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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Sony plans to launch the PlayStation VR2 on February 22 for $550, £530, or €600; preorders open November 15 — Sony will launch its PS VR2 headset on February 22nd priced at $549.99. The PS VR2 will be priced at $549.99 in the US, €599.99 across Europe, £529.99, and ¥74,980 in Japan.
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| Washington Post: |
Elon Musk says Twitter will not reinstate banned accounts “until we have a clear process for doing so, which will take at least a few more weeks” — After the Zoom meeting, Musk tweeted that no suspended accounts would return to the site until there was a clear process for doing so
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| Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
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| Washington Post: |
Internal email: Twitter appears to be rushing out a “high”-risk “Paywalled Video” feature, letting users charge to view their videos, with Twitter taking a cut — The tool would let video creators charge users for access. The team working on it flagged big potential pitfalls.
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| Elon Musk / @elonmusk: |
Elon Musk says the blue checkmark system is “bullshit” and Twitter Blue will be $8/month with half the ads, priority in replies, mentions, and search, and more — Twitter's current lords & peasants system for who has or doesn't have a blue checkmark is bullshit. Power to the people! Blue for $8/month.
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| Elisa Lipsky-Karasz / Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of, and interview with, Jony Ive, covering life before and after Apple, his artistic process, LoveFrom, the importance of words, and more — can always write an awful lot that I can't draw,“ Jony Ive, the mastermind behind Apple's most revolutionary products, says as he holds up a Space Age-style coffee cup. ”| Karen Hao / Wall Street Journal: |
China's Zhengzhou industrial park, where Foxconn makes iPhones, begins a weeklong lockdown to counteract the “severe and complicated” spread of COVID-19 — HONG KONG—The industrial park where Foxconn Technology Group's iPhone assembly plant is struggling to maintain production amid …
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| Steven Musil / CNET: |
An ex-Apple employee, Dhirendra Prasad, pleaded guilty to mail and wire fraud charges after defrauding Apple of $17M+, including via kickbacks, starting in 2011 — Former parts buyer engaged in theft, taking kickbacks and inflating invoices, prosecutors say. — Steven Musil
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| Chelsey Cox / CNBC: |
FinCEN: US financial firms processed ~$1.2B in likely ransomware payments in 2021, up almost 3x YoY; ~75% of H2 2021 ransomware incidents were linked to Russia — - U.S. banks and financial institutions processed more than $1 billion in potential ransomware-related payments in 2021.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Netflix begins rolling out its Basic with Ads tier; sources say licensing negotiations with Disney, Comcast, Sony, Warner Bros., and Lions Gate are ongoing — Disney, NBCU and Sony are among the companies still negotiating licensing with the streaming service
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Financial Times, PYMNTS.com, KnowTechie, Tom's Guide, The Streamable, BGR, and How-To Geek
Tweets: @hshaban, @hedgeyecomm, @bysarahkrouse, and @deitaone
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Apple TV 4K (2022) review: affordable, snappy performance, and USB-C remote, but no AirTag-like remote tracking, lackluster live TV, and somewhat stale design — Packing more speed than ever (and now HDR10 Plus) at a cheaper price, the Apple TV 4K is the best overall streamer on the market — even if tvOS is falling behind in places
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Google plans to roll out parental controls for Assistant, including disabling features, restricting services, and setting downtimes hours, in the “coming weeks” — Kids love to use smart speakers, but it's all too easy for things to go horribly wrong — including content that's decidedly not family-friendly.| Hamish McKenzie / On Substack: |
Substack co-founder says it's time for a “real alternative” to Twitter, and plans features to let writers and readers “hang out”, show their status, and more — It's time you had your own private social network — If you're into writing and reading …
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Empathy and Washington Post
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Google plans to release a limited version of the Imagen text-to-image generator on its AI Test Kitchen app, letting users build cities and create a monster — Google is being extremely cautious with the release of its text-to-image AI systems. … Today, though, the search giant announced …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Snap partners with Amazon to let users try on eyewear in AR through dozens of new Shopping Lenses — Snap has landed a notable new partner for its augmented reality-powered Virtual Try-On shopping experience with today's news that Amazon will now offer Snapchat users the ability to digitally try … | Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google adds Lens to the google.com homepage, letting users search by image, after rolling out the feature to the desktop in 2021 — Google Lens will only become more important going forward, and one sign of that is its addition to the google.com homepage today.
