ConstitutionDAO loses Sotheby's US Constitution auction to an undisclosed winner's $43.2M bid, after crowdfunding over $40M
This story has been updated to reflect the full price that the Constitution sold for after all auction fees. — A rare copy of the U.S. Constitution sold …
In a staff email, Phil Spencer says he's evaluating Xbox's relationship with Activision Blizzard and will make adjustments; PlayStation head sent a similar note
Microsoft Corp.'s head of Xbox said he's “evaluating all aspects of our relationship with Activision Blizzard …
A bipartisan coalition of state AGs from CA, FL, KY, MA, NE, NJ, NY, TN, and VT is investigating how Instagram attracts and affects young people
Move raises pressure on parent company Meta Platforms, formerly called Facebook, over the potential harms to its users
Meta says it's looking at how users from marginalized communities experience its products and releases a paper on changes to how it uses US demographic data
The parent company of Facebook and Instagram is looking into whether its platforms treat users differently based on race …
An artist and programmer in Australia creates The NFT Bay, a torrent website where anyone can download 15TB of NFT JPEGs
An artist and programer in Australia has uploaded 15 Terabytes of NFTs to a server. Here's the torrent for them. — Matthew Gault
Facebook expands tools to help advertisers avoid placement near sensitive News Feed topics, across news, politics, tragedy, conflict, and debated social issues
Facebook on Thursday said it is expanding the controls it gives advertisers to make it easier for them to limit the types of News Feed content their ads show up next to.
Sources: Facebook is offering musicians and celebrities, via production companies, payments to host Live Audio Rooms; source says up to $50K per session
Facebook is offering to pay musicians and other celebrities tens of thousands of dollars to host sessions on its new live audio feature …
MediaTek announces the Dimensity 9000 mobile chip, which uses TSMC's 4nm process and supports 5G without the faster mmWave standard, WiFi 6E, and Bluetooth 5.3
MediaTek's new SoC is its most powerful yet — MediaTek has just announced its latest flagship processor: the Dimensity 9000 …
Facebook says it is testing a feature that lets users adjust the level of News Feed content they see from specific friends, family, Groups, and Pages
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A look at Open Connect, Netflix's in-house CDN that launched a decade ago and spans 17,000 servers across 158 countries
As hundreds of thousands of households worldwide tapped into Netflix's Squid Game last month, viewers may have taken something fairly extraordinary for granted.
Texas Instruments plans to build as many as four semiconductor wafer fabs in Texas, with production starting by 2025 and a potential total investment of ~$30B
The site has the potential to house up to four semiconductor chip manufacturing plants. — Dallas-based Texas Instruments …
As GameCube turns 20 in North America, former Nintendo employees share their memories of the failed console, including the decision to make it purple
ENGINEERS, MARKETING BOSSES AND GAME DEVELOPERS SHARE THEIR MEMORIES OF NINTENDO'S BOLD PURPLE BOX — Until the Wii U claimed …
Local US governments, including in Texas and Arizona, are offering chipmakers deals to build plants, seeking to capitalize on the semiconductor shortage
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Sources: Apple is accelerating the development of a fully autonomous electric car, after hitting a car processor milestone, with plans to debut it by 2025
with no steering wheel or pedals Rohail Saleem / Wccftech : Morgan Stanley's Adam Jonas Believes That the Fully Autonomous Apple Car Will Only Be Available as a Subscription-based, Shared Service Rona...
Flipkart acquires online pharmacy startup SastaSundar and launches a healthcare vertical called Flipkart Health+
Walmart-backed Flipkart is acquiring online pharmacy startup SastaSundar to enter the healthcare segment in India as e-commerce battle intensifies in the world's second largest internet market.
Memo: Tim Cook tells Apple employees they can work remotely for up to four weeks per year and sets a February 1 return to office goal
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Alphabet X's Everyday Robots says it now has a fleet of 100+ robot prototypes that are autonomously performing tasks like wiping tables around its offices
Plus: The man behind a famous paradox, the laws that will govern the metaverse, and a deadly swarm of scorpions. — Hi, everyone!
