Thursday, July 14, 2022
JPMorgan: bitcoin's production cost dropped from ~$24K at the start of June to ~$13K now, as miners seek profitability by deploying more efficient mining rigs (Joanna Ossinger/Bloomberg)
JPMorgan: bitcoin's production cost dropped from ~$24K at the start of June to ~$13K now, as miners seek profitability by deploying more efficient mining rigs — Bitcoin's cost of production has dropped from about $24,000 at the start of June to around $13,000 now, which may be seen …
Wednesday, July 13, 2022
Sources: Foxconn Industrial Internet took a minority stake in Chinese state-backed chipmaker Tsinghua Unigroup for $788M during Unigroup's $9B bailout by China (Bloomberg)
Sources: Foxconn Industrial Internet took a minority stake in Chinese state-backed chipmaker Tsinghua Unigroup for $788M during Unigroup's $9B bailout by China — A Shanghai-listed arm of Foxconn Technology Group acquired a stake in China's top chipmaker during its $9 billion bailout …
Truecaller launches Open Doors, a Clubhouse-like app which lets users register with their phone numbers and audio chat with their contacts who have the app (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
Truecaller launches Open Doors, a Clubhouse-like app which lets users register with their phone numbers and audio chat with their contacts who have the app — If you thought of the age of companies launching real-time audio chat apps, you're wrong. Swedish caller identification service Truecaller …
Sources: Unity to merge with app monetization service Ironsource, valued at $5B in the merger after going public in 2021 via a SPAC merger at a $11.7B valuation (Golan Hazani/CTech)
Sources: Unity to merge with app monetization service Ironsource, valued at $5B in the merger after going public in 2021 via a SPAC merger at a $11.7B valuation — Both companies have seen their share price plummet this year and have decided to join forces, “Calcalist” …
Kontent, whose headless CMS powers over 2K websites, apps and e-commerce stores, has raised $40M from Expedition Growth Capital (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
Kontent, whose headless CMS powers over 2K websites, apps and e-commerce stores, has raised $40M from Expedition Growth Capital — Kontent, a platform designed to help companies manage business-related content in the cloud, today announced that it raised $40 million from Expedition Growth Capital as part of a growth capital infusion.
Twitter says roughly 1.5B tweets about gaming were made on its site in H1 2022, up 36% YoY; Genshin Impact and Wordle were the most tweeted-about games (Erron Kelly/VentureBeat)
Twitter says roughly 1.5B tweets about gaming were made on its site in H1 2022, up 36% YoY; Genshin Impact and Wordle were the most tweeted-about games — Roughly 1.5 billion tweets about gaming were made on Twitter in the first half of 2022. That's ‘billion’ with a ‘b’.
TikTok unveils Content Levels, a system to classify content, similar to age ratings in films, and plans to let users block videos with certain words or hashtags (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
TikTok unveils Content Levels, a system to classify content, similar to age ratings in films, and plans to let users block videos with certain words or hashtags — Earlier this year, TikTok said it was developing a new system that would restrict certain types of mature content from being viewed by teen users.
Tuesday, July 12, 2022
Canon launched two new affordable RF lenses in India, price starts at Rs 52,495
Monday, July 11, 2022
Now you can use any emoji as WhatsApp Reactions, confirms company
Investigation finds Binance continued to serve crypto traders in Iran as recently as September 2021 despite US sanctions and a company ban on business there (Reuters)
Investigation finds Binance continued to serve crypto traders in Iran as recently as September 2021 despite US sanctions and a company ban on business there — The world's largest crypto exchange, Binance, continued to process trades by clients in Iran despite U.S. sanctions and a company ban …
China's antitrust watchdog punishes Tencent, Alibaba, Didi, and others with $74,600 fines for 28 unreported merger deals as far back as 2011 (Coco Feng/South China Morning Post)
China's antitrust watchdog punishes Tencent, Alibaba, Didi, and others with $74,600 fines for 28 unreported merger deals as far back as 2011 — Trams and cast-iron postboxes speak to the history of the city, while delicacies such as fishballs and egg waffles are street food essentials …
Germany-based Kadmos, a salary payments service for migrant workers, raises a €29M Series A led by Blossom Capital, after an €8.5M seed round in March (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)
Germany-based Kadmos, a salary payments service for migrant workers, raises a €29M Series A led by Blossom Capital, after an €8.5M seed round in March — Companies from across the industrial spectrum often rely on a migrant workforce, with data from the International Labour Organization indicating …
The US' chip export rules enter a 120-day consultation period, requiring the Trump administration to consider input, potentially modify, and enforce the rules (Will Knight/Wired)
Will Knight / Wired : The US' chip export rules enter a 120-day consultation period, requiring the Trump administration to consider i...
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Jake Offenhartz / Gothamist : Since October, the NYPD has deployed a quadruped robot called Spot to a handful of crime scenes and hostage...
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Lorena O'Neil / Rolling Stone : A look at the years of warnings about AI from researchers, including several women of color, who say ...
