Microsoft partners with Samsung to launch its Xbox TV app on June 30, letting Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers play Xbox games without a console
Samsung's 2022 smart TVs will be the first to get the Xbox app — Microsoft is launching its Xbox TV app later this month …
Source: Twitter's board plans to comply with Elon Musk's demands for internal data on bots by offering access to its full “firehose”, after a weeks-long impasse
The billionaire is in a protracted battle with the company over information about spam and fake accounts
Microsoft details Project Moorcroft, designed to bring early game demos to Xbox Game Pass, rolling out within the next year with a focus on indie developers
Designed to bring back the excitement of E3 game demos — Microsoft is working on Project Moorcroft, a program designed …
Apple will handle Apple Pay Later's lending, a first for the company; in-house subsidiary Apple Financing LLC will oversee credit checks and make loan decisions
Apple Inc. will handle the lending itself for a new “buy now, pay later” offering, sidestepping partners as the tech giant pushes deeper …
Source: Meta halts development of a $349 smartwatch with dual cameras, in the works for two years to launch in 2023, and will focus on other wrist devices
Facebook parent company Meta Platforms Inc. has halted development of a smartwatch with dual cameras and is instead working …
Microsoft plans to stop adding noncompete clauses to US employment agreements, drop NDAs from US worker settlements, add salary ranges to US job posts, and more
Bending to employee sentiment and legislative mandate, Microsoft announced a series of reforms Wednesday that will curtail …
Critiques of “anti-crypto media personalities” and the “podcast circuit” miss an essential point: Web3 currently sucks and saying so is not a conspiracy
Read to the end for a truly cursed TikTok — Web3 Being Not Very Good Is Not A Conspiracy Tweets: @sriramk , @devon_wiersma , @broderick , @levie , @rjcc , @josephmdurso , @willoremus , @coloradotrav...
Hands-on with Xbox TV for Samsung's 2022 TVs: games load quickly and work with Xbox and PS5 controllers, a high-speed connection is essential, and more
Cameron Faulkner / The Verge :
GitHub is sunsetting Atom, the text editor for developers it launched in 2011, and will archive all projects under the Atom organization on December 15, 2022
GitHub today announced that it will sunset Atom, the text editor for software development that the company introduced in 2011.
TikTok expands its screen time controls, adding a dashboard to monitor usage and letting users set time limits; teens will get additional usage reminders
TikTok is rolling out more screen time controls to help users manage how much time they are spending in the app.
Despite Facebook's ban on gun sales, internal guidance shows users can break its rules 10 times before being banned, down to five if they call for violence
The company discloses little information about how it enforces its prohibition of firearm sales on the site, leaving its punishment system shrouded in secrecy
Browser maker Vivaldi releases a built-in email client, Mail 1.0, with Vivaldi Calendar and RSS integrations
It's available to use starting today — Vivaldi has launched its own free built-in email client, Mail 1.0, with Vivaldi's Calendar and Feed Reader integrated.
Dell redesigns the $999 XPS 13 and XPS 13 2-in-1, transforming the 2-in-1 into a detachable Surface rival, adding Intel's 12th Gen CPUs, and more
While all eyes are on the flashy new XPS 13 Plus, Dell hasn't forgotten about its mainstay premium ultraportable or its convertible cousin.
Memo: Intel freezes all hiring in its client computing group, which handles desktop and laptop chips, cancels some travel, and makes other cost-cutting measures
Intel Corp (INTC.O) has frozen hiring in the division responsible for PC desktop and laptop chips, according to a memo reviewed by Reuters …
Snapshot: 54% of ApeCoin owners vote in favor of remaining on Ethereum, after Yuga Labs floated creating its own blockchain after its huge metaverse land sale
ApeCoin owners have decided to keep the token, which is expected to be key to snagging exclusive metaverse game items and deals …
Orderly Network, a permissionless DEX protocol built on the NEAR blockchain to conduct spot and future order book trading, raises a $20M Series A
The decentralized exchange offers permissionless spot and future order book trading infrastructure. — Orderly Network, a decentralized exchange …
Sources: Chinese regulators have begun early talks with Ant Group about reviving its IPO, a sign that China is dialing back its tech industry crackdown
Chinese financial regulators have started early stage discussions on a potential revival of Ant Group Co.'s initial public offering …
Ross Young: Apple is developing a 14.1-inch iPad Pro with miniLEDs and ProMotion, likely for release in early 2023; recent rumors corroborate the new model
Apple is reportedly developing an iPad Pro with a 14.1-inch mini-LED display, according to Display Supply Chain Consultants (DSCC) analyst Ross Young. Source: @dsccross .
Documents show how Cerebral used social media ads to grow its ADHD drug business, as federal prosecutors look into possible Controlled Substance Act violations
The online mental health company surged to a $4.8 billion valuation after it started dispensing ADHD medication …
South Korean crypto exchanges Bithumb and Upbit plan to delist Litecoin, saying the token's new privacy features violate the country's anti-money laundering law
Two major exchanges in South Korea said they will delist Litecoin due to new privacy features enabled by the protocol.
Amsterdam-based Backbase, which helps banks analyze data, raises €120M from Motive Partners at a €2.5B valuation and says it has 150 banking customers
Larger banks and other financial service providers are getting a lot more serious when it comes to competing with upstarts …
Palantir is preparing to bid on a £360M contract to underpin UK NHS' operations, to be awarded in November; Palantir employs 600 in the UK and plans to add 250
US data analytics group hires health service executives in bid to secure £360mn contract Tweets: @muradahmed , @madhumita29 , @allthecitizens , @peterkwells , @procure4health , @digi_ad , @allthecitiz...
