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Fleek, which is developing tools for Web3 companies, including for storage, billing, and hosting, raised a $25M Series A led by Polychain Capital (Jacquelyn Melinek/TechCrunch)

Jacquelyn Melinek / TechCrunch: Fleek, which is developing tools for Web3 companies, including for storage, billing, and hosting, raised a $25M Series A led by Polychain Capital  —  Web3 developer platform Fleek has raised $25 million in Series A funding led by Polychain Capital, the company shared exclusively with TechCrunch.

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YouTube releases its 2022 recap for the US, highlighting the most-watched videos, top creators, breakout stars, top songs, and global top ads (Abner Li/9to5Google)

Abner Li / 9to5Google: YouTube releases its 2022 recap for the US, highlighting the most-watched videos, top creators, breakout stars, top songs, and global top ads  —  Following the Music Recap earlier this week, YouTube is revealing the top trending videos of 2022 and other lists that more or less serve as a stand in

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How to use EF Core query types in ASP.NET Core 7

Entity Framework Core (EF Core for short) is a popular ORM (object-relational mapper) from Microsoft that allow you to perform CRUD operations (create, read, update, and delete) without having to know how the data is persisted in the underlying database. When working with ORMs, we often leverage models that are mapped to database tables. However,

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Intro to Mitosis: The universal reactive transformer

Mitosis.js is a compiler tool that consumes a universal component syntax and outputs framework-specific code. That means you can write application functionality once and generate it to React, Svelte, or Angular, among others. What distinguishes Mitosis from other compile-time frameworks is its “write once, run anywhere” approach to compilation. Mitosis is an impressive engineering feat, and

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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says the company does not plan to stop selling “Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America”, an antisemitic film promoted by Kyrie Irving (Associated Press)

Associated Press: Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says the company does not plan to stop selling “Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America”, an antisemitic film promoted by Kyrie Irving  —  Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said Wednesday the company does not have plans to stop selling the antisemitic film …

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AWS updates its machine learning service SageMaker

Amazon Web Services on Wednesday added new features to its managed machine learning service Amazon SageMaker, designed to improve governance attributes within the service and adding new capabilities to its notebooks. Notebooks in context of Amazon SageMaker are compute instances that run the Jupyter Notebook application. Governance updates to improve granular access, improve workflow AWS

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In a rare interview, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew explains how US data will be kept out of China through “Project Texas”, discusses “booktok”, algorithms, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

Nilay Patel / The Verge: In a rare interview, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew explains how US data will be kept out of China through “Project Texas”, discusses “booktok”, algorithms, and more  —  The 40-year-old Chew was funny and relaxed for most of the interview, even if many of his answers sounded straight …

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Disney unveils FRAN, an AI tool that helps TV or film producers make an actor look older or younger without the need for complex and expensive visual effects (Andrew Liszewski/Gizmodo)

Andrew Liszewski / Gizmodo: Disney unveils FRAN, an AI tool that helps TV or film producers make an actor look older or younger without the need for complex and expensive visual effects  —  With just a few clicks, actors can look younger or older without the need for expensive visual effects.  —  Alerts

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Source: despite Zhengzhou lifting its COVID-19 lockdown, Foxconn plans to keep its closed-loop system, restricting staff movements to dorms or the factory floor (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)

Debby Wu / Bloomberg: Source: despite Zhengzhou lifting its COVID-19 lockdown, Foxconn plans to keep its closed-loop system, restricting staff movements to dorms or the factory floor  —  Apple Inc.’s most important iPhone assembly plant remains in a closed-loop operation that curtails workers’ movement on campus …

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These were the top YouTube videos of 2022

Credit: YouTube YouTube has announced its most popular videos and creators of 2022. The list includes Technoblade’s farewell, Will Smith’s slap, the Super Bowl halftime show, and more. MrBeast also features in the top ten videos list and closes the year as the leading YouTube creator. YouTube has announced its top videos and creators of

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The UK government plans to test SpaceX’s Starlink in remote locations, including Snowdonia National Park, choosing the service over British rival OneWeb (Anna Gross/Financial Times)

Anna Gross / Financial Times: The UK government plans to test SpaceX’s Starlink in remote locations, including Snowdonia National Park, choosing the service over British rival OneWeb  —  Government aims to provide ultrafast internet to all homes across country  —  The UK will begin trialling Elon Musk’s Starlink technology …

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In his NYT interview, SBF gave few straight answers while admitting to gross errors, denying claims of fraud, and claiming he “didn’t knowingly commingle funds” (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: In his NYT interview, SBF gave few straight answers while admitting to gross errors, denying claims of fraud, and claiming he “didn’t knowingly commingle funds”  —  Mystery continues to shroud the missing billions at bankrupt crypto exchange FTX after its disgraced founder Sam …

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Medibank’s hackers post what appears to be the remaining data of 9.7M customers on the dark web, claiming “case closed”, as Medibank continues its investigation (Josh Taylor/The Guardian)

Josh Taylor / The Guardian: Medibank’s hackers post what appears to be the remaining data of 9.7M customers on the dark web, claiming “case closed”, as Medibank continues its investigation  —  Medibank confirms it may be the full trove of hundreds of thousands of customers’ private records that were stolen from the health insurer

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Sources: Amazon begins layoffs with its Alexa, Kindle, and Halo hardware teams as part of the planned ~10K cuts, while investors anticipate broader downsizing (Dave Lee/Financial Times)

Dave Lee / Financial Times: Sources: Amazon begins layoffs with its Alexa, Kindle, and Halo hardware teams as part of the planned ~10K cuts, while investors anticipate broader downsizing  —  Staff working on Alexa, Kindle and Halo are the first to go, but investors want further cuts  —  Soon after Andy Jassy announced the …

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Sources: TSMC will make advanced 4nm chips when its ~$12B Arizona plant opens in 2024, an upgrade to prior 5nm claims, at the urging of Apple, AMD, and others (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Sources: TSMC will make advanced 4nm chips when its ~$12B Arizona plant opens in 2024, an upgrade to prior 5nm claims, at the urging of Apple, AMD, and others  —  Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. will offer advanced 4-nanometer chips when its new $12 billion plant in Arizona opens in 2024 …

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ICA Miami and other museums continue to collect and display NFTs even as the market sinks, arguing digital art has a long history and valuations are unimportant (Farah Nayeri/New York Times)

Farah Nayeri / New York Times: ICA Miami and other museums continue to collect and display NFTs even as the market sinks, arguing digital art has a long history and valuations are unimportant  —  ICA Miami owns a few, and M.F.A. Boston and others are selling them to reach new audiences “in a world where

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Musk says Neuralink expects human trials to begin in about six months pending FDA approval, and unveils work on implants to treat paralysis and improve vision (Ashlee Vance/Bloomberg)

Ashlee Vance / Bloomberg: Musk says Neuralink expects human trials to begin in about six months pending FDA approval, and unveils work on implants to treat paralysis and improve vision  —  Elon Musk’s Neuralink Corp. aims to start putting its coin-sized computing brain implant into human patients within six months …

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