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| Jason Del Rey / Vox: |
An internal Amazon memo from mid-2021 warns the company could run out of potential US warehouse workers by 2024 and suggests six remedies, such as raising wages — Unions might not be the tech giant's biggest labor threat. — Amazon is facing a looming crisis: It could run out of people …
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| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Amazon unveils new robotic tech for its warehouses, including Proteus, its “first fully autonomous mobile robot” meant to safely move large carts around workers — It can pick things up, put them down, and move them around — Amazon has announced its “first fully autonomous mobile robot …
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About Amazon, YouTube, SiliconANGLE, TechCrunch, Input, PYMNTS.com, GeekWire, Quartz, TechRadar, Engadget, PCMag, TechCircle, Fossbytes, Silicon Republic, TechSpot, YouTube, Digital Trends, and Forbes
Tweets: @mikelltaylor, @parismarx, @giano, @moreperfectus, @mikelltaylor, and @mattbeane
| Sascha Segan / PCMag: |
Nothing confirms phone (1) will not be fully supported by carriers in North America, as the company focuses on “home markets”, including the UK and Europe — It looks like Americans and Canadians are getting ... nothing. — Carl Pei's buzzy phone firm, which he says will be a top alternative …
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TechRadar, TechCrunch, Android Authority, Android Central, 9to5Google, Engadget, MUO, Digital Trends, MobileSyrup, Tom's Guide, PhoneArena, The Verge, Wccftech, Notebookcheck.net, Liliputing, Pocket-lint, Android Headlines, and Droid Life
Tweets: @evleaks, @evleaks, @basche42, @saschasegan, and @rjeytech
| Monica Chin / The Verge: |
MacBook Pro 13-inch (M2) review: dominant single-core performance with good battery life, but just two USB-C ports, design from 2016, and webcam is still bad — Apple has put a 2022 CPU in a 2016 computer — I don't really care what the M2 MacBook Pro gets on benchmarks.
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Engadget, XDA Developers, Gizmodo, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, TheStreet, Wired, Macworld, TechCrunch, Six Colors, iMore, CNET, PCMag, Cult of Mac, Parker, iPhone in Canada Blog, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, Pocket-lint, iMore, Tom's Guide, Tech Advisor, Wccftech, iClarified, MobileSyrup, T3, YouTube, and independent
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| Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette: |
Google revamps News, elevating local news and fact checks; News returns to Spain after 7.5 years citing the country adopting EU copyright rules in November 2021 — Google News is relaunching in Spain almost eight years after it shut down to avoid paying publishers when the country introduced …
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The Keyword, The Keyword, 9to5Google, Silicon Republic, Engadget, XDA Developers, The Verge, Hollywood Reporter, Search Engine Land, and TechCrunch
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter partners with Shopify to launch a sales channel app, letting Shopify's US merchants sell products and engage customers via Twitter's Shopping Manager — As part of its ongoing efforts to expand into e-commerce, Twitter today announced a new partnership with Shopify.
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The Verge, PYMNTS.com, Reuters, Twitter for Business, Wall Street Journal, Engadget, BetaKit, Bloomberg, and Adweek
| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Tether plans to launch its fifth fiat-pegged stablecoin in July, called GBPT, pegged to the British pound and initially available on Ethereum — - Tether has launched a new stablecoin pegged 1:1 to the British pound. — It will be initially available on Ethereum.
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tether.to, PYMNTS.com, The Guardian, CoinQuora, Cointelegraph, Defillama round-up🦙, CryptoSlate, CryptoPotato, The Economic Times, Fortune, Coinspeaker, and CoinDesk
Tweets: @tether_to, @alexhern, @alexhern, @basche42, and @hkanji
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter tests Twitter Notes with select users, for creating long-form content with rich text formatting and uploaded media that can be tweeted upon publishing — In what could be one of Twitter's more significant changes since doubling the character count from 140 to 280 characters …
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Gizmodo, Search Engine Land, 9to5Mac, WinBuzzer, Neowin, PhoneArena, The Verge, Fossbytes, and KnowTechie
| CoinDesk: |
Crypto broker Voyager Digital says its exposure to Three Arrows Capital consists of 15,250 bitcoin and $350M USDC, and “may issue a notice of default” to 3AC — The crypto broker said it's on the hook for about $370 million of bitcoin and $350 million of USDC and has asked for a repayment installment by Friday.
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| Bloomberg: |
Internal memo: two of Amazon's top Black executives, SVP of logistics warehouses Alicia Boler Davis and VP of transportation services Dave Bozeman, are leaving — Two of Amazon.com Inc.'s top Black executives are leaving amid a management shakeup as Chief Executive Officer Andy Jassy puts … | Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers discover fundamental cryptography flaws in MEGA's end-to-end encryption, letting anyone controlling the cloud storage service decipher stored files — Fundamental flaws uncovered in Mega's encryption scheme show service can read your data. — In the decade since larger …
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MEGA: Malleable Encryption Goes Awry. More:
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| Chris Metinko / Crunchbase News: |
FalconX, a crypto exchange for institutional investors, has raised a $150M Series D led by GIC and B Capital at an $8B valuation, up from $3.75B in August 2021 — Despite a rocky couple of months for crypto, San Francisco-based FalconX locked up a $150 million Series D and more than doubled its valuation from just 10 months ago.
