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More than 46,000 people have reported losing $1B+ to crypto scams from January 1, 2021 through March 31, 2022, 24% of dollar losses in fraud reported to the FTC — From Super Bowl ads to Bitcoin ATMs, cryptocurrency seems to be everywhere lately. Although it's yet to become a mainstream payment method …
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Amazon says Dave Clark, CEO of its Worldwide Consumer division, will step down after 23 years with the company; his last day in the office will be July 1, 2022 — Amazon today announced that Dave Clark, CEO of the company's worldwide consumer division, will step down after 23 years in the position.
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| Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Clubhouse eliminated “a handful of roles” as part of a restructuring; employees who left include the heads of news partnerships, community, and others — Clubhouse, the social audio app that became a big hit during the early days of the pandemic, laid off multiple employees this week …
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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
The New York State Assembly passes the first right-to-repair bill in the US covering electronics; Governor Kathy Hochul is expected to sign the measure — ‘Repairs should become less expensive and more comprehensive’ because of the new measure, says iFixit
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A House and Senate bipartisan data privacy bill would let users opt out of targeted ads and sue internet companies that improperly sell their data, and more — The proposal, considered a step forward, still lacks the support of some key members — A bipartisan group of legislators …
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| Gideon Lewis-Kraus / New Yorker: |
A look at the presentiment that social media is bad for society, as some researchers find fears are overstated and others caution about effects on individuals — There's a general sense that it's bad for society—which may be right. But studies offer surprisingly few easy answers.| Delia Cai / Vanity Fair: |
Q&A with Pocket VP Matt Koidin on the 50M links people save per month, longform content, the “algotorial” approach to the Pocket Hits newsletter, and more — Over the past decade, Pocket has endured as an unusually pleasant way to consume the internet.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Sensor Tower: an iOS app needs 156K daily installs to top the US App Store, up from 114K in 2019; an Android app needs 56K to top Google Play, down from 83K — A new analysis indicates it's gotten harder to get an app to the top of the App Store, in terms of downloads, over the past several years.
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| Melia Russell / Insider: |
Tiger Global-backed email service Superhuman lays off 23 employees, about 22% of its workforce; Superhuman was last valued at $825M in August 2021 — - Email app Superhuman laid off 22% of its workforce on Friday, the CEO said in a tweet. — Superhuman makes a premium email app for power users.| CoinDesk: |
The New York State Senate passes a bill to ban crypto mining powered by carbon-based sources for two years; the governor now needs to sign the bill or veto it — The state Assembly had already passed the bill, which would bar new mining operations powered by carbon-based energy sources for two years.
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| Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology: |
Dall-E 2 created 3M images since April and OpenAI is adding up to 1,000 users per week, applying a content policy to try to avoid sensitive or biased images — Dall-E can illustrate just about anything using a short text prompt. Should it? — Dall-E's power becomes evident within the first minute of seeing it.
Tweets: @cebsilver, @martinsfp, @jon_gluck, @kantrowitz, and @_lamaahmad
| Fadeke Adegbuyi / every.to: |
Q&A with Don Caldwell, EIC of Know Your Meme, a 15-year old online encyclopedia of memes with 10 full-time editorial staff, on uncovering meme origins and more — Think of any meme. It could be the scribbled image of party goers and one man—off alone to the side …
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