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| Maria Heeter / The Information: |
Neobank Chime lays off 12% of its 1,300-person workforce, or ~150, citing “current market dynamics”; Chime raised $750M at a $25B valuation in August 2021 — Online banking startup Chime, which before this year's market meltdown had been widely seen as a candidate …
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| Lora Kolodny / CNBC: |
Sources: Twitter managers told employees they would be paid for their newly vested shares in the first half of November 2022, starting as early as November 4 — - Since Elon Musk closed his purchase of Twitter on Oct. 28, employees worried they would be fired or laid off before their stock options vested in early November.| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Arta Finance, which is building a “digital family office for the world”, raised a $90M seed and Series A from Sequoia, Eric Schmidt, and others — Caesar Sengupta has worked on, and overseen, several category-defining projects in the past decade and a half.
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| Kate Kaye / Protocol: |
Microsoft helped build a robust AI ecosystem in China but the company could be forced to reexamine its relationship with the country under tighter US rules — Through decades of support, Microsoft was an instrumental force helping China become the AI powerhouse it is today.
Tweets: @katekayereports and @bennettrich
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Roam, founded by Yext's Howard Lerman as a “cloud HQ” for distributed remote companies, raised a $30M Series A and $10.6M seed at a $95M post-money valuation — Roam, which bills itself as a “cloud HQ” for distributed, remote companies, today emerged from stealth with $30 million …
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| Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: |
Sydney-based Blackbird raised an AU$1B+ fund, the largest Australian VC fund yet, including AU$284M for early-stage in Australia and AU$668M for follow-on bets — Blackbird Ventures has raised the largest Australian venture capital fund yet, securing more than A$1 billion ($640 million) … | William Turvill / Press Gazette: |
Source: Meta plans to end human curation of its UK Facebook News tab, contracted to a team of ~15 journalists at Upday, and switch entirely to AI in early 2023 — Meta plans to end human curation of the UK Facebook News tab, turning it into a fully automated product, Press Gazette has learned.| Justine Calma / The Verge: |
Google expands its flood forecasting and wildfire tracking services, adding a Flood Hub globally and improved wildfire tracking in more countries — Google announced a big expansion of its flood forecasting and wildfire tracking services today. It launched a tool called Flood Hub globally …
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Dropbox says hackers stole code and some API keys from 130 GitHub repositories via a phishing campaign, but its core apps and infrastructure were unaffected — Dropbox disclosed a security breach after threat actors stole 130 code repositories after gaining access to one of its GitHub …
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| Brandy Betz / CoinDesk: |
Tharsis Labs, which makes the Evmos blockchain that enables transactions between Ethereum and Cosmos, raised $27M via a token sale led by Polychain Capital — Polychain Capital led the funding raise to accelerate the cross-chain decentralized app platform — Tharsis Labs …
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| Washington Post: |
Sources: the US is exploring whether it has legal authority to review Elon Musk's Twitter deal, which gives large foreign investors access to confidential data — Terms of the deal give large foreign investors access to confidential information about the social media platform
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| Raksha Kumar / Rest of World: |
A look at the everyday sexism faced by Indian women working in tech; around 36% of India's 5M tech workers are women, of which 7% hold executive-level positions — Tech helped more Indian women join the workforce, but they're still fighting to be treated equally.
Tweets: @anupkaphle, @itikaspunit, @restofworld, and @itikaspunit
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