Tech Meme

Brandy Betz / CoinDesk: Austin-based Unchained Capital, which offers bitcoin financial services including trading and cold storage, raised a $60M Series B led by Valor Equity Partners  —  The Series B funding comes about five months after the company cut 15% of its staff amid the pressures of the prolonged crypto bear market. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Chris Welch / The Verge: Sonos launches Sonos Pro, a service that lets businesses play music across numerous locations without breaking licensing rules, for $35 per month per location  —  Maybe the long-rumored Sonos headphones aren’t coming this year after all.  A few months ago, CEO Patrick Spence announced … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Anissa Gardizy / The Information: Sources: Microsoft has been developing an AI chip internally codenamed Athena since as early as 2019; some Microsoft and OpenAI staff are already testing Athena  —  After placing an early bet on OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, Microsoft has another secret weapon in its arsenal … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alex Heath / The Verge: Q&A with Bluesky CEO Jay Graber about the app’s AT Protocol, content moderation, and more; Graber says the federated social network has let in ~20K users so far  —  As Elon Musk continues wielding Twitter like a blunt weapon against competitors like Substack, the downsides … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Chinese government data: chip output fell nearly 15% YoY in Q1 2023; smartphone production fell 13.8% YoY, as local brands like Oppo, Vivo, and Xiaomi struggled  —  China’s production of key electronics declined so far this year despite a bullish rebound in the overall economy, showing the unevenness of the country’s recovery. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Indian customers have yet to fully benefit from Apple’s India initiatives due to services like Apple Pay being unavailable and prohibitively expensive products  —  The reality is that millions of Indian consumers continue to purchase Apple products despite feeling like second-tier customers. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Rosie Perper / CoinDesk: Nike plans to release its first virtual sneaker collection, Our Force 1, a play on the iconic Air Force 1 design, on the company’s NFT trading platform .Swoosh  —  The virtual sneaker, called Our Force 1, is a play on the brand’s iconic Air Force 1 design.  —  Featured SpeakerYat Siu Featured SpeakerYat Siu Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ed Caesar / New Yorker: How European police agencies infiltrated encrypted phone networks, like EncroChat and Sky ECC, that were popular with drug syndicates and other criminal groups  —  Drug syndicates and other criminal groups bought into the idea that a new kind of phone network couldn’t be infiltrated by cops. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Mark Zuckerberg announces Instagram will now allow up to five links in account bios, challenging Linktree, Beacons, and numerous other “link in bio” services  —  Instagram today is rolling out a new feature for adding links to user profiles that challenges Linktree … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: Sources: Chinese regulators are expected to lower their Ant Group fine from the $1B+ initially planned to ~$728M and downgrade their charges against the company  —  Chinese regulators are expected to fine Ant Group about a quarter less than the more than $1 billion initially planned and downgrade … Lees verder op Tech Meme