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damsondao / P — Mirror: Unpacking Terra’s design for its algorithmic stablecoins and how partial collateralization using bitcoin reserves could impact its price stabilization mechanism  —  As Terra climbed crypto market cap rankings at the start of 2022 while most of the market dumped or stalled …

Kollen Post / The Block: Interview with Ukraine’s Deputy Minister of Digital Transformation, who says the government’s crypto donation platform has raised $70M+ as of April 1  —  Quick Take  — The Block spoke with Alexander Bornyakov, Deputy Minister of the Ukrainian Ministry of Digital Transformation.

Megha Paul / Tech.eu: Deepki, a Parisian provider of an ESG data intelligence platform for real estate, raises a €150M Series C round co-led by One Peak and Highland Europe  —  The Paris-headquartered startup offers a SaaS platform for real estate investors, owners and managers to improve the ESG performance …

Neil Cybart / Above Avalon: Apple’s hardware categories are now gaining record new users after a 2017/2018 strategy change that let product groups independently update major product lines  —  During Apple’s “Peek Performance” event held last month, the company announced not only a brand new Mac category with the Mac Studio …

Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: Zipline, Flytrex, and Alphabet’s Wing, which have started commercial drone deliveries in the US, say they are encouraged by the FAA’s evolving regulation  —  Drone companies have been cleared to expand their operations across the U.S., in cities as well as rural areas, at the same time their tech […]

An analysis of 630 billion words published online suggests that people tend to think of men when using gender-neutral terms, a sexist bias that could be learned by AI models

Washington Post: How Binance, which trades on its own exchange and plays a number of roles that pose conflicts of interest, remains mostly unaccountable to its customers  —  On May 19, 2021, Francis Kim thought he had hit it big.  The Australia-based entrepreneur had been dabbling in derivatives trading …

Mike Masnick / Techdirt: A deep look at the benefits of content moderation in open forums, and how it can support free speech by creating spaces where more people feel free to talk  —  Obviously over the past few years there’s been all of these debates about the content moderation practices of various websites.

Zac Bowden / Windows Central: In a memo, EVP and CPO Panos Panay says Microsoft is moving Surface Duo OS, SwiftKey, Phone Link, and Microsoft Launcher under a new dedicated Android division  —  A new ‘Microsoft Android’ division houses Duo, SwiftKey, Launcher, and more.  —  What you need to know

Sam Dean / Los Angeles Times: Interview with GoPuff co-founder Rafael Ilishayev, on why the company acquired BevMo, breaking into the California market, responding to drivers’ demands, more  —  When an East Coast startup called Gopuff paid $350 million for BevMo in November 2020, it wasn’t immediately clear …

Aoyon Ashraf / CoinDesk: Bitcoin mining company PrimeBlock plans to go public via a SPAC merger at a $1.25B valuation; PrimeBlock generated $24.4M in Q4 2021 revenue  —  The deal is expected to close in the second half of this year.  —  Bitcoin miner PrimeBlock confirmed its plan to go public through a merger …

Edward Ongweso Jr / VICE: The Discord servers of some NFT projects, including BAYC, were compromised on Friday as part of a phishing scam seeking to trick users into “minting” fake NFTs  —  This isn’t the first hack of Discord-based crypto communities, and it’s not likely to be the last.

By sending light through urine it’s possible to generate a hologram that can reveal the presence of bacteria or other signs of disease

A network of 100,000 animals connected by trackers and watched from space could explain extraordinary animal behaviour and help forecast volcanic eruptions, extreme weather and emerging diseases

Henry Ren / Bloomberg: Three European food delivery stocks, Delivery Hero, Just Eat, and Deliveroo, lost a combined $23.7B, more than half their market value, in the first quarter  —  In a market gripped by concerns over rising interest rates and soaring inflation, investors are avoiding European food delivery companies …

Kiran Stacey / Financial Times: A look at the eclectic group of pro-crypto lawmakers in Washington, from libertarians to tech utopians, who were galvanized by the recent infrastructure bill  —  A bipartisan mix of libertarians, business champions and tech utopians is uniting on legislation to help the sector grow

Tiare Tuuhia / Rest of World: How homegrown courier services in French Polynesia are building their own online shopping service to fill the gaps left by e-commerce giants in remote islands  —  E-commerce giants don’t reliably deliver to the remote islands of French Polynesia, so locals made their own online shopping service.

Michael H. Keller / New York Times: To avoid erroneously flagging CSAM, Meta’s training docs tell content moderators to “err on the side of an adult” when judging people’s age in photos or videos  —  The company reports millions of photos and videos of suspected child sexual abuse each year.

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Researchers: an allegedly Russia-tied wiper malware, AcidRain, which shares similarities with the malware VPNFilter, was behind the attack on Viasat in February  —  AcidRain is the seventh wiper associated with the Russian invasion of Ukraine  —  Viasat—the high-speed-satellite-broadband …

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: New York-based Black Crow AI, which delivers predictive analytics to e-commerce retailers, raises a $25M Series A led by Imaginary Ventures  —  In the pandemic era, where digital storefronts have become a matter of course for retailers, data analytics is proving its worth.

Russia says its POM-3 landmines use artificial intelligence to distinguish between soldiers and civilians, though arms experts doubt if it really works

A robot made of magnetic slime with a custard-like consistency can navigate narrow passages, grasp objects and fix broken circuits.

Slime that can be controlled by a magnetic field can navigate tight spaces and grasp objects, making it ideal for possible uses inside the body