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Inside the UST Restitution Group, an association of ~4,400 crypto investors trying to track down Do Kwon's whereabouts, who share their findings on Discord — UST Restitution Group is trying to track down Do Kwon after the crash of his terraUSD and luna coins| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
iFixit's Google Pixel Watch teardown: the backplate can be replaced as can the display, after removing the battery; the buttons and crown don't seem replaceable — iFixit shows exactly how difficult it'll be to fix those cracked displays. — What secrets does the inside of the Pixel Watch hold? … | Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Intel previews the next-gen Thunderbolt, based on USB4 v2, with up to 80Gbps both ways, or 120Gbps one way and 40Gbps the other for “video-intensive usages” — Intel is showing off a preview of the next generation of Thunderbolt, which it says can “deliver up to three times the capability of Thunderbolt 4.”
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Analysis in 38 US cities: AT&T, Verizon, and others offer lower-income and least-white areas slow internet for the same price as faster service in other regions — An investigation by The Markup found that AT&T, Verizon, EarthLink, and CenturyLink disproportionately offered lower-income …
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SpaceX unveils Starlink Aviation, promising 20ms latency and up to 350Mbps speeds in planes, requiring a $150K Aero Terminal and $12.5K to $25K in monthly fees — Airplane operators can reserve now for Starlink deliveries in mid-2023. — SpaceX is now advertising Starlink Aviation …
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Google unveils Android 13 Go edition, with Material You, the Discover feed, and Google Play System Updates support, arriving in 2023 on devices with 2GB+ of RAM — Google announced and detailed Android 13 (Go edition) today with several sizable changes to the user experience … | Andrew Tarantola / Engadget: |
Meta AI unveils an open-source translator for spoken but unwritten languages, which currently translates one sentence at a time between Hokkien and English — Nearly half of the world's roughly 7,000 known languages four in ten of them exist without an accompanying written component.
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| Kaitlyn Tiffany / The Atlantic: |
A look at “gradient accounts” on Twitter that have color gradients as profile pictures, post viral “relatable” content, and are often accused of stealing tweets — Here's a very popular tweet: “she's a 10 but she cries on her birthday every year.” — Solid. Concise.
Tweets: @picpedant, @llegrarosenberg, @lenikacruz, @bitinn, and @nxthompson
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Los Angeles-based Eyenuk, which makes AI-powered eye screening tech to detect diabetic retinopathy, raised a $26M Series A, bringing its total funding to $43M+ — Eyenuk, a company that makes technology for eye screenings, raised $26 million in a Series A funding round, bringing its total funding to more than $43 million.
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Filings with the UK's CMA: as part of its Activision Blizzard acquisition, Microsoft plans to build an Xbox Mobile Platform and a “next generation game store” — Microsoft's Activision Blizzard deal is key to the company's mobile gaming efforts.
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| Niket Nishant / Reuters: |
Malaysian payments technology company Super Apps Holdings plans to go public in the US via a SPAC merger at a ~$1.1B valuation, listed on the Nasdaq under TETE — Super Apps Holdings will go public in the United States through a merger with a special purpose acquisition company in a deal …
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Valuation of public cloud companies in the US, Europe, and Israel fell from $2.8T to $1.2T in the past year; private market funding fell 42% YoY in Q3 2022 — This article was co-authored with my colleagues Richard Kotite and Will Sheldon. The Accel 2022 Euroscape was unveiled earlier today … | Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: |
YouTube names Leo Olebe, who held executive roles in Google Play's games partnership unit and at Meta, as head of its gaming unit, after an eight-month vacancy — YouTube named a new head of its gaming unit after an eight-month vacancy for the position. — Leo Olebe has held executive roles … Sponsor Posts
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