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January 10, 2023, 10:25 PM
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| Zac Bowden / Windows Central: |
Sources: Microsoft ditched a dual-screen design for the Surface Duo 3, opting for an internal foldable screen, an external cover display, and a 180-degree hinge — Microsoft's next foldable phone will have an internal foldable display. — What you need to know
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GSMArena.com, MobileSyrup, OnMSFT.com, SlashGear, Thurrott, Android Authority, Appuals.com, XDA Developers, Neowin, The Verge, PocketLint, 9to5Google, Ars Technica, and Liliputing
Tweets: @mishaalrahman, @mcwm, and @captain2phones
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple plans to design and develop its own displays for mobile devices, starting with microLED screens for the Apple Watch Ultra by the end of 2024 — Apple Inc. is planning to start using its own custom displays in mobile devices as early as 2024, an effort to reduce its reliance …
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9to5Mac, Reuters, The Verge, AppleInsider, MacRumors, iMore, Wccftech, Forbes, TechSpot, BGR, and Cult of Mac
Tweets: @benedictevans, @joannastern, and @markgurman
| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
Cameron Winklevoss demands that DCG's board remove CEO Barry Silbert and alleges he and Genesis lied publicly, after his January 8 resolution deadline passed — Gemini crypto exchange co-founder Cameron Winklevoss called for the board of Digital Currency Group to remove Barry Silbert …
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DCG, CoinDesk, Cointelegraph, Forbes, Inside Bitcoins, Bitcoin Magazine, CryptoGlobe, Decrypt, Crypto Briefing, Ethereum World News, Coinpedia Fintech News, Blockworks, Bitcoinist.com, Trustnodes, Crowdfund Insider, Crypto Adventure, Bitcoin News, Fortune, TheStreet, The Daily Hodl, crypto.news, The Information, CoinGape, Financial Times, Finbold, and The Block
Tweets: @cameron, @dcgco, @barrysilbert, @kgreifeld, @tree_of_alpha, @dogetoshi, @dogetoshi, @runnerxbt, @mishaboar, @bennetttomlin, @barrysilbert, @timccopeland, @edzitron, @jeffnolan, @simondixontwitt, @byzgeneral, @autismcapital, @smtuffy, @cryptohayes, @dylanleclair_, @edzitron, @mikedemarais, @ldrogen, @silvermanjacob, @twobitidiot, @muyaoshen, @icebergy_, @macrocrg, @petermccormack, @thebluematt, @adamscochran, @martinkrung, and @jamespmcleod
| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
Sources: Parler's parent company laid off ~75% of its staff and most of its chief executives over the past few weeks, leaving the social app with ~20 employees — Parlement Technologies, the parent company of “censorship-free” social media platform Parler, has laid off a majority of its staff …
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| Kate Rooney / CNBC: |
Coinbase plans to cut ~950 jobs, or ~20% of its workforce, aiming to reduce its operating expenses by 25% QoQ in Q1 2023, after laying off 18% in June 2022 — - Coinbase is cutting a fifth of its workforce following an 18% staff reduction in June. — CEO Brian Armstrong pointed …
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Tweets: @deitaone, @mylesudland, @davidgura, @thestalwart, @pt, @carnage4life, @eliotwb, @basedkarbon, @kantrowitz, @krishnanrohit, @tante, @mattgoldstein26, @kr00ney, @thestalwart, @levynews, @davidgerard, @deitaone, @cryptonator1337, @thestalwart, @manya__saini, @buccocapital, @t0nyyates, @wublockchain, @mdudas, @thestalwart, and @degencryptoinfo
| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Samsung sets its next Galaxy Unpacked for February 1 at 10am PT in San Francisco, likely to unveil the Galaxy S23 at its first in-person event in three years — Mark your calendar: Samsung is hosting its next Galaxy Unpacked on February 1st. The company is officially confirming a date …
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Tweets: @universeice and @sondesix
| Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
Meta plans to further limit ad targeting users under 18 starting in February 2023, including removing the options to target based on gender and in-app activity — Meta is making some changes to how its apps handle advertising and young users. Under the new rules, advertisers on Instagram …
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Meta, Wall Street Journal, The Verge, The Drum, Tech Times, Social Media Today, BGR, Bloomberg, The Hill, TechRadar, Engadget, Business Post, The Straits Times, KnowTechie, The Independent, and Adweek
Tweets: @hergen_frerichs, @mattnavarra, @metanewsroom, and @nickclegg
| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple SVP of Services Eddy Cue says App Store developers have made $320B+ since 2008 and lists 900M paid subscriptions, 200+ Arcade games, 70B Shazams, and more — Eddy Cue, Apple's senior vice president of services, has penned an open letter celebrating what he calls a “groundbreaking year for entertainment.”
