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Apple Studio Display review: sharp 5K display but the webcam is terrible, no features like HDR, local dimming, and variable refresh rate, and is very expensive — A 5K iMac's panel, six speakers, three mics, and one terrible camera — Oh boy. — Look, people have wanted Apple to sell …
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| Monica Chin / The Verge: |
Apple Mac Studio review: compact design with insanely fast M1 Ultra and great port selection but expensive and the graphics performance is not very impressive — This computer is a historic achievement — Apple's 2019 desktop release was supposed to be the computer that professional Mac users had been waiting for.
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Tech execs may face criminal prosecution or jail time for not abiding by Ofcom's decisions two months after the UK's Online Safety Bill passes and takes effect — Executives from Facebook parent Meta Platforms, TikTok and other big tech companies would face the prospect of jail time under sweeping …
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Google schedules a virtual I/O 2022 for May 11 and May 12, with a limited live audience of Google employees and some partners — Registration opens this month — Google's big annual developer conference, Google I/O, will take place May 11th and 12th, the company announced Wednesday.
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Sophos details how scammers are abusing Apple's TestFlight and the Web Clips feature to trick iOS users into installing fake cryptocurrency apps — Getting past the App Store gatekeeper has always been tough. Here are two new ways. — Scammers pushing iOS malware are stepping up their game …
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Counterpoint: iPhones accounted for 37% of global 5G handset sales in January, as 5G phones made up more than half of global smartphone sales for the first time — Apple Inc.'s iPhones led the mobile industry to a milestone in January, when handsets with fifth-generation cellular networking accounted … | Chris Stokel-Walker / Input: |
Clubhouse users in Russia are using the app to discuss the Russian invasion of Ukraine, as the app appears to evade censors due to its waning popularity — Masha, a 29-year-old scientist from St. Petersburg, Russia, is one of thousands of Russians who has joined protests against the invasion …
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| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Bored Ape Yacht Club launches ApeCoin, or $APE, with 1B in total supply, and forms the ApeCoin DAO, whose council members include Alexis Ohanian and Amy Wu — Even among the fastest-growing crypto startups, Yuga Labs has had a particularly explosive year. — The startup is behind …
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| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Ethereum L2 scaling startup Optimism raises a $150M Series B led by Andreessen Horowitz and Paradigm at a $1.65B valuation — Throughout the most recent crypto bull run, plenty of new crypto users have interacted with the Ethereum network for the first time and have been surprised to find sluggish, expensive transactions.| Carly Page / TechCrunch: |
Google details Exotic Lily, a “financially-motivated threat actor” that works as an initial access broker for the Conti ransomware group and others — Google's Threat Analysis Group has observed a financially-motivated threat actor working as an intermediary for the Russian hackers, including the Conti ransomware gang.
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Frvr, which distributes casual HTML games that can be played from a browser, raises $76M led by Hiro Capital — Investment will go towards securing “high quality” titles for its portfolio — Casual games platform Frvr raised $76 million in a funding round led by Hiro Capital.
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Meta says it removed a deepfake video of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy asking Ukrainians to surrender, citing its misleading manipulated media policy — In the fake video, Zelenskyy surrenders to Russian invasion — On Wednesday, Facebook's parent company, Meta … | Jennifer Maas / Variety: |
Amazon finalizes its $8.5B acquisition of MGM, two days after the deal received clearance from the EU's antitrust regulator — Amazon has closed its $8.5 billion acquisition of MGM, the companies said Thursday. — The pact was first announced in May and has been winding its way through the regulatory process.
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Robinhood says it plans to add fully paid securities lending, where users loan out their stocks to other financial institutions, in the coming months — Robinhood Markets Inc.'s plan to let users loan out their stocks to other financial institutions — a program known as fully paid securities lending … | Chris J. Preimesberger / VentureBeat: |
Amplience, which lets companies build ecommerce services based on the MACH architecture, raises a $100M Series D, bringing its total funding to $180M — Amplience, which makes a next-gen commerce experience platform for B2C and B2C clients, announced yesterday that it has raised $100 million in Series D funding.| Mike Moore / TechRadar: |
AWS says it will spend £1.8B+ over the next two years on expanding its UK infrastructure, more than doubling its total existing investment in the region — £1.8 billion set to be invested over next two years — Audio player loading... Amazon Web Services (AWS) … | Kate Park / TechCrunch: |
Tokyo-based mobile banking app Kyash raises a $41M Series D from Block, Greyhound, and others; report says it is Block's first investment in Asia — Kyash, a Tokyo-based mobile financial app, has raised $41.2 million (4.9 billion JPY) Series D funding. — The round comes from a number …
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