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Facebook plans to stop letting users add podcasts to the service this week, start removing them on June 3, and discontinue Soundbites and its central audio hub — Facebook is pulling out of podcasts and plans to remove them altogether from the social-media service starting June 3.
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| Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: |
In preliminary findings, the EU says Apple abused its mobile payments dominance by limiting competitors' access to the NFC chip in iPhones, benefiting Apple Pay — EU preliminary findings say US group limits rivals' access to ‘tap and go’ technology — Brussels regulators have charged Apple …
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Sources: millions of Grindr users' location data has been collected from a digital ad network and sold since at least 2017; Grindr says it has cut the data flow — Gay-dating app's user locations were collected and sold since at least 2017; Grindr two years ago curtailed the data it shares with advertising partners
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Roadmap: Meta plans four VR headsets by 2024; source says high-end MR headset Cambria, once set for 2021, could debut in September before its successor in 2024 — Meta Platforms is planning to release four virtual reality headsets between now and 2024, according to an internal road map viewed by The Information.| Sam Machkovech / Ars Technica: |
Swedish game publisher Embracer buys Square Enix's three Western game studios, including their game series Tomb Raider, Deus Ex, and Legacy of Kain, for $300M — $300 million deal includes “over 50” classic games' rights, over 1,000 devs. — On Monday, Japanese game publisher Square Enix confirmed …
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Google fires AI researcher Satrajit Chatterjee; sources: he was fired after Google refused to publish his paper rebutting a celebrated Google paper in Nature — The researchers are considered a key to the company's future. But they have had a hard time shaking infighting and controversy over a variety of issues.
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Sources: Elon Musk asked investment firms and wealthy individuals for more Twitter financing and investors like Jack Dorsey to roll their stakes into the deal — Elon Musk is in talks with large investment firms and high net-worth individuals about taking on more financing for his $44 billion acquisition …
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Thrasio, which buys and consolidates third-party Amazon sellers, names former Amazon exec Greg Greeley as CEO; sources: Thrasio is planning layoffs this week — A day of reckoning has come for Thrasio, one of the bigger startups buying up and consolidating third-party Amazon sellers.
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Amazon plans to support the popular EPUB ebook format via the Send to Kindle feature in late 2022, and drop support for the MOBI and AZW formats — The Send to Kindle system will automatically convert EPUB files to the Kindle's proprietary ebook format. — Alerts
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In a lawsuit, Apple alleges SoC startup Rivos stole trade secrets after poaching 40+ engineers and that at least two took gigabytes of confidential information — (Reuters) - Technology startup Rivos Inc allegedly stole Apple Inc's computer-chip trade secrets after poaching its engineers …
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| Sam Jones / The Guardian: |
Spain says the phones of its prime minister and defense minister were infected by NSO's Pegasus spyware in 2021; Spain's highest criminal court will investigate — Minister for presidency says ‘illicit’ targeting will be investigated by Spain's highest criminal court
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| Paresh Dave / Reuters: |
Google offers to cover $100K+ worth of its Coursera online courses in data analytics, design, and other tech skills for up to 500 employees at any US business — Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) Google will provide any U.S. business over $100,000 worth of online courses in data analytics …
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Dune: OpenSea set a daily trading record of $476M+ in Ethereum after Yuga Labs' Otherside metaverse launch; the previous record was nearly $323M in August 2021 — The Bored Ape Yacht Club's metaverse launch helped push OpenSea to a new one-day record, and a strong rebound for the month of April overall.
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