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Netflix announces Microsoft as its “global advertising technology and sales partner” for its upcoming ad-supported streaming tier — Microsoft will become Netflix's ‘global advertising technology and sales partner’ — Netflix is partnering with Microsoft for its upcoming ad …
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An in-depth look at the rise and fall of crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital, whose founders Su Zhu and Kyle Davies bet everything on prices only going up — Days before Bitcoin fell decisively below $40,000, and two months before his hedge fund went bankrupt, Su Zhu sat down for an interview …
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Andrej Karpathy, director of AI at Tesla, announces he's leaving the company after five years; Karpathy led Tesla's Autopilot Vision team — - Tesla's AI leader Andrej Karpathy announced on Wednesday that he is leaving the company. — Karpathy worked for Elon Musk's electric vehicle venture …
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Vermont's Department of Financial Regulation joins a multistate investigation into Celsius and says it believes the cryptocurrency lender is “deeply insolvent” — July 12 (Reuters) - Vermont's Department Of Financial Regulation on Tuesday said troubled crypto lender Celsius is … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Unity plans to merge with app monetization service ironSource, valued at $4.4B in the all-stock deal; Silver Lake and Sequoia will invest $1B after the merger — Update: the companies have confirmed the news here. IronSource is being valued at $4.4 billion in the all-stock deal.| CNBC: |
Source: Celsius is in the process of filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy; Celsius's lawyers notified US state regulators and plans to file paperwork “imminently” — - Crypto company Celsius is in the process of filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. — The company's lawyers … | Shweta Sharma / CSO: |
Barracuda survey: 94% of 800 senior IT and security officers of industrial IoT or OT systems faced some form of attack on their systems in the past 12 months — A report commissioned by cloud security company Barracuda found that 94% of respondents have experienced some form of attack … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
TikTok unveils Content Levels, a content classifying system like age ratings in films, and plans to let users filter out videos with certain words or hashtags — Earlier this year, TikTok said it was developing a new system that would restrict certain types of mature content from being viewed by teen users.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
SVP Prabhakar Raghavan says Google's studies show younger users often use apps like Instagram and TikTok instead of Google Search or Maps for discovery purposes — The TikTok threat to Google's business isn't just limited to YouTube, as it turns out. Core Google services, including Search and Maps …
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Twitter says roughly 1.5B tweets about gaming were made on its site in H1 2022, up 36% YoY; Genshin Impact was the most tweeted-about game and Wordle was second — Roughly 1.5 billion tweets about gaming were made on Twitter in the first half of 2022. That's ‘billion’ with a ‘b’.
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Uber is sued by 500+ women in the US over sexual assault by some drivers, alleging the company knew about sexual misconduct on rides, including rape, since 2014 — Uber Technologies Inc. is being sued by more than 500 women across the US who claim to have been assaulted by drivers on the platform.
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Seattle-based Uplevel, which uses data from software tools to help engineering teams analyze their effectiveness, has raised $20M led by Cota Capital — The news: Seattle startup Uplevel landed $20 million to fuel growth. The 5-year-old company helps engineering teams analyze the effectiveness … | Casey Newton / Platformer: |
A critique of Ev Williams' 10-year tenure at Medium and how it got caught in the middle between Substack and well-funded publishers like BuzzFeed and Vice — How Medium got stuck in the middle. PLUS: Twitter sues Musk — Few tech CEOs can claim to have steered the course of online conversation more than Ev Williams.
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New Oriental, one of China's largest private-tutoring companies, reinvents itself as a livestream grocery service on Douyin, after China's regulatory crackdown — New Oriental's rebranding catches on with viewers as English tutors go viral selling produce online
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PitchBook: crypto startups received $6.76B in VC funding in Q2 2022, down 31% from a record $9.85B in Q1 2022 — Crypto startups finally felt the effects of an economic storm that has been cooling digital currencies, public stocks and venture capital all year.
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Blind users say websites using automated accessibility tools, which are popular due to advances in AI and new legal pressures on companies, make access harder — Companies say their A.I.-powered tools are the best way to fix accessibility problems online, but many blind people find they make websites harder to use.
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Boston-based Merlin Labs, which develops an autonomous flight system for existing aircrafts, announces a $105M Series B and a partnership with the US Air Force — Autonomous flight is a grand challenge in aviation — and a gold mine. The first company to crack it at scale stands … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Qustodio analysis of 400K family profiles: by 2021's end, young users spent an average of 91 minutes on TikTok per day, surpassing 56 minutes spent on YouTube — Kids and teens are now spending more time watching videos on TikTok than on YouTube. — In fact, that's been the case since June 2020 … | Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
Twitter is testing a feature that will remind users to add image descriptions to photos, currently live to 10% of users across Android, iOS, and web — In the midst of absolutely no internal chaos whatsoever, Twitter's accessibility team launched a much-requested feature test.| Jasmine Hicks / The Verge: |
Reddit partners with Giphy to bring GIF comments to new subreddits automatically, and existing subreddits if moderators opt in to enable the feature — Subreddit moderators can opt in to the new GIF library — Reddit is joining the GIF party with its new partnership with Giphy … Sponsor Posts
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Azure Content Understanding: Building on lessons from a decade of Document Intelligence — What a decade of teaching machines to read real-world documents taught us about what LLMs can and can't do.
Azure Content Understanding: Building on lessons from a decade of Document Intelligence — What a decade of teaching machines to read real-world documents taught us about what LLMs can and can't do.
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