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Google says it will release Google Play Games in 2022 as a native Windows app that brings Android games to Windows 10 and Windows 11 — Google Play Games comes to PC next year — Google is planning to bring Android games to Windows PCs next year. A Google Play Games app will be available in 2022 …
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Epic v. Apple emails show Microsoft offered to bring triple-A, Xbox-exclusive games to iOS if Apple let its xCloud game streaming service into the App Store — Remember when Apple pretended like it would let cloud gaming services like Microsoft xCloud and Google Stadia into the App Store …
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Meta opens its VR social platform Horizon Worlds to all adult users in the US and Canada, after announcing a private beta in September 2019 — Facebook's first stab at the metaverse is Roblox meets the OASIS — More than two years and a company rebrand later, Meta is finally opening …
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Analysis: English Premier League soccer fans have spent £262M+ on crypto-based fan tokens, often offered by Socios, as critics worry about fans being exploited — Football clubs have potentially made hundreds of millions of pounds selling controversial crypto “fan tokens”.| WABetaInfo: |
WhatsApp begins a limited test of Meta's Novi digital wallet in the US, letting users send and receive USDP within a chat — Today, WhatsApp is finally announcing a small pilot program to some people in the US, that can finally use the Novi digital wallet within WhatsApp!
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| Eli Tan / CoinDesk: |
Palm, which helps companies and brands create NFT projects, raises a $27M Series B led by Microsoft's M12 — Microsoft's venture arm is leading a $27 million bet on NFT studio Palm. — The funding will be used primarily to scale the company's operations with a slew of new hires, a representative of the studio told CoinDesk.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Berlin-based instant grocery startup Flink raises a $750M Series B led by DoorDash at a $2.85B post-money valuation — Instant grocery delivery continues to be a very frothy market, but today comes news of a major funding round for one player in it that investors believe will still be standing after the hype has died down.
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Ethereum scaling startup Polygon acquires Mir Protocol, developer of ZK-rollup-based Ethereum scaling tech, for ~$400M; the deal was reached on November 26 — Quick Take — Polygon has acquired Ethereum scaling startup Mir Protocol for $400 million. — The deal involves 190 million …
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Replit, a browser-based IDE for cross-platform collaborative coding, raises an $80M Series B led by Coatue at an $800M valuation — Replit Raises $80M Series B to Bring the Next Billion Software Creators Online … Hi friends 👋, — Happy Thursday!
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Coinbase launches a DeFi yield product for non-US customers in over 70 countries, after US regulators effectively killed plans for its Lend program in September — - U.S. regulators effectively shut down Lend program earlier — Holdings to be deposited into the Compound Finance protocol
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In email, Better.com's board says CEO Vishal Garg is “taking time off effective immediately” and it's hiring a firm to “do a leadership and cultural assessment” — The company has also hired an outside firm to “do a leadership and cultural assessment,| Financial Times: |
How Syrian human rights group Mnemonic used AI trained on synthetic data to analyze videos for evidence that “cluster” weapon RBK-250 was used against civilians — Technique used to teach Tesla cars and Amazon Alexa has gathered evidence of weapons used against civilians
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Boston-based conversational AI startup Posh Technologies raises a $27.5M Series A led by Canapi Ventures to fuel call center automation — As call volumes skyrocketed during the pandemic, contact centers turned to AI to help distribute the workload. But even before the pandemic …
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Cher Scarlett, a leader of #AppleToo, says she is no longer withdrawing her NLRB complaint against Apple after it failed to execute a settlement in good faith — Former Apple engineer Cher Scarlett is no longer withdrawing her complaint with the National Labor Relation Board alleging …
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A look at the working processes at Apple's design team, led by VP of industrial design Evans Hankey and VP of human interface design Alan Dye — Global exclusive! Led by Evans Hankey and Alan Dye, the Apple Design Team holds enormous sway over our evolving relationship with technology.| Riley de León / CNBC: |
Brazilian neobank Nubank closes up 14.78% in its NYSE debut, giving it a $47.6B market cap, after raising $2.6B in its IPO — - Brazilian fintech company Nubank made its market debut Thursday on the New York Stock Exchange and is now trading under the ticker symbol “NU.”| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Tim Berners-Lee's Inrupt, which aims to “reshape the internet” by letting users control their data, raises Series A led by Forte Ventures, source says for ~$30M — Tim Berners-Lee's startup, Inrupt, has raised about $30 million in its Series A financing round, a source familiar with the matter said.
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