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Sony reveals the design of PlayStation VR2, including a similar color scheme, lens adjustment dial, updated vent design, and weight reduction — 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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Investigation suggests that Austrian programmer Toby Hoenisch, who founded TenX, was likely behind a 2016 hack of The DAO, diverting 3.6M ETH, now worth $11B — Who hacked The DAO in 2016, diverting 3.6 million ether? We identify the apparent hacker — he denies it …
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A profile of RightForge, a web hosting service underpinning Trump's Truth Social and nearly 1,000 others 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 …
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Spotify says Car Thing is now on sale for $90, after being announced in April 2021; a future 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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Beyond Identity, which offers a password-free zero trust multifactor authentication service for enterprises, raises a $100M Series C at a $1.1B valuation — If multifactor authentication (MFA) is one of our best hopes for making a dent in cybercrime, it could be a while before everyone's actually using it.
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Online chat service Clickatell, which helps companies interact with customers, raises a $91M Series C led by Arrowroot Capital — The global chat commerce's total addressable market is worth an estimated $80 billion and is seen as the third big wave of digital commerce after e-commerce and app commerce markets.| 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.
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SoFi will acquire Technisys, which makes tools for banks, for around $1.1B in an all-stock deal; after going public via SPAC, SoFi's stock is down 28% in 2022 — The all-stock deal is CEO Anthony Noto's latest move to make the onetime student lender into a full-service bank| Annie Njanja / TechCrunch: |
Nairobi-based retail B2B marketplace MarketForce raises a $40M Series A led by V8 Capital Partners, bringing its total funding to $42.5M — MarketForce, the retail B2B and end-to-end distribution platform founded in Kenya, has raised $40 million in Series A funding for its merchant inventory financing and expansion across Africa.| Meir Orbach / CTech: |
Israeli cybersecurity company CHEQ, which scans website visitors to verify their legitimacy, raises a $150M Series C led by Tiger Global at a $1B valuation — The Israeli Go-to-Market Security startup helps organizations looking to secure their business from invalid traffic
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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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The US FTC says ~56K romance scams were reported last year 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.
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