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Instagram announces changes for teen accounts, including making them private by default, restricting messages from “suspicious” adults, and limiting ads — Instagram has introduced protections for its teenage users to default young people into private accounts and make it harder for …
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| Arielle Pardes / Wired: |
SensorTower: Clubhouse had 484K global installs from July 21 to 25, up 17% from the previous five days, after moving from invite-only to general availability — Just a few days after ditching its invite-only status, the audio chat app had fewer than 500,000 new downloads.| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Nothing, launched by OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei, announces $99 Ear (1) wireless earbuds, available August 17 with gesture controls, ANC, and more — Nothing, the consumer tech startup led by OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei, has officially announced its Ear (1) true wireless earbuds.
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Following appliance energy efficiency laws in CA, CO, HI, OR, VT, and WA, Dell has stopped shipping select power-hungry PCs in those markets — Energy efficiency rules appears to be limiting the availability of gaming rigs — Dell is no longer shipping energy-hungry gaming PCs to certain states …
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1Password raises $100M led by Accel at a $2B valuation, after raising $200M in 2019, and says it now has 90,000 business customers — All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. — Password management platform 1Password has raised $100 million …
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| Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
Discord debuts threaded conversations, which auto-archive after 24 hours of inactivity and will roll out by Aug. 17, and a premium feature for private threads — After announcing that threads were on the way earlier this year and teasing the feature on Twitter, Discord is now introducing … | Jane Lee / Reuters: |
New York-based Bubble, which offers no-code tools to build web apps, raises $100M led by Insight Partners and says it has over 1M users globally — Bubble, a New York based startup that allows non-coders to design and create web applications, said on Tuesday it raised $100 million …
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Google launches Google Cloud Retail Search, a managed service giving retailers a custom version of Google Search that integrates into their apps and websites — Google LLC is bringing the power of its iconic search engine to online retailers. — The company today announced the general availability …
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Cryptocurrency exchanges Huobi and OKCoin are closing their subsidiaries in Beijing, as China expands its crack down; shares of Huobi's parent drop ~22% — The latest moves by Huobi and OKCoin follow the central government's actions against businesses related to bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies BTCChina …
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| Lauren Sommer / NPR: |
A look at the risks posed by rising sea water levels at Facebook, Google, and other Silicon Valley campuses and questions over who pays to protect them — In the heart of Silicon Valley, the world's biggest tech companies are expanding their headquarters on the edges of San Francisco Bay.
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Element, a messaging app built on top of decentralized protocol Matrix, raises $30M Series B from Protocol Labs and others, bringing total raised to $48M — All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. — Let the OSS Enterprise newsletter guide your open source journey!
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US smartphone market sales grew 27% YoY in H1 2021 despite component shortages; OnePlus rose by 428% YoY, Motorola by 83%, Apple by 53%, as Google dropped 7% — Denver, Boston, Toronto, Denver, London, New Delhi, Beijing, Taipei, Seoul - July 27, 2021 — The US smartphone market saw … | Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
GitHub partners with Stanford Law School to offer legal counsel to developers facing DMCA takedown requests; the advice is free for “valid” takedown claims — All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. — Let the OSS Enterprise newsletter guide your open source journey!| Ian Hamilton / UploadVR: |
Facebook is recalling ~4M foam face masks for Oculus Quest 2, after reports of irritation; Quest 2 goes on sale again Aug. 24 with improved 128GB base storage — Oculus Quest 2 sales are paused as Facebook adds a silicon cover to the boxes of every new headset, following reports of facial skin irritation with the original foam.| Todd Shields / Bloomberg: |
FCC challenges a bid won by SpaceX for $886M in rural broadband subsidies, concerned some of the spending may be wasteful, duplicative, or headed for other uses — - Company is among 197 winning bidders to get letters from FCC — Agency says it's cleaning up results from auction last year| Reuters: |
Tencent says it is temporarily suspending WeChat user registrations in China as it upgrades its systems to comply with new security regulations — Tencent's (0700.HK) WeChat has temporarily suspended registration of new users in mainland China as it undergoes a technical upgrade …
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Samsung confirms it won't launch a new Galaxy Note at its Unpacked event on Aug. 11, instead focusing on new Galaxy Z phones and an S Pen designed for foldables — The company also promises ‘enhanced durability’ — Samsung isn't looking to have many surprises at its August 11th Unpacked event.| Christine Hall / TechCrunch: |
Blameless, a site reliability engineering service, raises $30M Series B led by Third Point Ventures, bringing its total funding to over $50M — Site reliability engineering platform Blameless announced Tuesday it raised $30 million in a Series B funding round, led by Third Point Ventures … | Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Fireblocks, which lets users store, transfer, and issue digital assets, raises $310M Series D led by Sequoia, Stripes, and Spark at a $2.2B valuation — Fireblocks, an infrastructure provider for digital assets, has raised $310 million in a Series D round of funding that tripled …
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Pendo, which helps businesses gather behavioral analytics on how customers use their apps, raises $150M led by B Capital at a $2.6B valuation and eyes an IPO — - Silver Lake Waterman joins round as new Pendo investor — Analytics software firm's CEO says IPO to be considered
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
DataRobot, which helps companies train and deploy ML models, raises $300M Series G at a $6.3B post-money valuation, up from $2.7B in November 2020 — All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. — DataRobot, a startup creating an enterprise AI development platform …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
Apple updates iOS, iPadOS, and macOS to address a zero-day flaw that was reportedly actively exploited, making it the 13th zero-day Apple has patched this year — Apple has released patches today for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS to address a zero-day vulnerability that the company says has been exploited in the wild.
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| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Pinterest announces monetization tools for creators, including tagging products in Idea Pins to earn commissions, available to US and UK business accounts — Expect more encouragement to start shopping — Pinterest is going after the influencer market. The platform announced its first set …
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Cyber insurance startup At-Bay raises $185M Series D led by Icon Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners at a $1.35B valuation, amid the global ransomware boom — The startup, which raised $276 million to date, provides insurance for organizations and helps them counter cyber threats
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Blaize, which custom-designs AI edge chips with a new graph streaming architecture, raises $71M Series D, bringing its total raised to $155M — All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. — Blaize, a company developing AI edge computing platforms for automotive …
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Intel says its Foundry Services will build chips for Qualcomm and AWS and lays out a roadmap to catch up with TSMC and Samsung by 2025 — Intel Corp (INTC.O) said on Monday its factories will start building Qualcomm Inc (QCOM.O) chips and laid out a roadmap to expand its new foundry business …
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