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| Salvador Rodriguez / Wall Street Journal: |
Twitter will let iOS users of its Blue subscription service use NFTs as their profile pictures — Service will be available to some users of the company's Blue subscriber service — Twitter Inc. will start allowing some users to use nonfungible tokens as their profile pictures …
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE: |
Several services that rely on OpenSea's APIs, including Twitter and MetaMask, are having trouble displaying NFTs as the marketplace suffers a “database outage” — A Thursday outage interfered with the ability of MetaMask, which depends on OpenSea, to automatically display new NFTs.
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Meta plans to let users create and sell NFTs on Facebook and Instagram, display NFTs on user profiles, and is considering an NFT marketplace — Facebook's parent draws up plans to allow users to create and sell non-fungible tokens, seeking to enter hype-fuelled $40bn market
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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Sources: Google's AR headset could launch in 2024, powered by a custom processor, resembling ski goggles, and no need for an external power connection — Meta may be the loudest company building AR and VR hardware. Microsoft has HoloLens. Apple is working on something, too. But don't count out Google.
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| Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire: |
Amazon Style, the company's first physical fashion store, will launch in LA later this year, with an app that lets shoppers send items to the fitting room — Move over books and groceries, Amazon's latest foray into physical retail is focused on fashion. — The e-commerce giant announced Thursday …
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| John Paczkowski / BuzzFeed News: |
Apple names longtime company spokesperson Kristin Huguet as VP of worldwide communications, replacing Stella Low, who is leaving after joining Apple in May 2021 — Apple has tapped a new head of PR: longtime company spokesperson Kristin Huguet. She'll replace Stella Low …
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9to5Mac, The Verge, AppleInsider, MacRumors, Bloomberg, MacDailyNews, and iMore
Tweets: @markgurman, @charlesarthur, @chancehmiller, @reneritchie, and @karaswisher
| Andrew Asmakov / Decrypt: |
Crypto.com says its breach affected 483 users, resulting in unauthorized cryptocurrencies withdrawals worth ~$33.84M, and all users were reimbursed the same day — Cryptocurrency exchange Crypto.com has lost roughly $34 million in a recent security incident, according to a post-mortem released on Thursday.
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Tweets: @bloomberglive, @cryptocom, @kris_hk, @kris_hk, @arossp, and @chrisblec
| Miles Kruppa / Financial Times: |
Sources: by March, a16z plans to raise $3.5B for its latest cryptocurrency fund and up to $1B for a fund focused on seed investments in digital asset startups — Planned fundraising illustrates how Silicon Valley firms are fuelling boom in cryptocurrency start-ups
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Axios, Blockworks, GeekWire, The Block, Crypto Briefing, The Block, Silicon Valley Business …, and Coinspeaker
Tweets: @mshannahmurphy, @alphaseeker21, and @kateclarktweets
| Lydia Moynihan / New York Post: |
Sources: TikTok ousted its marketing chief Nick Tran for “going rogue” with plans like TikTok Kitchen, NFTs by Lil Nas X and others, and TikTok Resumes — TikTok's marketing chief has been ousted after blindsiding top management with a series of increasingly bizarre campaigns, The Post has learned.
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The Verge, Protocol, TechSpot, and Pandaily
Tweets: @bmorrissey, @rmac18, @_danielsinclair, @kh, @caseynewton, @tomgara, and @dinafierro_
| Reuters: |
Russia's central bank proposes banning cryptocurrency use and mining, citing threats to financial stability, citizens' wellbeing, and monetary sovereignty — Russia's central bank on Thursday proposed banning the use and mining of cryptocurrencies on Russian territory …
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Tweets: @scottmelker, @el33th4xor, @felix_light, @digieconomist, @alphacharts365, @stubbornfacts, @alexmarrow57, and @mikeelgan
| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
The Senate Judiciary votes 16-6 to advance the American Innovation and Choice Online Act, which would stop platforms from favoring their products over rivals' — The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 16-6 Thursday to advance a major tech competition bill, which some experts consider lawmakers' best shot …
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Wall Street Journal, MacRumors, The White House, iTnews, The Verge, CNBC, The Hill, 9to5Mac, Punchbowl News, The Verge, The Hill, and Washington Examiner
| Ryne Hager / Android Police: |
Google launches a limited beta of Google Play Games for PC, which brings Android games to Windows 10 and Windows 11, in Hong Kong, South Korea, and Taiwan — You'll need a relatively powerful computer for now. And for once, the US isn't getting a Google thing first
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YouTube, Android Developers, HotHardware.com News, Gizchina, ExtremeTech, 9to5Google, TalkAndroid.com, Android Headlines, PhoneArena, OnMSFT.com, Tech Advisor, and Droid Life
Tweets: @mishaalrahman and @jollyroger
| Jeff Cox / CNBC: |
The US Federal Reserve releases its long-awaited report on a digital dollar but doesn't take a position on issuing one, and seeks public feedback for 120 days — - The Federal Reserve on Thursday released its long-awaited exploration of a digital dollar but took no position on the issuance of a central bank digital currency.| Mack DeGeurin / Gizmodo: |
This summer the IRS will require users to log in via ID.me, which uses facial recognition in its authentication process, to file taxes, make payments, and more — You will have to submit sensitive government documents, your Social Security number, credit history, and a face scan to ID.me, a third-party company.
