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| Jason Del Rey / Vox: |
An internal Amazon memo from mid-2021 discusses running out of potential US warehouse workers to hire by 2024 and suggests some remedies, such as raising wages — Unions might not be the tech giant's biggest labor threat. — Amazon is facing a looming crisis: It could run out of people …
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Cybernews.com, The Guardian, and On the Path
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| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Amazon unveils new robotic tech for its warehouses, including Proteus, its “first fully autonomous mobile robot” meant to safely move large carts around workers — It can pick things up, put them down, and move them around — Amazon has announced its “first fully autonomous mobile robot …
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About Amazon, YouTube, PCMag, TechSpot, Insider, Engadget, Forbes, YouTube, TechCircle, Fossbytes, Silicon Republic, and Digital Trends
Tweets: @delrey, @mikelltaylor, @giano, @moreperfectus, @mikelltaylor, and @mattbeane
| Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette: |
Google redesigns News, elevating local news and fact checks, and relaunches the service in Spain after eight years, following Spain adopting EU copyright rules — Google News is relaunching in Spain almost eight years after it shut down to avoid paying publishers when the country introduced … | Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Tether plans to launch a stablecoin pegged to the British pound in July, dubbed GBPT, initially available on Ethereum, its fifth fiat-pegged stablecoin — - Tether has launched a new stablecoin pegged 1:1 to the British pound. — It will be initially available on Ethereum.
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tether.to, The Economic Times, CoinDesk, Crypto Daily, Ethereum World News, watcher.guru, Cointelegraph, Cryptonews, Fortune, and CryptoPotato
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| Sheldon Reback / CoinDesk: |
Crypto broker Voyager says its exposure to Three Arrows Capital consists of 15,250 bitcoin and $350M USDC; Voyager might issue a “notice of default” — The crypto broker asked for a first repayment by June 24. — Crypto broker Voyager Digital may issue as “notice of default” …
| Monica Chin / The Verge: |
MacBook Pro 13-inch (M2) review: still fast with excellent battery life, but just two USB-C ports, design is from 2016, and webcam is still bad — Apple has put a 2022 CPU in a 2016 computer — I don't really care what the M2 MacBook Pro gets on benchmarks.
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| Sascha Segan / PCMag: |
Nothing confirms phone (1) will not be available widely in the US and might not work well on some carriers, as it focuses on “home markets” in the UK and Europe — It looks like Americans and Canadians are getting ... nothing. — Carl Pei's buzzy phone firm …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers detail fundamental cryptography flaws in MEGA's end-to-end encryption scheme that could let the cloud storage service decipher stored files — Fundamental flaws uncovered in Mega's encryption scheme show service can read your data. — In the decade since larger …
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MEGA: Malleable Encryption Goes Awry. More:
TorrentFreak and Candid.Technology
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| Chris Metinko / Crunchbase News: |
Crypto exchange FalconX, which focuses on institutions, has raised a $150M Series D led by GIC and B Capital at an $8B valuation, up from $3.75B in August 2021 — Despite a rocky couple of months for crypto, San Francisco-based FalconX locked up a $150 million Series D and more than doubled its valuation from just 10 months ago.
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| Kashmir Hill / New York Times: |
As part of its new Responsible AI Standard rules, Microsoft plans to remove Azure's facial analysis tools, which can guess gender, age, and emotional state — The technology giant will stop offering automated tools that predict a person's gender, age and emotional state and will restrict the use of its facial recognition tool.| Augusta Saraiva / Bloomberg: |
Hired: despite D&I initiatives, female African American tech workers earned $0.92 for every $1 a white male counterpart earned in 2021, down from $0.94 in 2020 — As American corporations announce a record number of diversity and inclusion initiatives, Silicon Valley has seen …
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Hired, ZDNet, Hired, Protocol, and Silicon Valley Business …
| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
An analysis of how Apple's ATT approach is blatantly anti-competitive and harms targeted advertising that is an essential ingredient to the new internet economy — Last week the German Bundeskartellamt ("Federal Cartel Office") announced in a press release:
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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Meta agrees to alter its ad targeting and pay a $115,054 fine to settle a DOJ discrimination lawsuit for allegedly limiting which Facebook users saw housing ads — HUD had accused Meta of engaging in housing discrimination by letting advertisers restrict who could see housing ads on Facebook based …
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| Tom Matsuda / The Block: |
Blockchain payments infrastructure company Roxe plans to go public via SPAC on the Nasdaq, valuing it at $3.6B — - Blockchain payments infrastructure company Roxe has announced plans to list on the Nasdaq via a SPAC called Goldenstone Acquisition. — The company says it will be valued at $3.6 billion after the merger.
