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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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| Reuters: |
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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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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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.
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Sources: PayPal and others made informal complaints about Apple's NFC restrictions to the European Commission, spurring the EU's formal antitrust complaint — PayPal Holdings Inc. helped spur a formal antitrust complaint against Apple Inc. and its iPhone payments system by raising concerns …
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| Andrew Hayward / Decrypt: |
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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| Blake Brittain / Reuters: |
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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| TechCrunch: |
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.| Pranshu Verma / Washington Post: |
Addiction scholars say cryptocurrency has characteristics that make it more addictive than sports betting, gambling, and traditional financial investing — Crypto was going to make them rich. Instead, therapists say, more people became depressed and addicted.
Tweets: @lucasmtny, @pranshuverma_, and @coin_trades
| Andrew Liszewski / Gizmodo: |
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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| Bloomberg: |
Report: crypto mining could consume nearly 25% of the electricity supply in Argentina's Tierra del Fuego province until October, risking an energy grid collapse — Argentina's crypto frenzy is putting the energy grid of a small province in Patagonia near a breaking point as miners take advantage …
Tweets: @pat_gillespie and @economics
| New York Times: |
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