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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft partners with Samsung to launch its Xbox TV app on June 30, letting Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers play Xbox games without a console — Samsung's 2022 smart TVs will be the first to get the Xbox app — Microsoft is launching its Xbox TV app later this month …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft details Project Moorcroft, designed to bring early game demos to Xbox Game Pass, rolling out within the next year with a focus on indie developers — Designed to bring back the excitement of E3 game demos — Microsoft is working on Project Moorcroft, a program designed …
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Windows Central, The Verge, VentureBeat, The Verge, Neowin, Gameranx, IGN, TechRadar, purexbox.com, Stevivor, Mashable, GameSpot, Polygon, and Windows Experience Blog
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| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Source: Meta halts development of a $349 smartwatch with dual cameras, in the works for two years to launch in 2023, and will focus on other wrist devices — Facebook parent company Meta Platforms Inc. has halted development of a smartwatch with dual cameras and is instead working …
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9to5Mac, PCMag, KnowTechie, TechSpot, TechEBlog, PhoneArena, Insider, Mashable, The Verge, Gadgets & Wearables, 9to5Google, BGR India, and Tech-pigułka
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple will handle Apple Pay Later's lending, a first for the company; in-house subsidiary Apple Financing LLC will oversee credit checks and make loan decisions — Apple Inc. will handle the lending itself for a new “buy now, pay later” offering, sidestepping partners as the tech giant pushes deeper …
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The Verge, Financial Times, CNBC, TechRadar, MSPoweruser, iMore, BGR India, AppleInsider, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, iThinkDifferent, Tech.co, Transistori, Apple Must, iMore, Engadget, Protocol, and Benzinga
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| Ryan Broderick / Garbage Day: |
Critiques of “anti-crypto media personalities” and the “podcast circuit” miss an essential point: most of Web3 currently sucks and saying so is not a conspiracy — Read to the end for a truly cursed TikTok — Web3 Being Not Very Good Is Not A Conspiracy
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Microsoft plans to stop adding noncompete clauses to US employment agreements, drop NDAs from US worker settlements, add salary ranges to US job posts, and more — Bending to employee sentiment and legislative mandate, Microsoft announced a series of reforms Wednesday that will curtail …
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Microsoft On the Issues, ZDNet, Insider, Computerworld, Windows Central, Seattle Business Journal, The Register, Engadget, Neowin, and Reuters
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| Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: |
Source: Twitter's board plans to comply with Elon Musk's demands for internal data on bots by offering access to its full “firehose”, after a weeks-long impasse — The billionaire is in a protracted battle with the company over information about spam and fake accounts
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New York Times, Bloomberg, Forbes, Terms of Service …, Fossbytes, Associated Press, Coinspeaker, Digital Trends, The Week, The Guardian, and Fast Company
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
GitHub is sunsetting Atom, the text editor for developers it launched in 2011, and will archive all projects under the Atom organization on December 15, 2022 — GitHub today announced that it will sunset Atom, the text editor for software development that the company introduced in 2011.
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The GitHub Blog, Silicon Republic, BetaNews, gHacks Technology News, and GitHub
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| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
TikTok expands its screen time controls, adding a dashboard to monitor usage and letting users set time limits; teens will get additional usage reminders — TikTok is rolling out more screen time controls to help users manage how much time they are spending in the app.