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| Lauren Goode / Wired: |
Slack plans to add video calling to Huddles in the fall; Slack has offered one-on-one and group video calling since 2016, but the feature isn't easy to find — Adding video to Slack's popular Huddles feature could herald a new digital hang space—or just reinvent the video meetings wheel.
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The Verge, Gizmodo, Computerworld, Protocol, and 9to5Mac
| Augusta Saraiva / Bloomberg: |
Hired: despite D&I initiatives, female African American tech workers earned $0.92 for every $1 a white male counterpart earned in 2021, down from $0.94 in 2020 — As American corporations announce a record number of diversity and inclusion initiatives, Silicon Valley has seen … | Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Appsmith, which offers low-code tools to build enterprise apps, raised a $41M Series B led by Insight Partners and says it has over 7,000 monthly active users — For the last several years, Appsmith has been quietly building an open source platform for internal development teams to build the custom apps they need.| Tom Matsuda / The Block: |
Blockchain payments infrastructure company Roxe plans to go public via SPAC on the Nasdaq, valuing it at $3.6B — - Blockchain payments infrastructure company Roxe has announced plans to list on the Nasdaq via a SPAC called Goldenstone Acquisition. — The company says it will be valued at $3.6 billion after the merger.
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GlobeNewswire News Room, Coinspeaker, CoinDesk, Cointelegraph, Blockworks, and PYMNTS.com
| Alexis Hancock / Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
Analysis finds HiMama and other popular daycare apps lack 2FA and have privacy-compromising features like trackers that were not disclosed in privacy policies — Last year, several parents at EFF enrolled kids into daycare and were instantly told to download an application for managing their children's care.| Mack DeGeurin / Gizmodo: |
A DARPA report finds blockchains are vulnerable to “unintended centralities”, such as powerful new crypto miners, that could pervasively affect their security — The report points to a handful of, “unintended centralities,” it argues could concentrate blockchain power in the hands of a few select individuals or groups.
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Trail of Bits. More:
Trail of Bits Blog, The Register, Cointelegraph, SlashGear, and NPR
Tweets: @darpa, @newsforbitcoin, and @dwbradley
| Financial Times: |
Hong Kong court records: crypto exchange Huobi has launched a lawsuit against a former executive over accusations he made $5M trading against a Huobi account — Employee allegedly made $5mn after setting up a retail account in his father's name — A former senior manager at Huobi …
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The Block, Blockworks, CryptoPotato, Decrypt, Tech in Asia, Investing.com India, Blockchain News, and watcher.guru. Tweets: @kadhim
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Spotify says it is conducting early tests of a new feature called Community, which allows mobile users to see their friends' listening activity in real time — Spotify is developing a new feature called Community that would allow mobile users to see what sort of music their friends are streaming …
Tweets: @martinsfp
| Antoaneta Roussi / Politico: |
NSO Group General Counsel Chaim Gelfand tells EU lawmakers that at least five EU countries used Pegasus and says the company “made mistakes” — The Israeli spyware firm NSO Group on Tuesday told European lawmakers at least five EU countries have used its software and the firm … | David Ignatius / Washington Post: |
How a quiet partnership between US tech companies, US and NATO intel agencies, and Ukrainian hackers helped blunt Russia's offensive cyber capabilities — A quiet partnership of the world's biggest technology companies, U.S. and NATO intelligence agencies, and Ukraine's own nimble army …
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Politico, Bloomberg, Reuters, Microsoft On the Issues, CSO, and Bob's Newsletter
Tweets: @hkanji, @z_tarot, @thegrugq, @john_sipher, @fabiochiusi, @calder_walton, and @thegrugq
| Paul Vieira / Wall Street Journal: |
The Canadian government approves legislation that will compel YouTube, TikTok, and streaming services to boost domestic content; the law now heads to the Senate — Government says measures needed to foster growth in domestic cultural sector and make Canadian content more accessible| Vicky Ge Huang / Wall Street Journal: |
Binance.US plans to eliminate fees for spot bitcoin trading for all customers, in a bid to attract new investors — Exchange's users can trade bitcoin for the U.S. dollar, tether, other stablecoins without spot trading fees — Cryptocurrency exchange Binance.US said it is eliminating fees on spot bitcoin trading for all customers.| Alissa Abrahami / Geektime: |
Israeli startup AiVF, which uses AI to increase the predictability and success rates of IVF treatments, raised a $25M Series A led by Insight Partners — The Israeli MedTech startup transforms the fertility journey with the first operational AI platform. Today they announced a Series A funding round.
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