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Spotify Wrapped 2022 is here, and it’s giving everyone a ‘music personality’

In this year’s Wrapped, Spotify is assigning listeners a Myers–Briggs-esque “music personality.” | Image: Spotify Spotify Wrapped is here, and with it, a slew of year-end charts, data, and graphics ripe for sharing. In addition to the standard personal data (top artists, songs, etc.), Spotify is providing listeners with social-friendly stats the company hopes will

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Spotify releases Wrapped 2022 for users, adding a “music personality” feature, and says Joe Rogan, Emma Chamberlain, and others were its top podcasters (Ariel Shapiro/The Verge)

Ariel Shapiro / The Verge: Spotify releases Wrapped 2022 for users, adding a “music personality” feature, and says Joe Rogan, Emma Chamberlain, and others were its top podcasters  —  Spotify Wrapped is here, and with it, a slew of year-end charts, data, and graphics ripe for sharing.

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Sources detail Alameda’s early years, starting in fall 2017, as SBF shrugged off concerns about risky investments, leading several employees to quit in 2018 (Gregory Zuckerman/Wall Street Journal)

Gregory Zuckerman / Wall Street Journal: Sources detail Alameda’s early years, starting in fall 2017, as SBF shrugged off concerns about risky investments, leading several employees to quit in 2018  —  ‘We ended up not really knowing how much money we even had,’ one former employee says  —  Why FTX Picked the Bahamas, and What

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Brussels-based crypto market maker Keyrock raised a $72M Series B led by Ripple, following a €4.3M Series A in October 2020 (Tom Matsuda/The Block)

Tom Matsuda / The Block: Brussels-based crypto market maker Keyrock raised a $72M Series B led by Ripple, following a €4.3M Series A in October 2020  —  – Ripple has led a $72 million Series B funding round into digital asset market maker Keyrock.  Six Fintech Ventures and Middlegame Ventures also participated in the round,

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Memo: DoorDash plans to lay off around 1,250 employees, aiming to curb expenses; sources say that represents around 6% of its workforce (Jackie Davalos/Bloomberg)

Jackie Davalos / Bloomberg: Memo: DoorDash plans to lay off around 1,250 employees, aiming to curb expenses; sources say that represents around 6% of its workforce  —  DoorDash Inc. is laying off about 1,250 people in an effort to rein in expenses, according to a company memo from Chief Executive Officer Tony Xu viewed by

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A UK court rules Binance, Coinbase, Kraken, Luno, and other exchanges must give customer details to an unnamed UK exchange to track down $10.7M in stolen funds (Financial Times)

Financial Times: A UK court rules Binance, Coinbase, Kraken, Luno, and other exchanges must give customer details to an unnamed UK exchange to track down $10.7M in stolen funds  —  Six exchanges ordered to disclose customer details to help trace funds overseas  —  A London court has ordered cryptocurrency …

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Samsung’s New GDDR6W Graphics Memory Rivals HBM2

Samsung’s new memory features Fan-Out, Wafer-Level Packaging. (Image: Samsung) In the past, chip companies such as AMD have dabbled in High-Bandwidth Memory (HBM) instead of GDDR to increase memory bandwidth for GPUs. This vertically stacked memory boasts incredible bandwidth, but it’s a costly endeavor. AMD abandoned it in favor of GDDR memory after its ill-fated

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A look at China’s growing interest in the open-source Risc-V chip architecture after US sanctions, including enlisting Alibaba and Tencent to help design chips (Financial Times)

Financial Times: A look at China’s growing interest in the open-source Risc-V chip architecture after US sanctions, including enlisting Alibaba and Tencent to help design chips  —  Chinese government steps up push to use Risc-V in move aimed at boosting domestic production of semiconductors

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