Q&A: Alec MacGillis, author of the book “Fulfillment”, on working conditions in Amazon warehouses, the filming of “Nomadland” inside Amazon warehouses, and more (Hirsh Chitkara/Protocol)
qa alec macgillis fulfillment amazon nomadland “Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America” by Alec MacGillis begins with…
Q&A with Marc Andreessen on his “It’s Time to Build” essay, techno-optimism, Clubhouse and Substack’s potential, “Augmented Intelligence”, crypto, and more (Noah Smith/Noahpinion)
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E-sports collective FaZe Clan denies that it participated in the alleged pump-and-dump of Save the Kids coin, drops and suspends players who promoted the coin (Andrew Hayward/Decrypt)
esports clan kidshaywarddecrypt In short, a prominent esports group called FaZe Clan has penalised gamers who allegedly took…
Mercato, which provides e-commerce tools to small grocers and specialty food stores, raises $26M Series A led by Velvet Sea Ventures (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
26m series velvet sea venturespereztechcrunch The epidemic altered how individuals buy for necessities like groceries and other daily…
Interview with Dom Hofmann on how and why he created Loot, the communities, creativity, and NFT speculation it spawned, and the future of the project (Casey Newton/Platformer)
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GoGuardian, which builds software used in over 10K US schools and by over 22M students, raises $200M from Tiger Global at a $1B+ valuation (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)
10k us 22m 200m tiger 1b bergenbloomberg A second indication of private equity’s wager that the rise in…
GoGuardian, which builds software used in over 10K US schools and by over 22M students, raises $200M from Tiger Global at a $1B+ valuation (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)
10k us 22m 200m tiger 1b bergenbloomberg A second indication of private equity’s wager that the rise in…
Sources: US quietly informed Apple that a Qihoo 360 researcher’s iPhone 0-day that won China’s top hacking contest in 2018 was used by China to spy on Uyghurs (Patrick Howell O’Neill/MIT Technology …)
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A new study that used AI to analyze 2M+ contributions by ~365K developers on GitHub finds users with white-sounding names may have more success on the platform
new 2m 365k githublapowskyprotocol According to a newly released study, software professionals with names that seem white may…
Chinese GPU maker Moore Threads raises a $313M Series A co-led by Source Code Capital, Shanghai Guosheng Group, and Bohai Sheng Industrial Fund Management
Chinese GPU maker Moore Threads raises a $313M Series A co-led by Source Code Capital, Shanghai Guosheng Group,…