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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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| 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?| 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 … | 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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| 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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| 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.| 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 … | 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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.| 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.| 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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| 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.| 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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| 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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| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Hex Trust, which offers crypto custody, staking, brokerage, and financing services to institutional clients in Hong Kong and Singapore, raises an $88M Series B — Quick Take — Asian crypto custodian Hex Trust has raised $88 million. — Animoca Brands and Liberty City Ventures co-led the round.| 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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| 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
| Masha Borak / Wired: |
As China's delivery startups use algorithms to force drivers to work faster, couriers are gaming the system and forming unofficial unions on WeChat and Douyin — Food delivery drivers are using platforms' data-powered systems, mass WeChat groups, and unofficial unions to fight unfair conditions.
Tweets: @wiredscience and @wired
| 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.| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google says Steam launched in alpha “on select Chromebooks”; code changes previously showed that the PC game store would require a high-performance Chromebook — The long-awaited availability of Steam on Chromebooks was just more or less announced (in alpha) at the 2022 Google for Games Developer Summit.
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