Month: September 2021

Visually impaired users say that iOS 15 appears to have removed call, email, and voicemail Siri features they relied on (Juli Clover/MacRumors)

Juli Clover / MacRumors: Visually impaired users say that iOS 15 appears to have removed call, email, and voicemail Siri features they relied on  —  With the recent release of iOS 15, Apple appears to have made some changes to Siri functionality that have removed features relied on by low vision and blind iPhone users.

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Profile of Chinese AI company SenseTime, which has raised $3B+, as it prepares for a Hong Kong IPO and tries to retain support from China, its biggest customer (Financial Times)

Financial Times: Profile of Chinese AI company SenseTime, which has raised $3B+, as it prepares for a Hong Kong IPO and tries to retain support from China, its biggest customer  —  Start-up is close to an IPO but remains heavily dependent on Beijing’s support  —  Three years ago, Tang Xiao’ou joked …

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How EA is expanding its footprint on mobile, the fastest growing gaming category, as part of a cross-platform portfolio to reach new consumers (Nick Statt/Protocol)

Nick Statt / Protocol: How EA is expanding its footprint on mobile, the fastest growing gaming category, as part of a cross-platform portfolio to reach new consumers  —  In June, Electronic Arts made what seemed like a peculiar announcement.  It revealed one of its biggest-ever purchases, and its third major acquisition in less than seven

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Chainalysis: crypto transaction volume for Central, Northern, and Western Europe reached $1T+ from July 2020-June 2021, comprising 25% of global crypto activity (Sam Bourgi/Cointelegraph)

Sam Bourgi / Cointelegraph: Chainalysis: crypto transaction volume for Central, Northern, and Western Europe reached $1T+ from July 2020-June 2021, comprising 25% of global crypto activity  —  DeFi has become a major catalyst for Europe’s crypto economy.  Large institutions have also upped their share of transactions significantly.

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Indian social commerce startup Meesho raises $570M Series F co-led by Fidelity and B Capital Group, doubling its valuation in less than six months to $4.9B (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Indian social commerce startup Meesho raises $570M Series F co-led by Fidelity and B Capital Group, doubling its valuation in less than six months to $4.9B  —  Meesho has more than doubled its valuation in less than six months, to $4.9 billion, as a growing number of high-profile investors …

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Miami’s mayor has helped turn Miami into the most crypto-friendly US city, even as Florida’s governor appears to object to the idea of an influx of tech workers (Benjamin Wallace/New York Magazine)

Benjamin Wallace / New York Magazine: Miami’s mayor has helped turn Miami into the most crypto-friendly US city, even as Florida’s governor appears to object to the idea of an influx of tech workers  —  Silicon Valley’s favorite politician, Miami mayor Francis Suarez, has many lures to dangle when he’s wooing techies to relocate to

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Shortwave Radio Picks up Sideband

With the push to having most of a radio receiver as part of a PC, it might seem odd to have a standalone communication receiver, but [OM0ET] reviews the latest one he picked up, an ATS25. Inside isn’t much: a battery, a speaker, an encoder, and a Si4732 that provides the RF muscle. It appears

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Buckle, which provides credit and insurance to ridesharing and delivery drivers, raises $60M Series B led by Volery Capital Partners (PYMNTS.com)

PYMNTS.com: Buckle, which provides credit and insurance to ridesharing and delivery drivers, raises $60M Series B led by Volery Capital Partners  —  Buckle Corp, an insurance and credit provider for rideshare and delivery drivers and those who earn less than the average American wage, announced on Wednesday …

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WSJ publishes six internal Facebook documents it used for its report about Instagram’s negative impact on teen girls, after Facebook published two of the docs (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: WSJ publishes six internal Facebook documents it used for its report about Instagram’s negative impact on teen girls, after Facebook published two of the docs  —  The Senate holds a hearing Thursday about the social network’s impact, prompted by The Wall Street Journal’s coverage

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