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Coinbase updates its app to let US users see a scorecard that evaluates members of Congress on crypto policy issues, register to vote, and find political events — - Coinbase is getting political: The exchange added new app features to help users evaluate lawmakers, register to vote and find political events.
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| Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
In a US Senate committee hearing, Meta, YouTube, TikTok, and Twitter executives defended their platforms and dodged security, privacy, and moderation questions — Executives from four of the biggest social media companies testified before the Senate Homeland Security Committee Wednesday …
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California's AG files an antitrust lawsuit against Amazon, focusing on the company allegedly penalizing sellers who list products at lower prices on other sites — Rob Bonta, California's attorney general, said the retailer punishes companies that offer lower prices on other websites.
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
iPhone 14 Pro review: excellent performance and an incredible 48MP camera, but Dynamic Island's potential isn't fully realized and the camera sharpens too much — The dynamic island is a potentially good idea that's waiting for the next step … Apple pulled off some unexpected surprises …
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| David Pan / Bloomberg: |
Ethermine, the largest Ethereum mining firm, plans to shut down its servers for miners after Ethereum's Merge and switch its mining pool to withdraw-only mode — Ethermine, the largest Ethereum mining services provider by computing power, will shut down its servers for miners … | Mike Truppa / The Block: |
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| Patrick Kennedy / ServeTheHome: |
Arm unveils Neoverse V2, its next-gen core for pushing cloud, hyperscale, and HPC performance workloads, which is set to power Nvidia's upcoming Grace CPU — Today Arm announced its next-generation cores for higher performance per core applications. Dubbed the Arm Neoverse V2 or “Demeter” …
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| Zeyi Yang / MIT Technology Review: |
Users say a demo of ERNIE-ViLG, Baidu's new text-to-image AI model, labels words in political contexts as “sensitive” and blocks them from generating a result — The new text-to-image AI developed by Baidu can generate images that show Chinese objects and celebrities more accurately than existing AIs.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google cancels seven out of 14 projects in its Area 120 incubator, including Qaya, which offered storefronts for creators, and shifts to only AI-first projects — Google CEO Sundar Pichai, speaking at the Code Conference last week, suggested the tech company needed to become 20% more efficient …
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| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
Canva unveils new products Docs, Websites, Whiteboards, and Data Visualization, brings background removing to videos, and adds a remote control to Presentations — Canva is further establishing itself as more than just a user-friendly graphic design tool. The Australian company announced …
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| Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: |
Amazon says its new “Tailored Audiences” tool, available to all US sellers in early 2023, will let brands and merchants send marketing emails to shoppers — Amazon.com Inc. will let brands and merchants send marketing emails to shoppers, a risky bid to boost sales that could inundate inboxes with spam.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Intel, Arm, and Nvidia propose a new open, license-free specification using 8-bit floating point, or FP8, precision as a common interchange format for AI — In pursuit of faster and more efficient AI system development, Intel, Arm and Nvidia today published a draft specification for what they refer …
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| Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
Discord rolls out Reddit-like Forum channels, designed for asynchronous chat about specific topics, after testing them with some communities since February 2022 — If you've ever waded into a new Discord server and immediately been overwhelmed by a fast-scrolling wall of conversation …
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
California Governor Gavin Newsom signs AB 587 into law, requiring social networks to share moderation rules, despite concerns it may violate the First Amendment — California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed a law aimed at making web platforms monitor hate speech, extremism, harassment, and other objectionable behaviors.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Tel Aviv-based Groundcover, a performance monitoring service for cloud apps, raised a $20M Series A led by Zeev Ventures, bringing its total funding to $24.5M — Groundcover, a performance monitoring platform for cloud apps, today announced that it raised $20 million in a Series A round led … | Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
Verkada, an IoT security device maker accused of lax data protections and a toxic workplace, raised a $205M Series D at a $3.2B valuation led by Linse Capital — Verkada, a six-year-old, maker of building security tools and tech for companies — it sells them a package of video security cameras …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Hone, which runs an online learning platform for executive training and is helmed by FanDuel co-founder Tom Griffiths, raised a $30M Series B led by 3L capital — One of the co-founders of FanDuel has raised $30 million to fund a startup — Hone — that's providing a platform for … | Kevin Collier / NBC News: |
Seesaw, a messaging app for parents and teachers with 10M users, says hackers used a credential stuffing attack after users said they received an explicit image — A messaging app for parents and teachers said Wednesday that it was hacked after some parents said they had received messages …
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