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Sundar Pichai calls for the creation of new US federal privacy regulations, and stresses the importance of staying ahead in AI, quantum computing, and more (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Sundar Pichai calls for the creation of new US federal privacy regulat...

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TripleBlind, which provides data sharing services to enterprises, raises a $24M Series A, bringing its total funding to $32M+ (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

TripleBlind, which provides data sharing services to enterprises, rais...

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Sources: Beats Fit Pro earbuds, with active noise cancellation and Apple's H1 chip, will launch November 1 (Filipe Espósito/9to5Mac)

Sources: Beats Fit Pro earbuds, with active noise cancellation and App...

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Macbook Pros with M1 Pro can support two external 6K 60Hz displays at once, and M1 Max can support up to three 6K external displays plus one 60Hz 4K display (José Adorno/9to5Mac)

Macbook Pros with M1 Pro can support two external 6K 60Hz displays at ...

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macOS Monterey release candidate reintroduces Safari's old tab design as the default and Monterey's original Safari design as a "Compact" option (Juli Clover/MacRumors)

macOS Monterey release candidate reintroduces Safari's old tab design ...

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Apple says 14-inch MacBook Pro with M1 starts at $1,999 and the 16-inch MacBook Pro starts at $2,499, available October 26 (Apple)

Apple says 14-inch MacBook Pro with M1 starts at $1,999 and the 16-inc...

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Apple unveils MacBook Pros with 14.2" and 16.2" ProMotion displays with a notch, M1 Pro or Max chips, MagSafe, no Touch Bar, HDMI port, SD card slot, and more (Benjamin Mayo/9to5Mac)

Apple unveils MacBook Pros with 14.2" and 16.2" ProMotion displays wit...

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Apple announces M1 Pro and M1 Max chips for Macs: M1 Pro is 70% faster than M1 and has 2x the GPU performance with a 32GB RAM limit; M1 Max supports 64GB RAM (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)

Apple announces M1 Pro and M1 Max chips for Macs: M1 Pro is 70% faster...

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Apple debuts third-gen $179 AirPods with an updated design, better sound quality, Spatial Audio in Apple Music, and a MagSafe-enabled case, available next week (Chris Welch/The Verge)

Apple debuts third-gen $179 AirPods with an updated design, better sou...

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Livestream of Apple's "Unleashed" virtual event (Apple)

Livestream of Apple's "Unleashed" virtual event (Apple)

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NY AG sends cease-and-desist letters to two cryptocurrency lending firms; improperly redacted docs suggest the recipients were Nexo and Celsius Network (Kollen Post/The Block)

NY AG sends cease-and-desist letters to two cryptocurrency lending fir...

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As Microsoft closes LinkedIn in China, its other services, such as Office 365, Azure, Bing, and Teams, remain; China represents

As Microsoft closes LinkedIn in China, its other services, such as Off...

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Australian slot machine maker Aristocrat will acquire British gambling software company Playtech for $3.7B (Harry Brumpton/Bloomberg)

Australian slot machine maker Aristocrat will acquire British gambling...

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Sources: two Microsoft execs, including Brad Smith, told Bill Gates in 2008 that emails with a midlevel female employee were inappropriate; Gates agreed to stop (Emily Glazer/Wall Street Journal)

Sources: two Microsoft execs, including Brad Smith, told Bill Gates in...

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Berlin-based mobile banking startup N26 raises a $900M Series E at a $9B valuation and says it has 7M clients in 25 countries (Romain Dillet/TechCrunch)

Berlin-based mobile banking startup N26 raises a $900M Series E at a $...

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In an SEC filing, Sinclair confirms it suffered a ransomware attack that disrupted its channels on Sunday; Sinclair initially blamed technical issues (Catalin Cimpanu/The Record)

In an SEC filing, Sinclair confirms it suffered a ransomware attack th...

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NYSE says ProShares will launch an exchange-traded fund (EFT) linked to Bitcoin futures, giving investors exposure without having to hold bitcoin directly (New York Times)

NYSE says ProShares will launch an exchange-traded fund (EFT) linked t...

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Sources: Uber and its Dubai-based Careem subsidiary are facing a combined tax bill of around $100M in Saudi Arabia, driven by a dispute over calculating VAT (Bloomberg)

Sources: Uber and its Dubai-based Careem subsidiary are facing a combi...

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Q&A with Dave Limp, Amazon SVP of devices and services, on Astro robot, making money from Alexa, working with other parts of the Amazon empire, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

Q&A with Dave Limp, Amazon SVP of devices and services, on Astro robot...

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Facebook disputes WSJ report, saying the prevalence of hate speech on the platform dropped by 50% over the past three years to about 0.05% of content viewed (Kim Lyons/The Verge)

Facebook disputes WSJ report, saying the prevalence of hate speech on ...

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Gurman: a Mac developer says new MacBook Pro chips named M1 Pro and M1 Max appeared in app logs; MagSafe charging will return to MacBook Pros (Sami Fathi/MacRumors)

Gurman: a Mac developer says new MacBook Pro chips named M1 Pro and M1...

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A look at YouTube's in-house creator partnerships team, which has over 1,000 employees across 45 countries offering advice and guidance to about 12,000 creators (Tripp Mickle/Wall Street Journal)

A look at YouTube's in-house creator partnerships team, which has over...

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Internal document: Netflix estimates Squid Game will create almost $900M in value for the company; 87M viewers have finished the series in the first 23 days (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)

Internal document: Netflix estimates Squid Game will create almost $90...

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Analysis: Apple's Search Ads now account for 58% of iPhone app downloads resulting from an ad click; Apple to earn $5B from its ads business this fiscal year (Patrick McGee/Financial Times)

Analysis: Apple's Search Ads now account for 58% of iPhone app downloa...

