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Sources: Apple Watch Series 7 will be announced alongside the new iPhone, but production issues may cause the new models to ship late or in limited quantities — This is the free version of Power On. If you like it, consider subscribing to Bloomberg.com — you'll receive …
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| New York Times: |
Analysis: mining bitcoin uses 91 TW/h of electricity annually, ~0.5% of all electricity consumed globally or 7x Google's total usage, and grew 10x in five years — In 2009, you could mine one Bitcoin using a setup like this in your living room. — ↓ — ↓
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| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
Researchers uncover BrakTooth, 16 flaws in Bluetooth firmware in SoC boards used in billions of devices from 11 top vendors that can allow remote code execution — A team of security researchers has published details this week about a suite of 16 vulnerabilities that impact the Bluetooth software stack …
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| Kathryn Dill / Wall Street Journal: |
Harvard study details how automated hiring systems, now used by 99% of Fortune 500 companies, exclude 10M+ qualified workers in the US from hiring discussions — Automated-hiring systems are excluding many people from job discussions at a time when additional employees are desperately needed
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| New York Times: |
Regulators rush to catch up with DeFi startups and crypto-backed lenders like BlockFi, which now touts $10B+ in assets, 450K+ clients, and licenses in 28 states — The boom in companies offering cryptocurrency loans and high-yield deposit accounts is disrupting the banking industry and leaving regulators scrambling to catch up.| Asa Fitch / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at the substrates that connect chips to circuit boards, and how years of underinvestment in substrate manufacturing has worsened the global chip shortage — Sourcing a low-margin part called the substrate has become a priority for Intel, Nvidia and AMD
Tweets: @wsj and @hassankhan
| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Apple made an unforced error by trying to tackle CSAM and child safety issues without soliciting expert advice while adhering to its annual iOS release schedule — Hello friends, and welcome back to Week in Review. — Last week, we dove into the truly bizarre machinations of the NFT market.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation, AppleInsider, Pocketnow, IT PRO, and Techaeris
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| Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: |
UK food sharing app OLIO raises $43M Series B led by VNV Global, as it tries to tackle food waste, with Tesco adding 2.7K stores to the service in 2020 — It was curious enough that OLIO, a UK startup with an app that lets users post a photo of unwanted food and share it with the local neighborhood …
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| Liza Lin / Wall Street Journal: |
JD.com says founder and CEO Richard Liu will step back from day-to-day operations to focus on long-term strategy and names its first president — E-commerce company names its first president facing tougher competition, Beijing's regulatory crackdown — Chinese e-commerce group JD.com Inc. named …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Barcelona-based Factorial, which develops HR software for SMBs, raises $80M led by Tiger Global, sources say at a $530M valuation — Factorial, a startup out of Barcelona that has built a platform that lets SMBs run human resources functions with the same kind of tools that typically are used …
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Tech.eu and LABS English
| Daniel A. Gross / New Yorker: |
As libraries and schools transition to e-books, the value of e-book vendors like OverDrive, which make money by licensing content to libraries, has skyrocketed — Increasingly, books are something that libraries do not own but borrow from the corporations that do.
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| Joanna Ossinger / Bloomberg: |
CoinGecko: Solana's SOL token has more than tripled in value over three weeks and has a $45B+ market cap, making it the seventh most valuable cryptocurrency — - Solana's SOL has tripled in price over the past three weeks — Limelight increasingly falling on tokens other than BitcoinSponsor Posts
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