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Opinion: Apple has the technical chops to safely open up its NFC chip for third party payments apps, and the main reason it is not doing it is the revenue — Apple's latest antitrust battle is all about Apple Pay and how the company reserves the tap-to-pay feature for its own service.
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| Zoë Schiffer / @zoeschiffer: |
Ian Goodfellow, Apple's director of ML, is leaving due to its return to work policy, saying in a note that “more flexibility would have been the best policy” — Ian Goodfellow, Apple's director of machine learning, is leaving the company due to its return to work policy. In a note to staff, he said “I believe strongly that more flexibility would have been the best policy for my team.” He was likely the company's most cited ML expert.
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| Danny Nelson / CoinDesk: |
Sources: Instagram to launch a pilot for NFT integrations for Ethereum, Polygon, Solana, and Flow as soon as Monday, will not charge users for showcasing NFTs — NFTs from some of the most popular blockchain networks for crypto art are coming to Instagram with the announcement of a pilot …
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WhatsApp announces Message Reactions, support for sharing files up to 2GB in size, and is rolling out the ability to add up to 512 people to a group — Like Love Haha Wow Sad Angry — After announcing to release the ability to react to messages to everyone on the latest versions of WhatsApp for Android …
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| Jared Newman / Fast Company: |
Profile of AltStore, which has been downloaded 1.5M times since its launch in 2019, as it rolls out a curated section to make sideloading apps on iOS easier — The best way to install apps from outside Apple's App Store was only made possible because Riley Testut wanted to play Pokémon on his iPhone.
Tweets: @rileytestut, @harrymccracken, @altstoreio, @onejarednewman, and @shut_up_syd
| Dylan Martin / The Register: |
Interview with RISC-V International CEO Calista Redmond about the non-profit that oversees the open-source processor technology, industry adoption, and more — We speak to the head of ISA's governing body on industry adoption, timelines, and more — INTERVIEW The CEO of RISC-V's governing body …
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Google Play bans “downloading of paid apps and updates to paid apps” in Russia over sanctions, after halting purchases of paid apps and subscriptions in March — Google is now blocking Russian users and developers from downloading or updating paid applications from the Google Play Store starting Thursday due to sanctions.
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| Leo Schwartz / Rest of World: |
Some tech workers in Latin America advocate for Spanish-language training and a Spanish programming language, even as the best IT jobs still require English — Non-English speaking devs are getting more coding jobs than ever — but Spanish can only get them so far. — • MEXICO CITY, MEXICO
Tweets: @anupkaphle, @leomschwartz, @restofworld, @leomschwartz, @restofworld, @leomschwartz, and @alexgonzor
| David Pierson / Los Angeles Times: |
In the Philippines, presidential frontrunner Bongbong Marcos is using TikTok and troll farms to rewrite his dictator father's violent past for young Filipinos — The popular video-sharing app, TikTok, could tip the balance in the upcoming Philippine election.
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Allen Wu, who was replaced as CEO of Arm China by Liu Renchen, has refused to surrender control amid Shanghai's lockdown, where Arm China's HQ is based — Allen Wu refuses to surrender control in extraordinary corporate battle at UK chip designer — High in a Shenzhen office tower …
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| Kate Park / TechCrunch: |
South Korean startup Bucketplace, known for its home decorating app Ohouse, raises a $182M Series D, sources say at a post-money valuation of around $1.4B — During the worst days of the pandemic, when people were stuck at home and starving for some form of entertainment beyond streaming … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Sleuth, an AI-powered tool that integrates with software development toolchains to measure developer productivity, raises a $22M Series A led by Felicis — As knowledge workers including software engineers shifted to remote work during the pandemic, executives expressed a concern that productivity would suffer as a result.Sponsor Posts
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The power of asynchronous communication: Striking the right balance in the workplace — Asynchronous communication may have surged during the transition to remote work, but as the years passed and teams returned …
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