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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
iPad Air (2022) review: fast with the M1 chip and great display but Touch ID is not as convenient as Face ID and the front camera is awkward in landscape mode — The new iPad Air is a blend of familiar features with predictable results — Much of the new iPad Air from Apple is a known quantity.
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| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Hands-on with Universal Control: Apple's most impressive new feature in years that bridges the gap between macOS and iPadOS without requiring Apple peripherals — It's super cool, super niche, and Apple at its best — It's been a good month for Mac desktop setup aficionados.
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Meta launches Family Center, a suite of parental supervision tools for its apps, starting with Instagram in the US and rolling out globally in the coming months — Allowing parents and guardian to keep a watchful eye — Instagram's new parental controls, announced in December, are launching today in the US.| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
Meta adds basic parental controls for Quest VR, almost three years after launching the headset, starting with an unlock pattern for specific apps in April — Despite releasing its first virtual reality headsets in May 2019, Meta is only now adding parental supervision tools to its Meta Quest VR headset.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft unveils the AI-powered Surface Hub 2 Smart Camera, with support for automatic reframing, image correction, and more, available for $799 on May 31 — Microsoft's latest camera has a lot of smarts — Microsoft is launching its first AI-powered camera for the Surface Hub 2.
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| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
Linktree, which creates simple “link in bio” landing pages for people and companies, raises a $110M Series C led by Index and Coatue at a $1.3B valuation — Who would've thought that an entire swath of startups would spring up all because Instagram, TikTok and Twitter only let you link to one website in your bio?
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| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
Mark Zuckerberg says NFT support will be coming to Instagram over the next several months and that users will “be able to mint things within that environment” — Love them or hate them, NFTs will soon be coming to Instagram. Speaking at SXSW, Mark Zuckerberg confirmed …
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| Bloomberg: |
Foxconn resumes partial operations at two Shenzhen campuses closed on Monday, one of which makes iPhones, after authorities approved its “closed loop” process — Apple Inc. supplier Foxconn Technology Group has resumed partial operations in the Chinese tech hub of Shenzhen … | Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
The FBI and CISA warn that Russian state-sponsored hackers accessed an unnamed NGO's network by exploiting default MFA protocols and the PrintNightmare flaw — The FBI says Russian state-backed hackers gained access to a non-governmental organization (NGO) cloud after enrolling their own device … | Margaret Harding McGill / Axios: |
With Congress divided over passing a national privacy law, tech industry groups are lobbying Utah and other states to pass privacy laws weaker than California's — The tech industry is lobbying statehouses across the country to pass privacy bills that critics call weak.| Thomas Brewster / Forbes: |
A look at Ukraine's “invisible heroes”, internet technicians who are risking their lives avoiding bombs and thwarting Russian hackers to keep Ukraine online — They're fixing internet in bombed-out buildings, finding rogue operators providing Russians with mobile connections and thwarting hackers.
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Netflix will launch an “add an extra member” test in Chile, Costa Rica, and Peru to let primary account holders pay a fee for users outside their households — Netflix will soon launch a test letting primary account holders pay an additional fee for users outside their households … | Kenrick Cai / Forbes: |
Webflow, which offers a no-code website building tool, raises a $120M Series C led by YC Continuity at a $4B valuation, bringing its total funding to $335M — Vlad Magdalin says he's been getting odd looks at Starbucks in recent weeks when he tells the baristas his first name.
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| Ellen Huet / Bloomberg: |
Sam Altman's Worldcoin recently halted operations in at least seven countries due to problems like uneven smartphone access, confused users, and fraud attempts — Worldcoin — the billion-dollar startup that wants to give cryptocurrency to every living human by imaging their eyes …
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| Clive Thompson / Wired: |
An in-depth look at GitHub and OpenAI's Copilot, which writes 35% of its users' code, and how AI tools can make developers more efficient and democratize coding — OpenAI's new tool can autocomplete lines of programming or conjure software from a simple prompt. It could also riddle the internet with even more bugs.| Chris Bengel / CBS Sports: |
Spotify signs a sponsorship deal with FC Barcelona, including rebranding the soccer club's stadium to Spotify Camp Nou, reportedly worth $310M over four years — FC Barcelona have agreed to a sponsorship deal with Spotify to have the audio streaming platform become the club's main partner.
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| Douglas Soltys / BetaKit: |
Montreal-based job search portal Talent.com raises a $120M Series B led by Inovia and discloses a $30M in debt finance it raised in January from BMO — Co-CEO says startup wants to be Pepsi to Indeed's Coke. — It has been a tumultuous few years for Montréal's Talent.com.| Kris Holt / Engadget: |
Google Domains launches out of beta in 26 countries, after seven years, offering 300+ domain endings and “around-the-clock customer support from real people” — Seven long, long years ago, Google started offering users a way to buy a domain without having to deal with a host provider.
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| Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: |
Multiplier, which lets companies hire and pay remote workers while complying with local laws, raises a $60M Series B at a $400M valuation — Multiplier, a startup that enables companies to hire and pay remote workers while complying with local laws, announced today that it has raised …
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| Kerry Flynn / Axios: |
New Delhi-based Amagi, which provides ad software for broadcast and streaming TV, raises $95M led by Accel at a $1B+ valuation, bringing total funding to $245M — Amagi has raised $95 million in new funding, valuing the media tech company at more than $1 billion, CEO and co-founder Baskar Subramanian tells Axios.| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
iUNU, whose LUNA robot moves on greenhouse roofs and uses AI to detect problems with plants and find spots that are ready to harvest, raises a $24M Series B — Not going to lie, iUNU (pronounced “you knew") is not the easiest name (further confusing matters is the presence of a robot called “LUNA").
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
RISC-V chip designer SiFive raises a $175M Series F at a $2.5B valuation led by Coatue Management, bringing its total funding to $350M+ — Chip design firm SiFive has raised $175 million at a $2.5 billion as RISC-V emerges as an alternative processor architecture.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
TruEra, which offers AI quality management tools to optimize and monitor ML models, raises a $25M Series B led by Menlo, bringing its total funding to $42.3M — TruEra, a startup that offers an AI quality management solution to optimize, explain and monitor machine learning models … | Rest of World: |
Six months after El Salvador adopted bitcoin as legal tender, dozens of citizens, economists, and developers detail cracks in the country's crypto revolution — As El Salvador prepares to launch its ‘Bitcoin bond’, interviews with citizens, economists and technologists reveal cracks in the country's crypto revolution.
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Crypto Daily, Common Sense, The Overspill, The Daily Hodl, Blockworks, and Emerging World
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| Andrés Engler / CoinDesk: |
OXIO, a “carrier-as-a-service” company that lets brands launch mobile services by turning data into blockchain-based digital assets, raises a $40M Series B — The company's white label product allows any brand to serve as a mobile operator. It's already working with Grupo Bimbo and other big brands in Mexico.
Tweets: @coindesk
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