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Caitlin Harrington / Wired: A look at the Apple Together solidarity movement that emerged from #AppleToo to provide support for Apple employees organizing in retail, AppleCare, and more  —  A solidarity movement called Apple Together has provided tools and support as the company’s retail employees organize.

Michael Schroeder / MedCity News: San Diego-based Turquoise Health, a free search engine that lets patients compare hospital prices for US medical procedures, raises a $20M Series A led by a16z  —  Pulling back the curtain on healthcare pricing is easier said than done, acknowledged Chris Severn, the company’s co-founder and CEO.

Ron Miller / TechCrunch: Komodor, which helps companies troubleshoot issues in Kubernetes installations, raises a $42M Series B led by Tiger Global, bringing its total funding to $67M  —  For a time, Kubernetes, the open source container management platform, was as hot as it comes, but lately it has settled …

Don’t break a sweat trying to beat the heat. We make it easy with these tips on what to wear, how to hydrate, and which cooling gadgets can help.

Arielle Pardes / Wired: Several women who attended Miami’s Bitcoin 2022 conference were harassed and say the conference didn’t enforce its anti-harassment policies  —  For some women, inappropriate conduct from other conference-goers continued to haunt them online.  —  Miami’s annual gathering of Bitcoin zealots began with a bull.

Sean Michael Kerner / VentureBeat: Evisort, which offers an AI-powered contract management software, raises a $100M Series C led by TCV, bringing its total funding to $155.6M  —  For lawyers and the organizations that employ them, time is quite literally money.  The business of contract management software is all about helping …

The audiophile brand has just launched the world’s finest streaming speakers with grin-inducing sound, but are they worth $7,000?

You’ve decided to join the ebiking boom, and so have your kids. Congrats! Here’s the gear and advice you need to ride safely.

Kenrick Cai / Forbes: Material Security, which helps enterprises protect sensitive info stored in email accounts even if they are hacked, raises a $100M Series C at a $1.1B valuation  —  A growing wave of tech layoffs have given rise to remorseful CEOs’ lamentations that they hired too quickly during the pandemic.

New York Times: As the possibility of Roe v. Wade overturn becomes a reality, pro-choice activists and nonprofits are looking at crypto and DAOs to speed up fundraising  —  Activists and nonprofits are considering digital currencies as a way to raise funds.  But can they really do anything other payment methods can’t?

Plus: New details of ICE’s dragnet surveillance in the US, Clearview AI agrees to limit sales of its faceprint database, and more.

Plus: The iPod is dead, iPhones might go USB-C, folding screens get bendier, and a beloved music synthesizer gets an upgrade.

Brewers could create new recipes that produce beers with desired properties using AI, and it will even work if you are missing some ingredients

Joshua Oliver / Financial Times: An interview with Sam Bankman-Fried on crypto hype, blockchain’s potential to build a fairer financial system, bitcoin as an asset, philanthropy, and more  —  When an aide told me that “one of our drivers” would pick me up for my lunch with Sam Bankman-Fried, I imagined a hulking black SUV […]

Peter White / Deadline: Sources: Netflix is exploring live streaming for its unscripted shows and stand-up specials, which would enable live voting for competitions  —  EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is going live for the first time.  —  Deadline understands that the streamer is exploring the launch of live streaming.

Great looks and good sound make this USB microphone a favorite for new and veteran Twitch streamers alike.

Tech can get us down—but it can also empower us to help others. Here’s how to volunteer virtually, share your skills, or simply brighten someone’s day.

Although real-world data is scant, proponents say robotics and AI will soon revolutionize agriculture.

Edward Ongweso Jr / VICE: Q&A with retail traders after Terra’s crash: some lost their life savings, others shared suicidal ideation on forums, some now acknowledge it’s a Ponzi scheme  —  It took less than a week for the third largest stablecoin and its ecosystem to become virtually worthless, wiping out countless traders’ savings.

The Economic Times: Sources: Amazon, Flipkart, and Reliance Retail are in talks to join India’s open e-commerce network, which aims to break the dominance of large e-commerce firms  —  Logistics providers Ekart, Dunzo sign up on network; PhonePe in final stages of integration  —  Bengaluru: Ecommerce majors …

Sam Nussey / Reuters: Tokyo- and Bangkok-based Opn, formerly Synqa, a digital payments and blockchain tech provider, raises a $120M Series C+ at a $1B+ valuation  —  Digital payments processor Opn, formerly known as Synqa, said it had raised $120 million in a Series C+ funding round, becoming a rare unicorn, or startup worth more […]

Jordan Novet / CNBC: Filing: Salesforce sold all its remaining Snowflake shares in Q1 2022; Salesforce bought 2.1M shares for $250M in Snowflake’s IPO in 2020, and sold ~95% in 2021  —  – Salesforce placed a $250 million bet on Snowflake at the time of the software company’s IPO in 2020.

Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: Two groups representing Meta, Google, and others ask SCOTUS to block Texas’ social media law prohibiting content moderation, arguing the law is unconstitutional  —  The emergency application follows a surprise ruling in a lower court Wednesday that allowed the law to take effect

Johnny Depp is suing Amber Heard for defamation. As the trial wears on, mocking her testimony has become the latest disturbing thing to go viral on social media.

