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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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| 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.
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| 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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| Michael D McDonald / Bloomberg: |
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| Sam Kessler / CoinDesk: |
| 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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| 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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| 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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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
At Monday's close, the largest US tech companies lost $1T+ in value over three trading sessions; Apple lost $220B, Microsoft $189B, Amazon $173B, and Meta $70B — - Apple, the most valuable publicly traded company, has seen its market capitalization trimmed by over $200 billion since Wednesday … | James Pearson / Reuters: |
The UK and the EU say Russia launched a cyberattack on satellite internet network Viasat in February, taking down tens of thousands of modems at the war's onset — Russia was behind a massive cyberattack against a satellite internet network which took thousands of modems offline at the onset …
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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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| Bloomberg: |
Nintendo reports Q4 revenue up 6% YoY to ~$2.9B, profit up 0.6% YoY to $922M, and 4.1M Switch sales, hitting 23.1M total; Nintendo plans to split its stock 10:1 — Nintendo Co. will split its stock into 10 from October, potentially propping up the shares as the Mario creator struggles …
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Tweets: @epro, @6d6f636869, @6d6f636869, @muradahmed, and @tomwarren
| 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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Slashdot. Tweets: @erinkwoo, @nytimestech, @jfberke, @noahpinion, @nbashaw, @kateclarktweets, @bizcarson, @sarahhalzack, @mslopatto, @olumuyiwa__, @rmac18, @bizcarson, @aznfusion, @ceciliakang, @davidenrich, @robinwauters, and @lizzieohreally
| 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, Engadget, The Guardian, and CyberScoop
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| Hayden Field / Emerging Tech Brew: |
A profile of influential quantum computing physicist Jerry Chow, who joined IBM in 2010 and leads IBM Quantum, which said it broke the 100-qubit barrier in 2021 — We visited Jerry Chow, one of the field's most influential scientists, at IBM's quantum research lab.
Tweets: @haydenfield, @pstasiatech, and @joshsternberg
| 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 … | Hannah Miao / CNBC: |
Upstart, which uses AI to gauge creditworthiness, cuts its 2022 revenue forecast down from $1.4B to $1.25B, citing rising interest rates; stock plummets 60%+ — - Shares of Upstart plummeted Tuesday after the AI consumer lending platform cut its full-year revenue outlook.
Tweets: @the_real_fly
| 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 … | Ionut Ilascu / BleepingComputer: |
Researchers detail a malicious campaign that used Windows event logs to store malware, a technique that has not been previously documented publicly in attacks — Security researchers have noticed a malicious campaign that used Windows event logs to store malware, a technique … | Thomas Claburn / The Register: |
Study claims the implementation of EU's GDPR has reduced the number of apps on Google Play by a third, increased costs, and reduced revenues for app developers — Privacy rules increase cost, reduce choice, slash revenues, study concludes — Europe's data protection regime has reduced …
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| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Talos, a crypto trading infrastructure startup for institutional investors, raises a $105M Series B led by General Atlantic at a $1.25B valuation — Quick Take — Talos is now a unicorn with $105 million in new funding from Citigroup, Wells Fargo and others.| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
TikTok will roll out its “Friends” tab, dedicated to watching your “friends' videos”, to more people over the coming weeks, replacing the “Discover” tab — TikTok is rolling out a new “Friends” tab that replaces the “Discover” tab in the bottom menu of the app.| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Crypto exchange KuCoin raises a $150M pre-Series B led by Jump Crypto at a $10B valuation, up from $100M in November 2018, and says it has 18M+ users — KuCoin's valuation has surged to $10 billion in its first financing round in four years as the global cryptocurrency exchange looks …
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