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| Jason Del Rey / Vox: |
An internal Amazon memo from mid-2021 warns the company could run out of potential US warehouse workers by 2024 and suggests six remedies, such as raising wages — Unions might not be the tech giant's biggest labor threat. — Amazon is facing a looming crisis: It could run out of people …
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| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Amazon unveils new robotic tech for its warehouses, including Proteus, its “first fully autonomous mobile robot” meant to safely move large carts around workers — It can pick things up, put them down, and move them around — Amazon has announced its “first fully autonomous mobile robot …
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Tweets: @mikelltaylor, @parismarx, @giano, @moreperfectus, @mikelltaylor, and @mattbeane
| Sascha Segan / PCMag: |
Nothing confirms phone (1) will not be fully supported by carriers in North America, as the company focuses on “home markets”, including the UK and Europe — It looks like Americans and Canadians are getting ... nothing. — Carl Pei's buzzy phone firm, which he says will be a top alternative …
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| Brad Smith / Microsoft On the Issues: |
Microsoft details how it curbs Russian propaganda, largely about the war in Ukraine and vaccines; US traffic to such stories rose 80%+ in the war's first weeks — Editor's note: Today Microsoft published a new intelligence report, Defending Ukraine: Early Lessons from the Cyber War.| David Ignatius / Washington Post: |
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| Monica Chin / The Verge: |
MacBook Pro 13-inch (M2) review: dominant single-core performance with good battery life, but just two USB-C ports, design from 2016, and webcam is still bad — Apple has put a 2022 CPU in a 2016 computer — I don't really care what the M2 MacBook Pro gets on benchmarks.
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| Oliver Knight / CoinDesk: |
eBay says it acquired NFT marketplace KnownOrigin, which has facilitated $7.8M in digital collectible trade volume since its 2018 launch, for an undisclosed sum — The move comes one month after eBay released its debut collection of NFTs. — E-commerce giant eBay (EBAY) …
| Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette: |
Google revamps News, elevating local news and fact checks; News returns to Spain after 7.5 years citing the country adopting EU copyright rules in November 2021 — Google News is relaunching in Spain almost eight years after it shut down to avoid paying publishers when the country introduced …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter partners with Shopify to launch a sales channel app, letting Shopify's US merchants sell products and engage customers via Twitter's Shopping Manager — As part of its ongoing efforts to expand into e-commerce, Twitter today announced a new partnership with Shopify.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter tests Twitter Notes with select users, for creating long-form content with rich text formatting and uploaded media that can be tweeted upon publishing — In what could be one of Twitter's more significant changes since doubling the character count from 140 to 280 characters …
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| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Tether plans to launch its fifth fiat-pegged stablecoin in July, called GBPT, pegged to the British pound and initially available on Ethereum — - Tether has launched a new stablecoin pegged 1:1 to the British pound. — It will be initially available on Ethereum.
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| CoinDesk: |
Crypto broker Voyager Digital says its exposure to Three Arrows Capital consists of 15,250 bitcoin and $350M USDC, and “may issue a notice of default” to 3AC — The crypto broker said it's on the hook for about $370 million of bitcoin and $350 million of USDC and has asked for a repayment installment by Friday.
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers discover fundamental cryptography flaws in MEGA's end-to-end encryption, letting anyone controlling the cloud storage service decipher stored files — Fundamental flaws uncovered in Mega's encryption scheme show service can read your data. — In the decade since larger …
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MEGA: Malleable Encryption Goes Awry. More:
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Comcast and Google are top contenders to help Netflix develop an ad-supported tier, and Netflix has also held talks with Roku — Deals with the streaming company could include exclusive agreements and revenue-sharing — Comcast Corp.'s NBCUniversal and Alphabet Inc.'s GOOG 0.89%▲ … | Alexis Hancock / Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
Analysis: Brightwheel, HiMama, and other popular daycare apps lack 2FA and have privacy-compromising features like trackers not disclosed in privacy policies — Last year, several parents at EFF enrolled kids into daycare and were instantly told to download an application for managing their children's care.| Chris Metinko / Crunchbase News: |
FalconX, a crypto exchange for institutional investors, has raised a $150M Series D led by GIC and B Capital at an $8B valuation, up from $3.75B in August 2021 — Despite a rocky couple of months for crypto, San Francisco-based FalconX locked up a $150 million Series D and more than doubled its valuation from just 10 months ago.
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| Augusta Saraiva / Bloomberg: |
Hired: despite D&I initiatives, African American women in tech earned $0.92 for every $1 a white male counterpart earned in 2021, down from $0.94 in 2020 — As American corporations announce a record number of diversity and inclusion initiatives, Silicon Valley has seen the wage gap narrow … | Lauren Goode / Wired: |
Slack plans to add video calling to Huddles in the fall; Slack has offered one-on-one and group video calling since 2016, but the feature isn't easy to find — Adding video to Slack's popular Huddles feature could herald a new digital hang space—or just reinvent the video meetings wheel.
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The Verge, Gizmodo, Computerworld, 9to5Mac, and Protocol
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Spotify tests Community, a feature that lets mobile users see their friends' streaming activity in real time and which playlists their friends recently updated — Spotify is developing a new feature called Community that would allow mobile users to see what sort of music their friends … | Financial Times: |
Hong Kong court records: crypto exchange Huobi filed a lawsuit against a former senior manager over accusations that he made $5M trading against a Huobi account — Employee allegedly made $5mn after setting up a retail account in his father's name — A former senior manager at Huobi …
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The Block, Protos, CryptoPotato, Decrypt, Tech in Asia, Blockworks, Investing.com India, Blockchain News, and watcher.guru. Tweets: @kadhim
| Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
Accel announces a $4B global, late-stage fund, closed last week, after announcing $3B across three funds for early- and growth-stage startups in June 2021 — Accel, the 39-year-old venture firm, just pulled a major power move. It announced, via a simple blog post, that it has just closed a new … | Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Appsmith, which offers low-code tools to build enterprise apps, raised a $41M Series B led by Insight Partners and says 7K+ companies use its tools every month — For the last several years, Appsmith has been quietly building an open source platform for internal development teams to build the custom apps they need.
Tweets: @arey_abhishek
| Tom Matsuda / The Block: |
Blockchain payments infrastructure startup Roxe plans to go public via a SPAC merger on the Nasdaq, valuing the company at $3.6B — - Blockchain payments infrastructure company Roxe has announced plans to list on the Nasdaq via a SPAC called Goldenstone Acquisition.
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GlobeNewswire News Room, CryptoPotato, CoinDesk, Coinspeaker, and Cointelegraph
| Alissa Abrahami / Geektime: |
Israeli startup AiVF, which uses AI to increase the predictability and success rates of IVF treatments, raised a $25M Series A led by Insight Partners — The Israeli MedTech startup transforms the fertility journey with the first operational AI platform. Today they announced a Series A funding round.
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Axios, FinSMEs, and Globes Online
| Naomi Nix / Washington Post: |
In its first annual report, Meta's Oversight Board says the company has made some progress but needs to improve transparency on content removals — Oversight Board issues annual report outlining the company's compliance with policy recommendations — More than a year after its creation …
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