Month: April 2022

Context, an app that lets users follow and track other people’s crypto wallets and transactions, raises a $19.5M seed led by Variant Fund and Sam Altman (Callan Quinn/The Block)

Callan Quinn / The Block: Context, an app that lets users follow and track other people’s crypto wallets and transactions, raises a $19.5M seed led by Variant Fund and Sam Altman  —  Quick Take  — The round was led by Variant Fund and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.  — The firm’s app lets users track on-chain

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Ethereum’s long-awaited proof-of-stake Merge upgrade “won’t be June, but likely in the few months after”, according to a lead developer on the project (Jialiang David Pan/Bloomberg)

Jialiang David Pan / Bloomberg: Ethereum’s long-awaited proof-of-stake Merge upgrade “won’t be June, but likely in the few months after”, according to a lead developer on the project  —  One of the leading Ethereum software developers said the blockchain network’s much-anticipated technical upgrade known …

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Microsoft .NET MAUI release candidate available

Microsoft’s .NET MAUI (Multi-platform App UI) has moved to a release candidate (RC) stage, the company said on April 12. An evolution of Xamarin Forms, .NET MAUI is a cross-platform framework for building mobile and desktop apps with C# and XAML. .NET MAUI leverages platform SDKs for Windows, MacOS, Android, and iOS. Developers can use

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An NFT of Jack Dorsey’s first-ever tweet, which sold for $2.9M last year, has been up for sale since last week and has failed to garner a bid over $1K (Sandali Handagama/CoinDesk)

Sandali Handagama / CoinDesk: An NFT of Jack Dorsey’s first-ever tweet, which sold for $2.9M last year, has been up for sale since last week and has failed to garner a bid over $1K  —  Crypto entrepreneur Sina Estavi bought Twitter founder Jack Dorsey’s first ever tweet as an NFT for $2.9 million last year.

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TikTok is testing a dislike button for comments

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge TikTok is testing a feature that allows users to dislike individual comments on videos, the company confirmed today. In a blog post on safety and community guidelines enforcement, TikTok says individuals can flag comments they find “irrelevant or inappropriate” without the dislike being visible to others. Some users

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What to watch on Disney Plus: 40 top titles to stream

Credit: Disney Plus Disney’s dedicated streamer Disney Plus is absolutely brimming with stuff to watch. There are Disney classics, new originals, and plenty more, including titles from Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm, National Geographic, ABC, 20th Century Studios, and other Disney holdings. This what to watch on Disney Plus guide takes the work out of it for

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Apple customers say delivery estimates for orders of some MacBook Pro models have been pushed back, in some cases as far as mid-June, amid China’s lockdowns (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Apple customers say delivery estimates for orders of some MacBook Pro models have been pushed back, in some cases as far as mid-June, amid China’s lockdowns  —  Apple Inc. shoppers are facing longer wait times for the company’s flagship MacBook Pro laptops, a sign that Covid-19 lockdowns in China may be

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In two weeks, Amazon will add a ~5% fuel and inflation surcharge to US sellers using its fulfillment services, says it is lower than surcharges at UPS and FedEx (Annie Palmer/CNBC)

Annie Palmer / CNBC: In two weeks, Amazon will add a ~5% fuel and inflation surcharge to US sellers using its fulfillment services, says it is lower than surcharges at UPS and FedEx  —  – Amazon said Wednesday it’s adding a 5% fuel and inflation surcharge to U.S. sellers who use its fulfillment services.

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Sony and Nintendo commit to updating auto-renewal practices for their online service subscriptions, concluding a multi-year UK CMA investigation (Danielle Partis/GamesIndustry.biz)

Danielle Partis / GamesIndustry.biz: Sony and Nintendo commit to updating auto-renewal practices for their online service subscriptions, concluding a multi-year UK CMA investigation  —  Platform holders join Microsoft’s efforts to update online services following CMA’s investigation  —  Both Sony and Nintendo have agreed …

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Wikipedia editors vote 232 to 94 to request the Wikimedia Foundation stop accepting crypto donations; the foundation is not legally bound by the proposal (Timothy B. Lee/Ars Technica)

Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica: Wikipedia editors vote 232 to 94 to request the Wikimedia Foundation stop accepting crypto donations; the foundation is not legally bound by the proposal  —  Critics argue the bitcoin and ethereum networks consume too much energy.  —  More than 200 long-time Wikipedia editors have requested …

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