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| Leyland Cecco / The Guardian: |
Apple quietly launches a catalog of books narrated by AI on its Books app, in a move that publishers, authors, and agents warn may upend the audiobook market — Exclusive: tech firm quietly launches new audiobook catalogue narrated by AI - but move expected to spark backlash
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| David Benoit / Wall Street Journal: |
US bank Silvergate, which caters to crypto, reports liquidating debt to cover $8.1B withdrawals as FTX collapsed and laying off 40% of its staff; SI falls 40%+ — Bank sold assets at a loss to cover withdrawals and cut 40% of its staff but remains committed to crypto
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon plans to lay off 18,000+ employees, more than its initial target of 10,000 in November 2022, with the “majority” coming from retail and recruiting — Cuts focused on the company's corporate staff exceed earlier projection — Amazon AMZN -0.79%decrease …
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| Angus Berwick / Reuters: |
Source: FTX's former top lawyer Daniel Friedberg has cooperated with US prosecutors, telling them what he knew of SBF and others misusing customer funds — FTX's former top lawyer Daniel Friedberg has cooperated with U.S. prosecutors as they investigate the crypto firm's collapse …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
New York AG Letitia James files a civil lawsuit against Celsius co-founder Alex Mashinsky, alleging he defrauded investors out of billions via false statements — Alex Mashinsky made false statements to investors about the crypto lender, lawsuit alleges — New York Attorney General Letitia …
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| Jessica Conditt / Engadget: |
Sony unveils Project Leonardo, a PS5 accessibility controller kit with circular gamepads, for use on its own or with DualSense; pricing and release are TBC — Sony is building a better PlayStation 5 controller with Project Leonardo, a kit that promises to make games easier to play for people with limited motor control.
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| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
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| Jules Roscoe / VICE: |
The FTC proposes a rule banning non-compete clauses, saying the contracts harm healthy competition in the labor and product markets and block entrepreneurship — The agency stated that noncompete clauses are bad for both the labor market and innovation. The proposed rule would make them illegal.
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| Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge: |
Lenovo unveils the Yoga Book 9i, a laptop with two 13.3" OLED displays, available in June 2023 for $2,100+ with a 13th Gen Intel Core i7-U15 and 16GB of RAM — Dual monitor setups are great and all, but how about dual screens in a strangely tall laptop? Lenovo is here to answer that …
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| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
A hacker leaks a dataset allegedly containing the email addresses of 200M+ Twitter users, claimed to be a cleaner version of the 400M dataset from December 2022 — A data leak described as containing email addresses for over 200 million Twitter users has been published on a popular hacker forum for about $2.| Matt Burgess / Wired: |
WhatsApp launches proxy support globally, letting users with blocked or disrupted connections use the app via servers set up by volunteers and organizations — Amid internet shutdowns in Iran, the encrypted messaging app is introducing proxy connections that can help people get online.
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| Gabrielle Fonrouge / CNBC: |
Stitch Fix plans to cut 20% of its 1,700 salaried staff as founder Katrina Lake reassumes the CEO role from Elizabeth Spaulding, who took over in August 2021 — - Stitch Fix founder Katrina Lake announced the company will be cutting 20% of its salaried workforce. — Lake will also reassume her post as CEO.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Documents and sources: Facebook backed off muting all recommendations of politics and other sensitive topics, finding the move had a “high and inefficient cost” — Hitting mute button on political content recommendations brought unintended consequences
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| Levi Winslow / Kotaku: |
After YouTuber Coffeezilla reported on Logan Paul's apparently sham NFT game CryptoZoo, Paul says his only mistake was trusting the project's many “bad actors” — Blockchain investigator Stephen ‘Coffeezilla’ Findeisen may see Paul in court — After keeping his mouth shut …
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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Google says Android TV OS, the underlying platform for Google TV and Android TV, now has 150M monthly active devices, up 36%+ YoY — At CES 2023 this week Google is sharing an update on how many devices are now using Google TV and Android TV, with 150 million devices in the hands of users.| Erin Woo / The Information: |
Source: Twitter laid off ~40 data scientists and engineers working on ad optimization, as it targets the ads products and other areas considered to be failing — Twitter laid off about 40 data scientists and engineers working on advertising late Wednesday night in what amounted to at least … | Crystal Kim / Axios: |
A US judge rules that the crypto deposits in bankrupt crypto lender Celsius Network's yield-bearing accounts belong to Celsius and not the individual holders — Celsius Network's bankruptcy might have just set a precedent in determining what crypto assets belong to whom when stored on a centralized platform.
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| Jesse Hamilton / CoinDesk: |
The US SEC accuses alleged fraudster Neil Chandran and four others of scamming investors for $45M+ on the false promise of a deal to sell blockchain technology — The U.S. securities agency is going after the people behind what it says was a massive fraud stealing from tens of thousands of investors.
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Bloomberg, U.S. Securities …, PYMNTS.com, Bitcoinist.com, and CryptoSlate
| Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal: |
Some VCs that held onto stakes in startups after IPOs during the bull market, including Sequoia, Menlo, and Altos, were hit with losses after the market dropped — Startup investors that held off on exiting investments after their IPOs are left to rue the decision
Tweets: @berber_jin1, @eliotwb, and @hedgefund
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Amazon unveils the Ring Car Cam, its first car dashboard camera, with inside and outside recording, after a two-year delay, shipping in February 2023 for $250 — Amazon.com Inc.'s Ring division introduced its first car dashboard camera after a two-year delay, expanding beyond home security with a new category.
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SiliconANGLE, Thurrott, Phandroid, ZDNet, The Verge, TechHive, Tom's Guide, TheStreet, Mashable, TechRadar, and Digital Trends
| Scott Stein / CNET: |
HTC unveils the $1,099 Vive XR Elite headset with a Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2, 110-degree field of view, and two 90HZ 2K LCD displays, available in February 2023 — The compact, depth-sensing, $1,099 headset arrives in February. Vive boss Dan O'Brien explains the strategy. — VR has suddenly gotten more expensive.
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