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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Chip shortage hits Apple at the worst possible time ahead of the holidays, and Meta and Apple are set to be smartwatch and mixed reality headset rivals in 2022 — Apple had seemingly avoided the chip shortage for months, but the company's fortunes have now changed.
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| Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Apple plans a “crash detection” feature next year for iPhones and Watches, which measures a spike in g-forces to detect car accidents and auto-dial 911 — Safety feature is also planned for Apple Watches expected in 2022, according to company documents
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Insider, PCMag, MacRumors, Engadget, XDA Developers, AppleInsider, iClarified, 9to5Mac, KnowTechie, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, CNET, MacDailyNews, BGR, iPhone Hacks, iMore, Cult of Mac, and Patently Apple. Tweets: @richontech
| Zack Zwiezen / Kotaku: |
After a three-day outage, Roblox says it is back online — According to Roblox's status page, all versions of the game have been down since Oct 28 starting at 7 pm EST — Roblox, one of the most popular games in the world, has been down for over a day now and while many frustrated players …
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| Paul Vigna / Wall Street Journal: |
Digital Currency Group raises $700M at a $10B+ valuation led by SoftBank's Vision Fund 2 and Latin America Fund, with CapitalG and others participating — The Grayscale and CoinDesk owner sells $700 million of shares at a $10 billion valuation, in a funding round led by two SoftBank funds
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CNBC, Blockworks, Axios, Decrypt, CoinDesk, The Block, cryptonews.com, Cointelegraph, Crypto Briefing, and CryptoSlate
Tweets: @barrysilbert and @wublockchain
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Review of new $200 Beats Fit Pro: comfortable with very good active noise cancellation and transparency mode but no wireless charging and little Android support — The latest Beats earbuds are the company's best product since the Powerbeats Pro — Beats has been busy.
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Tweets: @chriswelch, @chancehmiller, and @dcseifert
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
OctoML, which helps enterprises optimize and deploy their ML models, raises a $85M Series C led by Tiger Global, following its $28M Series B in March — OctoML, a Seattle-based startup that helps enterprises optimize and deploy their machine learning models, today announced that it has raised …
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| Richard Waters / Financial Times: |
Dell spins off its 81% stake in VMware, creating a $64B independent software company; Dell's remaining hardware operations have an implied value of $33B — Share sale completes eight-year saga that will unwind part of the 2018 deal for server and storage company EMC| Axios: |
NewsWhip: interest in Facebook, measured by social media interactions per article, declined over 2021, with little mainstream attention for “Facebook Papers” — The Facebook Papers and whistleblower accounts were a public relations nightmare for Facebook, but so far …
Tweets: @axios, @daveyalba, @jason_kint, @stevekovach, @nrothschild3, @sarafischer, and @evelyndouek
| Sami Fathi / MacRumors: |
Some Mac owners report that upgrading to macOS Monterey bricked their computer — macOS Monterey, released last week as the latest version of macOS, is bricking older Mac computers, rendering them unusable and unable to even turn on, according to a number of reports from users across social media and online forums.
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iMore, XDA Developers, AppleInsider, TechSpot, Wccftech, and discussions.apple.com
Tweets: @freddymini, @itsdannylin, @susuyachan, @bdav, @i_chezee, @kenlyons, and @spitf1r3
| Patrick McGee / Financial Times: |
Estimate: Apple's iOS App Tracking Transparency policy has cost Snap, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube almost $10B in combined ad revenue in H2 2021 — Forcing apps to ask for permission to track users for advertising purposes leads to big hit for social media platforms
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The Verge, TNW, iThinkDifferent, The Sun, Gizmodo, BGR, MacRumors, XDA Developers, Insider, 9to5Mac, Pixel Envy, The Overspill, KnowTechie, Silicon Republic, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, Pocketnow, PhoneArena, Ubergizmo, The Mac Observer, PYMNTS.com, and AppleInsider
Tweets: @patrickmcgee_, @patrickmcgee_, @patrickmcgee_, @profcarroll, @nicholasvinocur, @jendudley, @maccaw, @patrickmcgee_, @efa_oz, @cameronwilson, @pt, @psythor, @pt, @jason_kint, @wholemarsblog, @rustybrick, @iansherr, @chadloder, @mayazi, @ourielohayon, @brettwhitmarsh, @ashleygjovik, @javierpallero, @sar_meta_web3, @carnage4life, @privacymatters, @antoniogm, and @adamsinger
| Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: |
ByteDance limits staff working hours from 10am to 7pm on weekdays, becoming one of the first tech companies in China to officially end its “996” culture — - Employees will need to seek permission to work overtime — China's 996 culture has drawn criticism, government scrutiny| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Pinterest to launch a shoppable live series called Pinterest TV on November 8, with weekday episodes airing in its app, featuring some of its top creators — The series will feature creators and celebrities, like Olympic athlete Tom Daley and popular makeup artist Manny MUA| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Mosaic, which makes software to automate construction planning, raises a $44M Series B led by Peak State Ventures, bringing its total raised to $68.8M — Mosaic Building Group, a Phoenix, Arizona-based construction tech startup, has raised $44 million in a Series B funding round led by Peak State Ventures.
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