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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Sony plans to launch the PlayStation VR2 on February 22 for $550, £530, or €600; preorders open November 15 — Sony will launch its PS VR2 headset on February 22nd priced at $549.99. The PS VR2 will be priced at $549.99 in the US, €599.99 across Europe, £529.99, and ¥74,980 in Japan.
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| Washington Post: |
Elon Musk says Twitter will not reinstate banned accounts “until we have a clear process for doing so, which will take at least a few more weeks” — After the Zoom meeting, Musk tweeted that no suspended accounts would return to the site until there was a clear process for doing so
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| Washington Post: |
Internal email: Twitter appears to be rushing out a “high”-risk “Paywalled Video” feature, letting users charge to view their videos, with Twitter taking a cut — The tool would let video creators charge users for access. The team working on it flagged big potential pitfalls.
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| Elisa Lipsky-Karasz / Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of, and interview with, Jony Ive, covering life before and after Apple, his design philosophy, his company LoveFrom, the importance of words, and more — can always write an awful lot that I can't draw,“ Jony Ive, the mastermind behind Apple's most revolutionary products, says as he holds up a Space Age-style coffee cup. ”
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| Karen Hao / Wall Street Journal: |
China's Zhengzhou industrial park, home of Foxconn's most advanced iPhone plant, begins a weeklong lockdown to combat COVID-19's “severe and complicated” spread — HONG KONG—The industrial park where Foxconn Technology Group's iPhone assembly plant is struggling to maintain production amid …
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| Steven Musil / CNET: |
Former Apple employee Dhirendra Prasad pleaded guilty to mail and wire fraud charges after defrauding Apple of $17M+, including via kickbacks, starting in 2011 — Former parts buyer engaged in theft, taking kickbacks and inflating invoices, prosecutors say. — Steven Musil
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| Maria Heeter / The Information: |
Neobank Chime lays off 12% of its 1,300-person workforce, or ~150, citing “current market dynamics”; Chime raised $750M at a $25B valuation in August 2021 — Online banking startup Chime, which before this year's market meltdown had been widely seen as a candidate …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google adds Lens to its search engine's homepage, letting users search by image, after adding the feature on desktop web in Google Images and the results page — Google Lens will only become more important going forward, and one sign of that is its addition to the google.com homepage today.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Google expands Google Play Games beta for PC to the US, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, and Singapore, offering 85 Android games — Google Play Games is launching in open beta in the US today, allowing anyone to try out a selection of Android games on PC.| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Apple TV 4K (2022) review: affordable, snappy performance, and a USB-C Siri Remote, but no AirTag-like remote tracking, lackluster live TV, and a stale design — Packing more speed than ever (and now HDR10 Plus) at a cheaper price, the Apple TV 4K is the best overall streamer on the market — even if tvOS is falling behind in places
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Tweets: @chriswelch, @supersaf, and @parkerortolani
| Hamish McKenzie / On Substack: |
Substack co-founder says it's time for a “real alternative” to Twitter, and plans features to let writers and readers “hang out”, show their status, and more — It's time you had your own private social network — If you're into writing and reading …
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Tweets: @julian_epp, @bitinn, @pkafka, @hamishmckenzie, @dan_rowinski, @ricmac, @niubi, @niubi, @david_moscrop, and @hunterw
| Ian Allison / CoinDesk: |
A financial document details some ties between Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX and Alameda Research; Alameda's biggest asset is $3.66B of unlocked FTT, an FTX token — Alameda had $14.6 billion of assets as of June 30, according to a private document CoinDesk reviewed.
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Tweets: @coindesk, @mikeburgersburg, @wublockchain, and @cryptadamist
| Patrick Clark / Bloomberg: |
Home buying startup Opendoor lays off ~550 employees, or ~18% of its staff, after higher rates and a shift in prices forced the company to sell homes at a loss — Opendoor Technologies Inc. is laying off about 550 employees after higher mortgage rates cratered US housing demand.
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Tweets: @rabois and @bowtiedbull
| Wall Street Journal: |
Netflix rolls out its Basic with Ads tier in 12 countries; sources say licensing negotiations with Disney, Comcast's NBCU, Sony, WBD, and Lions Gate are ongoing — Disney, NBCU and Sony are among the companies still negotiating licensing with the streaming service
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| Chelsey Cox / CNBC: |
FinCEN: US financial firms processed ~$1.2B in likely ransomware payments in 2021, up almost 3x YoY; ~75% of H2 2021 ransomware incidents were linked to Russia — - U.S. banks and financial institutions processed more than $1 billion in potential ransomware-related payments in 2021.
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Tweets: @johnnysaks130, @johnnysaks130, @johnnysaks130, @ericgeller, and @serghei
| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Google plans to roll out parental controls for Assistant, including disabling features, restricting services, and setting downtime hours, in the “coming weeks” — Kids love to use smart speakers, but it's all too easy for things to go horribly wrong — including content that's decidedly not family-friendly.
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Arta Finance, which is building a “digital family office for the world”, raised $90M+ across a seed and a Series A from Sequoia, Eric Schmidt, and others — Caesar Sengupta has worked on, and overseen, several category-defining projects in the past decade and a half.
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| Justine Calma / The Verge: |
Google expands its flood forecasting and wildfire tracking services, adding a Flood Hub across 20 countries and improved wildfire tracking outside the US — Google announced a big expansion of its flood forecasting and wildfire tracking services today. It launched a tool called Flood Hub globally …
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Google plans to add a limited version of the Imagen text-to-image generator to its AI Test Kitchen app, letting users build cities and create little monsters — Google is being extremely cautious with the release of its text-to-image AI systems. … Today, though, the search giant announced …
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| Andy Baio / Waxy.org: |
An engineer reimplemented Google AI's text-to-image diffusion model DreamBooth for Stable Diffusion, letting anyone cheaply and easily recreate artists' styles — Last weekend, Hollie Mengert woke up to an email pointing her to a Reddit thread, the first of several messages from friends and fans … | Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: |
Sydney-based Blackbird raises a AU$1B+ fund, the largest Australian VC fund yet, including AU$284M for early-stage in Australia and AU$668M for follow-on bets — Blackbird Ventures has raised the largest Australian venture capital fund yet, securing more than A$1 billion ($640 million) …
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Tweets: @blackbirdvc and @holasammy
| Kate Kaye / Protocol: |
Microsoft helped build China's robust AI ecosystem, but the company could now be forced to reexamine its relationships in the country given tighter US scrutiny — Through decades of support, Microsoft was an instrumental force helping China become the AI powerhouse it is today.
Tweets: @katekayereports, @bennettrich, and @tomkrazit
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