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Study: as the war rages on, Meta effectively removes Russian propaganda flagged by Ukrainian officials, while YouTube, Twitter, and LinkedIn ignore requests

Study Ukrainian youtube Twitter linkedin oremus Washington Post Will Oremus / Washington Post: Study: as the war rages on, Meta…

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Sources: AI transformer startups Inflection, Cohere, Anthropic, and Adept, which collectively raised $1B+, recently poached dozens of scientists from Big Tech

Sources AI inflection Cohere Adept Anthropic Sam Shead / CNBC: Sources: AI transformer startups Inflection, Cohere, Anthropic, and Adept, which…

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NYC-based NorthOne, which offers digital banking services for small business owners, raised a $67M Series B, bringing its total funding to $90.3M

NYC-based north one series Azevedo TechCrunch  Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: NYC-based NorthOne, which offers digital banking services for small…

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Mastercard tests facial recognition software in Brazil, letting users who opt in pay with a smile or a wave, using tech from NEC, Payface, PopID, and others

Brazil NEC pay face popidVenkat Ramakrishnan Siddharth venkataramakrishnan / Financial Times: Mastercard tests facial recognition software in Brazil, letting users…

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Magic Leap pivots toward health care, defense, and manufacturing markets with Magic Leap 2, which will cost “slightly” more than the $2,295-$2,995 Magic Leap 1

Magic leap bass Bloomberg:  Dina Bass / Bloomberg: Magic Leap pivots toward health care, defense, and manufacturing markets with Magic…

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Twitter opens Spaces, its live audio feature, to anyone with 600+ followers and details plans for Ticketed Spaces, reminders, co-hosting, accessibility, and more

spaces ticketed spacespereztechcrunch Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Twitter opens Spaces, its live audio feature, to anyone with 600+ followers and…

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Fortress Information Security, which helps companies automate supply chain management including workflows and risk assessments, raises $125M from Goldman Sachs

information security 125m goldman sachskearyventurebeat Tim Keary / VentureBeat: Fortress Information Security, which helps companies automate supply chain management including…

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Jakarta-based Bibit, which offers robo-advisor services to help millennial users invest in mutual funds based on their risk profiles, raises $80M+ led by GIC

Jakartabased bibit gicsutrisno techasia Budi Sutrisno / Tech in Asia: Jakarta-based Bibit, which offers robo-advisor services to help millennial users…

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Many crypto miners are shutting off rigs and plan to sell their GPUs, as GPU-based mining for most cryptocurrencies becomes unprofitable after Ethereum’s Merge

many gpubased ethereum mergekanpcmag Michael Kan / PCMag: Many crypto miners are shutting off rigs and plan to sell their…

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Oregon-based Boulder Care, a telehealth provider focused on medical treatment and support for people overcoming substance use disorders, raised a $36M Series B

Oregon-based boulder care series hall tech crunch Christine Hall / TechCrunch: Oregon-based Boulder Care, a telehealth provider focused on medical…

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