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Startups like Royal, which helps musicians create and sell NFTs, could potentially upend predatory record deals and further shift power to artists and fans (Casey Newton/Platformer)

Startups like Royal, which helps musicians create and sell...

Casey Newton / Platformer:Startups like Royal, which helps musicians create and...

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Samsung says it will build a ~$17B, 1,200+ acre chip factory in Taylor, Texas, operational in H2 2024 and roughly 30 miles away from its Austin facility (The Verge)

Samsung says it will build a ~$17B, 1,200+ acre chip factory...

The Verge:Samsung says it will build a ~$17B, 1,200+ acre chip factory in Taylor,...

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Sources: Apple taps TSMC to mass produce 4nm 5G modem chips for the iPhone in 2023, in an effort to reduce its reliance on Qualcomm (Nikkei Asia)

Sources: Apple taps TSMC to mass produce 4nm 5G modem chips...

Nikkei Asia:Sources: Apple taps TSMC to mass produce 4nm 5G modem chips for the...

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Luma Health, which helps health care providers centralize and automate scheduling and communication with patients, raises a $130M Series C led by FTV Capital (Rebecca Torrence/FierceHealthcare)

Luma Health, which helps health care providers centralize...

Rebecca Torrence / FierceHealthcare:Luma Health, which helps health care providers...

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Decentraland says it sold a virtual real estate plot for $2.4M in crypto to Tokens.com subsidiary Metaverse Group, claiming it to be its largest transaction (Elizabeth Howcroft/Reuters)

Decentraland says it sold a virtual real estate plot for...

Elizabeth Howcroft / Reuters:Decentraland says it sold a virtual real estate plot...

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Resilience, a cyber insurer that also offers policyholders services for defending against ransomware, raises a $80M Series C from General Catalyst and others (Kyle Alspach/VentureBeat)

Resilience, a cyber insurer that also offers policyholders...

Kyle Alspach / VentureBeat:Resilience, a cyber insurer that also offers policyholders...

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Indian government submits a bill to ban most cryptocurrencies and aims to create a framework that would facilitate the creation of a CBDC (CoinDesk)

Indian government submits a bill to ban most cryptocurrencies...

CoinDesk:Indian government submits a bill to ban most cryptocurrencies and aims...

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Dell beats estimates with Q3 revenue of $28.4B, up 21% YoY, with revenue from PCs rising 35% YoY to $16.5B, and net income of $3.89B, up 341% YoY (Bloomberg)

Dell beats estimates with Q3 revenue of $28.4B, up 21%...

Bloomberg:Dell beats estimates with Q3 revenue of $28.4B, up 21% YoY, with revenue...

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Conduktor, which provides an all-in-one GUI that simplifies working with Apache Kafka clusters, services, and applications, raises a $20M Series A led by Accel (Paul Sawers/VentureBeat)

Conduktor, which provides an all-in-one GUI that simplifies...

Paul Sawers / VentureBeat:Conduktor, which provides an all-in-one GUI that simplifies...

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CoreStack, which offers companies AI-powered cloud governance software, raises a $30M Series B led by Avatar Growth Capital, bringing its total funding to $45M (Taylor Soper/GeekWire)

CoreStack, which offers companies AI-powered cloud governance...

Taylor Soper / GeekWire:CoreStack, which offers companies AI-powered cloud governance...

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A look at the case of former Facebook engineer Behdad Esfahbod, who was detained in Iran in 2020, the company's response, lessons for Facebook, and more (Slate)

A look at the case of former Facebook engineer Behdad Esfahbod,...

Slate:A look at the case of former Facebook engineer Behdad Esfahbod, who was detained...

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NY city council passed a bill that bans employers from using AI hiring tools unless a yearly bias audit shows they won't discriminate based on race or gender (Matt O'Brien/Associated Press)

NY city council passed a bill that bans employers from...

Matt O'Brien / Associated Press:NY city council passed a bill that bans employers...

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Investigation shows how Facebook and Google fund misinformation globally by paying millions of dollars in ad revenue to the operators of clickbait pages (Karen Hao/MIT Technology Review)

Investigation shows how Facebook and Google fund misinformation...

Karen Hao / MIT Technology Review:Investigation shows how Facebook and Google fund...

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Sao Paulo-based social commerce marketplace Facily raises a $250M Series D at an $850M valuation, bringing its total funding to $366M (Mary Ann Azevedo/TechCrunch)

Sao Paulo-based social commerce marketplace Facily raises...

Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch:Sao Paulo-based social commerce marketplace Facily...

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France-based Owkin, which helps medical researchers build and train AI models, raises $180M from pharmaceuticals company Sanofi (Conor Hale/FierceBiotech)

France-based Owkin, which helps medical researchers build...

Conor Hale / FierceBiotech:France-based Owkin, which helps medical researchers build...

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A voter turnout group says Facebook served 36.8% of their conversion ads to iOS users after Apple's ATT change, down from 63.6% (Issie Lapowsky/Protocol)

A voter turnout group says Facebook served 36.8% of their...

Issie Lapowsky / Protocol:A voter turnout group says Facebook served 36.8% of their...