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Research: with 4,000+ monthly active developers, Ethereum has the largest open source ecosystem in crypto, followed by Polkadot, Cosmos, Solana, and Bitcoin — Executive Summary — Web3 developers are at an all-time high and growing faster than ever. — 18,000+ monthly active …
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A record $14B flowed to criminal crypto addresses in 2021, up from $7.8B in 2020, driven by DeFi scams; total transaction volume reached $15.8T, up 567% YoY — This blog is a preview of our 2022 Crypto Crime Report. Sign up here to reserve your copy and we'll email you the full report when it comes out in February!
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| Cherlynn Low / Engadget: |
Google partners with Acer, HP, and Intel to bring Fast Pair to select Windows PCs later in 2022 and announces improvements to Phone Hub on Chromebooks — Google wants to do for Android and Chrome users what Apple does for people in its ecosystem. It's announcing a set of news today …
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| Elisa Braun / Politico: |
France's data regulator, the CNIL, fines Google €150M and Meta €60M for failing to let French users easily reject cookie trackers — PARIS — French data regulator the CNIL is set to fine Google €150 million and Facebook €60 million for violating EU privacy rules.
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| Sarah Pringle / Axios: |
Sources: IBM has restarted attempts to sell its unprofitable Watson Health division, potentially for over $1B; IBM has spent $4B on M&A to build Watson Health — IBM has resurrected its sale process for IBM Watson Health, with hopes of fetching more than $1 billion, people familiar with the situation tell Axios.| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
Tencent's WeChat will add support for China's digital yuan, e-CNY, to WeChat Pay — - Tencent-owned WeChat, China's largest messaging app and one of the country's biggest payment services, will begin supporting the digital yuan. — The People's Bank of China, which issues …
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China's copyright authority bans digital music platforms from signing exclusive copyright agreements except in special circumstances — China's copyright authority said on Thursday digital music platforms are not allowed to sign exclusive copyright agreements except in special circumstances … | José Adorno / 9to5Mac: |
Instagram tests the ability to switch between a Home feed, a Favorites feed, and a Following chronological feed, rolling out to all users in H1 2022 — Head of Instagram, Adam Mosseri, announced today that the app is rolling out for some users the ability to switch between different feeds.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Spotify introduces Call-to-Action Cards, a visual ad format for podcasts that puts clickable cards inside show and episode pages — Spotify is today introducing is introducing a new ad format aimed at podcasters which it's calling “Call-to-Action Cards” — or CTA cards, for short.| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Meta says it is still working on a “highly specialized OS” for its AR/VR devices, and it is not “halting or scaling back” operations in building AR/VR software — It's still interested in a custom OS — Meta reportedly pulled the plug on a custom operating system …
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| Steven Zeitchik / Washington Post: |
On the January 6 riot anniversary, data scientists say AI models can help forecast similar events, as some question their accuracy and potential for misuse — A year after the attack on the Capitol, data scientists say artificial intelligence can help forecast insurrection — with some caveats
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Kazakhstan faces internet disruptions and a subsequent nationwide shutdown since Tuesday evening, amid protests against energy price increases — Network data from NetBlocks confirm a significant disruption to internet service in Kazakhstan from the evening of Tuesday 4 January 2022 …
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
HTC announces the Vive Wrist Tracker, a watch-like controller that tracks hand-to-elbow positions for its Vive Focus 3 VR headset, launching in Q1 2022 for $129 — Set to launch later this quarter — HTC is announcing a new wrist-based controller for its Vive Focus 3 virtual reality headset.
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| Miles Kruppa / Financial Times: |
PitchBook: US startups raised a record $329.8B in 2021, up from a record $166.6B in 2020; over half, or $190.8B, came from $100M+ rounds — Sum nearly doubles from 2020 in a financing rush one fund manager deems ‘not rational’ — Investors poured a record $330bn into private start-ups …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
London-based iProov, which offers face authentication tools to governments and other organizations, raises $70M from Sumeru Equity — Biometrics, and specifically facial recognition, have seen a surge of usage in the last several years, first as a tool to help organizations verify identities digitally … | Brave Browser: |
Brave reports 15.5M+ DAUs and 50M+ MAUs at the end of 2021, up from 24M MAUs at the end of 2020, 10M+ mobile downloads in 2021, and Brave Ads revenue up 4x YoY — Brave Search now at 2.3 billion annualized queries — Key new products from Brave this year included Brave Search …
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Rupifi, which works with Flipkart and other e-commerce companies in India to offer a buy now, pay later service for mom and pop shops, raises $25M — Rupifi has raised $25 million in a new financing round as the Indian startup, which currently provides buy now, pay later service … Sponsor Posts
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