Author: Tech Support

    • Terminus Technologies, a Chinese startup that provides IoT solutions in 70 cities, raises ~$173M Series B led by China Everbright and IDG Capital (Eudora Wang/China Money Network)

    Eudora Wang / China Money Network: Terminus Technologies, a Chinese startup that provides IoT solutions in 70 cities, raises ~$173M Series B led by China Everbright and IDG Capital  —  Chinese internet of things (IoT) solution provider Terminus Technologies has secured a RMB1.2 billion (US$172.7 million) … Terminus Technologies, a Chinese startup that provides IoT

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    • WhatsApp introduces stickers at last

    WhatsApp is super late introducing stickers on its messaging platform, but hey, at least they’re available now. There are already a bunch of free sticker packs available, and you’ll recognize some of them from Facebook Messenger (no surprise there). The company noted that third parties can also create sticker packs and make them available as

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    • Tether says it has destroyed over half of its total supply, or 500M USDT, from the Tether treasury wallet (David Floyd/CoinDesk)

    David Floyd / CoinDesk: Tether says it has destroyed over half of its total supply, or 500M USDT, from the Tether treasury wallet  —  UPDATE (24 October 19:25 UTC): This article has been updated to include comments from a Bitfinex spokesman.  —  Shortly before 1:00 p.m. ET Wednesday, Tether … Tether says it has destroyed

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    • Andy Rubin says NYT story is part of a smear campaign, calls allegations false, is troubled that Google execs are commenting and misrepresenting facts about him (Andy Rubin/@arubin)

    Andy Rubin / @arubin: Andy Rubin says NYT story is part of a smear campaign, calls allegations false, is troubled that Google execs are commenting and misrepresenting facts about him  —  1/2 The New York Times story contains numerous inaccuracies about my employment at Google and wild exaggerations about my compensation. Specifically, I never coerced

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    • New DRM rules allow jailbreaking of voice-assistant devices and unlocking of new phones, but don't allow game consoles to be fixed or HDCP to be bypassed (Kyle Wiens/iFixit)

    Kyle Wiens / iFixit: New DRM rules allow jailbreaking of voice-assistant devices and unlocking of new phones, but don’t allow game consoles to be fixed or HDCP to be bypassed  —  Six months ago, on a sunny spring day in LA, I donned a suit—a rare event—and walked into a courtroom at UCLA. New DRM

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    • Investigation: 12 of 22 contacted crypto news sites agreed, upon request, to publish paid content without marking it as sponsored; prices were $240 to $4,500 (Corin Faife/BREAKER)

    Corin Faife / BREAKER: Investigation: 12 of 22 contacted crypto news sites agreed, upon request, to publish paid content without marking it as sponsored; prices were $240 to $4,500  —  This article started out with an email, one that arrived in my inbox years ago.  I can’t remember when the first of them came exactly

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    • Amazon says its "other" sales, which are mostly comprised of its advertising services, earned nearly $2.5B in net sales in Q3, up 122% YoY from $1.12B (Alana Semuels/The Atlantic)

    Alana Semuels / The Atlantic: Amazon says its “other” sales, which are mostly comprised of its advertising services, earned nearly $2.5B in net sales in Q3, up 122% YoY from $1.12B  —  The e-commerce company has so much information about us that it’s become expert at shilling us things we didn’t even know we needed.

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