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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft partners with Samsung to launch its Xbox TV app on June 30, letting Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers play Xbox games without a console — Samsung's 2022 smart TVs will be the first to get the Xbox app — Microsoft is launching its Xbox TV app later this month …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft details Project Moorcroft, designed to bring early game demos to Xbox Game Pass, rolling out within the next year with a focus on indie developers — Designed to bring back the excitement of E3 game demos — Microsoft is working on Project Moorcroft, a program designed …
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| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Source: Meta halts development of a $349 smartwatch with dual cameras, in the works for two years to launch in 2023, and will focus on other wrist devices — Facebook parent company Meta Platforms Inc. has halted development of a smartwatch with dual cameras and is instead working …
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| Ryan Broderick / Garbage Day: |
Critiques of “anti-crypto media personalities” and the “podcast circuit” miss an essential point: Web3 currently sucks and saying so is not a conspiracy — Read to the end for a truly cursed TikTok — Web3 Being Not Very Good Is Not A Conspiracy
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple will handle Apple Pay Later's lending, a first for the company; in-house subsidiary Apple Financing LLC will oversee credit checks and make loan decisions — Apple Inc. will handle the lending itself for a new “buy now, pay later” offering, sidestepping partners as the tech giant pushes deeper …
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Microsoft plans to stop adding noncompete clauses to US employment agreements, drop NDAs from US worker settlements, add salary ranges to US job posts, and more — Bending to employee sentiment and legislative mandate, Microsoft announced a series of reforms Wednesday that will curtail …
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| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
TikTok expands its screen time controls, adding a dashboard to monitor usage and letting users set time limits; teens will get additional usage reminders — TikTok is rolling out more screen time controls to help users manage how much time they are spending in the app.
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| Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk: |
Orderly Network, a permissionless DEX protocol built on the NEAR blockchain to conduct spot and future order book trading, raises a $20M Series A — The decentralized exchange offers permissionless spot and future order book trading infrastructure. — Orderly Network, a decentralized exchange … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
GitHub is sunsetting Atom, the text editor for developers it launched in 2011, and will archive all projects under the Atom organization on December 15, 2022 — GitHub today announced that it will sunset Atom, the text editor for software development that the company introduced in 2011.
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| Sheena Vasani / The Verge: |
Browser maker Vivaldi releases a built-in email client, Mail 1.0, with Vivaldi Calendar and RSS integrations — It's available to use starting today — Vivaldi has launched its own free built-in email client, Mail 1.0, with Vivaldi's Calendar and Feed Reader integrated.| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
Snapshot: 54% of ApeCoin owners vote in favor of remaining on Ethereum, after Yuga Labs floated creating its own blockchain after its huge metaverse land sale — ApeCoin owners have decided to keep the token, which is expected to be key to snagging exclusive metaverse game items and deals …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Documents show how Cerebral used social media ads to grow its ADHD drug business, as federal prosecutors look into possible Controlled Substance Act violations — The online mental health company surged to a $4.8 billion valuation after it started dispensing ADHD medication …
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| Washington Post: |
Despite Facebook's ban on gun sales, internal guidance shows users can break its rules 10 times before being banned, down to five if they call for violence — The company discloses little information about how it enforces its prohibition of firearm sales on the site, leaving its punishment system shrouded in secrecy| André Beganski / Decrypt: |
South Korean crypto exchanges Bithumb and Upbit plan to delist Litecoin, saying the token's new privacy features violate the country's anti-money laundering law — Two major exchanges in South Korea said they will delist Litecoin due to new privacy features enabled by the protocol.
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Cointelegraph, crypto.news, Crypto Daily, CoinDesk, and Xspringdigital's Newsletter. Tweets: @twobitidiot
| Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
Memo: Intel freezes all hiring in its client computing group, which handles desktop and laptop chips, cancels some travel, and makes other cost-cutting measures — Intel Corp (INTC.O) has frozen hiring in the division responsible for PC desktop and laptop chips, according to a memo reviewed by Reuters …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Amsterdam-based Backbase, which helps banks analyze data, raises €120M from Motive Partners at a €2.5B valuation and says it has 150 banking customers — Larger banks and other financial service providers are getting a lot more serious when it comes to competing with upstarts …
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FinSMEs, Finextra, Silicon Canals, Backbase, and Tech.eu
| Financial Times: |
Palantir is preparing to bid on a £360M contract to underpin UK NHS' operations, to be awarded in November; Palantir employs 600 in the UK and plans to add 250 — US data analytics group hires health service executives in bid to secure £360mn contract| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
Experts say the lack of publicly available data makes it difficult to verify claims by Tesla and others about the safety of their autonomous driving tech — Automakers and technology companies say they are making driving safer, but verifying these claims is difficult.
Tweets: @parismarx, @2plus2make5, @davidzipper, @garymarcus, @noahgoodall, and @iihs_autosafety
| Bloomberg: |
Sources and filings detail Vy Capital, the third-largest backer of Musk's Twitter bid, a secretive firm run by Alexander Tamas, who has links to Yuri Milner — Elon Musk's bid for Twitter Inc., which has been upended by the billionaire's threat to walk away, attracted a bevy of big-name backers and Silicon Valley mainstays.
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| Andrew Asmakov / Decrypt: |
Ethereum's proof-of-stake Merge upgrade goes live on Ropsten, Ethereum's oldest testnet for blockchain development testing before deployment on the mainnet — First rolled out in 2016, Ropsten is Ethereum's oldest testnet that allows for blockchain development testing before deployment on the mainnet.
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The Block, CNBC, CoinGape, Crypto Briefing, Cointelegraph, Crypto Daily, Cryptonews, Coinspeaker, Benzinga, crypto.news, and Bloomberg
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| Emily Peck / Axios: |
Twitter, Coinbase, and other companies are rescinding lucrative job offers as a cost-cutting measure instead of the usual mix of layoffs and slower backfills — Before accepting a job at Twitter, 23-year-old Iris Guo turned down five other offers. Twitter paid well …
Tweets: @puppykhan, @wstafrican, @emilyrpeck, and @burtchen
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Shield AI, which makes software and hardware for military drones and other autonomous aircraft, raises a $90M Series E and $75M in debt at a $2.3B valuation — Technology built with defense in mind is getting some significant and serious traction at the moment, spurred by world events … | Dan Taylor / Tech.eu: |
Sweden-based Juni, a neobank catering to e-commerce and online marketing, raises a $206M Series B, made up of $100M in equity led by Mubadala and $106M in debt — Sweden's Juni has raised $206 million ($100 equity/$106 debt) in a Series B funding round. — Swedish integrated payment …
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Finextra, PYMNTS.com, TechCrunch, Sifted, AltFi, and Reuters
| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
Dell redesigns the $999 XPS 13 and XPS 13 2-in-1, transforming the 2-in-1 into a detachable Surface rival, adding Intel's 12th Gen CPUs, and more — While all eyes are on the flashy new XPS 13 Plus, Dell hasn't forgotten about its mainstay premium ultraportable or its convertible cousin.Sponsor Posts
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