US regulators approve a rule requiring banks to report cyberattacks that disrupt operations or impact the US financial system within 36 hours, starting May 2022
Banks must report major cybersecurity incidents to federal officials within 36 hours under a rule that U.S. financial regulators finalized on Thursday.
Twitter quietly updates its developer guidelines to say AMP support will be phased out by Q4; some publishers have reported months of lower Twitter referrals
AMP — Accelerated Mobile Pages — is an open-source technology for creating fast-loading … Jonathan Lamont / MobileSyrup : Twitter's mobile apps won't open links in AMP anymore Jon Porter / The Verge :...
Afiniti, which provides call center software, removes its CEO after sexual assault allegations by an ex-employee who testified before the US judiciary committee
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Winklevoss twins' cryptocurrency exchange Gemini raises $400M led by Morgan Creek Digital at a $7.1B valuation
certainly the competition will lead to price wars/lower margins? https://twitter.com/...
Starbucks and Amazon partner to launch Starbucks Pickup with Amazon Go in Manhattan using Amazon's Just Walk Out tech
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Flytrex, which is working with Walmart and others on a drone-based delivery service in North Carolina, raises a $40M Series C, bringing total funding to $60M
Flytrex, the Israeli startup working with Walmart, Chilli's, and others in North Carolina in pilots for a drone-based delivery …
OpenAI makes its API for GPT-3 generally available in supported countries, eliminating the waiting list for access
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Spotify expands real-time lyrics to all users globally in partnership with Musixmatch, after initially launching in 26 markets
and easily share them with friends. Who's ready? https://newsroom.spotify.com/ ... #SpotifyLyrics https://twitter.com/... See also Mediagazer
US judge dismisses a lawsuit accusing Robinhood of colluding with Citadel Securities to stop investors from buying GameStop and other meme stocks in January
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Workday says it will acquire Vndly, a cloud contractor and vendor management provider, for $510M in cash, after reporting Q3 revenue of $1.33B, up 20% YoY
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Scotland-based BetDEX, which is building a sports betting protocol on the Solana blockchain, raises a $21M seed led by FTX and Paradigm
Eli Tan / CoinDesk : Tweets: @tradermatt106 Tweets: Matt / @tradermatt106 : Turns out the competitor to Betfair is actually going to be a crypto betting exchange (when someone finally finds a way.) S...
In its S-1, Samsara, which makes vehicle fleet management software, says revenue grew ~81% to $216.8M for nine months ended Oct. 30, with net loss of $102.3M
Following this offering, we will have three classes of authorized common stock …
Digital Currency Group raises $600M in a new credit facility led by Eldridge, two weeks after raising $700M in a secondary stock sale at a $10B+ valuation
Aoyon Ashraf / CoinDesk :
Nreal says its Light mixed reality glasses will launch in the US for $599 on November 30 in 20 Verizon stores and online December 2
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Sources and internal docs detail Amazon's careless handling of its retail customer data, including letting some low-level staff snoop on celebrity purchases
In a letter to Sen. Wyden, data broker Mobilewalla says it was the source of some data used by the DHS, IRS, and US military for warrantless tracking of devices
Byron Tau / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @byrontau , @anthony , @byrontau , @lrozen , @rebeccaballhaus , and @ronwyden Tweets: Byron Tau / @byrontau : How your phone became a spy: Five people who wo...
Netomi, which offers customer-service chatbots, raises a $30M Series B led by WndrCo LLC at a $210M valuation, bringing its total funding to $52M
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Nexar, which is developing an analytics service for car dash cam footage, raises a $53M Series D led by Qumra Capital, bringing its total funding to $150M
Shopify's new AI commerce stack
Their VP of Product digs into just-launched products to help entrepreneurs and developers build with the latest AI and tech.
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Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
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