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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Sony plans to launch the PlayStation VR2 with Sense controllers and stereo headphones on February 22 for $550, £530, or €600; preorders open on November 15 — Sony will launch its PS VR2 headset on February 22nd priced at $549.99. The PS VR2 will be priced at $549.99 in the US …
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| Washington Post: |
Elon Musk says Twitter will not reinstate banned accounts “until we have a clear process for doing so, which will take at least a few more weeks” — After Zoom meeting, Twitter boss tweets that no suspended accounts will return to site until there is clear process for doing so
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Qualcomm expects to provide modem chips for the “vast majority” of iPhones in 2023, retaining its current foothold after previously planning to supply ~20% — Qualcomm Inc. will continue to provide the modem chips for the “vast majority” of iPhones in 2023 …
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| Washington Post: |
Internal email: Twitter appears to be rushing out a “high”-risk “Paywalled Video” feature, letting users charge to view their videos, with Twitter taking a cut — The tool would let video creators charge users for access. The team working on it flagged big potential pitfalls.
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| Elisa Lipsky-Karasz / Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of, and interview with, Jony Ive, covering life before and after Apple, his design philosophy, his company LoveFrom, the importance of words, and more — can always write an awful lot that I can't draw,“ Jony Ive, the mastermind behind Apple's most revolutionary products, says as he holds up a Space Age-style coffee cup. ”
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| Steven Musil / CNET: |
Former Apple employee Dhirendra Prasad pleaded guilty to mail and wire fraud charges after defrauding Apple of $17M+, including via kickbacks, starting in 2011 — Former parts buyer engaged in theft, taking kickbacks and inflating invoices, prosecutors say. — Steven Musil
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| Ian Allison / CoinDesk: |
A financial document details some ties between Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX and Alameda Research; Alameda's biggest asset is $3.66B of unlocked FTT, an FTX token — Alameda had $14.6 billion of assets as of June 30, according to a private document CoinDesk reviewed.
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| Kate Irwin / Decrypt: |
Meta is letting select Instagram US creators test a toolkit for minting NFTs and selling them on and off the platform, and says it won't charge fees until 2024 — Instagram will soon have NFT creation and trading tools built in, but in-app purchases will be “subject to applicable app store fees.”
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Google expands Google Play Games beta for PC to the US, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, and Singapore, offering 85 Android games — Google Play Games is launching in open beta in the US today, allowing anyone to try out a selection of Android games on PC.| Karen Hao / Wall Street Journal: |
China's Zhengzhou industrial park, home of Foxconn's most advanced iPhone plant, begins a weeklong lockdown to combat COVID-19's “severe and complicated” spread — HONG KONG—The industrial park where Foxconn Technology Group's iPhone assembly plant is struggling to maintain production amid …
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| Kyle Barr / Gizmodo: |
Malwarebytes: four malicious Android apps from developer Mobile apps Group, which has deployed malware before, remain on Google Play with millions of downloads — Google is still failing to catch malicious apps from being listed on its app store, but it seems that some developers …
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| Patrick Clark / Bloomberg: |
Home buying startup Opendoor lays off ~550 employees, or ~18% of its staff, after higher rates and a shift in prices forced the company to sell homes at a loss — Opendoor Technologies Inc. is laying off about 550 employees after higher mortgage rates cratered US housing demand.
