Digg, rebooted under original co-founder Kevin Rose and Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, launches its public beta, after being open to 67K invite-only users
The reboot of the early-internet online community Digg, a one-time rival to Reddit, is moving forward.
Digg, rebooted under original co-founder Kevin Rose and Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, launches its public beta, after being open to 67K invite-only users
The reboot of the early-internet online community Digg, a one-time rival to Reddit, is moving forward.
Digg, rebooted under original founder Kevin Rose and Alexis Ohanian, launches its open beta; the site had been open to 67,000 users on an invite-only basis
The reboot of the early-internet online community Digg, a one-time rival to Reddit, is moving forward.
Mozilla plans to shut down Pocket, the read-it-later service it acquired in 2017, on July 8, and Fakespot, which helps identify unreliable reviews, on July 1
Download Your Saved Articles Before They Disappear Amar Ćemanović / CyberInsider : Mozilla to Shut Down Pocket Service in July, to Allow Exports Until October Samantha Cole / 404 M...
Google says it made a major quantum error correction breakthrough, unveils its Willow quantum chip with 105 improved qubits, and shares benchmarks and a roadmap
Is Bitcoin's security at risk? Matt Swayne / The Quantum Insider : Willow Wows Elon Musk in X Exchange With Sundar Pichai Mudit Dube / NewsBytes : Google makes quantum computing br...
Yuga Labs acquires Kevin Rose's NFT startup Proof, and plans to fold Proof's NFT project Moonbirds into its gamefied, metaverse project Otherside
RT Watson / The Block :
SVB draws support from 300+ VC firms, including General Catalyst, while 1,200+ founders and CEOs sign a Y Combinator petition asking the US Congress to act
More than 100 venture capital and investing firms have signed a statement supporting Silicon Valley Bank, part of mounting industry calls …
Sources: Twitter could make Twitter Blue a $20/month subscription that verifies users; staff have until November 7 to build the feature or face being fired
Now that he owns Twitter, Elon Musk has given employees their first ultimatum: Meet his deadline to introduce paid verification on Twitter or pack up and leave.
VeeFriends, Gary Vaynerchuk's NFT project that has amassed ~200K ETH in sales to provide online and in-person community events, raised a $50M seed led by a16z
@chrislyons :
Moonbirds, an NFT collection of digital owls by Kevin Rose's Proof Collective, a group of 1K NFT collectors whose membership costs ~$285K, made $281M+ in sales
Taylor Locke / Fortune :
Yuga Labs, the creator of Bored Ape Yacht Club, acquires NFT collections CryptoPunks and Meebits from Larva Labs, along with 400+ CryptoPunks and 1.7K+ Meebits
Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge : Source: Yuga Labs .
Crypto derivatives exchange FTX raises $900M from SoftBank, Sequoia, and others, valuing it at $18B; CryptoCompare: FTX handles $10B+/day in trades on average
Capital Raise Pushes Exchange Valuation to $18 Billion Michelle Lim / Forkast : FTX crypto derivatives exchange closes record $900M Series B with $18B valuation Tweets: SBF / @sbf_...
Zappos co-founder Tony Hsieh, who stepped down as CEO earlier this year, has died at age 46, reportedly from injuries sustained in a house fire in Connecticut
Tony Hsieh, the brilliant and big-hearted Zappos.com luminary who revolutionized the shoe business and built one of the most innovative companies in modern history, has died.
Zappos co-founder Tony Hsieh, who stepped down as CEO earlier this year, has died at age 46, reportedly from injuries sustained in a house fire in Connecticut
Tony Hsieh, the brilliant and big-hearted Zappos.com luminary who revolutionized the shoe business and built one of the most innovative companies in modern history, has died.
Basecamp debuts Hey, an email service for $99/year that tries to reimagine email, blocks tracking pixels, but needs its own client and can't import old email
David Heinemeier Hansson, the co-founder and CTO of Basecamp, is trying very hard to not say “I told you so.”
Epic Games unveils the Unreal Engine 5, coming in 2021, with a PlayStation 5 demo and says the Epic Online Services tools are available today
Hello, and welcome to The Edge, the newsletter … Marshall Honorof / Tom's Guide : PS5 already beats gaming PCs with this key feature Kelly Earley / Silicon Republic : Latest update...
Google Smart Lock on iOS now leverages Secure Enclave to enable the iPhone's use as a physical 2FA key to sign in to Google apps via Chrome on nearby devices
here's how it works Buster Hein / Cult of Mac : Google now lets you use iPhone as a physical security key Asif Shaik / iPhone Hacks : You Can Now Use Your iPhone As Google Security...
Twitter says a “conversation participants” compose screen tool is coming in 2020, letting users limit who can reply, and conversation threading will improve
although, isn't that the point of private accounts? For political/public figure persons, entities, networks, or corporations it's certainly the wrong way forward. https://twitter.c...