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Sony raises the PS5's price in the UK, Europe, Japan, China, Australia, Mexico, and Canada by ~6% to 21%, citing rising inflation; the US price is unchanged — It blames global economic challenges for the change — Sony is increasing its PS5 prices in the UK, Europe, Japan, China, Australia, Mexico, and Canada.
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Twitter rolls out a redesigned Spaces Tab with podcasts integrated, to a group of English-speaking users globally on iOS and Android — Twitter helps people connect with unique and compelling voices around the world. With podcasts, we're taking that connection to a whole new level.
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| Hannah Miller / Bloomberg: |
FTX Ventures absorbed the VC operations of Alameda Research; no money changed hands and the transition began in January 2022 when FTX Ventures raised $2B — Crypto exchange FTX absorbed the venture capital operations of Alameda Research, an effort to consolidate parts of billionaire Sam … | Hannah Miller / Bloomberg: |
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| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta's next VR headset will debut in October with improved eye- and facial-tracking features to bolster users' feeling of “social presence” — - Zuckerberg discussed the new headset during an episode of the Joe Rogan Experience podcast.
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| Turner Wright / Cointelegraph: |
Coinbase launches a voter registration tool; Chief Policy Officer: lawmakers elected in the 2022 US midterms “will be making key decisions” on crypto regulation — Faryar Shirzad said staying engaged and informed was critical, given candidates who win in the 2022 U.S. midterms …
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| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Following Oversight Board feedback, Meta is building a customer service division to help users of its apps who have had posts or accounts removed unexpectedly — Facebook parent company Meta Platforms Inc. is building a customer-service division to help users of its social networks who have had posts or accounts removed unexpectedly.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Heroku plans to stop offering free plans and shut down free services on November 28 and begin deleting inactive accounts on October 26, due to “fraud and abuse” — After offering them for over a decade, Heroku today announced that it will eliminate all of its free services — pushing users to paid plans.
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| Steven Zeitchik / Washington Post: |
Despite splashy ad campaigns by crypto companies, Pew surveys of US adults show those trading crypto has stayed flat at 16% from September 2021 to July 2022 — The majority of Americans remain immune to the industry's sales pitches, Pew survey finds — Over the past year …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Instagram defaults new users under 16 to its most restrictive content setting, will prompt existing teens to choose that setting, and adds a settings check-up — In December, just ahead of Instagram head Adam Mosseri's testimony before the U.S. Senate over the impacts of its app on teen users …
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Google plans to add clear labels to Search and Maps listings for facilities providing abortions, after a group of US lawmakers urged it to fix abortion searches — Google will start adding clear labels to Search and Map listings for healthcare facilities that provide abortions.
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Google's Waze plans to shut down its carpooling service, available in the US, Brazil, and Israel, in September 2022, citing COVID-19 shifting commuting patterns — The company is citing shifting commuting patterns as a result of the COVID pandemic — Google-owned navigation service Waze … | Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal: |
Atlanta-based Bitcoin Depot, which operates over 7,000 bitcoin ATMs across the US and Canada, plans to go public via a SPAC merger at an ~$885M valuation — Investor appetite for bitcoin ATMs to be tested as the cryptocurrency and SPAC markets slump — Here's Why Crypto Might Not Be Dead| Carly Page / TechCrunch: |
Group-IB researchers detail hacking group 0ktapus, responsible for the recent breaches at Twilio and 130+ organizations, gaining credentials of ~10K employees — The hackers that breached Twilio earlier this month also compromised over 130 organizations during their hacking spree that netted …
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
HP announces two PCs, the 13.5-inch Dragonfly Folio G3, starting at $2,379, and 34-inch All in One, starting at $2,119, alongside a webcam and 4K display — HP's work PCs typically focus more on performance than clever features, but you can't accuse it of playing it safe this time around.| Keith Zhai / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: the US and China are nearing a deal to let American regulators travel to Hong Kong and audit US-listed Chinese companies, including Alibaba and Baidu — Agreement could prevent many Chinese companies from being delisted from American stock exchanges| Tom Hals / Reuters: |
Judge orders Twitter to give Elon Musk data of 9,000 accounts sampled in Q4 to estimate spam account numbers but rejects other Musk demands as “absurdly broad” — A Delaware judge on Thursday ordered Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) to turn over some data sought by Elon Musk in his legal battle …
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Baidu reveals its first quantum computer, Qianshi, which has a 10-qubit processor, and says it is developing a 36-qubit system — Chinese search engine giant Baidu Inc revealed its first quantum computer on Thursday and is ready to make it available to external users, joining the global race to apply the technology to practical uses.
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Baidu, Inc., The Register, SiliconANGLE, Global Times, PCMag, Finbold, TechCircle, and Cybernews.com. Tweets: @baidu_inc
| Washington Post: |
At a hearing seeking more data on bots from Twitter, Elon Musk's lawyers cite whistleblower Peiter Zatko's claims; Twitter says spam counts are merely estimates — The hearing concerned the ability of Musk's team to demand information about Twitter's internal practices and data
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