The Carcinization of Go Programs
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Embracer is ripping a beloved mobile game away from people who paid for it
Did you ever buy Deus Ex Go, the excellent mobile puzzler from Square Enix Montreal that still ranks among the top 150 puzzle games on the App Store despite charging actual money to download? Then you’ll probably be frustrated to hear: Embracer Group, the massive conglomerate that’s gobbling up rights to franchises like Deus Ex … Read more
‘Personal Fiefdom’: Some Takeaways From FTX’s First Bankruptcy Hearing
Happy Thanksgiving to my fellow Yankees! For the rest of you, I’m counting on you to keep an eye on Twitter in case someone else files for bankruptcy. But today, we’re looking at FTX’s first bankruptcy hearing.
Binance US Steps Into National Politics With New Campaign PAC
As campaign mega-donor Sam Bankman-Fried and his FTX compatriots vanish from U.S. policy circles, their absence left a void in the crypto industry’s political involvement. Part of that may be filled by the U.S. arm of rival Binance.
You and Your Research (1986)
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Ukio, a premium apartment rental platform for Europe’s ‘flexible workforce’, raises $28M
Ukio, a short-term furnished apartment rental platform aimed at the “flexible workforce,” has raised €27 million ($28 million) in a Series A round of funding. The cash injection constitutes €17 million in equity and €10 million in debt, and follows some 14 months after the Spanish company announced a €9 million seed round of funding. … Read more
Making Journals Free
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The Twitter Advertiser Exodus
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Crypto Mining and Staking Firm Foundry Buys Some of Troubled Bitcoin Miner Compute North’s Assets
Foundry will buy two mining facilities and has an option to acquire another site that is under development.
Daily Crunch: No-code fintech services startup Taktile closes $20M Series A round
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Soooo you may have received the, erm, first edition of Daily Crunch yesterday, where we mentioned a certain conference, placing it in the wrong country. Whoops — we updated the headline. Sorry, … Read more
The best Black Friday Google deals you can get
The Pixel 7 (left) and Pixel 7 Pro (right) are some of the many big Google deals going on. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge It’s a good time to be in the market for some new Google hardware. Google recently kicked off its Black Friday sales promotions on its store, and … Read more
Ronna learn some new metric prefixes? They’re quetta upgrade
We may still be a ways from worrying how many yottabytes your computer can hold, but the international standards community has added two new prefixes for even bigger numbers than that — ronna for 1027 and quetta for 1030. At a conference in Paris last week, representatives from numerous governments got together to vote on … Read more
HyperloopTT’s SPAC public debut may be going nowhere fast
Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HyperloopTT) has entered into a definitive merger agreement with special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) Forest Road Acquisition Corp. II, which is led by former Disney executives Tom Staggs and Kevin Mayer. The combined company will list shares at a pre-money valuation of $600 million. In theory, hyperloop technology is a vacuum tube-based … Read more
Market Wrap: FTX Was Sam Bankman-Fried’s ‘Personal Fiefdom,’ Lawyers Said
The CoinDesk Market Index, bitcoin and ether were all in the green. Market Wrap is CoinDesk’s daily newsletter diving into what happened in today’s crypto markets.
Oxygen Not Included
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Crypto Twitter reacts to Binance CEO’s deleted tweet about Coinbase’s Bitcoin Holdings
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong indirectly addressed CZ’s tweets as “FUD.”
WebAssembly back end merged into GHC
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The best Black Friday deals on gaming laptops
The Asus ROG Zephyrus G14. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge You’re not just looking for a workhorse. You want a laptop that’s got game. Maybe that means frame rates, maybe even a high-refresh-rate screen for enhanced responsiveness in less demanding games. But above all, you want bang for the buck. That’s … Read more
Bitpanda secures crypto licence in Germany, claims to be the first “European retail” crypto investment platform to do so
The other licensees included three European institutional investment platforms and one U.S.-based retail platform.
Approving a spot crypto ETF is ‘all about political power’ — Perianne Boring
According to the Chamber of Digital Commerce CEO, passing any kind of legislation — including bills on crypto and blockchain — will be “incredibly difficult” in a divided government.
Shiba Inu developer says WEF wants to work with project to ‘help shape’ metaverse global policy
Shytoshi Kusama reported Shiba Inu could work alongside Facebook and Decentraland by working on metaverse global policy at the World Economic Forum.