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A Russian missile attack on Kyiv injures more than 50 people as Ukraine pleads for more Western help
Ukraine’s capital came under another ballistic missile attack early Wednesday, injuring at least 53 people on the ground, including six…
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How Street Sense, The Salvation Army, and Samaritan are using tech to help the unhoused, as people shift to cashless payment apps and don't carry spare change (Ashraf Khalil/Associated Press)
Ashraf Khalil / Associated Press: How Street Sense, The Salvation Army, and Samaritan are using tech to help the unhoused,…
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Three ex-employees say SoundHound laid off ~200 people, or ~50% of staff, with two weeks of severance that will only be paid if the company can raise more money (Mack DeGeurin/Gizmodo)
Mack DeGeurin / Gizmodo: Three ex-employees say SoundHound laid off ~200 people, or ~50% of staff, with two weeks of…
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Sources: Tokyo-headquartered aggregator SmartNews, valued at $2B as of 2021, lays off ~120 people, or 40% of US and China staff, with more cuts to come in Japan (TechCrunch)
TechCrunch: Sources: Tokyo-headquartered aggregator SmartNews, valued at $2B as of 2021, lays off ~120 people, or 40% of US and…
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A profile of Character.AI, founded by two former Google researchers to offer "plausible conversation" with famous people, like William Shakespeare and Elon Musk (Cade Metz/New York Times)
Cade Metz / New York Times: A profile of Character.AI, founded by two former Google researchers to offer “plausible conversation”…
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Filing: lawyers for Sam Bankman-Fried ask a judge to redact the names of the two people who intend to sign on as sureties to his bail, citing media scrutiny (Chris Dolmetsch/Bloomberg)
Chris Dolmetsch / Bloomberg: Filing: lawyers for Sam Bankman-Fried ask a judge to redact the names of the two people…
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Memo: Shopify cancels all recurring meetings with over two people "in perpetuity" and encourages staff to decline invitations, leave big group chats, and more (Matthew Boyle/Bloomberg)
Matthew Boyle / Bloomberg: Memo: Shopify cancels all recurring meetings with over two people “in perpetuity” and encourages staff to…
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An obituary of Dark Sky, which changed how people consume weather forecasts but is disparaged by scientists, as Apple shuts the iOS app down on January 1 (Russell Jacobs/Slate)
Russell Jacobs / Slate: An obituary of Dark Sky, which changed how people consume weather forecasts but is disparaged by…
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German researchers bought a US military device, last used in Afghanistan in 2012, with fingerprints, iris scans, and other data on 2,632 people, for $68 on eBay (New York Times)
New York Times: German researchers bought a US military device, last used in Afghanistan in 2012, with fingerprints, iris scans,…
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