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After freezing withdrawals, crypto exchange CoinFlex plans to issue up to 47M Recovery Value USD tokens, offering a 20% annual return, to repay a $47M debt — Cryptocurrency exchange CoinFlex plans to raise funds by issuing a new token that will offer a 20% annual return …
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| Michael Bellusci / CoinDesk: |
CoinFLEX CEO Mark Lamb says crypto investor Roger Ver owes CoinFLEX $47M in USDC, after Ver denied “some rumors” he defaulted on a debt to a counterparty — The crypto exchange is launching a recovery token because of debt owed by a high-net-worth customer.
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Tweets: @rogerkver, @markdavidlamb, @markdavidlamb, @markdavidlamb, @markdavidlamb, and @markdavidlamb
| Hadlee Simons / Android Authority: |
Arm announces new mobile Armv9 CPUs with improved performance and new GPUs including the flagship Immortalis-G715, its first with hardware-enabled ray-tracing — It's that time of the year when industry colossus Arm reveals its new line of CPUs and GPUs that will power the following year's smartphones.
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Arm Community, Arm Community, Arm, Phoronix, Neowin, VideoCardz.com, The Verge, The Register, XDA Developers, PCWorld, Club386, and Android Police
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| Sarah E. Needleman / Wall Street Journal: |
Pinterest CEO Ben Silbermann is stepping down and transitioning to executive chairman, to be replaced by Google's president of commerce Bill Ready — The social-media company says Ben Silbermann will transition to executive chairman after leading the company since its founding in 2010
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| Shannon Liao / Washington Post: |
Sony launches InZone, a brand of gaming devices aimed at PC gamers but with tight PS5 integration, starting with 4K and 1080p 27" monitors and three headsets — The brand will leverage Sony's high quality display and audio technologies, said Sony home entertainment president Kazuo Kii
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google announces Google Public Sector, a new division aiming to bring Google Cloud tech to US educational institutions and federal, state, and local governments — Google today is home to two divisions that have their own CEOs: Cloud and YouTube. “Google Public Sector” was announced today as a …
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Airbnb makes its temporary ban on parties at rented properties, introduced in 2020, permanent, saying the ban “became much more than a public health measure” — But a 16-person cap on rentals has been removed — In 2020, Airbnb introduced a temporary ban on house parties …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Meta tests Discord-like changes in Facebook Groups, adding a channels list in a left-aligned sidebar that can include audio rooms, text chats, and feeds — New Groups changes seem inspired directly by Discord — Facebook Groups are about to get some big changes, and if you've used Discord …
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Meta, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Search Engine Land, Social Media Today, Engadget, TechCrunch, and Adweek
Tweets: @metanewsroom, @alexeheath, @alexvoica, @pierce, @alexeheath, and @lucasmtny
| Charlie Warzel / The Atlantic: |
a16z's Marc Andreessen and Packy McCormick failing to coherently explain Web3 use cases demonstrates the hollowness of the space, often obscured by boosterism — I cannot stop watching crypto profiteers get owned. … I cannot stop watching videos of Web3 boosters failing to explain the usefulness of the technology.
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Not Boring by Packy McCormick, Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At, Not Boring by Packy McCormick, Newslit Daily, and Bloomberg
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| Reuters: |
A deep dive into Truth Social's struggles to build a competitive social media platform, largely because the company alienated tech talent and corporate partners — The firebrand former President Trump's social media firm has struggled to build a competitive platform.
Tweets: @mjberens1, @nandoodles, @reuters, @reuters, @reuters, and @jayrosen_nyu
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Samsung Display acquires Germany-based OLED startup Cynora, which specialized in displays for foldable devices, for about $300M for its IP and tech — Samsung Display Co. has purchased display company Cynora GmbH for about $300 million, according to people with knowledge of the matter … | Will Knight / Wired: |
A look at DALL-E Mini, a viral image-generation service by Hugging Face based on OpenAI's DALL-E offering good, absurd fun while showing how AI can warp reality — The viral image-generation app is good, absurd fun. It's also giving the world an education in how artificial intelligence may warp reality.
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Interdependent Thoughts. Tweets: @weirddalle, @weirddalle, @weirddalle, @lux_capital, @wired, @gadgetlab, @weirddalle, @willknight, and @weirddalle
| Stephanie Condon / ZDNet: |
Google makes Earth Engine, which offers sophisticated information about the Earth's surface, available to any commercial or government entity using Google Cloud — For the past decade, researchers in academia and the nonprofit world have had access to increasingly sophisticated information about the Earth's surface.
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The Keyword, SiliconANGLE, Google Cloud Blog, TechCrunch, PCMag, Bloomberg, and IT Management
Tweets: @koen_hufkens, @aravind_raves, and @rebeccatmoore
| Sarah E. Needleman / Wall Street Journal: |
After Twitter gives Elon Musk access to its firehose and historical tweet data, experts doubt the data will provide conclusive answers on spam accounts and bots — Billionaire has access to the company's fire hose of tweets, but data specialists say analyzing it isn't easy| Anna Gross / Financial Times: |
An interview with Arm CEO Rene Haas on the company's plans to use its IPO proceeds to pursue M&A deals and expand hiring, after Arm China changed its leadership — Chief executive Rene Haas lays out ambitious course of expansion for the UK chip designer despite tech downturn| Katie Roof / Bloomberg: |
FrontApp, which offers the Front customer communications tool, raised $65M led by Salesforce and Battery at a $1.7B post-money valuation, up from $859M in 2020 — Customer communication software maker FrontApp Inc. is now valued at $1.7 billion after receiving $65 million in financing led by Salesforce Ventures and Battery Ventures.
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