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| Financial Times: |
Hong Kong court records: crypto exchange Huobi has launched a lawsuit against a former executive over accusations he made $5M trading against a Huobi account — Employee allegedly made $5mn after setting up a retail account in his father's name — A former senior manager at Huobi …
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Blockworks, The Block, Decrypt, Tech in Asia, Blockchain News, watcher.guru, Investing.com India, and CryptoPotato. Tweets: @kadhim
| Bloomberg: |
Internal memo: two of Amazon's top Black executives, SVP of logistics warehouses Alicia Boler Davis and VP of transportation services Dave Bozeman, are leaving — Two of Amazon.com Inc.'s top Black executives are leaving amid a management shakeup as Chief Executive Officer Andy Jassy puts … | Jay Peters / The Verge: |
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter tests Twitter Notes with select users, for creating long-form content with rich text formatting and uploaded media that can be tweeted upon publishing — In what could be one of Twitter's more significant changes since doubling the character count from 140 to 280 characters … | Peter White / Deadline: |
Barack and Michelle Obama's production company Higher Ground signs a first-look deal with Amazon's Audible; Spotify: “we declined to extend our deal” — President Barack Obama & Michelle Obama's Higher Ground has found a new podcast home. — The company, which is behind audio series …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
GitHub launches Copilot AI, which suggests lines of code to developers, out of preview for $10/month or $100/year and says 1.2M+ tried the preview in 12 months — Free for students and maintainers of popular open-source projects — Microsoft-owned GitHub is launching its Copilot AI tool today …
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The GitHub Blog, ZDNet, InfoWorld, TechCrunch, Petri IT Knowledgebase, Silicon Republic, Fossbytes, TechCircle, Visual Studio Magazine, SiliconANGLE, Gizchina, The Register, PCMag, The New Stack, BigTechWire, TechRadar, OnMSFT.com, and Protocol
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter partners with Shopify to launch a sales channel app, letting US merchants sell their products through Twitter's Shopping Manager — As part of its ongoing efforts to expand into e-commerce, Twitter today announced a new partnership with Shopify. The deal will see Twitter launching …
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The Verge, Engadget, Financial Times, BetaKit, Twitter for Business, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, and Adweek. Tweets: @jerrycap
| Paul Vieira / Wall Street Journal: |
The Canadian government approves legislation that will compel YouTube, TikTok, and streaming services to boost domestic content; the law now heads to the Senate — Government says measures needed to foster growth in domestic cultural sector and make Canadian content more accessible| Bloomberg: |
SoftBank Group International CEO Michel Combes is leaving his post after five months and will be replaced by SBGI Managing Partner Alex Clavel on June 30 — SoftBank Group Corp.'s Michel Combes is leaving his post as head of overseas arm SoftBank Group International (SBGI) …
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SoftBank Group Corp. and TechCrunch
| Danny Nelson / CoinDesk: |
Las Vegas-based Prime Trust, which offers crypto infrastructure tools, raised a $107M Series B, following a $65M Series A in July 2021 — The Las Vegas company is going into build mode, bear market be damned. — Crypto infrastructure company Prime Trust said Wednesday it raised $107 million …
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TechCrunch, PR Newswire, and Forbes
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