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Nick Clegg shares Meta's plans to help secure the US midterms, building on Meta's 2020 policies, like restricting new political ads one week prior to the vote — After years of revising and updating its election strategy, Meta Platforms Inc. is pulling out a familiar playbook for the US midterms …
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| Sisi Jiang / Kotaku: |
Former Nintendo female contract testers in the US describe years of sexual harassment, gender discrimination, and a lack of advancement opportunities for women — Female game testers at Nintendo had ‘frat house’ experiences within a gaming company known for its wholesome image
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Game Developer, Appuals.com, Game Rant, Eurogamer.net, Engadget, We Got This Covered, Dot Esports, Bleeding Cool, USA Today, GoNintendo, GamesIndustry.biz, Ars Technica, and TheGamer
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| Nikkei Asia: |
Sources: Apple is in talks with its suppliers to mass produce Apple Watch and MacBooks in Vietnam for the first time — Country benefits as tech giant looks to build more products outside of China — TAIPEI — Apple is in talks to make Apple Watches and MacBooks in Vietnam for the first time …
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Tweets: @jacobhelberg, @birdyword, @birdyword, and @sino_market
| Alex Barker / Financial Times: |
Ofcom: in the UK, those aged 15-24 spent 57 minutes/day on TikTok in 2021, compared to 53 minutes/day watching TV; those 65 or over spent six hours watching TV — Ofcom survey points to challenges for traditional broadcasters in keeping pace with digital and streaming trends
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
WhatsApp launches a native app for Windows out of beta, usable without linking a phone; WhatsApp is currently working on a native macOS app — You no longer need to connect your phone — WhatsApp's new app on Windows no longer requires you to link your phone to send, receive, and sync messages.
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| Brayden Lindrea / Cointelegraph: |
Report: Alphabet invested ~$1.5B in blockchain companies between September 2021 and June 2022, the most by any public company, followed by BlackRock with $1.17B — Other notable corporate investors include BlackRock, Morgan Stanley, Samsung, and Goldman Sachs, according to a report from Blockdata.
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| Will Knight / Wired: |
Google says it is using its most powerful large language model PaLM to help robots from Alphabet X spinout Everyday Robots understand complex human commands — The machine learning technique that taught notorious text generator GPT-3 to write can also help robots make sense of spoken commands.
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| Richard Waters / Financial Times: |
After booming demand during the pandemic and a rapid inventory build-up in 2022, Intel, Nvidia, SMIC, and TSMC face a sudden downturn, perplexing analysts — After dealing with booming demand and global shortages since the start of the pandemic, the semiconductor industry is facing a sudden downturn.
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| Sam Kim / Bloomberg: |
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| Jessica Bursztynsky / Fast Company: |
Airbnb introduces “anti-party technology” in the US and Canada to automatically block reservations at a high risk of leading to unauthorized parties — Airbnb is piloting new anti-party technology in the U.S. and Canada in its ongoing efforts to fend off users who are looking …
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| Adam Morgan McCarthy / The Block: |
Genesis Trading CEO Michael Moro steps down after six years and the company will cut 20% of its staff, following huge losses from a loan to Three Arrows Capital — - Genesis Trading CEO Michael Moro is set to leave the firm after seven years; just over six were spent as CEO.
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Tweets: @timccopeland, @yueqi_yang, @cryptowhale, @muyaoshen, @yueqi_yang, @yueqi_yang, and @darkcryptolord
| Justina Lee / Bloomberg: |
Study: before 10%-25% of Coinbase listings since 2018, some traders on decentralized exchanges bought more of those tokens, hinting at insider trading — The US charge against a former Coinbase Global Inc. employee may not be the only instance of insider trading at the cryptocurrency exchange, according to a new study.
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SSRN. Tweets: @smtuffy, @smdiehl, @edzitron, @silvermanjacob, @silvermanjacob, and @wallstcynic
| David Pan / Bloomberg: |
Publicly-traded US bitcoin miners Core Scientific, Marathon Digital, and Riot Blockchain lost $862M, $192M, and $366M, respectively, in Q2 after impairments — The three-largest US publicly traded Bitcoin mining companies lost over $1 billion in the second quarter after taking a series …
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Tweets: @smdiehl, @davidpan_1, and @braun_ally
| Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post: |
Timbaland and Swizz Beatz sue Triller, alleging the short-form video app owes them $28M+ after acquiring live-streaming music series Verzuz and missing payments — Triller bought music series Verzuz for an undisclosed sum in January 2021. Now its creators say they're still owed money.| Nicole Wetsman / The Verge: |
Mozilla report flags 18 of the top 25 period and pregnancy tracking apps and wearables, including Clue and Eve, for poor privacy and data management practices — It's concerning in a post-Dobbs landscape — Period and pregnancy tracking apps collect data that could theoretically be used …
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| Meir Orbach / CTech: |
Israeli startup DriveNets, which offers cloud-based tools to help build networks more cheaply, raised a $262M Series C, source says at a $2.5B valuation — The Israeli company offers communications service providers (CSPs) and cloud providers a new way to build networks …
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TechCrunch, FinSMEs, Geektime, Globes Online, SiliconANGLE, and DriveNets
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Incredible Health, a US-based job-matching service for nurses, raised an $80M Series B led by Base10 at a $1.65B valuation, following a $15M Series A in 2019 — Incredible Health, a US-based job-matching platform which made nurses its first focus, has closed an $80 million Series B funding round …
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Crunchbase News, Incredible Health, FinSMEs, and Forbes
| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 4 review: excellent multitasking, camera, and performance, but $1,799 is steep, the device is heavy, and tablet app support is weak — Is it a tablet? Or two phones in a trench coat? — I have a confession: I'm not really into tablets.
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