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Twitter appoints Elon Musk to its board after he bought a 9.2% stake in the company; Musk cannot own over 14.9% of common stock during his term or 90 days after — - Elon Musk will join Twitter's board of directors after taking a 9.2% stake in the social media company, according to a release filed with the SEC.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft will let Windows 11 PCs boot straight to Windows 365 Cloud PCs and switch between cloud and native desktops using the virtual desktops feature — Windows is getting even more cloud-powered features — Microsoft put PCs in the cloud with Windows 365 last year …
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| Janko Roettgers / Protocol: |
Plex updates its app with universal search across a user's streaming services, a watchlist, and other discovery features; the company says it has 13M MAUs — Plex has an audacious plan to become the daily go-to app for everyone's streaming needs: The media center app rolled out new universal search …
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Sources: one-click checkout startup Fast is shutting down entirely, after having raised $120M from backers including Stripe, Index Ventures, and Addition — One-click checkout startup Fast is shutting down entirely and will discontinue its products and brand, according to several people familiar with the matter.
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple announces WWDC 2022 will be held from June 6 through June 10 as a virtual event; Apple will host an invite-only watch party on June 6 at Apple Park — Apple today announced that its 33rd annual Worldwide Developers Conference is set to take place from Monday, June 6 to Friday, June 10.
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| Eliza Gkritsi / CoinDesk: |
German police shut down Russian-language darknet market Hydra Market, which had a bitcoin privacy mixer and made €1.23B in 2020 revenue, and seize 543 bitcoins — The Hydra Market's bitcoin privacy mixer complicated the investigation, police said. — German authorities seized $25 million …
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| Loren Grush / The Verge: |
Amazon's Project Kuiper books up to 83 satellite launches on three rockets over five years for most of its 3,236 satellites, which will beam internet to earth — The subsidiary is partnering with Arianespace, ULA, and Blue Origin — Project Kuiper — Amazon's planned internet-from-space initiative …
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Google Maps begins rolling out an update with more map details including toll road prices, Apple Watch improvements, and an iOS widget to display pinned trips — Google Maps is getting an update that will add toll road prices and more map details like stop lights and stop signs, Google announced on Tuesday.| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft announces a preview of ARM support on Azure virtual machines, using Ampere Altra processors, and promises up to 50% better price-performance than x86 — It's been a long time coming, but Microsoft is making available a preview of Azure VMs supporting Arm-based processors from Ampere.
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| Ken Klippenstein / The Intercept: |
Internal documents: Amazon's planned internal messaging app would block union-related words, including “union”, “grievance”, “pay raise”, and “compensation” — Amazon will block and flag employee posts on a planned internal messaging app … | Edward Ongweso Jr / VICE: |
A look at Axie Infinity “managers”, who loan in-game NFTs to “scholars” in exchange for a cut of any profits and depend on a constant influx of new players — Managers in play-to-earn game Axie Infinity employ large teams of “scholars” who can't afford their own NFTs even as the game's economy spirals.
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| Ian Allison / CoinDesk: |
Ethereum Layer 2 scaling solution Boba Networks raises a $45M Series A at a $1.5B valuation from investors including Crypto.com, Huobi, and BitMart — In addition to easing Ethereum's transaction load, Boba injects off-chain machine learning into the contracts powering DeFi.
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| Andrew Hayward / Decrypt: |
Hivemapper, which wants to build a decentralized digital mapping network on Solana, raises an $18M Series A led by Multicoin Capital — Hivemapper rewards users with tokens for passively capturing mapping data with dashcams in a model inspired by Helium. — In brief
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| George Kaloudis / CoinDesk: |
Lightning Labs raises a $70M Series B for its Lightning Network-powered Taro protocol, which could bring stablecoins and other assets to Bitcoin's blockchain — The Taproot-powered “Taro” protocol aims to bring low-fee stablecoin and asset transfers to the Bitcoin Lightning Network.| Carly Page / TechCrunch: |
Filing: Block is contacting 8.2M Cash App customers in the US after a breach caused by a former employee four months ago exposed some of their account info — Block has confirmed a data breach involving a former employee who downloaded reports from Cash App that contained some U.S. customer information.| TechCrunch: |
Apple confirms that it has been piloting a feature with Disney+ that would let developers automatically charge users for subscription price increases — Apple may be changing how iOS subscriptions operate when price increases are involved. Recently, some developers noticed …
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| Vadim Smyslov / TechCrunch: |
Tech workers describe interrogations as they flee Russia; recruitment service HeadHunter says the government demand for IT workers in Russia has increased 100% — The mass exodus of IT specialists has been met with hostility from Moscow — On the evening of February 23 …
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| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
CryptoSlam: around 95%, or ~$18B, of NFT marketplace LooksRare's trading volume is users selling tokens to earn more coins as rewards, not genuine NFT trades — A closer look at the LooksRare platform that has quickly become the leading NFT marketplace by trading volume shows that most of the activity … | Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post: |
A look at subreddit r/Place, which lets users build collective art by posting a colored pixel every five minutes and had 72M tiles placed by Sunday night — Since last Friday, millions of Reddit users have banded together to collectively generate a massive, collaborative piece of artwork that has become a viral phenomenon.
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IBM unveils its z16 mainframe, generally available on May 31, which the company claims will be resistant to upcoming encryption-breaking quantum computers — New system offers AI capabilities and is reportedly quantum proof — IBM has unveiled the latest iteration of its Z-series mainframe.
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No-code mobile app development service Thunkable raises a $30M Series B led by Owl Ventures and announces it has surpassed 3M users and 6M apps developed — Mobile apps have become part of the bedrock of how the world at large gets things done and spends a lot of its leisure time … | Katie Roof / Bloomberg: |
Remote, an HR service that helps companies hire and manage remote employees across 60+ countries, raises $300M led by Vision Fund 2 at a ~$3B valuation — Remote Technology Inc., a startup which makes it easier for businesses to hire international employees, said it raised $300 million at valuation of almost $3 billion.
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