You can definitely use the stars as your guide. But let’s check whether a scene from the Disney+ live action series would work in the real world.

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit reinstated a law that says that a user can’t be censored based on their “viewpoint.”

A sweater containing tubes filled with a liquid metal alloy can charge up wearable electronic devices

Brian Heater / TechCrunch: A Q&A with Reggie Fils-Aimé, former Nintendo of America president and COO, on his time at the company, plans for a $200M SPAC, the future of gaming, and more  —  The former Nintendo of America president and COO discusses his journey with the gaming giant

Neither ARIA’s chief executive nor its chair have been appointed yet, though announcements are expected imminently

E. coli bacteria modified to act like electronic components called memristors can be set up to act as a simple neural network and trained to play noughts and crosses

Identify your compelling purpose, ambitious objectives, realistic timeline, and clear deliverables.

A pivotal moment in Polina Anikeeva’s career was when she looked at an MRI scan of Parkinson’s disease patient, about a decade ago. Now professor of materials science and engineering and brain and cognitive sciences at MIT, Anikeeva had recently worked on optoelectronics, devices that can detect and control light, and her work was used […]

A roadmap for leaders in the hybrid era.

New research looks at when it works to bid on ads for a competitor’s keywords — and when it backfires.

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: UK-based Token.io, an open banking-based account-to-account payments service, raises $40M co-led by Cota Capital and TempoCap  —  The rise of digital payments has changed the nature of how people do business with each other; and open banking — a movement in banking where incumbents …

Developers and esports stars are ready for the global stage. Now if only major publishers would let them in.

If you’re using a gas stove, give your kitchen the faster, safer, and more environmentally responsible upgrade.

The Coleman Cascade and 1900 series both feature cast-iron grates that make camp cooking just like home cooking.

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Swiggy plans to acquire Dineout, a dining out table reservations and events service backed by Times Internet, a source says for $200M in an all-equity deal  —  Swiggy has amassed millions of users, helping them order food and grocery online in India.  The seven-year-old firm is now looking to reach those […]

Jane Lanhee Lee / Reuters: Arm reports 2021 revenue rose 35% YoY to $2.7B, driven by licensing, up 61% YoY to $1.13B, and royalties, up 20% YoY to $1.54B; 29.2B ARM chips shipped in 2021  —  SoftBank Group Corp’s(9984.T) chip technology firm Arm Ltd on Thursday reported record revenue for 2021, and Chief Executive …

Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: Qualified, a Salesforce-based service that helps companies convert website visitors into customers, raises a $95M Series C led by Sapphire  —  Qualified, a Salesforce-native platform that helps companies convert website visitors into paying customers, has raised $95 million in a series C round of funding.

Bloomberg: Analysis: Huawei spent $22.1B, or 22.4% of its revenue, on R&D in 2021, seeking to sidestep US sanctions; Meta invested 20.9% into R&D, far above its US peers  —  Few companies devote more of their revenue to research than Huawei Technologies Co., for which developing new technologies …

Matthew Gault / VICE: Emails reveal how some police officers have become superfans of autonomous drone company Skydio and regularly help to sell or promote its products to colleagues  —  A drone company called Skydio has managed to get autonomous drones into dozens of police departments by turning cops into their biggest fans.

Bloomberg: Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal and Chairman Bret Taylor told employees that the company will keep operating as usual; sources: the deal could take up to six months  —  Twitter Inc. Chief Executive Officer Parag Agrawal and Chairman Bret Taylor told employees on Monday that the social network …

Billy Mitchell / FedScoop: The Department of Defense hires Craig Martell, Lyft’s head of machine learning, as the Pentagon’s first chief digital and artificial intelligence officer  —  Craig Martell has left his role as head of machine learning for Silicon Valley rideshare company Lyft to be the Pentagon’s first chief digital …

Kate Conger / New York Times: Twitter employees say they heard little from Elon Musk, CEO Parag Agrawal, management, and Charles Schwab about what a sale to the billionaire means for them  —  Workers say they have been left largely in the dark about what a sale to the billionaire will mean for them and […]

Josh Ye / Reuters: Sources: Tencent-controlled Chinese video game streaming service Huya, which rivals DouYu, will lay off hundreds of staff; Huya had 2,075 employees in 2020  —  Chinese video game streaming site Huya (HUYA.N) has started laying off staff, three sources close to the matter said …

Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: Sources: Netflix staff morale is sagging amid its cratering stock price, subscriber losses, and an engineering restructuring to create levels, such as “junior”  —  As Netflix shares plunge to their lowest point in five years, the company risks losing its most valuable resource: its star employees.

Bloomberg: Source: Twitter could reach a deal with Elon Musk for a takeover as soon as today; Twitter stock jumps 5%+  —  Twitter is in the final stretch of negotiations about a sale to Elon Musk, a person with knowledge of knowledge of the matter said, Bloomberg News reports.

New York Times: Sources: Twitter’s board met Sunday to discuss Elon Musk’s bid, which is being considered more seriously after Musk’s filing detailed $46.5B in financing  —  Twitter’s 11-member board met on Sunday morning to discuss Mr. Musk’s offer to buy the company and take it private.  — Give this article- – – Read in […]