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Despite Facebook's ban on gun sales, internal guidance shows users can break its rules 10 times before being banned, down to five if they call for violence — The company discloses little information about how it enforces its prohibition of firearm sales on the site, leaving its punishment system shrouded in secrecy| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
Snapshot: 54% of ApeCoin owners vote in favor of remaining on Ethereum, after Yuga Labs floated creating its own blockchain after its huge metaverse land sale — ApeCoin owners have decided to keep the token, which is expected to be key to snagging exclusive metaverse game items and deals …
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Decrypt, The Block, Cointelegraph, CryptoPotato, Crypto Briefing, and Cryptonews
| André Beganski / Decrypt: |
South Korean crypto exchanges Bithumb and Upbit plan to delist Litecoin, saying the token's new privacy features violate the country's anti-money laundering law — Two major exchanges in South Korea said they will delist Litecoin due to new privacy features enabled by the protocol.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Amsterdam-based Backbase, which helps banks analyze data, raises €120M from Motive Partners at a €2.5B valuation and says it has 150 banking customers — Larger banks and other financial service providers are getting a lot more serious when it comes to competing with upstarts …
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FinSMEs, Finextra, Tech.eu, Benzinga, and Silicon Canals
| Wall Street Journal: |
Documents show how Cerebral used social media ads to grow its ADHD drug business, as federal prosecutors look into possible Controlled Substance Act violations — The online mental health company surged to a $4.8 billion valuation after it started dispensing ADHD medication …
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Forbes. Tweets: @theo_wayt, @marcelolprince, @anshelsag, @anfuller, @richardhanania, @contingentvalue, @mkarolian, @anfuller, and @tomfitton
| Andrew Asmakov / Decrypt: |
Ethereum's proof-of-stake Merge upgrade goes live on Ropsten, Ethereum's oldest testnet for blockchain development testing before deployment on the mainnet — First rolled out in 2016, Ropsten is Ethereum's oldest testnet that allows for blockchain development testing before deployment on the mainnet.
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The Block, CNBC, Cointelegraph, Crypto Briefing, Cryptonews, Crypto Daily, CoinGape, Coinspeaker, Benzinga, and crypto.news
Tweets: @mhiesboeck and @kenziesigalos
| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
Experts say the lack of publicly available data makes it difficult to verify claims by Tesla and others about the safety of their autonomous driving tech — Automakers and technology companies say they are making driving safer, but verifying these claims is difficult.
Tweets: @parismarx, @2plus2make5, @davidzipper, @garymarcus, @noahgoodall, and @iihs_autosafety
| Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: |
In an email, ByteDance says Joshua Ma, who leads UK's TikTok Shop, will “step back” during a probe into comments that he “didn't believe” in maternity leave — Joshua Ma will ‘take some time off’ after claims were brought to TikTok by the Financial Times
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Insider, The Daily Beast, Social Media Today, SiliconANGLE, The Independent, and Fortune
Tweets: @cristinacriddle, @fryan, @armchairdude, @mshannahmurphy, @mattgarrahan, @henrymance, and @markdistef
| Dan Taylor / Tech.eu: |
Sweden-based Juni, a neobank catering to e-commerce and online marketing, raises a $206M Series B, made up of $100M in equity led by Mubadala and $106M in debt — Sweden's Juni has raised $206 million ($100 equity/$106 debt) in a Series B funding round. — Swedish integrated payment …
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Finextra, PYMNTS.com, TechCrunch, Sifted, AltFi, and Reuters
| Financial Times: |
Palantir is preparing to bid on a £360M contract to underpin UK NHS' operations, to be awarded in November; Palantir employs 600 in the UK and plans to add 250 — US data analytics group hires health service executives in bid to secure £360mn contract| Bloomberg: |
Sources and filings detail Vy Capital, the third-largest backer of Musk's Twitter bid, a secretive firm run by Alexander Tamas, who has links to Yuri Milner — Elon Musk's bid for Twitter Inc., which has been upended by the billionaire's threat to walk away, attracted a bevy of big-name backers and Silicon Valley mainstays.
Tweets: @martinsfp, @benbartenstein, @benbartenstein, @benbartenstein, @benbartenstein, and @benbartenstein
| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
Dell redesigns the $999 XPS 13 and XPS 13 2-in-1, transforming the 2-in-1 into a detachable Surface rival, adding Intel's 12th Gen CPUs, and more — While all eyes are on the flashy new XPS 13 Plus, Dell hasn't forgotten about its mainstay premium ultraportable or its convertible cousin.| Wall Street Journal: |
Analysis: tech lobbying group CCIA and others, backed by Meta, Google, and more, have spent $36.4M+ on ads opposing antitrust bills that ban self-preferencing — Legislation would block Amazon, Google, Facebook and Apple from favoring own products; backers of the bill have spent less than $200,000
Tweets: @chadsday
| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Mexico City-based digital bank Klar raises $70M led by General Atlantic at a $500M valuation, following a $70M Series B in July 2021 — Mexico City-based digital bank Klar has raised $70 million in equity funding at a valuation of $500 million, the startup announced today.
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