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Provi, an online marketplace that lets bars and restaurants order beverages from distributors in one central location, raises $75M Series C at a $750M valuation (Jim Dallke/Chicago Business Journal)

Jim Dallke / Chicago Business Journal: Provi, an online marketplace that lets bars and restaurants order beverages from distributors in one central location, raises $75M Series C at a $750M valuation — Provi raised $100M over two rounds this year to help bars and restaurants order booze — A Chicago startup that helps restaurants …

Pager, a virtual healthcare platform for helping patients from initial triage to follow-up care, raises $70M Series C, as a mix of equity and debt (AlleyWatch)

AlleyWatch: Pager, a virtual healthcare platform for helping patients from initial triage to follow-up care, raises $70M Series C, as a mix of equity and debt — The pandemic has defined the future of virtual healthcare as the importance of providing unfettered access to essential healthcare services grew dramatically …

Lithuanian government recommends ditching Chinese phones after finding Xiaomi devices with censorship capabilities that can be activated remotely (Andrius Sytas/Reuters)

Andrius Sytas / Reuters: Lithuanian government recommends ditching Chinese phones after finding Xiaomi devices with censorship capabilities that can be activated remotely — Lithuania’s Defense Ministry recommended that consumers avoid buying Chinese mobile phones and advised people to throw away the ones …

Apple Music now supports dynamic head tracking with Spatial Audio

What you need to know Apple has added dynamic head tracking to Spatial Audio in Apple Music. The feature launched alongside the release of iOS 15 earlier this week. AirPods Pro and AirPods Max can take advantage of the feature. Apple Music is turning on its own head. Apple Music fans are getting another treat

Apple’s Research app can now transfer study progress over iCloud backup

What you need to know Apple has released an update for its Research app. The update allows users to transfer their study progress to a new device over iCloud backup. The app is currently running three different research studies. iCloud comes to save the day again. Today, Apple has released a notable update to the

Spotify is set to surpass Apple Podcasts as the #1 podcast app in the U.S.

What you need to know Spotify is set to surpass Apple Podcasts with the most listeners. The service is projected to have 28.2 million monthly podcast listeners by the end of 2021. That would pass Apple Podcasts which is projected to end the year with 28 million monthly listeners. Spotify is quickly becoming the go-to

Cooking Up a Batch of Homebrew Welding Gas

You know the feeling — you’re making good progress on a weekend project, you’re really in the groove, things are going right. Right up until you run out of That One Thing that you can’t do without, the only store that sells it is closed, and you get a sudden case of whiplash as your

Switch owners won’t be able to play Pokémon Unite until tomorrow morning

Probably because the mobile version launches tomorrow. What you need to know Pokémon Unite’s server is down for maintenance right now. Players will not be able to log in until the maintenance window ends. Maintenance should end by 3:00 AM ET/12:00AM PT on September 22. The mobile version of the game launches tomorrow. Nintendo Switch

Spatial and Lossless audio support come back to HomePod with latest beta

What you need to know Apple has released the HomePod 15.1 beta 1 software. The latest beta update brings back support for Spatial Audio and Lossless Audio. It’s still unclear when it will be released to the public. It’s back, but just for beta users right now. We might not have to wait much longer

Blizzard’s chief legal officer Claire Hart leaves Activision Blizzard amid a series of high-level departures (Ari Notis/Kotaku)

Ari Notis / Kotaku: Blizzard’s chief legal officer Claire Hart leaves Activision Blizzard amid a series of high-level departures — Claire Hart, who had been the company’s top lawyer for three years, resigned Friday — Blizzard Entertainment’s chief legal officer, Claire Hart, has resigned from the embattled company.

SEC’s Gary Gensler says stablecoins are a risk to consumers, like “poker chips at the casino”, and equates crypto boom to “wildcat banking” in the 1830s (Tory Newmyer/Washington Post)

Tory Newmyer / Washington Post: SEC’s Gary Gensler says stablecoins are a risk to consumers, like “poker chips at the casino”, and equates crypto boom to “wildcat banking” in the 1830s — The top Wall Street regulator described the digital assets frequently pegged to the U.S. dollar as a danger to consumers

Blockdaemon, which offers blockchain staking infrastructure, raises $155M Series B led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 at a $1.26B valuation (James Rubin/CoinDesk)

James Rubin / CoinDesk: Blockdaemon, which offers blockchain staking infrastructure, raises $155M Series B led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 at a $1.26B valuation — Blockdaemon has raised $155 million in a Series B capital round at a valuation of $1.3 billion, the provider of blockchain staking infrastructure said Tuesday.