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| Meagan Simpson / BetaKit: |
Vancouver-based Dapper Labs, the NFT startup behind CryptoKitties and NBA Top Shot, lays off ~134 staff, or ~22% of its workforce; Dapper Labs has raised $600M+ — Dapper Labs has laid off around 22 percent of its staff, BetaKit has learned. — The company confirmed the layoffs to BetaKit … | Maria Heeter / The Information: |
Neobank Chime lays off 12% of its 1,300-person workforce, or ~150, citing “current market dynamics”; Chime raised $750M at a $25B valuation in August 2021 — Online banking startup Chime, which before this year's market meltdown had been widely seen as a candidate … | Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Roku reports Q3 revenue up 12% YoY to $761.4M, vs. $694M est., 21.9B streaming hours, and 2.3M active accounts added; the stock drops 18%+ on weak Q4 guidance — Roku handily topped Wall Street estimates for the third quarter of 2022, as the streaming platform and media company packed … | The Block: |
SEC filing: Coinbase Chief Product Officer Surojit Chatterjee plans to step down on November 30 as the company restructures its product team into four divisions — Chief Product Officer Surojit Chatterjee is set to depart the exchange. — Coinbase revealed plans to overhaul its entire product team … | Hamish McKenzie / On Substack: |
Substack co-founder says it's time for a “real alternative” to Twitter, and plans features to let writers and readers “hang out”, show their status, and more — It's time you had your own private social network — If you're into writing and reading …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google adds Lens to its search engine's homepage, letting users search by image, after adding the feature on desktop web in Google Images and the results page — Google Lens will only become more important going forward, and one sign of that is its addition to the google.com homepage today.
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| Annie Massa / Bloomberg: |
Robinhood reports Q3 revenue down 1% YoY to $361M, vs. $357.8M est., net loss down 87% YoY to $175M, and MAUs down 1.8M QoQ to 12.2M in September 2022 — Robinhood Markets Inc. posted third-quarter revenue that beat analysts' estimates as transaction-based income increased from the previous three-month period.
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CoinDesk, The Information, Blockworks, Protocol, The Block, Reuters, Robinhood Markets, Inc., Crypto Briefing, and Fortune. Tweets: @business
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Apple TV 4K (2022) review: affordable, snappy performance, and a USB-C Siri Remote, but no AirTag-like remote tracking, lackluster live TV, and a stale design — Packing more speed than ever (and now HDR10 Plus) at a cheaper price, the Apple TV 4K is the best overall streamer on the market — even if tvOS is falling behind in places
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Tweets: @chriswelch, @supersaf, and @parkerortolani
| Wall Street Journal: |
Netflix rolls out its Basic with Ads tier in 12 countries; sources say licensing negotiations with Disney, Comcast's NBCU, Sony, WBD, and Lions Gate are ongoing — Disney, NBCU and Sony are among the companies still negotiating licensing with the streaming service
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| Nivedita Balu / Reuters: |
eBay reports Q3 revenue down 5% YoY to $2.4B, vs. $2.32B est., gross merchandise volume down 11% YoY to $17.7B, active buyers down 11% YoY to 135M; stock up 6%+ — Ecommerce company eBay Inc (EBAY.O) on Wednesday beat Wall Street targets for third-quarter revenue as consumers snapped …
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Google plans to roll out parental controls for Assistant, including disabling features, restricting services, and setting downtime hours, in the “coming weeks” — Kids love to use smart speakers, but it's all too easy for things to go horribly wrong — including content that's decidedly not family-friendly.| Andy Baio / Waxy.org: |
An engineer reimplemented Google AI's text-to-image diffusion model DreamBooth for Stable Diffusion, letting anyone cheaply and easily recreate artists' styles — Last weekend, Hollie Mengert woke up to an email pointing her to a Reddit thread, the first of several messages from friends and fans … | Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Arta Finance, which is building a “digital family office for the world”, raised $90M+ across a seed and a Series A from Sequoia, Eric Schmidt, and others — Caesar Sengupta has worked on, and overseen, several category-defining projects in the past decade and a half.| Raksha Kumar / Rest of World: |
A look at the everyday sexism faced by Indian women working in tech; around 36% of India's 5M tech workers are women, of which 7% hold executive-level positions — Tech helped more Indian women join the workforce, but they're still fighting to be treated equally.
Tweets: @anupkaphle, @itikaspunit, @restofworld, @itikaspunit, @vickiturk, and @rctatman
| Justine Calma / The Verge: |
Google expands its flood forecasting and wildfire tracking services, adding a Flood Hub across 20 countries and improved wildfire tracking outside the US — Google announced a big expansion of its flood forecasting and wildfire tracking services today. It launched a tool called Flood Hub globally …
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