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CoinGecko: the Aptos token fell 40.5% on its first day of trading; Aptos' Layer 1 blockchain was panned for opaque tokenomics and a low transaction throughput — The price of Aptos has crashed more than 40% a day after launch as investors remain wary of the network's widely-panned mainnet rollout.
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google unveils Android 13 Go edition, with Material You, the Discover feed, and Google Play System Updates support, arriving in 2023 on devices with 2GB+ of RAM — Google announced and detailed Android 13 (Go edition) today with several sizable changes to the user experience …
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| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
iFixit's Google Pixel Watch teardown: the backplate can be replaced as can the display, after removing the battery; the buttons and crown don't seem replaceable — iFixit shows exactly how difficult it'll be to fix those cracked displays. — What secrets does the inside of the Pixel Watch hold? … | Andrew Tarantola / Engadget: |
Meta AI unveils an open-source translator for spoken but unwritten languages, which currently translates one sentence at a time between Hokkien and English — Nearly half of the world's roughly 7,000 known languages four in ten of them exist without an accompanying written component.
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| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Intel previews the next-gen Thunderbolt, based on USB4 v2, with up to 80Gbps both ways, or 120Gbps one way and 40Gbps the other for “video-intensive usages” — Intel is showing off a preview of the next generation of Thunderbolt, which it says can “deliver up to three times the capability of Thunderbolt 4.”
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| The Markup: |
Analysis in 38 US cities: AT&T, Verizon, and others offer lower-income and least-white areas slow internet for the same price as faster service in other regions — An investigation by The Markup found that AT&T, Verizon, EarthLink, and CenturyLink disproportionately offered lower-income …
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
SpaceX unveils Starlink Aviation, promising 20ms latency and up to 350Mbps speeds in planes, requiring a $150K Aero Terminal and $12.5K to $25K in monthly fees — Airplane operators can reserve now for Starlink deliveries in mid-2023. — SpaceX is now advertising Starlink Aviation …
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| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
Google launches News Showcase in France, partners with 65+ publishers representing 130+ outlets, and will offer “a limited amount” of paywalled content for free — Google has launched News Showcase in France, and it has teamed up with over 65 publishers representing over 130 publications …
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| Song Jung-a / Financial Times: |
Inside the UST Restitution Group, an association of nearly 4,400 crypto investors trying to track down Do Kwon and who share their findings on Discord — UST Restitution Group is trying to track down Do Kwon after the crash of his terraUSD and luna coins — Kang Hyung-suk's faith …
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Tweets: @laurashin, @silvermanjacob, and @wublockchain
| Accel: |
Public cloud company valuations in the US, Europe, and Israel have fallen from $2.8T to $1.2T in the past year; private market funding fell 42% YoY in Q3 2022 — This article was co-authored with my colleagues Richard Kotite and Will Sheldon. The Accel 2022 Euroscape was unveiled earlier today … | Kaitlyn Tiffany / The Atlantic: |
A look at “gradient accounts” on Twitter that have color gradients as profile pictures, post viral “relatable” content, and are often accused of stealing tweets — Here's a very popular tweet: “she's a 10 but she cries on her birthday every year.” — Solid. Concise.
Tweets: @picpedant, @llegrarosenberg, @lenikacruz, @bitinn, and @nxthompson
| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
An interview with Signal president Meredith Whittaker on competition, RCS, government pressure to break encryption, what it's like to hire a new CEO, and more — Signal messages are more private than iMessage and WhatsApp. Here's how. — Meredith Whittaker is the president of Signal …
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