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Executives at Disney, Qualcomm, Coinbase, and other companies tried to weave their unrelated businesses into the metaverse discussion on their Q3 earnings calls (Alex Sherman/CNBC)

Executives at Disney, Qualcomm, Coinbase, and other companies...

Alex Sherman / CNBC:Executives at Disney, Qualcomm, Coinbase, and other companies...

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Kettle, a reinsurance startup that uses ML modeling on weather, satellite imagery, and other datasets to predict climate change risks, raises a $25M Series A (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Kettle, a reinsurance startup that uses ML modeling on...

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:Kettle, a reinsurance startup that uses ML modeling on...

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Twitter's AI ethics researchers on getting public feedback about algorithmic bias, why responsible AI is hard, why they think algorithms can be saved, and more (Casey Newton/Platformer)

Twitter's AI ethics researchers on getting public feedback...

Casey Newton / Platformer:Twitter's AI ethics researchers on getting public feedback...

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Ultraleap, which develops ultrasound-based hand tracking tech and touchless interfaces for VR/XR headsets, raises an $82M Series D from Tencent and others (Mike Butcher/TechCrunch)

Ultraleap, which develops ultrasound-based hand tracking...

Mike Butcher / TechCrunch:Ultraleap, which develops ultrasound-based hand tracking...

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Japan-based VR startup Hikky raises a $57M Series A led by NTT Docomo to expand its web-based virtual events platform Vket Cloud (Ben Lang/Road to VR)

Japan-based VR startup Hikky raises a $57M Series A led...

Ben Lang / Road to VR:Japan-based VR startup Hikky raises a $57M Series A led by...

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Extended threat detection and response startup Stellar Cyber raises a $38M Series B led by Highland Capital Partners with Samsung and others participating (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)

Extended threat detection and response startup Stellar...

Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE:Extended threat detection and response startup Stellar...

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Brazil-based global payments network CloudWalk raises a $150M Series C led by Coatue at a $2.15B valuation, bringing its total funding to $365M (Niket Nishant/Reuters)

Brazil-based global payments network CloudWalk raises a...

Niket Nishant / Reuters:Brazil-based global payments network CloudWalk raises a...

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El Salvador plans to build a "Bitcoin City" initially funded by a $1B "bitcoin bond", with $500M to build mining infrastructure and $500M to buy more bitcoin (Andrés Engler/CoinDesk)

El Salvador plans to build a "Bitcoin City" initially funded...

Andrés Engler / CoinDesk:El Salvador plans to build a “Bitcoin City” initially funded...

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SVT Robotics, which develops software for simplifying robot deployment at warehouses and factories, raises a $25M Series A led by Tiger Global (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

SVT Robotics, which develops software for simplifying robot...

Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat:SVT Robotics, which develops software for simplifying...

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Inside "Bitcoin Week", a series of events in El Salvador that let industry experts and crypto proponents celebrate their bitcoin allegiance (Michael D McDonald/Bloomberg)

Inside "Bitcoin Week", a series of events in El Salvador...

Michael D McDonald / Bloomberg:Inside “Bitcoin Week”, a series of events in El Salvador...

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Marketing management software startup Braze jumps 44% in its Nasdaq debut, after raising $520M in its IPO, at an $8.4B valuation (Katie Roof/Bloomberg)

Marketing management software startup Braze jumps 44% in...

Katie Roof / Bloomberg:Marketing management software startup Braze jumps 44% in...

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Nvidia beats with record Q3 revenue of $7.1B vs. $6.82B estimated, up 50% YoY, Gaming revenue of $3.22B, up 42%, and Data Center revenue of $2.94B, up 55% (Daniel Howley/Yahoo Finance)

Nvidia beats with record Q3 revenue of $7.1B vs. $6.82B...

Daniel Howley / Yahoo Finance:Nvidia beats with record Q3 revenue of $7.1B vs. $6.82B...

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Cher Scarlett, a leader of #AppleToo, is leaving Apple and will withdraw her NLRB complaint after reaching a settlement (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Cher Scarlett, a leader of #AppleToo, is leaving Apple...

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:Cher Scarlett, a leader of #AppleToo, is leaving Apple and...

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Apple releases iOS 15.1.1 to solve an issue with dropped calls on iPhone 12 and 13 models (Mitchell Clark/The Verge)

Apple releases iOS 15.1.1 to solve an issue with dropped...

Mitchell Clark / The Verge:Apple releases iOS 15.1.1 to solve an issue with dropped...

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Airwallex, a payments platform for international purchases, raises $100M led by Lone Pine Capital at a $5.5B valuation, adding to its September $200M Series E (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Airwallex, a payments platform for international purchases,...

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:Airwallex, a payments platform for international purchases,...

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AllTrails, an app with 40M+ downloads and 1M+ paid subscribers that provides resources for hikers, bikers, and climbers, raises $150M from Permira (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

AllTrails, an app with 40M+ downloads and 1M+ paid subscribers...

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:AllTrails, an app with 40M+ downloads and 1M+ paid subscribers...