The best deals on true wireless earbuds right now

Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge When it comes to true wireless earbuds, there are a ton of brands and products to choose from. Whether you enjoy the unconventional design of Samsung’s Galaxy Buds Live or prefer Jabra’s compact Elite 75t, there’s a pair of wireless earbuds for just about everyone. Fortunately, many of

The first patient testimony about a Theranos test result: a miscarriage that wasn’t

Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes. | Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images ‘You can’t provide accurate patient care with inaccurate results.’ Continue reading…

Source: ahead of its NYSE debut, Toast prices its IPO at $40 per share, above its original $30-$33 range, which would give it a market cap of ~$20B (Ari Levy/CNBC)

Ari Levy / CNBC: Source: ahead of its NYSE debut, Toast prices its IPO at $40 per share, above its original $30-$33 range, which would give it a market cap of ~$20B — – Toast priced its IPO at $40 a share, after previously raising its price range to as high as $36. — The

Protect your iPhone 13 with an Otterbox case for 25% off from Verizon

Credit: Verizon Let’s be honest; we’ve all dropped our phones at some point or another — holding our breath as it bounces off a hard surface. Sometimes we get lucky, suffering only a few scratches. But there’s nothing worse than having huge cracks down the glass of your screen. When it comes to protecting your

Apple re-enables its new SharePlay feature in the latest developer betas

What you need to know Apple has re-enabled SharePlay in the latest developer betas. The feature is now part of the iOS 15.1, iPadOS 15.1, tvOS 15.1, and macOS Monterey 7 developer betas. It is still unclear when it will launch to the public. One of Apple’s best new features is back…for developers. While SharePlay

Shareholders allege Facebook conditioned its $5B Cambridge Analytica settlement on the FTC dropping plans to sue and depose Zuckerberg (Leah Nylen/Politico)

Leah Nylen / Politico: Shareholders allege Facebook conditioned its $5B Cambridge Analytica settlement on the FTC dropping plans to sue and depose Zuckerberg — The company allegedly agreed to overpay on the original $106 million penalty so its CEO and COO could avoid deposition and personal liability.

You can now store your COVID-19 vaccination card in the Health app

What you need to know With iOS 15, you can store verifiable health records in the Health app. Examples of what can be stored are COVID-19 vaccinations and test results. Apple says the Wallet app will soon support digital vaccination cards. Digital COVID-19 vaccination cards are here. Some iPhone users will now be able to

The Google Pixel 6 Pro may have been leaked in a brief hands-on video

Image: Google Google got ahead of any possible news leaks about the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro by announcing the phones back in August, including that they would run on the company’s long-in-development Tensor chip. But it’s possible that some leakers have recently got hold of an actual unit. A video posted to Twitter

How to watch Microsoft’s Surface event 2021 and what to expect

Credit: Microsoft Microsoft’s next Surface event is set to be held on September 22. The showcase is bound to be more important than most for the Redmond giant for the simple reason that Windows 11 is launching on October 5. The company needs showcase hardware for its latest OS, and indeed at least four new

Twitch and NMPA reach deal after tensions over takedown notices; sources: deal doesn’t include music licenses, and Twitch will issue warnings before suspensions (Tatiana Cirisano/Billboard)

Tatiana Cirisano / Billboard: Twitch and NMPA reach deal after tensions over takedown notices; sources: deal doesn’t include music licenses, and Twitch will issue warnings before suspensions — Twitch and the National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA) have reached a long-awaited agreement focused on building …

Shang-Chi will start streaming on November 12th as part of Disney Plus Day

Photo: Marvel Studios Disney is making Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings available to stream at no additional cost for subscribers as part of its newly announced Disney Plus Day, celebrating the second anniversary of Disney Plus on November 12th. Along with its latest Marvel blockbuster, the company is introducing new movies, shows,

Adobe Q3: record revenue of $3.94B, up 22% YoY, Digital Media revenue of $2.87B, up 23% YoY, but ARR figures barely exceed estimates; stock down ~4% after hours (Wallace Witkowski/MarketWatch)

Wallace Witkowski / MarketWatch: Adobe Q3: record revenue of $3.94B, up 22% YoY, Digital Media revenue of $2.87B, up 23% YoY, but ARR figures barely exceed estimates; stock down ~4% after hours — Earnings, outlook easily top consensus as record revenue reported — Adobe Inc. shares declined in the extended session Tuesday …

macOS is susceptible to running arbitrary code when a user opens a malicious .inetloc file, and Apple’s first attempt to silently fix the issue failed (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: macOS is susceptible to running arbitrary code when a user opens a malicious .inetloc file, and Apple’s first attempt to silently fix the issue failed — Security researchers disclosed today a new vulnerability in Apple’s macOS Finder, which makes it possible for attackers to run arbitrary commands …

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