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Sony reveals the PlayStation VR2's design: lighter, with a lens adjustment dial, new vent layout, and similar white-and-black color scheme — This is the PlayStation VR2 — Sony has finally revealed the design of its next-generation PlayStation VR2 headset, after it announced it in February 2021 …
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An investigation suggests that Austrian programmer Toby Hoenisch was likely behind The DAO's 2016 hack that diverted 3.64M ETH, now worth $11B — Who hacked The DAO in 2016, diverting 3.6 million ether? We identify the apparent hacker — he denies it — by following a complicated trail …
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| Joan E. Solsman / CNET: |
Spotify says Car Thing is now on sale in the US for $90, after its April 2021 announcement; in a few weeks, a software update will add Audible support and more — Two million raced onto a waitlist for Spotify's first hardware. Now that it's on sale, Spotify's real road test must prove Car Thing's more than a goofy name.
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Slack fixes an issue that caused an hours-long outage, in which users were unable to reliably send messages or even load the service — If you've been having trouble contacting co-workers, this may be why — Slack was experiencing some issues Tuesday morning that made it difficult for users …
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Meta rolls out Facebook Reels to over 150 countries, following the feature's US launch in September 2021, alongside new creative tools and ad formats — After publicly launching in the U.S. this past September, Facebook Reels today is becoming globally available in over 150 countries.
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A look at nine Android spyware apps, installed on ~400K phones, which connect to servers controlled by Vietnam-based 1Byte and share a critical security flaw — A fleet of spyware apps share the same security flaw — Much of the spyware you hear of today are the powerful nation-state backed exploits …
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Sources: Amazon has shipped at most a few hundred Astros since the home robot's September 2021 debut; Amazon says Astro is “our first robot, not our last” — Last September, Amazon.com Inc. debuted a household robot named Astro that was supposed to usher in—or at least point to—a Jetsons-like future.| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Hasura, which helps developers access databases using its open-source GraphQL API, raises a $100M Series C at a $1B valuation led by Greenoaks — Sign up here. — Usage of GraphQL, a query language that's generally leveraged to load data from a server to a client, is exploding.| Ryan Weeks / The Block: |
Luna Foundation Guard raises $1B in a sale of LUNA, the Terra's blockchain native token, to form a BTC-denominated forex reserve for Terra's UST stablecoin — Quick Take — The capital will be used to create a new reserve that can act as a “release valve” for UST redemptions during selloffs in crypto markets.
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The US Copyright Office rejects a request to grant a copyright to a work of art created by an AI, as the image didn't include an element of “human authorship” — The US Copyright Office has rejected a request to let an AI copyright a work of art.
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| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
The US FTC says ~56K romance scams were reported in 2021 as crypto scammers turned to dating apps; experts believe crypto dating scams originated in China — “Everything was a lie,” said one woman lured into a recent scam. — The man from the dating app Hinge checked all of Tho Vu's boxes.| Meir Orbach / CTech: |
Israeli cybersecurity startup CHEQ, which fights ad fraud by checking if website visitors are bots, raises $150M Series C at a $1B valuation led by Tiger Global — The Israeli Go-to-Market Security startup helps organizations looking to secure their business from invalid traffic
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Intel details its new bitcoin mining Bonanza Mine ASICs, claiming 300 of the chips consume 3,600 watts and deliver up to 40 terahashes per second of performance — Intel's 3,600-watt Bitcoin-mining powerhouse — At ISSCC 2022, Intel shared the deep-dive details of its new Bitcoin-mining Bonanza Mine ASICs …
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A profile of RightForge, a web hosting service underpinning Trump's Truth Social and nearly 1,000 other sites, that serves those who feel “censored” — In the days following Jan. 6, 2021, when many Americans were trying to comprehend how a mob stormed the U.S. Capitol … | Queenie Wong / CNET: |
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