June 13, 20210CommentsAfter El Salvador’s president, many Latin American politicians are expressing interest in adopting cryptocurrencies, as a PR exercise to elevate their profiles (Alex González Ormerod/Rest of World)
June 13, 20210CommentsCB Insights: VCs invested $1.5B into mental health startups in 2020, a record high that is 5.5 times the funding invested in this space in 2016 (Katie Jennings/Forbes)
June 13, 20210CommentsA new generation of young workers at China’s technology giants is demanding an end to forced rankings, harsh working conditions, and the “996” work culture (Yuan Yang/Financial Times)
June 13, 20210CommentsAs carmakers integrate 100-150+ chip-based electronic control units in each car, a look at the challenges of an auto industry that is more dependent on software (Robert N. Charette/IEEE Spectrum)
June 13, 20210CommentsTaproot, a significant Bitcoin upgrade promising better transaction privacy and smart contracts, got approved by miners globally, due to take effect in November (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
June 13, 20210CommentsQ&A with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about its Omniverse, dubbed a “metaverse for engineers”, discouraging miners from buying its GPUs, chip shortages, and more (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)
June 13, 20210CommentsMany Latin American Facebook users are self-compromising their accounts to fuel fake engagement through “autoliker” websites and unwittingly joining bot farms (Sophie Zhang/Rest of World)
June 12, 20210CommentsInterview with two Apple executives about changes to multitasking in iPadOS 15, SharePlay, Universal Control, Quick Note, and more (Matthew Panzarino/TechCrunch)
June 12, 20210CommentsChina pushes to subject data-related activities to government oversight, as it worries tech giants could use collected data to build alternative power centers (Lingling Wei/Wall Street Journal)
June 12, 20210CommentsA look at the rise of BitClout, a burgeoning crypto service monetizing social influence, valued at more than $1B in April, but operating in a legal gray zone (Caroline Lester/New Yorker)
June 12, 20210CommentsThai SEC orders exchanges to delist NFTs and meme coins, defined as those with “no objective or underlying value” whose price relies on social media trends (Robert Stevens/Decrypt)