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Analysis: median CEO pay of US tech startups that went public in 2020 was $21.9M; seven of the 10 best-paid CEOs of US public companies were from such startups (Eliot Brown/Wall Street Journal)

Analysis: median CEO pay of US tech startups that went public in 2020 ...

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Apple's MagSafe wireless charging standard continues to underwhelm a year after its release, due to lack of foresight and a limited ecosystem (Sean Hollister/The Verge)

Apple's MagSafe wireless charging standard continues to underwhelm a y...

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A joint advisory by the FBI, NSA, CISA, and the EPA reveals three more ransomware attacks on water treatment plants this year in Nevada, Maine, and California (Catalin Cimpanu/The Record)

A joint advisory by the FBI, NSA, CISA, and the EPA reveals three more...

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Spot AI, which makes software that can "read" video footage and make it searchable, raises $22M, including a $20M Series A led by Redpoint Ventures (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Spot AI, which makes software that can "read" video footage and make i...

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Netflix fires a leader of the trans employee resource group who was organizing a walkout, for allegedly leaking metrics related to the Dave Chappelle special (Zoe Schiffer/The Verge)

Netflix fires a leader of the trans employee resource group who was or...

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Janneke Parrish, a leader of the #AppleToo movement, says she was fired for deleting files off her work devices before handing them over for an investigation (Kellen Browning/New York Times)

Janneke Parrish, a leader of the #AppleToo movement, says she was fire...

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Chinese government finds hundreds of banned crypto miners siphoning power from public institutions, with some 260,000 kWh electricity being used every day (Bloomberg)

Chinese government finds hundreds of banned crypto miners siphoning po...

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Sources: Apple has hired Afrooz Family, its former employee and a co-founder of speaker startup Syng, to lead HomePod software efforts (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Sources: Apple has hired Afrooz Family, its former employee and a co-f...

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Banking industry body UK Finance says Britain has become a global epicenter for scams, with £754M stolen in H1 2021, up 30% YoY (Reuters)

Banking industry body UK Finance says Britain has become a global epic...

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Security researchers say plans by Apple and EU to monitor phones for illicit material are ineffective and could embolden government surveillance (Kellen Browning/New York Times)

Security researchers say plans by Apple and EU to monitor phones for i...

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Sources: the SEC is poised to let the first Bitcoin futures ETFs, from Proshares and Invesco, trade in the US as early as next week (Bloomberg)

Sources: the SEC is poised to let the first Bitcoin futures ETFs, from...

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Reliable Robotics, which aims to replace pilots with robots on commercial cargo planes, raises a $100M Series C led by Coatue Management (Haje Jan Kamps/TechCrunch)

Reliable Robotics, which aims to replace pilots with robots on commerc...

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Toronto-based Rose Rocket, which is building a cloud-based transportation management software, raises a $25M Series A led by Addition Capital and Shine Capital (Grace Sharkey/FreightWaves)

Toronto-based Rose Rocket, which is building a cloud-based transportat...

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Google Threat Analysis Group says it tracks 270+ state-backed threat actors, and sent 50K+ alerts for email phishing attacks to Gmail users in 2021, up ~33% YoY (Catalin Cimpanu/The Record)

Google Threat Analysis Group says it tracks 270+ state-backed threat a...

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How a US hacker built a secret network of "news" sites and Facebook Groups to push bogus stories after an undisclosed company hired him to sway 2016's election (Ax Sharma/Ars Technica)

How a US hacker built a secret network of "news" sites and Facebook Gr...

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PitchBook: tech investors and employees have netted $582.5B from US IPOs and sales in the year to September, with 93 listings between July and September (Miles Kruppa/Financial Times)

PitchBook: tech investors and employees have netted $582.5B from US IP...

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Sources: Jana Partners took a stake in Macy's and is urging the retailer to spin off its e-commerce business, which has about $8B in annual revenue (Wall Street Journal)

Sources: Jana Partners took a stake in Macy's and is urging the retail...

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WhatsApp starts rolling out e2e encryption for chat history backups in iCloud and Google Drive (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

WhatsApp starts rolling out e2e encryption for chat history backups in...

4 days ago 7

Roblox outlines plans to add more realism to player avatars, introduce new in-game monetization streams, add NFT-like limited edition items, and more (Taylor Hatmaker/TechCrunch)

Roblox outlines plans to add more realism to player avatars, introduce...

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GitLab opens up 22% on its first day of trading, after raising $801M in its IPO at a valuation of $11B (Ari Levy/CNBC)

GitLab opens up 22% on its first day of trading, after raising $801M i...

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Residents of a quiet San Francisco street say Waymo's self-driving cars are flocking to the neighborhood throughout the day (Wilson Walker/CBS San Francisco)

Residents of a quiet San Francisco street say Waymo's self-driving car...

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Google rolls out continuous scrolling for English-language mobile search results in the US (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Google rolls out continuous scrolling for English-language mobile sear...

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Groove, which provides customer service software for SMBs, raises a $45M Series B led by Viking Global, bringing its total raised to $57M (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

Groove, which provides customer service software for SMBs, raises a $4...

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HTC announces $499 Vive Flow, a VR headset that requires an external battery and uses an Android phone as a wireless controller, available in November (Adi Robertson/The Verge)

HTC announces $499 Vive Flow, a VR headset that requires an external b...

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FTC notifies 700+ companies, including AT&T and Hulu, that they could face penalties of up to $43,792 per violation for using deceptive reviews (Joseph Cox/VICE)

FTC notifies 700+ companies, including AT&T and Hulu, that they could ...

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Microsoft says it will shut down its local version of LinkedIn in China; sources: in March, China told LinkedIn to better regulate its content (Wall Street Journal)

Microsoft says it will shut down its local version of LinkedIn in Chin...

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