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A profile of Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, an early Coinbase and Ethereum investor who owns 700+ NFTs and raised $500M in February 2022 for crypto startups (Michael del Castillo/Forbes) 22-02-2023

Michael del Castillo / Forbes: A profile of Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, an early Coinbase and Ethereum investor who owns 700+ NFTs and raised $500M in February 2022 for crypto startups  —  Alexis Ohanian’s ancestors perished during the Armenian genocide and had their assets seized. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Securities lawyers say the SEC is unlikely to win a lawsuit over stablecoins, such as Paxos' BUSD, since owners do not expect profits, a part of the Howey test (Dave Michaels/Wall Street Journal) 22-02-2023

Dave Michaels / Wall Street Journal: Securities lawyers say the SEC is unlikely to win a lawsuit over stablecoins, such as Paxos’ BUSD, since owners do not expect profits, a part of the Howey test  —  Agency investigates whether the cryptocurrencies’ issuance violated investor-protection laws  —  Washington’s battle to rein in crypto has a new front: stablecoins. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Finch, whose APIs help companies connect to HR apps and services, raised a $40M Series B led by General Catalyst and Menlo, taking its total funding to $68M+ (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch) 22-02-2023

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Finch, whose APIs help companies connect to HR apps and services, raised a $40M Series B led by General Catalyst and Menlo, taking its total funding to $68M+  —  Finch, a platform that helps companies connect to various HR apps, services and systems, today announced that it raised $40 million … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Turkey's telecom watchdog BTK blocks Eksi Sozluk, one of the country's biggest social media websites, after blocking Twitter following the recent earthquakes (Bloomberg) 22-02-2023

Bloomberg: Turkey’s telecom watchdog BTK blocks Eksi Sozluk, one of the country’s biggest social media websites, after blocking Twitter following the recent earthquakes  —  Turkey’s media watchdog fined three TV channels over their coverage of this month’s earthquakes, the latest move by the state to influence the narrative around the disaster. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Google claims a breakthrough in correcting errors inherent to quantum computers, related to how qubits retain information, by spreading the data across qubits (Richard Waters/Financial Times) 22-02-2023

Richard Waters / Financial Times: Google claims a breakthrough in correcting errors inherent to quantum computers, related to how qubits retain information, by spreading the data across qubits  —  Company’s latest research could signal a step towards overcoming one hurdle to the technology  —  Google has claimed a breakthrough … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Frustrated by failures on Capitol Hill, tech privacy advocates are turning to legislation at state level to bolster online privacy, including in Illinois and NY (Alfred Ng/Politico) 22-02-2023

Alfred Ng / Politico: Frustrated by failures on Capitol Hill, tech privacy advocates are turning to legislation at state level to bolster online privacy, including in Illinois and NY  —  Tech privacy advocates frustrated by failures on Capitol Hill are looking to mine state capitals for legislative victories. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Two years after announcing its HiFi lossless music service, Spotify has yet to launch the new tier, offering no new information and falling behind rivals (Chris Welch/The Verge) 22-02-2023

Chris Welch / The Verge: Two years after announcing its HiFi lossless music service, Spotify has yet to launch the new tier, offering no new information and falling behind rivals  —  At this point, it’s fair to assume that something went wrong with Spotify HiFi.  Two years ago today, during the company’s Stream On event … Lees verder op Tech Meme

A live blog of oral arguments before SCOTUS in Twitter v. Taamneh, brought by the family of a victim of an ISIS attack in Istanbul in 2017 (CNN) 22-02-2023

CNN: A live blog of oral arguments before SCOTUS in Twitter v. Taamneh, brought by the family of a victim of an ISIS attack in Istanbul in 2017  —  What we’re covering  —  Justice Gorsuch is still under the weather  —  Justice Neil Gorsuch remains ill and will be absent from the courtroom … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Source: Meta plans more layoffs, possibly in the thousands, including by flattening the company's hierarchy and via more traditional cuts to projects and jobs (Naomi Nix/Washington Post) 22-02-2023

Naomi Nix / Washington Post: Source: Meta plans more layoffs, possibly in the thousands, including by flattening the company’s hierarchy and via more traditional cuts to projects and jobs  —  The Facebook parent company plans to push some leaders into lower-level roles, flattening layers of management at the social media giant Lees verder op Tech Meme

A look at Amazon India's miniTV, a free, ad-supported streaming service in its shopping app, aimed at those between 18 and 25 who can not afford a subscription (Nilesh Christopher/Rest of World) 22-02-2023

Nilesh Christopher / Rest of World: A look at Amazon India’s miniTV, a free, ad-supported streaming service in its shopping app, aimed at those between 18 and 25 who can not afford a subscription  —  If the e-commerce giant cracks the ad-free, shop-as-you-watch code in the country, nothing stops it from rolling miniTV out internationally. Lees verder op Tech Meme