-E 2, which produces (or edits) images based on textual prompts; this Twitter thread from @BecomingCritter … | Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
India's payments body approves WhatsApp's plan to extend its payments service to 60M additional users in India, allowing WhatsApp Pay to reach up to 100M total — The National Payments Corporation of India, the payments body that oversees the widely popular UPI instrument …
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Entrackr, Livemint, The Economic Times, Reuters, and TechCircle
| Jialiang David Pan / Bloomberg: |
Ethereum's long-awaited proof-of-stake Merge upgrade “won't be June, but likely in the few months after”, according to a lead developer on the project — One of the leading Ethereum software developers said the blockchain network's much-anticipated technical upgrade known …
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Decrypt, Web3 is going just great, ZyCrypto, crypto.news, CoinDesk, Ethereum World News, CoinJournal, and Crypto Daily
Tweets: @hondanhon and @glennf
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
BlueOcean, which helps brands track their performance for $100K+ per year, raises a $30M Series B led by Insight Partners — The medium is the message more than ever these days, and brands are faced with a challenge — but also opportunity — to capture what consumers think about them and their products …
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