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Bloomberg, TechRadar, Reclaim The Net, The Mac Observer, PCMag, and KnowTechie
Tweets: @briankrebs, @libbycwatson, @hypervisible, @hackingbutlegal, @donmoyn, @quinta, @anildash, @anildash, and @sdonnan
| Mahira Dayal / The Information: |
TikTok says it is testing letting creators charge subscriptions for their content — TikTok is testing the idea of allowing its creators to charge subscriptions for their content, a spokesperson told The Information. Earlier Wednesday, rival Instagram announced it was offering paid subscriptions to a small group of influencers.
| Eric Newcomer / Newcomer: |
Profile of Hemant Taneja, who became the sole managing partner of General Catalyst in 2021, as the firm raises a seed, venture, and growth fund totaling $4.6B — General Catalyst's idealist investor Hemant Taneja is quietly running the firm — Hemant Taneja somehow finds time to be an idealist and an operator.
Tweets: @somakc, @ericnewcomer, @ericnewcomer, @ericnewcomer, @robgo, @megan_hernbroth, and @semil
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Prophecy, which lets data engineers build workflows by switching between a visual interface and a code editor, raises a $25M Series A led by Insight Partners — Prophecy, a low-code platform for data engineering, today announced that it has raised a $25 million Series A round led by Insight Partners.| Sean Lyngaas / CNN: |
Red Cross says a cyberattack on a vendor for over 60 Red Cross and Red Crescent societies compromised the personal data of 515,000+ “highly vulnerable people” — (CNN)A cyberattack on a contractor used by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has compromised … | Kim Lyons / The Verge: |
Meta launches gamified activities on Messenger Kids to help kids learn how to safely use the internet, developed with guidance from online safety experts — Meta (formerly Facebook) knows it has to attract younger users — Facebook parent company Meta has launched new activities …
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Meta, Messenger News, Neowin, The Statesman, iPhone in Canada Blog, and SuperParent. Tweets: @jeramyutgw
| Reuters: |
Sources: ByteDance revenue grew by 70% YoY to around $58B in 2021, slower than a year earlier when its revenue grew by 100%+ to $34.3B — TikTok owner ByteDance saw its total revenue grow by 70% year on year to around $58 billion in 2021, according to two people familiar with the matter …
Tweets: @onlyyoontv
| Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents: |
Apple countersues Ericsson, seeking a US import ban on mobile base stations and proposes that both parties withdraw all patent infringement actions — The flurry of Ericsson-Apple filings with the United States International Trade Commission (USITC, or just ITC), a U.S. trade agency …
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Netflix reports Q4 revenue of $7.71B, up 16% YoY, net income of $607M, 222M paid subscribers, and $30B in 2021 revenue, up 19%; stock down 15%+ on weak guidance — Netflix ended 2021 with a slightly lower-than-expected subscriber gain in the fourth quarter, and its stock took a dive with a weak Q1 outlook.| Mark Mulligan / MIDiA Research: |
Research: global music subscribers hit 523.9M in Q2 2021, up 26.4% YoY; Spotify had 31% market share; Apple Music, 15%; Amazon Music, 13%, and YouTube Music, 8% — MIDiA's annual music subscriber market shares report is now available here (see below for more details of the report).
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Variety, 9to5Mac, Redmond Pie, MobileSyrup, The Verge, TechSpot, PhoneArena, MacDailyNews, Android Police, iPhone in Canada Blog, and Pocketnow. Tweets: @johnkoetsier
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| Nico Grant / Bloomberg: |
Current and former members of Google's site reliability group Borg SRE say managers, including the team's leader Pierre Aubert, fostered a toxic environment — When Chewy Shaw left Google's site reliability group in April, he told colleagues in a memo that interactions with his managers had made him depressed and suicidal.| New York Times:NEW |
DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman is leaving Google to join Greylock Partners; Suleyman was stripped of some duties in 2019 for allegedly bullying staff — Mustafa Suleyman, a pioneer in the field of artificial intelligence, is leaving Google to join the venture capital firm Greylock Partners.| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: in recent weeks, CEO Bobby Kotick suggested Activision Blizzard make an acquisition, including of trade publications like Kotaku and PC Gamer — After a lawsuit and a Journal report, the company's stock was falling, board members were getting anxious—and the tech giant was ready to take a gamble
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