Light Field Lab, which develops 3D holograms that users can speak and interact with without glasses, raised a $50M Series B led by NCSoft — Light Field Lab has raised $50 million to manufacture and commercialize its SolidLight holographic display platform.
Sources: Amazon is in talks with Times Internet to buy MX Player, one of India's top VOD streaming services; Times Internet bought MX Player for $140M in 2018 — Amazon is engaging with Times Internet to explore the acquisition of MX Player, one of the largest on-demand video streaming services …
Former staff say Twitter needs to update its systems to enact changes sought by Elon Musk, but mass layoffs have forced frequent code freezes — Twitter's outage on Wednesday, which saw the site rendered unusable for most users by blocking people from tweeting within the app …
After a decade of waiting for a quality Harry Potter video game, some fans struggle to reconcile enjoying Hogwarts Legacy with JK Rowling's transphobic comments — Harry Potter fans have been waiting more than a decade for a video game worthy of the blockbuster entertainment franchise's dedicated following.
Coincover, which offers tools to 300+ companies to protect digital assets from hacks or human error, raised $30M led by Foundation, taking its funding to $41.6M — Coincover, a digital asset protection company, has raised $30 million in funding led by Foundation Capital to protect people …
Tether claims $700M in Q4 profit, in addition to its reserves, and $67.04B in total assets and $66.08B in liabilities; Tether-secured loans were down by $300M — - Tether issued its latest attestation report, saying its assets exceeded its liabilities as of December 2022.
Investigation: AI tools rate photos of women as more sexually suggestive than photos of men, especially if nipples, pregnant bellies, or exercise are involved — Guardian exclusive: AI tools rate photos of women as more sexually suggestive than those of men, especially if nipples, pregnant bellies or exercise is involved
Inside FTX's final hours, described by employees, chat logs, and Sam Bankman-Fried: panic selling assets, trying to raise funds, SBF's silence, and bankruptcy — In January, I walked up the front steps of a single-storey, grey-shingled house in a neighbourhood on the fringe of Stanford University.
The Federation data: active users on decentralized social networks are up from ~600K to ~2.6M in a few months, challenging claims about a failing “fediverse” — from the lies,-damn-lies,-and-statistics dept — There's been this weird series of articles lately …
Uber reports Q4 revenue up 49% YoY to $8.6B, gross bookings rose 19% YOY to $30.7B, and a record 2.1B customer trips, up 19% YoY; UBER jumps 7%+ pre-market — The company, which was hit hard in the early stages of the pandemic, saw revenue jump 49 percent from the same period a year ago.
A look at India's pilots for a retail and wholesale CBDC, planned for a national launch by the end of 2023, and differentiating the project from the UPI system — India launched two CBDC pilots last year, a wholesale CBDC and a retail CBDC. — Join the most important conversation in crypto …
The Bank of England publishes two papers on a new digital pound, seeming to favor centralized databases over a blockchain and imposing a £10K limit per person — The Bank of England has set out technical features of its central bank digital currency, which officials have said is likely to be needed.
Gleb Bryanski / Reuters : Russia's finance minister says Russian companies have begun using bitcoin and other digital currencies in i...