Experts say the lack of publicly available data makes it difficult to verify claims by Tesla and others about the safety of their autonomous driving tech
Automakers and technology companies say they are making driving safer, but verifying these claims is difficult. Tweets: @2plus2make5 , @parismarx , @davidzipper , @garymarcus , @noahgoodall , and @iih...
Apple's iOS 16 introduces the ability to transfer an eSIM from another iPhone via Bluetooth while setting up cellular service
Apple says Stage Manager is limited to M1 iPads because the feature relies on iPadOS 16's fast memory swap, which lets demanding apps use storage as virtual RAM
Ethereum's proof-of-stake Merge upgrade goes live on Ropsten, Ethereum's oldest testnet for blockchain development testing before deployment on the mainnet
Andrew Asmakov / Decrypt :
Sources and filings detail Vy Capital, the third-largest backer of Musk's Twitter bid, a secretive firm run by Alexander Tamas, who has links to Yuri Milner
Elon Musk's bid for Twitter Inc., which has been upended by the billionaire's threat to walk away, attracted a bevy of big-name backers and Silicon Valley mainstays.
Google releases Android 13 Beta 3 for Pixel phones and says Android 13 has reached platform stability, meaning the developer APIs and how apps perform are final
Florence Ion / Gizmodo :
Ex-Bethesda and parent ZeniMax Media employees detail the human toll of Fallout 76's launch, including QA testers being surveilled and developers falling ill
Sisi Jiang / Kotaku :
A look at China's plans for the IPv6+ internet protocol, set to be presented at the UN's ITU conference, in a bid to lure regions lagging in IPv6 adoption
Luca Bertuzzi / Euractiv : Tweets: @cendemtech , @byron_wan , @byron_wan , @bertuzluca , and @byron_wan Tweets: @cendemtech : “'The strategy is unlikely to work'... For [@CenDemTech's @MalloryKnodel]...
In an email, ByteDance says Joshua Ma, who leads UK's TikTok Shop, will “step back” during a probe into comments that he “didn't believe” in maternity leave
Cristina Criddle / Financial Times :
Twitter, Coinbase, and other companies are rescinding lucrative job offers as a cost-cutting measure instead of the usual mix of layoffs and slower backfills
Before accepting a job at Twitter, 23-year-old Iris Guo turned down five other offers. Twitter paid well … Tweets: @c0up , @quinnypig , @puppykhan , @wstafrican , @emilyrpeck , and @burtchen Tweets: ...
Warehouse robotics and automation company Symbotic raises $725M after going public via SPAC, valuing it at over $10B after shares jumped 120% to ~$20
Financial Times :
London-based Codat, whose universal API for SMB data is used by SaaS, lending, and payments companies, raises a $100M Series C at an ~$825M valuation
Gillian Tan / Bloomberg :
UK startup Papercup, which uses AI for video dubbing, raises a $20M Series A led by Octopus Ventures to invest in adding “more human-like voices” to AI dubbing
Georg Szalai / The Hollywood Reporter :
Researcher says over 120K passports, drivers licenses, and IDs of users of Chinese bike-sharing service Mobike was not encrypted and exposed online
TechCrunch :
Spotify's podcast business generated nearly €200M in 2021 revenue, up 300% YoY, but had a -57% gross margin; Spotify monetized 14% of listening time in Q1 2022
Unsealed docs: the US Secret Service ordered travel companies Sabre and Travelport to spy on a Russian hacker for two years, providing weekly location reports
Thomas Brewster / Forbes :
Sources: Twitter's Vijaya Gadde told staff in a meeting that a shareholder vote to approve Elon Musk buying the company will occur in late July or early August
Mexico City-based digital bank Klar raises $70M led by General Atlantic at a $500M valuation, following a $70M Series B in July 2021
Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch :
Shield AI, which makes software and hardware for military drones and other autonomous aircraft, raises a $90M Series E and $75M in debt at a $2.3B valuation
Technology built with defense in mind is getting some significant and serious traction at the moment, spurred by world events …
Middesk, which offers APIs to automate business verification and underwriting decisions, raises a $57M Series B co-led by Insight and Canapi
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
Meta faces eight lawsuits this week that claim its algorithms lead to attempted suicide, eating disorders, sleeplessness, and other issues in young people
Sweden-based Juni, a neobank catering to e-commerce and online marketing, raises a $206M Series B, made up of $100M in equity led by Mubadala and $106M in debt
Dan Taylor / Tech.eu :
Meta's head of infrastructure David Mortenson steps down; engineering and infrastructure VP Santosh Janardhan, his direct report, will take over later in June
Alex Heath / The Verge :
Analysis: tech lobbying group CCIA and others, backed by Meta, Google, and more, have spent $36.4M+ on ads opposing antitrust bills that ban self-preferencing
Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @daviduberti and @chadsday Tweets: David Uberti / @daviduberti : “The spending marks one of the biggest ad campaigns by the powerful tech industry in recent years and re...
Vanta, which offers enterprise data security compliance tools, raises $110M led by Craft Ventures at a $1.6B valuation, bringing its total funding to ~$163M
Sarah McBride / Bloomberg :
The Block: weekly NFT sales declined by just over 70% from a high of nearly 1M units in the third week of 2022 to 250K+ at the end of May 2022
Shopify's new AI commerce stack
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