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Power Tool Battery Fume Extractor

A solder fume extractor is something we could probably all use. While there isn’t much to them, [Steven Bennett] put a lot of thought into making one that was better for him, and we admired his design process, as well as the extractor fan itself. You can see the finished result in the video below.

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Matchday, a Web3 and mobile gaming startup developing casual soccer games licensed by FIFA, raised a $21M seed from Lionel Messi’s Play Time and others (Chris Morris/Fast Company)

Chris Morris / Fast Company: Matchday, a Web3 and mobile gaming startup developing casual soccer games licensed by FIFA, raised a $21M seed from Lionel Messi’s Play Time and others  —  Lionel Messi’s performance on the pitch is unmatched.  Now the soccer great is testing his skills in the startup world.

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Reddit is sunsetting its Clubhouse clone

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Reddit has announced that it’ll be shutting down Reddit Talk, its live audio conversation feature, on March 21st. In an announcement post, the company says it made the decision because “supporting Talk in the short-term requires significant resourcing – more than we anticipated.” The company will also be

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Report: Meta pauses Reels Play bonuses in the US; launched in 2021, the program promised Facebook and Instagram creators up to $35K a month based on view counts (Karissa Bell/Engadget)

Karissa Bell / Engadget: Report: Meta pauses Reels Play bonuses in the US; launched in 2021, the program promised Facebook and Instagram creators up to $35K a month based on view counts  —  Meta seems to be phasing out one of the key initiatives that helped Reels creators on Facebook and Instagram get paid.

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Physics-Controlled Component Auto-Placer

[Jarrett] recently stumbled upon a class of drawing algorithms called force-directed graphs, which artificially apply forces to the elements. The final graph is then generated by applying the laws of physics and letting the system reach equilibrium. This can often result in a pleasing presentation of things like mind maps and other diagrams without having to

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Reddit is sunsetting its Clubhouse clone

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Reddit has announced that it’ll be shutting down Reddit Talk, its live audio conversation feature, on March 21st. In an announcement post, the company says it made the decision because “supporting Talk in the short-term requires significant resourcing – more than we anticipated.” The company will also be

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Matchday, a Web3 and mobile gaming startup developing casual soccer games licensed by FIFA, raised a $21M seed from Lionel Messi’s Play Time and others (Chris Morris/Fast Company)

Chris Morris / Fast Company: Matchday, a Web3 and mobile gaming startup developing casual soccer games licensed by FIFA, raised a $21M seed from Lionel Messi’s Play Time and others  —  Lionel Messi’s performance on the pitch is unmatched.  Now the soccer great is testing his skills in the startup world.

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Intel Asks Germany for Another $5 Billion to Build Megafab

7th Gen Intel Core processors are manufactured on silicon wafers at Intel production facilities. New 7th Gen Intel Core processors deliver richer experiences, incredible performance and responsiveness, and true ultra HD 4K entertainment in stunning new devices. (Credit: Intel Corporation) (Credit: Intel)Over the past year, Intel has announced aggressive plans to increase the number of

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Silicon Valley Bank has launched a $2.25B share sale after a ~$1.8B loss on its ~$21B portfolio of Treasuries and mortgage-backed securities; SIVB is down 50%+ (Financial Times)

Financial Times: Silicon Valley Bank has launched a $2.25B share sale after a ~$1.8B loss on its ~$21B portfolio of Treasuries and mortgage-backed securities; SIVB is down 50%+  —  Technology-focused lender suffered loss on $21bn portfolio of Treasuries and mortgage-backed securities

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Silicon Valley Bank has launched a $2.25B share sale after a ~$1.8B loss on its ~$21B portfolio of Treasuries and mortgage-backed securities; SIVB is down 50%+ (Financial Times)

Financial Times: Silicon Valley Bank has launched a $2.25B share sale after a ~$1.8B loss on its ~$21B portfolio of Treasuries and mortgage-backed securities; SIVB is down 50%+  —  Technology-focused lender suffered loss on $21bn portfolio of Treasuries and mortgage-backed securities

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Railsr, the UK-based embedded finance tech startup formerly called Railsbank, goes into bankruptcy under new consortium owner; it was valued at ~$1B in 2021 (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Railsr, the UK-based embedded finance tech startup formerly called Railsbank, goes into bankruptcy under new consortium owner; it was valued at ~$1B in 2021  —  Startups are facing a moment of reckoning in the current economic climate, and today one of the more promising in the world of fintech has cracked

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Investigation: some Pinterest users are creating sex-themed image boards of kids and the company’s algorithm is curating such content for adults who seek it out (Jesselyn Cook/NBC News)

Jesselyn Cook / NBC News: Investigation: some Pinterest users are creating sex-themed image boards of kids and the company’s algorithm is curating such content for adults who seek it out  —  Like other kids her age, 9-year-old Victoria signed up for Pinterest because she wasn’t allowed on TikTok.

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Reddit will shutter Reddit Talk, its Clubhouse-style live audio product, on March 21, two years after its launch, and says adding audio needs “significant work” (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Reddit will shutter Reddit Talk, its Clubhouse-style live audio product, on March 21, two years after its launch, and says adding audio needs “significant work”  —  After Clubhouse’s rise to fame, every platform rushed to build a clone.  But in the last year or so …

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