Tech Meme

Victoria Song / The Verge: Dyson Zone review: excellent noise cancelation, monitors air quality, and makes users look like Bane, but it’s $949, heavy, and air filtering kills the battery  —  The Dyson Zone is not the most practical device, but then again, did you really expect that from air-purifying noise-canceling headphones? Lees verder op Tech Meme

Russell Brandom / Rest of World: Since Elon Musk’s takeover, Twitter has received 971 government orders globally and has fully complied with 808, an 83% compliance rate, vs. ~50% before Musk  —  The company has not refused a single request since Musk took ownership, according to self-reported data Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Dropbox plans to lay off 16% of its staff, or ~500 employees; CEO Drew Houston blames slowing growth and because “the AI era of computing has finally arrived”  —  Cloud storage giant Dropbox today joined the fray of tech companies announcing layoffs. Lees verder op Tech Meme

The Guardian: Interviews with 70+ sources describe how Facebook and Instagram have become major child trafficking platforms and how they slow down prosecutors’ investigations  —  Our two-year investigation suggests that the tech giant Meta is struggling to prevent criminals from using its platforms to buy and sell children for sex Lees verder op Tech Meme

CNBC: Coinbase offers a fiery response to SEC’s March notice, saying enforcement action against the exchange would present “major” risks to SEC’s regulatory model  —  – Crypto exchange Coinbase told the SEC that any enforcement action against the exchange would “fail on the merits” … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: YouTube Music adds podcasts in the US on Android, iOS, and the web, available to all users regardless of whether they have a YouTube Premium subscription  —  YouTube Music is officially adding podcasts to its platform in the United States on Android, iOS and the web. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Sources: Germany is in talks to limit exports of chemicals used to make advanced chips to China, seeking to work with the US and Europe to close ranks on China  —  Germany is in talks to limit the export of chemicals to China that are used to manufacture semiconductors as Berlin steps … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: Stock exchange operator Deutsche Boerse offers to buy Danish investment management software company SimCorp for €3.9B in cash; SimCorp had €561M in 2022 revenue  —  Stock exchange operator Deutsche Boerse (DB1Gn.DE) on Thursday announced a 3.9 billion euro ($4.31 billion) … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: London-based TympaHealth, which develops handheld hardware built around smartphones to conduct hearing tests, raised a $23M Series A led by Octopus Ventures  —  The basic principle of Moore’s law — computing becoming more powerful yet more compact — is playing out in a number of fields … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: Stock exchange operator Deutsche Boerse offers to buy Danish investment management software company SimCorp for €3.9B in cash; SimCorp had €561M in 2022 revenue  —  Stock exchange operator Deutsche Boerse (DB1Gn.DE) on Thursday announced a 3.9 billion euro ($4.31 billion) … Lees verder op Tech Meme