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Netflix's iOS app code suggests the company may expand its video game service to TV sets for the first time, using phones as controllers (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
The US Is Sending Money to Countries Devastated by Cyberattacks
Sources: Google Brain and DeepMind have been forced to work together on a project known as Gemini to compete with OpenAI's GPT-4, after Bard's stumble (Jon Victor/The Information)
Lyft might drop shared rides, stay focused on basics under new CEO
Epic Games explains why it still believes in the Metaverse
A Manhunt in India Left 27 Million People Without Mobile Internet
WeMeta: the median price per square meter of land in Decentraland has dropped from ~$45 in 2022 to $5 in 2023, as the hype around the metaverse has receded (Meghan Bobrowsky/Wall Street Journal)
Fortnite now shows how many people are playing Battle Royale — and every other island
iPhone users on Google Fi can finally use 5G
Nvidia RTX 4060 Ti and RTX 4050 launch dates have leaked, but no word about The RTX 4060
Daily Crunch: After raising $3M seed, global fintech platform Payday plans to secure licensing in Canada, UK
Sen. Rand Paul becomes latest lawmaker opposing TikTok ban
Instagram now lets you save posts into collections shared with friends
NASA pushes back Boeing Starliner’s crewed flight test to July
Google launches an Ads Transparency Center, showing all the ads from verified advertisers on its platforms, in the formats, the regions, and the dates they ran (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
Activision's descision to pull out of China stemmed from a comment that was lost in translation
Microsoft’s Surface Hub 2S is finally getting an upgrade
Battery sourcing guidance might slash EV tax credits
How NetEase and Activision's 14-year partnership fell apart, in part due to China's tech crackdown, as filings show the deal was worth ~$750M in annual revenue (New York Times)
That was fast! Microsoft slips ads into AI-powered Bing Chat
EA is laying off 6 percent of its workers
Hampton is tech’s new membership community for chief executive officers
Irrigreen’s precision sprinklers prevent water waste and wet legs
NYC-based LeapXpert, which monitors staff business chats via apps like WhatsApp, WeChat, and iMessage for compliance, raised a $22M Series A+ led by Rockefeller (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
6 VCs explain why embedded insurance isn’t the only hot opportunity in insurtech
EA plans to lay off ~6% of its workforce and cut its office space, incurring $170M to $200M in restructuring charges; EA had nearly 13,000 employees in mid-2022 (Sarah E. Needleman/Wall Street Journal)
Sources: Gemini is preparing to launch an international crypto derivatives exchange to offer perpetual futures, which have been off-limits to US retail traders (The Information)
Adult Swim’s starting an hour earlier as Warner Bros. Discovery makes a play for older viewers
As Microsoft, Meta, Google, Amazon, Twitter, and others cut their responsible AI teams, experts worry about issues like potential abuses and hallucination (Financial Times)
Seattle’s new law gives gig workers paid sick time off
YES Network’s new subscription will let you watch Yankees games without cable
Lenovo launches new Slim Pro and Yoga laptops for creative professionals
Docs: investments in 4chan include $5.6M from owner Hiroyuki Nishimura and his company plus $2.4M from Japanese company Good Smile, which makes toys for Disney (Justin Ling/Wired)
Windows 12 will be a different, modular monster with faster updates, AI integrations, and more
Disney just laid off the guy it bought Marvel from... but that’s probably a good thing
Finally, a Logitech name-brand headset for little school kids
Online used-car marketplace Shift cuts workforce 30% following CarLotz merger
Paris-based Glopal, which helps e-commerce merchants sell to global customers through localization, logistics, and payments services, raised a €20M Series A (Dan Taylor/Tech.eu)
The Last of Us Part 1 for PC crashes and burns out of the gate
Danganronpa’s creator wants to make detective games more approachable
Ramp reports 4x revenue growth, says it still has ‘vast majority’ of equity funding
Europe to cut greenhouse gasses by banning sales of CO2-emitting cars from 2035
Unicorn: Warriors Eternal looks like Genndy Tartakovsky’s most epic series yet
WWDC returns to Apple Park June 5
Apple’s WWDC 2023 kicks off on June 5th
Apple announces WWDC 2023 will be held from June 5 to June 9 as a virtual event, with a keynote event on June 5 (Juli Clover/MacRumors)
UK-based Fetch.ai, which uses blockchain technology and is building tools for communication and actions between AI applications, raised $40M from DWF Labs (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
Forspoken is going full Sailor Moon in new story DLC
Substack takes a different tack to raise more capital
How Wordle lives on at The New York Times
Instagram now lets you bookmark posts with friends and store them in a dedicated space
An Unopened 2007 iPhone Can Be Yours (for $32,000 or More)
As Washington Calls for TikTok Ban, Its Owner Begins Pushing a New App
Alexa can now make and receive calls through T-Mobile
Court records and messages from purported hackers reveal a massive hacking campaign targeting thousands of environmental activists, dating back at least to 2017 (Christopher M. Matthews/Wall Street ...)
Watches & Wonders 2023: Rolex Has an Emoji Watch
Researchers find a flaw in WiFi protocol IEEE 802.11 that could be exploited to inject malicious content into TCP packets and more; many routers are affected (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)
Startup founders are trying to automate the worst part of the job: fundraising
Google’s Ads Transparency hub finally lets you see more about who is behind an ad
Twitter replies make sense again — on the web, at least
Orb, which helps B2B companies price their products, raises $19.1M
Why startups should care about geopolitical repercussions of US climate law
Get on the Zelda hype train while there’s still time — Breath of the Wild is $20 off
The N64 controller for Switch is back in stock at the Nintendo store