June 5, 20210CommentsFacebook buys Unit 2 Games, a studio behind Roblox-like Crayta game platform, says it will integrate Crayta’s toolset into Facebook Gaming’s cloud platform (Lucas Matney/TechCrunch)
June 5, 20210CommentsSquare partners with Blockstream, says it will invest $5M to build a solar-powered Bitcoin mining facility at a Blockstream Mining site in the US (Elizabeth Rembert/Bloomberg)
June 5, 20210CommentsAs Nigerian ISPs comply with government’s Twitter ban blocking the service, the country’s AG threatens prosecution of those trying to circumvent the ban (Dennis Erezi/The Guardian Nigeria News)
June 5, 20210CommentsSources: Apple to announce better multitasking and widget placement for iPadOS, status-based notification alerts, an improved Messages app, and more at WWDC (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
June 5, 20210CommentsFinance ministers of G7 countries, the US, UK, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, and Japan, agree to back a new global minimum corporate tax rate of at least 15% (Matthew Karnitschnig/Politico)
June 5, 20210CommentsSurvey of ~400 open-source code maintainers reveals poor pay, with 46% saying they go unpaid and, of those who were paid, only 26% say they earn $1K+ annually (Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols/ZDNet)
June 5, 20210CommentsSeveral companies and clinicians are using VR therapy, which has shown success in treating PTSD, to treat other disorders like social anxiety and phobias (Dani Blum/New York Times)
June 5, 20210CommentsAnalysis: Palantir’s Alexander Karp got compensation worth $1.1B last year and DoorDash’s Tony Xu got $400M, both among the biggest CEO pay packages since 2007 (Theo Francis/Wall Street Journal)
