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Google Stadia ‘founders’ can now give away another three-month free trial to a friend

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Google’s Stadia cloud gaming service hasn’t exactly had a stellar launch, leaving those who purchased the $130 “Founder’s Edition” effectively paying for a beta without the features or graphical fidelity that Google promised it would deliver at its debut. That’s not to mention the day-one distribution hang-ups.

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New Android phones sold in the Turkish market will not have Google services, until the company resolves a dispute with Turkey's competition authority (Can Sezer/Reuters)

Can Sezer / Reuters: New Android phones sold in the Turkish market will not have Google services, until the company resolves a dispute with Turkey’s competition authority  —  ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Google has told its Turkish business partners it will not be able to work with them on new Android phones to be released in

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Some contractors at Google's Austin content moderation facility say they are overworked and begin seeing severe mental health consequences after just six months (Casey Newton/The Verge)

Casey Newton / The Verge: Some contractors at Google’s Austin content moderation facility say they are overworked and begin seeing severe mental health consequences after just six months  —  These moderators help keep Google and YouTube free of violent extremism — and now some of them have PTSD Some contractors at Google's Austin content moderation

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How delivery workers in Mexico City use WhatsApp groups to share real time info on crashes, robberies, harassment, and their deliveries in high crime areas (Martha Pskowski/OneZero)

Martha Pskowski / OneZero: How delivery workers in Mexico City use WhatsApp groups to share real time info on crashes, robberies, harassment, and their deliveries in high crime areas  —  A 1,000-person WhatsApp community keeps delivery workers safe  —  a recent Tuesday night, Luisa Amezquita, a Rappi company delivery worker … How delivery workers in

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Bitcoin ransomware blamed for New Orleans ‘state of emergency’

Ransomware hackers have forced the city of New Orleans to declare a state of emergency, TechCrunch reports. Last Friday, officials reportedly spotted a suspicious uptick in activity in the early morning, particularly phishing attempts. They confirmed an attack was underway approximately three hours later, and promptly shut down affected servers and computers. A declaration of

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CallMiner, which provides call centers with AI-powered speech and text analytics software, raises $75M from Goldman Sachs, bringing its total raised to ~$160M (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: CallMiner, which provides call centers with AI-powered speech and text analytics software, raises $75M from Goldman Sachs, bringing its total raised to ~$160M  —  Despite people of a certain generation’s preference for texting, phone calls haven’t gone the way of the dodo. CallMiner, which provides call centers with AI-powered speech and

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Bitmain’s former Bitcoin mining chip designer arrested for embezzlement, report

The founder of Chinese Bitcoin mining manufacturer MicroBT has reportedly been arrested for allegedly embezzling $14,339 (100,000 yuan). Yang Zuoxing, the former director of chip design at Bitcoin mining giant Bitmain, has been in prison since the end of October, Caixin Global reports. He is credited with developing Bitmain‘s wildly successful AntMiner S7 and S9 models.

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Bangalore-based Licious, which sells fresh meat and seafood online in seven cities in India, raises $30M Series E led by Singapore-based Vertex Growth Fund (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Bangalore-based Licious, which sells fresh meat and seafood online in seven cities in India, raises $30M Series E led by Singapore-based Vertex Growth Fund  —  Licious, a Bangalore-based startup that sells fresh meat and seafood online, has secured $30 million in a new financing round as it looks to expand its

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