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| Jeffrey Dastin / Reuters: |
Amazon is working on letting Alexa mimic any voice after hearing less than a minute of audio, as a way to “make the memories last” of deceased family members — Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) wants to give customers the chance to make Alexa, the company's voice assistant, sound just like their grandmother — or anyone else.
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| Maddie Ellis / Wall Street Journal: |
Instagram begins testing tools to verify ages, starting with 17 or under, using either Yoti's facial analysis tech, photo IDs, or adults vouching for users — Meta's new policy will make it tougher for teens to update to adult accounts. But they can still lie about their age in the first place
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| New York Times: |
Sources: the metaverse, not securing elections, is now Mark Zuckerberg's top priority; Meta has ~60 people focused on elections, down from 300 in 2020 — Mark Zuckerberg, who once said securing elections was “the most important thing,” has shifted Meta's focus to the metaverse.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
An in-depth look at the LUNA and UST fallout, as Do Kwon says he has been “devastated” but has “great confidence in our ability to build back even stronger” — Luna's relaunch might be the ultimate act of chutzpah by the South Korean entrepreneur
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| Bloomberg: |
A profile of Changpeng Zhao, who built Binance into the largest crypto exchange, as he navigates a regulatory crackdown in a brutal crypto winter — During the first few months of this year—back when buying digital tokens named after dog memes was still seen, at least in some of the most … | Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Google details the commercial Hermit spyware, used in Kazakhstan and Italy, targeting Android and iOS; the iOS version contained two new zero-days — The spyware has targeted victims in Kazakhstan and Italy — Security researchers at Lookout recently tied a previously unattributed Android mobile spyware …
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| Sander Lutz / Decrypt: |
Coinbase plans to shut down its standalone, trader-focused Pro service by the end of 2022 and replace it with Advanced Trade across its main app and website — The standalone service will be replaced by Advanced Trade, a feature within the main Coinbase app.
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| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
Spotify replaces its Concert Hub with a Live Events Feed, populated by Ticketmaster, AXS, DICE, Eventbrite, See Tickets, and other partners — Spotify has expanded its old Concert Hub and added more features to make it easier to find information and tickets for live events in your location.
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| Phillip Tracy / Gizmodo: |
Microsoft announces gaming-focused features for Edge, including a new homepage, exclusive free-to-play games, and Clarity Boost for streamed games — This latest browser update adds a new gaming interface, graphics enhancements to Xbox Cloud Gaming, and easy access to free casual games. — Alerts
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| Financial Times: |
Singapore's fintech policy chief says the country will be “brutal and unrelentingly hard” on “any market bad behaviour” in the crypto industry — Stance marks shift in rhetoric from city-state that had courted digital currency companies
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| Cristiano Lima / Washington Post: |
Senate Commerce Chair Maria Cantwell says she does not support the bipartisan privacy bill, a significant blow to long-stalled federal protections for user data — Senate Commerce Chair Maria Cantwell said she's not close to supporting a major proposal, dealing a significant blow to efforts to revive the long-stalled bill
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| Nilesh Christopher / Rest of World: |
A hacktivist claims DALL-E-like Craiyon, formerly DALL-E mini, generated portraits of brown-skinned women in saris almost every time he ran a blank request — The images represent a glitch in the system that even its creator can't explain. — Like most people who are extremely online …
Tweets: @mtrc, @nilchristopher, @sub8u, @flitteronfraud, and @anupkaphle
| Francisco Pires / Tom's Hardware: |
Cerebras says its “wafer-scale” chip set a record for the largest natural language processing AI model trained on a single device, at up to 20B parameters — Democratizing large AI Models without HPC scaling requirements. — Cerebras, the company behind the world's largest accelerator chip …
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Tweets: @peterjansen_ai and @karlfreund
| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Google will bring Chrome's Enhanced Safe Browsing, which helps Google track URLs to monitor dangerous websites, to its iOS app, expanding on Android and desktop — Updates to its user interface and translation features are also on the way — Enhanced Safe Browsing, the Chrome feature …
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9to5Google, The Keyword, MacRumors, Macworld, Engadget, XDA Developers, and Digital Trends
| Washington Post: |
The Senate's $52B US chip production bill, passed in June 2021, has been bogged down over unrelated disputes, like climate provisions, delaying the funds — Proponents are racing to salvage a bipartisan measure that would provide $52 billion for domestic chip production
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CNBC, 9to5Mac, and The New Stack
Tweets: @martijnrasser, @markseibel, @mariannareports, and @toddntucker
| Bloomberg: |
Seeking to regain relevance, screenshots show Clubhouse is testing private rooms, internally called Houses, to encourage friendlier social interactions — Clubhouse, the voice chat app that captured the attention of Hollywood and Silicon Valley early in the pandemic, is experimenting …
Tweets: @tariqkrim, @ashleyrcarman, @ashleyrcarman, @ashleyrcarman, @strngwys, @stevekovach, @lanceulanoff, @iiiitsandrea, and @yoda
| Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: |
Evinced, which helps companies build accessible websites and apps, raised a $38M Series B led by Insight Partners, with Microsoft's M12 and others participating — Startup Evinced Inc., which helps companies build accessible websites and mobile apps, has raised a $38 million funding round led by Insight Partners.
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| Tarush Bhalla / The Economic Times: |
Indian digital payments company Pine Labs acquires Setu, which develops banking APIs, for an estimated $70M-$75M in cash and equity — Digital payments service provider Pine Labs has acquired application programming interface (API)-based infrastructure company Setu in a cash-and-equity deal in the range of $70-75 million.
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Entrackr, PYMNTS.com, Pine Labs, Building Bridges, DealStreetAsia, and Moneycontrol
| Financial Times: |
Sources: the EU is planning a “phase 2” antitrust investigation into Broadcom's $69B VMware acquisition, which could take over one year and derail the deal — Brussels competition regulators plan detailed probe in move that will delay acquisition
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Tech Monitor and Ars Technica
| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Meta rebrands Facebook Pay as Meta Pay; Mark Zuckerberg says Meta is working on an interoperable “wallet for the metaverse” that will have “proof of ownership” — Also, the Meta Pay rebrand is here — Mark Zuckerberg announced on Wednesday that Facebook Pay …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Mountain View-based Sanas, which develops a call center voice AI that changes users' accents in real time, raised a $32M Series A led by Insight Partners — A startup called Sanas has built voice AI to change accents, now it's raised $32M from GV and others
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The Register, FinSMEs, Bestgamingpro, Techzine Europe, San Francisco Examiner, and PR Newswire
Tweets: @mrinaldesai and @ingridlunden
| Financial Times: |
London-based payments services startup SumUp raised €295M equity and €295M debt at an €8B valuation; a January 2022 report said its target was as high as €20B — London-based payment-services group had earlier hoped to raise funds at €20bn pricetag
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Boston-based JobGet, a job marketplace for recruiters and hourly workers, raised a $52M Series B, comprising $40M in equity and $12M in debt — LinkedIn, now with more than 830 million users, has carved out a place for itself as a hub for the world of professional workers …
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