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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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Twitter Help Center, The Verge, CoinDesk, Engadget, Adweek, BetaKit, The Block, Blockworks, The Great Onboarding …, iPhone in Canada Blog, Cointelegraph, Tubefilter, Bloomberg, Social Media Today, Crypto Briefing, and Mashable
Tweets: @twitterblue, @twitterblue, @tomwarren, @opensea, @quicknode, @jsngr, @kayvz, @xanderatallah, @icklenellierose, @mightykeef, @charlesarthur, @ricmac, @kevinroose, @rdrv3, @dbreunig, @thesmarmybum, @_tessr, and @joncomms. Thanks:@sal19
| 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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The Verge, CNN, ZDNet, Cointelegraph, Tom's Guide, Bitcoinist.com, Ubergizmo, Blockworks, Cybercultural, Input, Forbes, MobileSyrup, CoinGape, Social Media Today, iPhone in Canada Blog, XDA Developers, Tubefilter, Engadget, PetaPixel, Mashable, The Block, TechSpot, Bitcoin News, Crypto Briefing, and KnowTechie
| 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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Ars Technica, Gizmodo, Android Police, SiliconANGLE, MobileSyrup, Tom's Guide, TechRadar, iPhone in Canada Blog, XDA Developers, Android Headlines, MSPoweruser, iPhone Hacks, SlashGear, Android Central, Engadget, Mashable, and iDownloadBlog.com
Tweets: @alexeheath, @daphnehk, @edenthecat, @benbajarin, @starfire2258, @mishaalrahman, @mhbergen, and @anshelsag
| 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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Crypto.com, Threatpost, The Register, Deadline, Slashdot, Cointelegraph, Security Affairs, Cointelegraph, CoinDesk, and Input
Tweets: @bloomberglive, @cryptocom, @kris_hk, @kris_hk, @murfski_, @adam_k_levin, @arossp, and @chrisblec
| 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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About Amazon, CNBC, Associated Press, The Verge, SiliconANGLE, Reuters, International Business Times, CNN, Engadget, dot.LA, govtech.com, Tech Xplore, New York Post, chainstoreage.com, and Bloomberg
Tweets: @amazon, @backlon, @stevenpdennis, @laurenthomas, and @amazonnews
| 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.
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Netflix, CNBC, Protocol, TechCrunch, The Verge, Bloomberg, Associated Press, CNET, Ad Age, MediaPost, Axios, The Wrap, Wall Street Journal, BBC, Variety, Reuters, Bloomberg, MarketWatch, Benzinga, Bloomberg, Barron's Online, Financial Times, Adweek, Investor's Business Daily, New York Post, Light Reading, CNBC, Variety, Deadline, and Hollywood Reporter. Tweets: @ldignan
| 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, iPhone in Canada Blog, The Verge, AppleInsider, MacRumors, Bloomberg, and MacDailyNews
Tweets: @markgurman, @counternotions, @karaswisher, @charlesarthur, and @chancehmiller
| 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.
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Instagram, The Verge, Engadget, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, Android Central, and Mashable
| 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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wesupportsb2992.medium.com, Ars Technica, Gizmodo, The White House, Thurrott, TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE, Free Press, CNBC, Seeking Alpha, The Verge, Accountable Tech, iTnews, The Hill, The Verge, MacDailyNews, Axios, Engadget, and Washington Examiner
Tweets: @sentedcruz, @neilbradleydc, @duckduckgo, @chuckgrassley, @markwarner, @senlummis, @senlummis, @senlummis, @attorneynora, @attorneynora, @attorneynora, @rileytestut, @judiciarydems, @attorneynora, @alexstamos, @daphnehk, @brianfishman, @daphnehk, @daphnehk, @daphnehk, @daphnehk, @daphnehk, @daphnehk, @netchoice, @citizenalex3, @ronmknox, @matthewstoller, @matthewstoller, @davidcicilline, @matthewstoller, @mrddmia, @ronmknox, @ronmknox, @jesselehrich, @robpwj, @leah_nylen, @jason_kint, @netchoice, and @technetupdate
| 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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Bitcoinist.com, Input, PC Gamer, and CoinGape
| 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.| 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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CoinDesk, Bloomberg, Financial Times, Fortune, Neowin, Wccftech, ZDNet, PYMNTS.com, Cointelegraph, CoinQuora, and Crypto Briefing
Tweets: @scottmelker, @el33th4xor, @felix_light, @digieconomist, and @alphacharts365
| 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, The Information, Crypto Briefing, Silicon Valley Business …, and Coinspeaker
Tweets: @mshannahmurphy, @alphaseeker21, and @kateclarktweets
| 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.
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The Block, Board of Governors …, CoinDesk, The Block, Blockworks, Bank Automation News, Forbes, Protocol, Washington Post, Insider, American Banker, Reuters, Barron's Online, Associated Press, Financial Times, Forexlive, U.Today, Crypto Briefing, Cointelegraph, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Crowdfund Insider
| Tiernan Ray / ZDNet: |
Meta details Data2vec, a self-supervised algorithm that unifies the process of training a neural network to learn the same across speech, images, and text — By eschewing data-specific outputs for internal representations, Meta aims for a more-general sort of AI.
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ai.facebook.com, MIT Technology Review, TechCrunch, Meta, and GitHub
| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Apple releases iOS 15.3 RC and macOS Monterey 12.2 RC with a fix for Safari 15's IndexedDB API, which leaked users' browser history and Google ID to other sites — We recently reported that Apple was working on a fix for a Safari bug that led to the leaking of users' browsing history and Google ID.
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MacRumors, MacRumors, XDA Developers, Forbes, Softpedia News, AppleInsider, Digital Trends, MSPoweruser, Macworld, Wccftech, iLounge, and Wccftech. Tweets: @9to5mac
| 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, and @robgo
| 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.| 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.
Tweets: @nicoagrant, @nicoagrant, and @nicoagrant
| 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, Softpedia News, HotHardware.com News, Gizchina, 9to5Google, ExtremeTech, Game Rant, and KnowTechie. Tweets: @jollyroger
| 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 … | 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, The Statesman, iPhone in Canada Blog, and SuperParent. Tweets: @jeramyutgw
| 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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TechCrunch, Variety, iThinkDifferent, Android Headlines, The Verge, Redmond Pie, TechSpot, MobileSyrup, PhoneArena, and MacDailyNews. Tweets: @johnkoetsier
| 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, The Verge, TechRadar, Reclaim The Net, The Mac Observer, PCMag, and KnowTechie
Tweets: @briankrebs, @hypervisible, @libbycwatson, @quinta, @anildash, @anildash, @sdonnan, and @hackingbutlegal
| Washington Post: |
Analysis: many right-wing personalities saw their followers surge on sites like Telegram, Gab, and Gettr after the January 6 riot, but growth has since stalled — After a short surge following the Jan. 6 riot last year, the number of people following noted right-wing personalities on services …
Tweets: @coolfacejane, @justsomejoo, @verambergen, @owillis, @jaredlholt, and @green_footballs
| 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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Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, BIG by Matt Stoller, TechRadar, The Verge, Protocol, PCMag, The Verge, MobileSyrup, Video Games Chronicle, MSPoweruser, Cointelegraph, TechSpot, KnowTechie, Windows Central, 9to5Toys, Laptop Mag, Neowin, Gameranx, HotHardware.com News, Ars Technica, dot.LA, and Destructoid
Tweets: @gregisenberg, @fawfulfan, @gibiz, @jorgex, @gibiz, @domsplaying, and @edzitron
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