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| Brandy Betz / CoinDesk: |
Binance paused bitcoin withdrawals for a few hours on Monday “due to a stuck transaction causing a backlog”; the company says BTC withdrawals have since resumed — CEO Changpeng Zhao attributed the issue to a “stuck transaction,” and promised a quick fix.
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| Bloomberg: |
Major cryptocurrencies crash as the crypto market cap falls below $1T: bitcoin drops 15%+ to ~$22K, ether drops 16%+ to ~$1.2K, and Solana drops 7%+ to ~$28 — Bitcoin plunged to the lowest in about 18 months in Asia trading Monday as the impact of Friday's shock US inflation data continued to reverberate through global risk assets.
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| Daniel Roberts / Decrypt: |
Celsius' CEL token fell 70% in one hour after the DeFi lender suspended all customer withdrawals, amid a broader crypto market crash — On Sunday night, with crypto markets already in freefall, controversial crypto lender Celsius announced it was suddenly pausing all customer withdrawals, swaps, and transfers.
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| Gary Marcus / The Road to AI We Can Trust: |
Despite differences within the AI community, pretty much all AI experts find the notion that Google's LaMDA might be sentient completely ridiculous — No, LaMDA is not sentient. Not even slightly. … Blaise Aguera y Arcas, polymath, novelist, and Google VP, has a way with words.
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| Sarah Lord / CNET: |
Amazon plans to test drone deliveries in Lockeford, California, after receiving FAA approval to service the town, for products ordered through Amazon Prime Air — The service will be called Prime Air and will use drones with sense-and-avoid systems to deliver packages safely. — Sarah Lord
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Elon Musk will address Twitter employees and take questions at a company-wide virtual meeting on Thursday morning — Elon Musk will address Twitter Inc. employees at a company-wide meeting this week, the first time the Tesla Inc. chief executive officer will meet with employees since agreeing … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft updates Teams to improve echo cancellation and room acoustics on calls using ML models, resulting in less clipping when callers interrupt each other — Your Teams calls should sound a lot better — Microsoft has spent the past two years adding flashy new productivity features to Teams …
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| Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: |
Qualcomm acquires Cellwize, a software service that helps carriers operate their networks more efficiently, reportedly for $350M; Cellwize has raised $56.5M — Qualcomm Inc. has acquired Cellwize Wireless Technologies Pte. Ltd., a startup with a software platform that helps carriers operate their networks more efficiently.
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| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
Sources: Alphabet offered to let rival ad intermediaries place YouTube ads, hoping to end an EU antitrust probe and avert a fine of up to 10% of global turnover — Google parent Alphabet (GOOGL.O) has offered to let rival ad intermediaries place advertisements on YouTube to address … | New York Times: |
Microsoft and the CWA union announce a deal that would make it easier for Activision Blizzard's ~7,000 US employees to unionize after the acquisition closes — The accord could ease the path for thousands of workers to unionize at the game company Microsoft is acquiring and addresses an antitrust objection.
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
DoorDash rolls out in-app features to help users discover nearby restaurants, including written reviews, ratings for menu items, and Top 10 lists of restaurants — DoorDash announced today that it's rolling out a number of new features to give users additional ways to discover popular restaurants near them.
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Sequoia launches two new funds, a $2B early-stage, venture and growth fund for India and an $850M dedicated fund for Southeast Asia, the largest in the regions — Sequoia India and Southeast Asia has launched two new funds, a $2 billion early-stage, venture and growth fund for India …
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