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a16z invests in Adam Neumann's residential real estate management startup Flow, sources say ~$350M at a $1B+ valuation, the firm's largest-ever individual check — WeWork's founder is back with a billion-dollar venture. — WeWork's founder is going residential
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A look at the rise of digital productivity monitoring for white collar jobs in the US, sometimes used to assign workers scores, determine pay, and more — Across industries and incomes, more employees are being tracked, recorded and ranked. What is gained, companies say, is efficiency and accountability.
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TikTok rolls out a text-to-image “AI greenscreen”, letting users create a basic background for videos from a text prompt — The app's ‘AI greenscreen’ filter shows text-to-image has gone mainstream — Text-to-image AI systems are booming in both ability and popularity right now … | Bobby Kent / GameLuster: |
Court docs in Brazil show Microsoft sold approximately 58.5M Xbox One units in total, or half of the PS4's 117.2M sales; Microsoft has long hidden sales figures — A high-profile case is ongoing in Brazil, as Microsoft attempts to defend its Activision Blizzard acquisition from CADE, the Brazilian competition authority.
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Snap says its Snapchat+ subscription, launched in June, now has 1M+ users globally and adds features, including priority Story replies to celebs — It's not going to make much of a dent to offset Snap's stalling ad business, but the company is touting that it has signed up more than 1 million subscribers …
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Zoom pushes an update to fix a flaw, found by Patrick Wardle, in its Mac app's auto-update feature that could let attackers remotely run code with root access — The flaw could let a hacker take over your system — Zoom has issued a patch for a bug on macOS that could allow a hacker … | Wall Street Journal: |
Walmart partners with Paramount to include the $4.99/month ad-supported tier of the Paramount+ streaming service as part of its Walmart+ subscription — Paramount+ shows will be part of perks retailer offers subscribers to Walmart+ membership program — Walmart Inc. WMT 0.23%▲ … | Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
A “jailbreak” for John Deere tractors, helping farmers modify and repair them, highlights issues with securing farm equipment and the right-to-repair debate — A hacker has formulated an exploit that provides root access to two popular models of the company's farm equipment.
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Galaxy Digital terminates its $1.2B acquisition of crypto custodian BitGo, announced in May 2021, after the service failed to provide audited statements — - Galaxy Digital announced on Monday that it would terminate its deal with crypto custodian BitGo, which had been announced in May 2021.
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| Margaret O'Mara / MIT Technology Review: |
An in-depth look at Silicon Valley's historical corporate culture, how straight white men benefitted, and efforts by women and minorities to push for change — A new generation of tech activists, organizers, and whistleblowers, most of whom are female, non-white, gender-diverse, or queer, may finally bring change.
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Unity Software rejects AppLovin's $17.54B all-stock takeover offer, saying it would proceed with its deal to acquire ironSource for $4.4B in stock — Gaming software maker Unity Software Inc (U.N) on Monday rejected AppLovin Corp's (APP.O) $17.54 billion takeover offer and said it would go ahead …
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Android 13 begins rolling out today to Google's Pixel phones, earlier in the year than the previous two Android annual updates — Google's major OS update is a little early this year — This year's major Android update, Android 13, is officially releasing today for Google's Pixel phones, the search giant has announced.
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An in-depth look at the fall of Three Arrows Capital, led by Su Zhu and Kyle Davies, which built a solid reputation only to vaporize billions of dollars — Everyone trusted the two guys at Three Arrows Capital. They knew what they were doing — right? — The boat was a beauty of a thing …
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