Inside Twitter, frustrations mount over Elon Musk's moderation plans and his limited knowledge, ahead of the Brazil general elections and the US midterms
Content moderators warn that Elon Musk doesn't appear to understand the issues that he and the company will face if he drops its guardrails around speech.
Apple says it will remove apps that haven't been updated in three years and have few downloads from the App Store, extends the time to update from 30 to 90 days
Late last week, controversy erupted after Apple began notifying some developers that their apps that had not been updated … Source: Apple Developer .
Yuga Labs raises ~$320M by selling virtual land in its Otherside metaverse, causing ripple effects across the Ethereum blockchain; gas fees have skyrocketed
Yuga Labs, the creator of the popular Bored Apes Yacht Club collection of NFTs, launched a sale Saturday of virtual land related …
Sources: Google's upcoming Pixel Watch will be powered by a 300mAh battery and will support cellular connectivity
While the look of Google's upcoming Wear OS device has thoroughly leaked, many questions about the internal hardware powering it remain. Sources now tell 9to5Google …
Sources: PayPal Mafia members, Jack Dorsey, and others who disliked Twitter's direction pushed Musk to launch a bid; Musk is dismayed that Trump is still banned
Behind the scenes, fellow billionaires and internet provocateurs bent Tesla CEO's ear; Jack Dorsey's role — Elon Musk unveils the Tesla Model Y in 2019.
DeFi lender Rari Capital, which merged with Fei Protocol in December, loses ~$80M in a hack that exploited a reentrancy vulnerability in Rari's Fuse protocol
Decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms Rari Capital and Fei Protocol suffered a more-than-$80 million hack early Saturday.
At an all-hands, CEO Parag Agrawal acknowledged Twitter was vulnerable to a takeover since it had historically underachieved and asked staff to “embrace change”
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India's Enforcement Directorate says it has seized $725M from Xiaomi's local bank accounts over allegedly illegal royalty payments to its foreign subsidiaries
India said on Saturday it had seized $725 million from the local bank accounts of China's Xiaomi Corp (1810.HK) …
New crypto mortgages in the US real estate market let property buyers pledge their digital holdings as collateral for a loan, with no down payments necessary
It took Vincent Burniske months to get a seven-figure loan to buy two small apartment buildings in a coveted Miami neighborhood. Tweets: @jeannasmialek , @sami_lynnnnn , @thomdunn , @nastyoldwomyn , @...
Swvl, a booking platform for private buses that went public via a SPAC merger in March, acquires on-demand coach service Zeelo, sources say for ~$100M
Mass transit group Swvl has confirmed to TechCrunch its deal to buy U.K. startup Zeelo, estimated to be a $100 million acquisition, according to sources.
CommandBar, an in-app search and navigation tool that lets web apps personalize user onboarding and offer shortcuts for common actions, raises a $19M Series A
Thanks to the explosion of low- and no-code development tools, building web apps from scratch has become easier — and cheaper — than it once was.
Utah-based Strider, whose software helps organizations and governments protect IP, talent, and supply chains from nation-state threats, raises a $45M Series B
Strider, a platform designed to help companies, governments and research institutions protect intellectual property (IP) …
Experts raise concerns about the use of a predictive child welfare algorithm in Allegheny County, PA, and its potential to harden racial disparity in the system
A weekly newsletter from the Ira A. Lipman Center For Journalism … Tweets: Jon Schiefer / @brandxjon : When a society trains an AI, it's going to be trained on aspects of that society and will reflect...
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger says he expects “the overall semiconductor shortage will now drift into 2024” due to a lack of manufacturing equipment
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Adept, which aims to build AI systems that can understand and automate any software process, emerges from stealth with $65M led by Greylock and Addition
Adept is an ML research and product lab building general intelligence … Ben G / Ben Goldhaber's Newsletter : April 2022 BenGoldhaber(.com) Newsletter Tweets: Scott Belsky / @scottbelsky : developing A...
Government data: China's internet companies raised $3.51B in Q1 2022, down 76.7% YoY from $15B+, while the number of fundraising deals declined 38.3% YoY
Plunge in funding follows an intense period of regulatory action that has targeted some of China's biggest internet companies.
Google starts building a 3.3M-square-foot campus on a 7.3-acre site in Hyderabad, India, which will be its largest campus outside the Mountain View headquarters
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A look at the challenges Apple is facing as it develops its own wireless modem, expected to replace Qualcomm chips in 2023 iPhones
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A look at Zenly, a Snap-owned social mapping app still operating in Russia amid bans and exits of other Western apps; Zenly had 51M+ downloads in Russia in 2021
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Sense, which uses AI to provide homeowners with real-time data on home energy use, raises a $105M Series C led by Blue Earth Capital
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RelationalAI, which develops knowledge graphs for data-driven apps, raises a $75M Series B led by Tiger Global and adds ex-Snowflake CEO Bob Muglia to its board
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Instacart plans a strategy shift to sell software to grocers and more ads in its app, trying to avoid becoming another pandemic boom company that has fizzled
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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.
Email fatigue is real: Here's how smart email tools help you regain control
Picture this: It's Monday morning. You walk into the office feeling energized and ready to take on the week.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.