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| Malcolm Owen / AppleInsider: |
Report on Apple's eight-year self-driving car struggle as 20 people from the project cite “constantly shifting goals”, a “revolving door of leaders”, and more — The Apple Car project has suffered repeated setbacks throughout its development caused in part by a need …
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| The Guardian: |
Mark MacGann, who led Uber's lobbying in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, comes forward as the leaker of 124K+ files, says Uber flouted laws and sold a lie — Exclusive: Mark MacGann says he has decided to speak out about firm to ‘right some fundamental wrongs’
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| Kris Holt / Engadget: |
Apple debuts iOS 16's first public beta with lock screen widgets, iMessage edit and undo, Pay Later, and more, alongside macOS, watchOS, and iPadOS public betas — We're a couple of months out from Apple officially rolling out the next major versions of its various operating systems.
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| Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan / Financial Times: |
Klarna confirms raising $800M at a $6.7B valuation, down from $46B in June 2021, including from new investors Mubadala and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board — Buy now, pay later specialist was worth $46bn last year — Sweden's Klarna, once Europe's most valuable private fintech company …
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
WhatsApp rolls out the ability for users to react to messages with any emoji, after adding the ability to react with its chosen six emoji in May — The new feature is rolling out now — WhatsApp users will soon have the ability to react to messages with any emoji, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced in a Facebook post.
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Emojipedia, Android Central, iPhone in Canada Blog, Digital Trends, MobileSyrup, iDownloadBlog.com, TechCrunch, Engadget, WABetaInfo, BGR India, Phandroid, and Tech Advisor. Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg
| Matt Levine / Bloomberg: |
A look at Twitter's options as Musk tries to back out, such as suing for “expectation damages”, which may be capped at $1B, or suing for “specific performance” — Oh Elon — One question that might be important is: How much is Twitter Inc. worth if Elon Musk does not buy it?
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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Reports of hijacked accounts and analysis of Experian's authentication flow reveal poor security at the credit bureau, after PIN reset flaws were found in 2021 — Twice in the past month KrebsOnSecurity has heard from readers who had their accounts at big-three credit bureau Experian hacked …
Tweets: @briankrebs, @jstrauss, @cathcam, @ncweaver, @adam_k_levin, and @briankrebs
| Coco Feng / South China Morning Post: |
China's antitrust watchdog fines Tencent, Alibaba, Didi, Bilibili, Weibo, and others ~$74,600 for each unreported merger deal dating back to 2011, 28 in total — Trams and cast-iron postboxes speak to the history of the city, while delicacies such as fishballs and egg waffles …
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| Reuters: |
An investigation finds Binance continued to serve crypto traders in Iran as recently as September 2021, despite US sanctions and a company ban on business there — The world's largest crypto exchange, Binance, continued to process trades by clients in Iran despite U.S. sanctions and a company ban …
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PYMNTS.com, Gizmodo, Protos, CoinGape, Crypto Briefing, The Block, and Slashdot
Tweets: @david_ingram, @reuterslegal, @reuters, @neerajka, and @bertelschmitt
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Meta launches Sphere, an open-source AI knowledge tool based on 134M public webpages; Wikipedia, Sphere's first user, is using it to verify articles' citations — Facebook may be infamous for helping to usher in the era of “fake news”; but it's also tried to find a place for itself in the follow-up …
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Engadget, Tech at Meta, SiliconANGLE, CNET, Meta AI, TechRadar, OpenReview, TNW, and Tech Monitor
| Callum Burroughs / Insider: |
Virtual events startup Hopin, valued at $7.75B in August 2021, lays off 242 employees, or ~29% of its staff, after cutting 12% of its staff in February 2022 — - Live events startup Hopin is laying off 242 staff, the equivalent of 29% of its workforce. — The startup said it had made the … | CNBC: |
GameStop launches its NFT marketplace in beta, letting users connect digital asset wallets, including the recently debuted GameStop Wallet, to buy and sell NFTs — - GameStop on Monday announced the long-awaited debut of its online marketplace for nonfungible tokens, or NFTs.
Tweets: @laurenthomas, @stevekovach, @stevekovach, and @gamoid
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