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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Apple discontinues the iPod touch, leaving the device on sale “while supplies last” and ending the product line after debuting the original iPod in October 2001 — Last October marked 20 years of the iPod. It's a remarkable run in the cutthroat, always-iterating world of consumer electronics.
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| New York Times: |
Sources: Netflix executives told employees that the company plans to launch its lower-priced ad-supported tier and crack down on password sharing in Q4 2022 — Executives said they were aiming to introduce an ad-supported, lower-priced subscription tier in the last three months of the year, quicker than originally indicated.
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| Stacy-Marie Ishmael / Bloomberg: |
A look at Do Kwon's algorithmic stablecoin UST, designed to trade at $1 but which fell as low as $0.60; CoinMarketCap says there is 17.8B UST in circulation — Algorithmic stablecoins, like their more “traditional” counterparts, are supposed to provide calm in the chaos of crypto.| Frank Chaparro / The Block: |
Sources: Luna Foundation Guard aims to raise $1B+ to shore up its UST stablecoin, now trading at ~$0.79; one deal in negotiations offers LUNA tokens for 50% off — Quick Take — The Luna Foundation Guard has been reaching out to large crypto investors in the hope of raising over $1 billion … | Michael D McDonald / Bloomberg: |
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| Dave Lee / @daveleeft: |
[Thread] In an interview, Musk says Twitter has a “left bias”, he would “literally put” its “algorithm on GitHub”, and he thinks he would reverse Trump's ban — Twitter currently the “least bad” public square, @elonmusk says at #FTCar. “In order to be better at that it needs to get rid of the bots, the scams.” Live here: https://www.youtube.com/...
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| New York Times: |
Interviews with 50+ people detail the rapid rise of Bolt, which overstated its tech and numbers, as its valuation soared from $250M in 2018 to $11B in 2021 — The start-up has had a meteoric rise, thanks to its charismatic co-founder, Ryan Breslow. But he sometimes stretched the truth to get there.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sony and Nintendo say their consoles will likely be in short supply all of 2022; Nintendo's president: “there's no end in sight to the semiconductor shortage” — ‘No end in sight’ to chip shortage, so makers of PlayStation 5 and Switch dial back sales forecasts| Bloomberg: |
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| James Pearson / Reuters: |
The UK and the EU say Russia launched a cyberattack that disrupted Viasat's satellite internet network in February; the US says multiple networks were attacked — Russia was behind a massive cyberattack against a satellite internet network which took thousands of modems offline at the onset …
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| Laurence Fletcher / Financial Times: |
Analysis: Tiger Global has lost about $17B during 2022's tech stock sell-off, erasing in four months around two-thirds of its gains made since its 2001 launch — Hedge fund suffers ‘breathtaking’ drop as speculative stocks sink from pandemic peaks — Tiger Global has been hit by losses …
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| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
Coinbase Q1: $1.2B net revenue, down from $1.6B YoY, vs $1.5B est., 9.2M MTUs, up from 6.1M YoY, $309B trading volume, down from $335B YoY; stock down ~16% — - Coinbase reported first-quarter earnings after the bell on Tuesday. — The earnings come amid a major sell-off across the crypto market.
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| Corin Faife / The Verge: |
Report: ICE uses private data brokers to bypass legal restrictions and build a surveillance system capable of pulling “detailed dossiers” on nearly any US adult — Authors of the American Dragnet study say the agency is increasingly unaccountable to legislators
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American Dragnet, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, Engadget, and Gizmodo
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| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
Sony reports Q4 gaming revenue rose 0.76% YoY to ~$5.1B; PS5 sales of 2M, down from 3.3M QoQ, hitting 19.3M total, ~3.1M below the PS4 at the same point in time — Sony announced that it sold just 2 million PlayStation 5 units last quarter (Q4), bringing its overall total to 19.3 million.
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| Rest of World: |
A look at Meta's and Google's subsea cable investments in Africa, the least connected continent, as the companies seek the terrestrial links to a billion users — One sunny Thursday morning in September 2021, three men gathered at the Multimedia University of Kenya, in Nairobi, for a small ceremony.
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Roblox misses with Q1 revenue of $631.2M, down 3% YoY, vs. $636.6M est., 54.1M average DAUs, up 28% YoY, vs. 55M est., $11.67 average bookings per DAU, down 25% — - Roblox reported fewer users in the quarter than analysts had expected, and bookings dropped from a year earlier.| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Online wholesale marketplace Faire raises a $416M extension, more than doubling the size of its Series G round and boosting its post-money valuation to $12.59B — Faire, which has built a marketplace connecting retailers to indie brands globally, has raised a $416 million extension …
Tweets: @bayareawriter
| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
Intel unveils Alder Lake HX laptop chips coming in 2022, featuring up to 16 cores, 5.0 GHz peak clock rates, and a 55W base power draw that can stretch to 157W — Up to 16 cores, 5.0 GHz, and 157W of peak power draw — Intel is bulking up its family of Alder Lake mobile CPUs …
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| Paul Kiernan / Wall Street Journal: |
US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen: passing legislation in 2022 to create a stablecoin regulatory framework “would be highly appropriate”, after UST's stumble — Treasury secretary expresses hope that Congress will pass legislation this year to create regulatory framework for stablecoins| Brandy Betz / CoinDesk: |
Jambo Technology, a Web3 “super app” with play-to-earn games and more, raises a $30M Series A led by Paradigm, marking Paradigm's first investment in Africa — Jambo, a Congo-based startup building a Web 3 user acquisition platform, has closed a $30 million Series A funding round led … | Eli Tan / CoinDesk: |
Co:Create, which helps NFT collections launch their own tokens, raises a $25M seed led by a16z, in the wake of ApeCoin's successful token-tied NFT approach — Non-fungible token (NFT) startup Co:Create has raised a $25 million seed round to help NFT collections launch their own tokens … | Sam Reynolds / CoinDesk: |
Binance resumes withdrawals of LUNA and UST tokens after suspending them for about six hours due to a high volume of pending withdrawals and “network slowness” — Binance has resumed withdrawals of LUNA and UST tokens after the two tokens crashed on Tuesday on the back of a broader fall in the crypto markets.
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| Hannah Miao / CNBC: |
Upstart, which uses AI to gauge creditworthiness, cuts its 2022 revenue forecast from $1.4B to $1.25B citing rising interest rates; stock closes down 56.42% — - Shares of Upstart plummeted Tuesday after the AI consumer lending platform cut its full-year revenue outlook.
Tweets: @the_real_fly
| Ben Foldy / Wall Street Journal: |
Internal email: Carvana plans to cut 12% of its workforce, ~2,500 workers, saying it overshot its growth strategy after buying the Adesa US car auction business — Downsizing comes after company raised billions in new debt with high interest — Online car dealer Carvana Co. CVNA -5.39%▼ … Sponsor Posts
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