How to mute Google Meet calls through a USB headset

The company has confirmed that the gradual rollout of the feature will start on August 22 and users will be able to find it within 15 days of the rollout. Google Meet’s call control feature will be available to all Google Workspace customers, as well as legacy G Suite Basic and Business customers. https://ift.tt/CXVxJka

Arc, which offers debt funding and digital banking services to SaaS startups, raised a $20M Series A, after raising an $11M seed and $150M debt in January 2022 (Mary Ann Azevedo/TechCrunch)

Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch:
Arc, which offers debt funding and digital banking services to SaaS startups, raised a $20M Series A, after raising an $11M seed and $150M debt in January 2022  —  Arc, a company that aims to give SaaS startups “a way to borrow, save and spend” in one place, has raised $20 million in a Series A round of funding.

Sources: ahead of a Fed meeting in January, Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky personally directed individual trades, overruling executives, leading to large losses (Kadhim Shubber/Financial Times)

Kadhim Shubber / Financial Times:
Sources: ahead of a Fed meeting in January, Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky personally directed individual trades, overruling executives, leading to large losses  —  In January, Celsius Network boss Alex Mashinsky gathered his investment team to tell them he would be taking control …

Vivo V25 Pro 5G: Launch date, price, specs and more

Vivo is gearing up for the launch of its upcoming V series smartphone lineup with the launch of– Vivo V25 and Vivo V25 Pro 5G in the Indian market on August 17 at 12 noon. Out of the two, the company has already revealed the specs of the Vivo V25 Pro smartphone ahead of its launch. https://ift.tt/Rn1a9Lt

Beta version of DigiYatra app launched to speed up check-in process at Delhi airport

"DIAL had installed the required facility at Terminal 3 of Delhi Airport and had already conducted its DigiYatra trials. Nearly 20,000 passengers had a seamless and secure travel experience after using the facility during the trials," its statement noted. https://ift.tt/8XeFpVB

Galaxy Digital terminates its $1.2B acquisition of crypto custodian BitGo, announced in May 2021, after the service failed to provide audited statements (Lucy Harley-McKeown/The Block)

Lucy Harley-McKeown / The Block:
Galaxy Digital terminates its $1.2B acquisition of crypto custodian BitGo, announced in May 2021, after the service failed to provide audited statements  —  - Galaxy Digital announced on Monday that it would terminate its deal with crypto custodian BitGo, which had been announced in May 2021.

A look at the UK's beleaguered semiconductor industry, which has withered since the 1980s, and efforts to revive domestic production amid a global supply crunch (Andrew Hill/Financial Times)

Andrew Hill / Financial Times:
A look at the UK's beleaguered semiconductor industry, which has withered since the 1980s, and efforts to revive domestic production amid a global supply crunch  —  Richard Rogers' buildings are known for their inside-out architecture.  The Inmos microprocessor factory in Newport, south Wales, completed in 1982, is no exception.

Court docs in Brazil show Microsoft sold approximately 58.5M Xbox One units in total, or half of the PS4's 117.2M sales; Microsoft has long hidden sales figures (Bobby Kent/GameLuster)

Bobby Kent / GameLuster:
Court docs in Brazil show Microsoft sold approximately 58.5M Xbox One units in total, or half of the PS4's 117.2M sales; Microsoft has long hidden sales figures  —  A high-profile case is ongoing in Brazil, as Microsoft attempts to defend its Activision Blizzard acquisition from CADE, the Brazilian competition authority.

Analysis: Google Maps in the US regularly misleads people looking for abortion providers, instead pointing them towards non-medical crisis pregnancy centers (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
Analysis: Google Maps in the US regularly misleads people looking for abortion providers, instead pointing them towards non-medical crisis pregnancy centers  —  Chey was a 19-year-old college sophomore living near Orlando, Florida, when she discovered she was pregnant and decided to have an abortion.

The US' $42.5B broadband budget for underserved areas is withheld until the FCC makes new service maps, which aren't expected by rural providers until late 2023 (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal:
The US' $42.5B broadband budget for underserved areas is withheld until the FCC makes new service maps, which aren't expected by rural providers until late 2023  —  The $42 billion broadband plan is slowed by lack of accurate maps showing gaps in service  —  WASHINGTON—The government's …

A look at the growing bipartisan scrutiny of TikTok in the US; email: House officials told staff they did not recommend using the app, citing security concerns (David McCabe/New York Times)

David McCabe / New York Times:
A look at the growing bipartisan scrutiny of TikTok in the US; email: House officials told staff they did not recommend using the app, citing security concerns  —  National security concerns over the Chinese-owned viral video app remain unresolved.  Lawmakers and regulators are increasingly pushing for action.

New York City-based Kumospace, which offers video chat and remote work tools with a "virtual office" feel, has raised a $21M Series A led by Lightspeed (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
New York City-based Kumospace, which offers video chat and remote work tools with a “virtual office” feel, has raised a $21M Series A led by Lightspeed  —  After more than two years of remote work, many employees have no interest in returning to the office — at least not without good reason.

Big investment firms, including Abrdn, BlackRock, and Charles Schwab, are embracing digital assets despite the crypto crash, as consumer groups raise concerns (Financial Times)

Financial Times:
Big investment firms, including Abrdn, BlackRock, and Charles Schwab, are embracing digital assets despite the crypto crash, as consumer groups raise concerns  —  Abrdn, BlackRock and Charles Schwab have done deals or launched products tied to digital assets this month

Some computational neuroscientists say self-supervised AI learning models have shown a closer correspondence to brain function than supervised-learning models (Anil Ananthaswamy/Quanta Magazine)

Anil Ananthaswamy / Quanta Magazine:
Some computational neuroscientists say self-supervised AI learning models have shown a closer correspondence to brain function than supervised-learning models  —  Self-supervised learning allows a neural network to figure out for itself what matters.  The process might be what makes our own brains so successful.

Analysis: Tencent and Alibaba, whose stocks have dropped 60% and 65% respectively since February 2021, have lost more market value than any other stock globally (Jeanny Yu/Bloomberg)

Jeanny Yu / Bloomberg:
Analysis: Tencent and Alibaba, whose stocks have dropped 60% and 65% respectively since February 2021, have lost more market value than any other stock globally  —  Just 18 months ago, Tencent Holdings Ltd. was on the cusp of becoming Asia's second trillion-dollar company …