Techmeme: South Korea-based online grocery startup Kurly, which says it plans to IPO in H1 2022 at a ~$5.8B valuation, raises $210M at a $3.3B valuation (Kate Park/TechCrunch)

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Ben Bowman / The Streamable:

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Inside Intel's Ronler complex in Hillsboro, Oregon, where it conducts its most advanced research and houses the company's most important chip manufacturing site — HILLSBORO, Ore. — To create a beam of ultraviolet radiation precise enough to print the world's most advanced microchips …

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Alex Pasternack / Fast Company:

How Chinese Wikipedia volunteers fighting censorship, threats, arrest, and violence expose the challenges to the Wikimedia Foundation's free-knowledge mission — This past July, before he was banned from Wikipedia, Techyan was one of dozens of volunteers preparing to speak at the free-knowledge movement's annual conference, Wikimania.

More: Slashdot. Tweets: @pasternack, @harrymccracken, @fastcompany, and @juhasaarinen. Thanks:@technologizer

Kate Park / TechCrunch:

South Korea-based online grocery startup Kurly, which says it plans to IPO in H1 2022 at a ~$5.8B valuation, raises $210M at a $3.3B valuation — Just half a year after its last Series F round announcement, Korean online grocery startup Kurly has closed a $210 million in a pre-IPO round …

Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch:

Berlin-based Vay, a startup that uses remote operators to drive rental cars to a customer's pick-up spot and from their drop-off site, raises a $95M Series B — Vay, a company that is trying to get self-driving car services to market faster by pursuing a teledriven approach …

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Andy Maxwell / TorrentFreak:

Malaysia passes a bill to imprison illegal streaming pirates, primarily those involved in the provision or facilitation of illegal streams, for up to 20 years — Laws that forbid the illegal uploading and downloading of copyrighted content are common around the world but the rise of streaming has sometimes exposed gaps in legislation.

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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:

The case for Apple to offer a 15-inch iPad home hub is made clear by devices like the Portal and Echo Show 15, as well as Apple's ~5% smart speaker market share — I've been testing Amazon.com Inc.'s new Echo Show 15. My takeaway: It's time for Apple Inc. to get serious about the smart home and launch a giant iPad as a new hub.

More: PhoneArena, 9to5Mac, and AppleInsider

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Igor Bonifacic / Engadget:

Amazon issues an update to fix its Appstore and the issues that left some Android 12 users with apps that didn't work — Amazon has addressed the issue that had left those with Android 12 phones unable to use apps they had downloaded from the company's Appstore.

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Nilay Patel / The Verge:

Interview with Jameel Jaffer of the Knight First Amendment Institute on how Congress can regulate social media platforms while abiding by the First Amendment — One of the hardest problems at the intersection of tech and policy right now is the question of how to regulate social media platforms.

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Financial Times:

Profile of Tether CEO Jean-Louis van der Velde, who previously ran a company in China that faced lawsuits over unpaid bills and fines for late tax payments — Jean-Louis van der Velde's career offered few clues that he would become a key figure in fast-growing industry

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