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Google says it will let Android app developers use alternative billing systems in the Google Play store in South Korea, complying with a new law — Alphabet Inc.'s Google said it will add the option for developers to offer alternative billing systems on its Android app store in South Korea …
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| AnandTech: |
Review of Intel's ~$650 flagship i9-12900K Alder Lake CPU, which performs close to AMD's 5950X and 5900X depending on workloads, while adding DDR5 support — Today marks the official retail availability of Intel's 12th Generation Core processors, starting with the overclockable versions this side of the New Year, and the rest in 2022.
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Ars Technica, Windows Central, The Verge, Tom's Hardware, TweakTown, PC Gamer, TechSpot, and Rock, Paper, Shotgun. Tweets: @anandtech. Thanks:@iancutress
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AT&T and Verizon postpone the December 5 launch of C-band 5G spectrum to address the FAA's concerns of potential interference with cockpit safety systems — Wireless carriers postpone planned Dec. 5 launch of new spectrum to address concerns about potential interference with cockpit safety systems
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Mythical Games, which is developing a game platform with “playable NFTs”, raises $150M led by a16z at a $1.25B valuation, four months after raising $75M — Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.
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| Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg: |
Nintendo president says he doesn't “see a sign of the component shortages recovering” as the company cuts Switch sales target for FY 2021 from 25.5M to 24M — - Company upgrades operating profit outlook citing FX rates — Sustaining sales momentum will depend heavily on OLED model
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| Eli Tan / CoinDesk: |
Game studio Faraway raises a $21M Series A led by Lightspeed and FTX, plans to use the Solana blockchain in its most popular title Mini Royale — FTX and Lightspeed Venture Partners have led a $21 million Series A funding round for gaming studio Faraway. — Faraway said in a press release Thursday … | James Batchelor / GamesIndustry.biz: |
US-based game publisher Devolver Digital raises around $261M in a London IPO, at a valuation of about $950M — Fall Guys publisher is biggest US firm to trade on AIM, Sony Interactive Entertainment makes 5% investment in Devolver — Devolver Digital has begun trading on AIM …
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| Nicole Wetsman / The Verge: |
Alphabet launches Isomorphic Laboratories, a company that uses AI for drug discovery; DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis will also serve as Isomorphic CEO — It builds on DeepMind's work on protein folding — A new Alphabet company will use artificial intelligence methods for drug discovery, Google's parent company announced Thursday.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft warns Windows 11 users that features, including the Snipping Tool, touch keyboard, and emoji panel, aren't loading due to an expired certificate — Snipping Tool, the emoji picker, and other parts of Windows 11 are breaking — Microsoft has started warning Windows 11 users … | Issie Lapowsky / Protocol: |
Internal documents shed light on Facebook's “holdout” experiments, where it withholds certain protections from a subset of users to see how they will react — In her testimony before Congress last month, whistleblower Frances Haugen told lawmakers Facebook has conducted experiments …
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| Biz Carson / Protocol: |
PitchBook: female-founded startups raised a record $40.4B across 2,661 VC deals in the first three quarters of 2021 with a $59 billion all-time high in exits — The pandemic took a toll on female founders in 2020: Funding to their companies fell 3% even in a bullish startup climate that saw overall venture funding rise by 16%.
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| Michael Kan / PCMag: |
FCC approves Boeing's application to deploy and operate satellites providing broadband internet to US consumers and business; application was filed in 2017 — According to the FCC, Boeing plans on using the satellite internet system to supply broadband to residential, commercial, and government customers.
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| Kolawole Samuel Adebayo / VentureBeat: |
Treasure Data, which offers an enterprise customer data platform, raises $234M led by SoftBank — Mountain View-based enterprise customer data platform (CDP) Treasure Data has just received a $234 million funding in what the company calls the largest-ever single round for a CDP.
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Instagram brings back support for Twitter Card previews after removing the feature in 2012 — Instagram is bringing back support for Twitter Card previews starting today. Now when users share an Instagram link on Twitter, a preview of the post will be shown in the tweet.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Meta announces new tools for Facebook Group admins, including paid subgroups, the ability to create community fundraisers and shops, and more — At its Facebook Communities Summit today, the social networking giant announced a series of updates and new tools for managing Facebook Groups … | Rebecca Heilweil / Vox: |
Meta will retain some of its facial recognition systems, including its DeepFace model, and plans to incorporate biometrics into its metaverse products — The social network is scaling back facial recognition, but similar technology could show up in the metaverse.
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| Bloomberg: |
HashiCorp, which helps companies manage cloud infrastructure, files for a US IPO; source say it could seek to raise $1B+ and is aiming for a $10B+ valuation — Software provider HashiCorp Inc. filed to go public in the U.S. via an initial public offering. — The San Francisco-based company … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
A look at Match Group's plans for Tinder and Explore, including an expansion of virtual goods that incentivize engagement and a metaverse-like dating platform — Tinder has already undergone a big revamp with its recent launch of “Explore,” a new section inside the app that will enable …
Tweets: @drewharwell, @ballmatthew, @tmfotter, and @katie_roof
| Alexander Osipovich / Wall Street Journal: |
Google strikes a cloud deal with CME and invests $1B in the futures exchange — Alphabet Inc.'s Google has invested $1 billion in futures-exchange giant CME Group Inc. and struck a deal to move the company's core trading systems to the cloud. — Under the deal, the technology giant's Google Cloud unit …
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Tweets: @aosipovich, @theemilyaccount, and @susanlitv
| Bloomberg: |
Sources say Masayoshi Son's profit-sharing plan for Vision Fund employees is contributing to a stream of defections, because it is based primarily on seniority — Ever since billionaire investor Masayoshi Son set up the giant Vision Fund in 2017 to provide backing for technology startups …
Tweets: @gilliantan and @pelstrom
| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
US sanctions four companies, including NSO Group, that sell spyware or hacking tools, adding them to a list of entities engaging in “malicious cyber activities” — The US government has sanctioned today four companies that develop and sell spyware and other hacking tools, the US Department of Commerce announced today.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
GitHub CEO Nat Friedman is stepping down on November 15; Thomas Dohmke, who became chief product officer in August, will take over as CEO — GitHub CEO Nat Friedman is stepping down from his role on November 15 to become the Chairman Emeritus of the Microsoft-owned service.
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Tweets: @natfriedman, @cassidyjames, @natfriedman, @ashtom, @segphault, @moxie, @mahdyar_me, @carnage4life, @dvdsgl, @scottgu, @tlakomy, @brian_armstrong, @joshmanders, @rauchg, @natfriedman, @natfriedman, @stroughtonsmith, @sbisson, @ericabrescia, and @github. Thanks:@colegarry2
| Christine Hall / TechCrunch: |
Fountain, which provides an applicant tracking system for hourly workers, raises a $85M Series C led by Vision Fund 2, bringing its total funding to $119M — You may have visited some quick-service restaurants or other retailers in the past few months and noticed signs posted with shortened hours or not being open on a certain day.Thanks:@christinemhall
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