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| Ian Sherr / CNET: |
Apple announces Self Service Repair, a program starting next year that will publish repair manuals, let customers buy parts and tools, and more — The tech giant says it will publish repair manuals and allow everyday customers to buy the same parts and tools certified technicians and repair shops use.
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Amazon tells UK customers it won't accept Visa credit cards issued in the UK from January 19, 2022, citing high transaction fees — - Customers told the change will come into effect in Jan. 2022 — Amazon cites high fees charged by Visa as reason for change
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| Shannon Liao / Washington Post: |
Over 100 Activision Blizzard employees staged a walkout on Tuesday, the second in four months, demanding CEO Bobby Kotick step down, after a WSJ report — This story has been updated from a previous version. — IRVINE, Calif. — Employees at beleaguered video game company Activision Blizzard walked …
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| Sam Dean / Los Angeles Times: |
LA's iconic Staples Center to be renamed as Crypto.com Arena, sources say in a deal worth $700M+ for 20 years — Staples Center is getting a new name for Christmas: Crypto.com Arena. — The downtown Los Angeles venue — home of the Lakers, Clippers, Kings and Sparks …
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| Sean Endicott / Windows Central: |
Microsoft shifts Windows 10 from two major updates per year to one, and announces that only Windows 11 will support emulating x64 apps on ARM devices — You'll have to upgrade your Windows on ARM PC to use x64 emulation. — What you need to know — Microsoft discussed the status of x64 emulation for Windows on ARM today.
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| Peter Guest / Rest of World: |
Singapore, which is often portrayed as an aspiring techno-utopia, is edging closer to a surveillance state amid a nationwide move toward constant vigilance — In the “smart nation,” robot dogs enforce social distancing and an app can claim to neutralize racism. The reality is very different.
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| Tom Matsuda / The Block: |
ConsenSys, which develops and invests in projects built on the Ethereum blockchain, raises $200M at a $3.2B valuation from HSBC, Coinbase Ventures, and others — Quick Take — ConsenSys, a company that develops and invests in the ethereum blockchain, has raised $200 million … | Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Meta details a haptic glove prototype that uses air pockets to simulate touching objects in VR and has been in development for seven years — A new sci-fi interface for the metaverse — You cannot pet a dog in Meta's new, high-tech virtual reality gloves. But researchers are getting closer.
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Miramax sues Quentin Tarantino over copyright infringement for selling NFTs based on Pulp Fiction screenplay excerpts; Miramax says it owns screenplay rights — Miramax filed a lawsuit on Tuesday accusing Quentin Tarantino of copyright infringement by selling NFTs based on the screenplay for “Pulp Fiction.”
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Netflix expands its Top 10 lists to display the most-viewed shows and movies, for English and non-English titles, ranked by aggregate viewing hours — Netflix says it's heard the complaints about how it “cherry picks” the self-reported data it releases about content viewed on its platform.
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| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
iOS 15.2 beta code shows a private “SportsKit” framework, currently integrated with the Apple TV app, Siri, and home screen widgets — It's no secret at this point that Apple is becoming more interested in the sports segment, as the company has been investing and hiring related professionals …
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| Axios: |
Analysis: the top five most-followed accounts on TikTok do not rank in the top 50 on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, or Instagram — The creator economy has produced thousands of social media entrepreneurs who have built mega-audiences in the millions — larger than many media companies.| Bloomberg: |
Source: BlockFi faces SEC scrutiny for offering high interest rates for lending out crypto; Texas, New Jersey, and others are already investigating BlockFi — - U.S. regulator examining whether lending product is a security — Fast-growing firm already responding to state-level inquires| Brent Kendall / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Republican FTC commissioners and some career officials feel excluded under the current leadership; Lina Khan rejected the claims in an agency-wide memo — Criticized by Republicans, Khan tells agency staffers she aims to build bridges going forward
Tweets: @wsj, @hotlinejosh, @karlbode, @brkend, and @sidhubaba
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Tel Aviv-based Overwolf, a modding service for game developers, raises a $75M Series D led by a16z, following a $52.5M raise in March, and says it has 20M MAUs — Overwolf has raised $75 million in funding to jumpstart community-created mod experiences for games.
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Globes Online, Overwolf Blog, and Pocket Gamer.biz
| Charlie Osborne / ZDNet: |
Cybersecurity firm Mandiant says it has “high confidence” that Belarus is partially responsible for Ghostwriter, a hack-and-leak operation in some EU states — Mandiant says the government is likely to blame for anti-NATO campaigns, and more. — The Belarusian government … | Nina Bambysheva / Forbes: |
Nym Technologies, which provides network-level privacy through its blockchain-based “mixnet”, raises a $13M Series A led by a16z at a $270M valuation — I cover cryptocurrencies and other applications of blockchain — Working to make the internet more private … | Kate Park / TechCrunch: |
QuEra Computing, which is building a commercially accessible cloud-based quantum device, emerges from stealth with $17M from Rakuten and others — QuEra Computing, a Boston-based quantum computer developer, is coming out of stealth mode today with $17 million in funding from Rakuten, Day One Ventures and Frontiers Capital.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Tel Aviv-based Laminar, which helps companies manage public cloud data security, emerges from stealth with $37M across seed and Series A — The cloud may be the direction that much of enterprise IT is moving today, but it still remains a major source of security issues …
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| Reuters: |
Profile of Vignesh Sundaresan, aka MetaKovan, who bought the $69M Beeple NFT, as customers and investors in his companies say they lost millions of dollars — Vignesh Sundaresan, aka MetaKovan, has amassed a digital art collection worth tens of millions of dollars. His path to riches was sometimes rocky.
Tweets: @reuters, @saurabhsherry, @e_howcroft, and @aaberwick
| Sophia Kunthara / Crunchbase News: |
Place, which offers tools for real estate agents covering accounting, hiring, ads, and more, raises a $100M Series A led by Goldman Sachs at a $1B valuation — Proptech startup Place raised $100 million in a Series A round led by Goldman Sachs, the company said Wednesday. — Subscribe to the Crunchbase Daily
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Hightouch, which offers tools to sync data from disparate sources, raises a $40M Series B led by Iconiq Growth at a $450M post-money valuation — Data integration platform Hightouch has raised $40 million in a series B round of funding led by Iconiq Growth, a venture capital firm …
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FinSMEs, Forbes, and TechCrunch
| Faseeh Mangi / Bloomberg: |
Analysis: Pakistan-based startups have raised ~$300M in 2021, more than the previous six years combined, with investors from the US, UAE, and Singapore — Global investors are pouring money into Pakistan's budding tech sector. Funding this year has outstripped the last six combined.
Tweets: @xparacha, @faseehmangi, and @hassshad
| Christine Hall / TechCrunch: |
Cash flow management service Settle raises a $60M Series B led by Ribbit Capital, bringing its total funding to $100M — Cashflow management startup Settle announced its second round of funding in five months, this time $60 million in Series B financing as it aims to carve out a niche … | Nicole Wetsman / The Verge: |
The FDA authorizes AppliedVR's EaseVRx as a prescription VR treatment for chronic lower back pain in adults — It joins a handful of other digital therapeutics — The Food and Drug Administration authorized a virtual reality system as a prescription treatment for chronic back pain, the agency announced today.
Tweets: @brennanspiegel and @us_fda
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