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Amazon is working on letting Alexa mimic any voice after hearing less than a minute of audio, as a way to “make the memories last” of deceased family members — Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) wants to give customers the chance to make Alexa, the company's voice assistant, sound just like their grandmother — or anyone else.
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Brave says its search engine had 411.7M queries in May, up ~5,000% since its June 2021 launch, and launches Goggles, which lets users customize searches — Brave Search, the browser developer's privacy-centric Internet search engine, is celebrating its first anniversary after surpassing 2.5 billion queries …
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Meta rebrands Facebook Pay as Meta Pay; Mark Zuckerberg says Meta is working on an interoperable “wallet for the metaverse” that will have “proof of ownership” — Also, the Meta Pay rebrand is here — Mark Zuckerberg announced on Wednesday that Facebook Pay …
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| Francisco Pires / Tom's Hardware: |
Cerebras says its “wafer-scale” chip sets a record for the largest AI model trained on a single device with up to 20B parameters — Democratizing large AI Models without HPC scaling requirements. — Cerebras, the company behind the world's largest accelerator chip in existence …
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| Sander Lutz / Decrypt: |
Coinbase says it plans to shut down its standalone, trader-focused Pro service by the end of 2022 and replace it with Advanced Trade in the main app and site — The standalone service will be replaced by Advanced Trade, a feature within the main Coinbase app.
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
India-based Cashify, a marketplace for selling and buying used smartphones and other gadgets, has raised a $90M Series E, bringing its total funding to $130M+ — Cashify, a marketplace for gadgets trade-ins and buybacks in India, has raised $90 million in a new financing round as it looks …
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Sources: Comcast and Google have emerged as the top contenders to help Netflix develop an ad-supported tier, and Netflix has discussed ad partnerships with Roku — Deals with the streaming company could include exclusive agreements and revenue-sharing — Comcast Corp.'s NBCUniversal …
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| Annie Njanja / TechCrunch: |
Ghana-based Fido, which offers financial tools and loans to individuals and businesses via its mobile app, raised a $30M Series A led by Fortissimo Capital — After extending credit to thousands of customers over mobile phones since 2015, Ghana-based fintech Fido is now in search …
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| Natasha Mascarenhas / TechCrunch: |
MasterClass, which offers celebrity-taught online classes, lays off ~120 employees, or 20% of its team; sources: MasterClass was valued at $2.75B in May 2021 — MasterClass, an education platform that sells subscriptions to celebrity-taught classes, has cut 20% of its team to … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter partners with Shopify to launch a sales channel app, letting Shopify's US merchants sell products and engage customers via Twitter's Shopping Manager — As part of its ongoing efforts to expand into e-commerce, Twitter today announced a new partnership with Shopify.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Deno, the company behind a JavaScript, TypeScript, and WebAssembly runtime based on Rust and the V8 JavaScript engine, raised a $21M Series A led by Sequoia — Deno, the development company behind the eponymous Deno runtime, today announced that it closed a $21 million Series A round led … | Reuters: |
Sources: eight buyout offers taking Toshiba private value the deal at up to ~$22B, a 27% premium on its stock; Toshiba had two offers that would keep it public — Bidders for Toshiba Corp (6502.T) are considering offering up to 7,000 yen ($51.41) per share to take the troubled Japanese conglomerate private … | Financial Times: |
A look at Alibaba's plans to expand into South Asia as its growth in China falters, including through its Daraz unit in Pakistan, acquired for $194M in 2018 — In a vast warehouse on the arid outskirts of Pakistani megacity Karachi, hundreds of young workers sort through boxes of nappies, cooking oil and mobile phones.
Tweets: @dreyerchina, @rencapman, and @b_parkyn
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Mountain View-based Sanas, which develops a call center voice AI that changes users' accents in real time, raised a $32M Series A led by Insight Partners — A startup called Sanas has built voice AI to change accents, now it's raised $32M from GV and others| Zach Schonfeld / The Hill: |
Microsoft report details Russian cyberattacks across 42 countries beyond Ukraine since the war began, with a 29% success rate and mainly targeting NATO allies — Russia has levied dozens of cyber espionage campaigns in 42 countries since it invaded Ukraine in February, according to a new Microsoft report.
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| CoinDesk: |
Crypto broker Voyager Digital says its exposure to Three Arrows Capital consists of 15,250 bitcoin and $350M USDC, and “may issue a notice of default” to 3AC — The crypto broker said it's on the hook for about $370 million of bitcoin and $350 million of USDC and has asked for a repayment installment by Friday.
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| Jared Newman / Fast Company: |
Valve's Steam Deck makes a brilliant case against walled gardens by running Arch Linux and allowing software from anywhere, unlike every major game console — The Steam Deck is a portable gaming system that breaks the biggest rule of gaming systems. — Unlike practically every major game … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Courier, which provides tools to send and build notifications across multiple channels including email, web, text, and mobile, raised a $35M Series B led by GV — App notifications, well intentioned or no, have become a part of daily life. A 2018 study out of Duke University estimated that …
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| Monica Chin / The Verge: |
MacBook Pro 13-inch (M2) review: dominant single-core performance with good battery life, but just two USB-C ports, design 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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| Oliver Knight / CoinDesk: |
eBay acquires NFT marketplace KnownOrigin for an undisclosed sum; DappRadar: KnownOrigin enabled $7.8M in digital collectible trade volume since its 2018 launch — The move comes one month after eBay released its debut collection of NFTs. — E-commerce giant eBay (EBAY) … Sponsor Posts
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