Q&A with Second Life reporter Wagner James Au on crypto-based metaverses, companies like Meta struggling to foster healthy metaverse communities, and more (Charlie Warzel/The Atlantic)
Q&A with Second Life Reporter Wagner James Au on crypto-based metaverses, companies like Meta struggling to foster healthy metaverse communities, and more— Welcome to Galaxy Brain, Charlie Warzel’s newsletter about…
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Some trans and non-binary drivers say Uber banned their accounts after treating their documents as fraudulent; Uber says it’s working to restore accounts (Suhauna Hussain / Los Angeles Times)
Some trans and non-binary drivers say Uber banned their accounts after treating their documents as fraudulent; Uber says it’s working to restore accounts– Adrian Escobedo has pledged to drive for…
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Bangkok-based Sunday, which uses AI and ML to deliver personalized insurance products and services, raises $ 45 million Series B from Tencent and other investors (Catherine Shu / TechCrunch)
Bangkok-based Sunday, which uses AI and ML to deliver personalized insurance products and services, raises $ 45 million Series B from Tencent and other investors– On Sunday, a Bangkok-based insurtech…
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Internal memo from Nick Clegg says whistleblower expected to appear on Sunday “60 minutes” and accuse Facebook of contributing to American political polarization (Mike Isaac / New York Times)
Internal memo from Nick Clegg says whistleblower expected to appear in “60 minutes” on Sunday and accuse Facebook of contributing to US political polarization– In an internal memo, Facebook defended…
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Food-sharing app OLIO raises $ 43 million Series B led by VNV Global, as startup tries to tackle food waste, Tesco adding 2.7,000 stores to the service in 2020 (Mike Butcher / TechCrunch)
Food-sharing app OLIO raises $ 43 million Series B led by VNV Global, as startup attempts to tackle food waste, Tesco adding 2.7,000 stores to service in 2020– It was…
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Taproot, the first major Bitcoin code upgrade since the introduction of Segregated Witness in 2017, has been activated (Wolfie Zhao / The Block)
Taproot, the first major Bitcoin code upgrade since the introduction of Segregated Witness in 2017, has been activated– Taproot, the long-awaited Bitcoin code upgrade focused on improving network privacy and…
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Indian smartphone shipments reached a record 162M in 2021, up 12% YoY, led by Xiaomi with 40.5M, Samsung with 30.1M, Vivo with 25.7M, and Realme with 24.2M (Canalys)
Indian smartphone shipments reached a record 162M in 2021, up 12% YoY, led by Xiaomi with 40.5M, Samsung with 30.1M, Vivo with 25.7M, and Realme with 24.2M— Shanghai (China), Bengaluru…
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The FCC notifies Congress that service providers requested ~$5.6B to replace Huawei and ZTE equipment in US networks, up from the FCC’s $1.8B estimate in 2020 (Mitchell Clark/The Verge)
The FCC notifies Congress that service providers requested ~$5.6B to replace Huawei and ZTE equipment in US networks, up from the FCC’s $1.8B estimate in 2020— In 2020 the estimate…
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Tel Aviv and Palo Alto-based Metrolink.ai, which is developing a data management service, raises $ 22 million seed led by Grove Ventures (Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat)
Mobile Data Intelligence Startup Embrace Raises $ 45 Million Series B Led by NEA – Many companies collect data from all of their users, but they don’t know what the good…
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PubNub, which provides messaging, presence and other data-driven APIs for applications, is raising $ 65 million Series E led by Raine Group, bringing its total funding to over $ 130 million (Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch)
PubNub, which provides messaging, presence and other data-driven APIs for applications, raises $ 65 million Series E led by Raine Group, bringing its total funding to over $ 130 million–…
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