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Tweets: @apollozac, @parkerortolani, @ideafaktory, @mcelhearn, @epro, and @leonardwongly
| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Nevada's US senators claim the FCC's new broadband maps, which will be used to allocate $42.45B in grants, are filled with mistakes and overstate coverage — Errors suggest ISPs are claiming to serve more homes than they actually do. — Nevada's US senators say the Federal Communications Commission's … | Don Clark / New York Times: |
A look at Intel's struggles with launching Sapphire Rapids, originally slated for mid-2022, which Intel says has led to changes in product design and testing — The company grappled with missteps for years while developing a microprocessor code-named Sapphire Rapids. It comes out on Tuesday.
Tweets: @ohmdee
| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
X project Mineral, which debuted in March 2018 to use AI, ML, and edge computing to “help scale sustainable agriculture”, graduates into a full Alphabet company — In October of 2020, the X Moonshot Factory officially named its “computational agriculture” project …
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Mineral, TechCrunch, and Insider
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Developers flood Apple's App Store and Google Play with apps listing “ChatGPT” in titles and descriptions; OpenAI doesn't offer a public ChatGPT API or an app — ChatGPT is the hottest topic of discussion in the tech industry. OpenAI's chatbot that answers questions …
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The Information, MobileSyrup, Android Police, and Michael Tsai
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| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Scale AI, which labels data for ML algorithms and was valued at $7.3B in April 2021, lays off 20% of its staff; the startup had ~450 employees in February 2022 — Scale AI, the San Francisco-based company that uses software and people to label image, text, voice and video data …
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ScaleAI, SiliconANGLE, Insider, VentureBeat, and Silicon Valley Business …
| André Beganski / Decrypt: |
Crypto.com plans to delist Tether in Canada to comply with Ontario's regulator and will stop facilitating transaction associated with USDT by the end of January — The exchange said it will no longer facilitate transactions associated with the stablecoin at the end of the month.
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Cointelegraph, CoinDesk, CryptoPotato, Watcher Guru, crypto.news, and CryptoSlate
| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Nothing Phone (1) rolls out in the US via a $299 “beta membership” offered through June 2023, but the company says the phone “may not work with all US carriers” — After a previous teaser, the Nothing Phone (1) is now officially on its way to the United States … | Bob Van Voris / Bloomberg: |
A New York judge sentences Nikhil Wahi, a brother of Coinbase PM Ishan Wahi, to 10 months for a scheme to trade on insider info on the timing of new listings — The brother of a former Coinbase Global Inc. product manager was sentenced to 10 months behind bars for his role in a scheme … | Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Twitter renames Latest Tweets to Following and Home to For You, making the algorithmic feed the default with no way to change it, rolling out to iOS users first — Twitter is changing how you move between the algorithmically-driven timeline and the reverse chronological one and making the algorithmic feed the default.
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Mastodon: @theromit@mastodon.online. Tweets: @rayminehane, @kgoyette, @lordravenscraft, @davidclinchnews, @liamodelluk, and @tomwarren
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon plans to open Buy with Prime to all US merchants on January 31, letting them offer Prime benefits like free shipping and returns on their own apps — Amazon announced this morning it's expanding its Buy with Prime service to U.S.-based merchants by the end of the month.
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About Amazon, BigCommerce, Reuters, SiliconANGLE, TechRadar, PYMNTS.com, The Information, Gizmodo, BGR, The Verge, TechSpot, PCMag, Engadget, Bloomberg, GeekWire, CNBC, and Barron's Online
Tweets: @astaniscia86, @_inpractise, @rihardjarc, @modestproposal1, @ldignan, @ajassy, @modestproposal1, and @juokaz
| Steven Church / Bloomberg: |
A US bankruptcy judge approves Voyager's plan to sell its crypto platform to Binance.US for $20M, overruling objections from federal regulators and some states — Voyager Digital Ltd. won court approval to sell its crypto platform to Binance.US for $20 million as part of Voyager's plan to liquidate in bankruptcy.
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Reuters, CoinDesk, Cointelegraph, and Coinspeaker
| Javier Paz / Forbes: |
A breakdown of Binance's known assets, according to Nansen, Glassnode, Defillama, and others, estimates the exchange has ~$50B left, down 24% from November 2022 — The outflow of cash from Binance is worse than the CEO Changpeng Zhao indicated last month, and it's become considerably more severe since then, a Forbes analysis shows.
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Coinpedia Fintech News, crypto.news, CoinGeek, Grit Capital, Invezz, and Watcher Guru
| Wade Tyler Millward / CRN: |
Sources: Cloud Software Group, the parent company of cloud vendor Citrix and enterprise applications vendor Tibco, begins laying off thousands of employees — 'It's a sad day for a company that pioneered the VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure) market. It's a terrible day … | Reuters: |
Filing: Google warns Android growth in India will stall due to the CCI's antitrust order that requires making “far-reaching changes” to its mobile platform — The growth of Google's Android ecosystem is on the brink of stalling in India due to an antitrust order that asks …
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TechCrunch, PYMNTS.com, Wccftech, The Economic Times, and Appuals.com
Tweets: @adityakalra, @arpanc_, @ramrastogi, @reuterslegal, and @adityakalra
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