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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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About Amazon, YouTube, SiliconANGLE, TechCrunch, Input, PYMNTS.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, GeekWire, Quartz, Engadget, TechRadar, PCMag, TechCircle, TechSpot, Silicon Republic, Fossbytes, YouTube, Digital Trends, and Forbes
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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Input, TechRadar, iPhone in Canada Blog, Android Central, Pocketnow, Android Authority, TechCrunch, PhoneArena, Tom's Guide, MobileSyrup, The Verge, 9to5Google, Digital Trends, Wccftech, MUO, Notebookcheck.net, Liliputing, Pocket-lint, Engadget, and Android Headlines
Tweets: @evleaks, @evleaks, @basche42, @saschasegan, and @rjeytech
| 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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| 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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| 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.
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| David Ignatius / Washington Post: |
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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.| 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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| 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 … | 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 …
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| 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.| 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
| 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.| Mack DeGeurin / Gizmodo: |
A DARPA report finds blockchains are vulnerable to “unintended centralities”, ranging from powerful new crypto miners to select ISPs handling Bitcoin traffic — The report points to a handful of, “unintended centralities,” it argues could concentrate blockchain power in the hands of a few select individuals or groups.
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Trail of Bits. More:
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Tweets: @darpa, @newsforbitcoin, and @dwbradley
| 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, CoinDesk, Coinspeaker, and Cointelegraph
| Bloomberg: |
Internal memo: two of Amazon's top Black executives, SVP of logistics warehouses Alicia Boler Davis and VP of transportation services Dave Bozeman, are leaving — Two of Amazon.com Inc.'s top Black executives are leaving amid a management shakeup as Chief Executive Officer Andy Jassy puts … | Vicky Ge Huang / Wall Street Journal: |
Binance.US plans to eliminate fees for spot bitcoin trading for all customers, in a bid to attract new investors — Exchange's users can trade bitcoin for the U.S. dollar, tether, other stablecoins without spot trading fees — Cryptocurrency exchange Binance.US said it is eliminating fees on spot bitcoin trading for all customers.| 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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FinSMEs, Axios, and Globes Online
| Antoaneta Roussi / Politico: |
NSO Group General Counsel Chaim Gelfand tells European lawmakers that at least five EU countries have used Pegasus and that the company had “made mistakes” — The Israeli spyware firm NSO Group on Tuesday told European lawmakers at least five EU countries have used its software … Sponsor Posts
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