Amazon begins letting select US customers make payments using Venmo, and plans to roll out the option to all US shoppers before Black Friday — Amazon announced that it will now allow customers to make payments through Venmo on its platform. The company said this option will be available …
Microsoft Surface Pro 9 review: 120Hz display, 5G, and 1080p camera, but pricey without accessories, slow apps, and just two USB ports — Exceptional hardware is still marred by incompatibilies … Video calling. — After several days of using the Qualcomm-powered Surface Pro 9 …
A book excerpt details US law enforcement efforts to catch Alpha02, who created AlphaBay, the largest online drug and crime bazaar, in 2014 and ran the service — The notorious Alpha02 oversaw millions of dollars a day in online narcotic sales. For cybercrime detectives, he was public enemy number one—and a total mystery.
A look at TSMC's efforts to build ever-smaller, more powerful, and energy efficient semiconductors, as competitors race to catch up and erode its edge — Taiwan chipmaker ‘could stumble’ as industry is forced to develop new transistor technology — Smartphone chip design house MediaTek …
New York-based Bilt, which offers a loyalty program and credit card to convert rent payments into points, raised $150M led by Left Lane at a $1.5B valuation — Bilt Rewards, which operates a loyalty program and credit card that converts rent payments into points, said its valuation more than quadrupled to $1.5 billion.
Wikimedia begins rolling out updated editing features for new contributors, such as mentorship and suggestions for cross-linking articles and other first steps — Wikipedia is one of the sturdiest survivors of the old web, as well as one of the most clearly human-powered ones …
iPad (10th gen) review: great performance and battery, lots of apps, and USB-C, but accessories are confusing and expensive, high price, and average display — Apple's latest base-model iPad cribs a lot of features from the more expensive iPad Air. But it also is considerably more expensive than before, making it a tough sell.
Research: Binance had a 55.1% market share in spot crypto trading in the past 24 hours and 54.4% of derivatives trading, easily surpassing FTX and others — - Binance accounted for more than 55% of the spot crypto market over the last 24 hours. — The exchange also claimed …
The Coterie, which lets founders access funds from Coatue, a16z, and others to sidestep illiquid stock, raised a $40M Series A led by a16z at a $100M+ valuation — Andreessen Horowitz led a $40 million funding round for The Coterie, valuing the financial technology platform at more than $100 million.
Ahead of the midterms, US political campaigns are using voter-profiling companies and vast amounts of data to target campaign ads on guns, vaccines, and QAnon — To help campaigns target ads, voter-profiling firms score millions of Americans on issues like guns, vaccines and QAnon.
As President Xi Jinping consolidates his grip on China's ruling party, Alibaba, JD.com, Naspers, and other tech stocks drop by 10%+ — US-listed Chinese stocks tumbled in premarket trading, with investors spooked by President Xi Jinping's tightening grip on China's ruling party …
Chinese government data shows chip imports fell 12.4% YoY to 47.6B units in September; in January to September, domestic chip production fell 10.8% YoY to 245B — China's chip imports fell 12.4 percent in September, according to official customs data published on Monday …
Ikea Dirigera review: the Matter-ready smart home hub is easy to use and works well, but is expensive, lacks a migration tool from Trådfri, and is simplistic — Easier to use and stable. But let's check in again after a few months. … Ikea's new Matter-ready Dirigera smart home hub …
FTX to provide $6M in compensation to account holders impacted by a phishing incident via a 3rd-party site but says this kind of relief will not become the norm — Digital-asset exchange FTX will provide about $6 million compensation to its account holders impacted by a phishing incident via a third-party website.
Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia : MediaTek says it has started to use Intel Foundry's advanced chip packaging in addition to TSMC's...
