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YouTube’s ‘dislike’ and ‘not interested’ buttons barely work, study finds
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Even when users tell YouTube they aren’t interested in certain types of videos, similar recommendations keep coming, a new study by Mozilla found. Using video recommendations data from more than 20,000 YouTube users, Mozilla researchers found that buttons like “not interested,” “dislike,” “stop recommending channel,” and “remove from … Read more
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Apple is raising prices on App Store across multiple countries in Asia and Europe
Apple announced major price hikes for in-app purchases on App Store in multiple countries across Asia and Europe from October 5. The company said new prices will affect consumers in Chile, Egypt, Japan, Malaysia, Pakistan, Poland, South Korea, Sweden, Vietnam, and all territories that use Euro. While the firm didn’t specify the reason behind this, … Read more
Nigeria’s YC-backed Remedial Health raises $4.4M seed funding
Early this year, Nigerian health-tech startup Remedial Health announced plans to scale within the West African country digitizing pharmacies and bringing efficiency in the pharmaceutical supply chain after raising seed funding. The YC-backed startup has since February grown its reach from six to 16 states within the populous nation, and plans to cover the remaining … Read more
DeFi platform sees strong interest in halal-approved crypto products
Navigating crypto is made more difficult for those with religious considerations and the founder of an Islamic law compliant DeFi platform has thousands of users seeking approved cryptocurrencies.
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin shares vision for layer 3 protocols
While layer-2 protocols have been focused on “scalability,” layer-3 protocols would serve a much different purpose, says Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin.
Nifty News: The Sandbox hosts its first wedding, Hollywood actor auctions photo of eye as NFT and more
Palm Beach gets its own NFT restaurant offering a range of benefits for members, while the PGA partners with Tom Brady-backed NFT platform Autograph.
‘FED sledgehammer’ will further batter BTC, ETH prices, says Bloomberg analyst
With the Merge resulting in a ‘buy the rumor, sell the news event,’ Mike McGlone thinks that ETH might drop to “$1,000, or even get a bit lower” given how hawkish the Fed has been.
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Voyager Seeks to ‘Unwind’ Alameda Loan
Alameda owes Voyager approximately $200 million in an outstanding crypto loan, from a line of credit that was worth $377 million before the market downturn.
Yield Guild Games: Web3 gaming adoption needs a local touch
YGG’s head of ecosystem development described subDAOs as “sort of its own economy, that has its own treasury and its own token” with its own characteristics depending on the country it’s located in.
SEC lawsuit claims jurisdiction as ETH nodes are ‘clustered’ in the US
The SEC argues that as ETH validators are concentrated more densely in the United States, ETH transactions are seen as taking place in the country.
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Meta alumni’s startup TrueFoundry raises $2.3 million to accelerate ML deployments
A group of former Meta engineers is building a platform to help enterprises deploy machine learning models at the speed of big tech companies. Their startup, TrueFoundry, has raised $2.3 million in a funding round. The San Francisco, California-headquartered startup automates repetitive tasks in the machine learning pipeline to allow data scientists and engineers to … Read more
Zopper raises $75 million to solve India’s insurance problem
For more than half a decade, Zopper built a platform for small and medium-sized businesses, helping merchants with invoicing and payments through its point-of-sale platform. It sold that IP to PhonePe in mid-2018, but instead of joining the fintech giant, Zopper has been working on a new venture from scratch and independent of PhonePe. That … Read more