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)

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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  —  FaZe Clan, one of the most popular esports organizations competing across multiple games, came under fire lately for allegations …

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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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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  —  Marc Andreessen should need no introduction, but I’ll do one anyway.  He helped code the first widely …

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DailyPay, which provides software that lets workers control when they get paid, raises $175M Series D and $325M in debt funding, source says at a $1B+ valuation (Luisa Beltran/Barron’s Online)

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DailyPay, which provides software that lets workers control when they get paid, raises $175M Series D and $325M in debt funding, source says at a $1B+ valuation  —  DailyPay, a fintech that helps workers access their wages in real time, has raised $500 million in capital.

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Thrive Global, which offers an AI-powered behavior change platform to improve employee well-being, raises $80M Series C led by Kleiner Perkins and Owl Ventures (FinSMEs)

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Thrive Global, which offers an AI-powered behavior change platform to improve employee well-being, raises $80M Series C led by Kleiner Perkins and Owl Ventures  —  Thrive Global, a NYC-based behavior change technology company, raised $80m in Series C funding.

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In macOS 11.4 update Apple has fixed the excessive M1 Mac SSD wear reporting issue noticed in February (William Gallagher/AppleInsider)

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In macOS 11.4 update Apple has fixed the excessive M1 Mac SSD wear reporting issue noticed in February  —  Previous issues surrounding reporting tools reporting heavy wear on SSDs in Apple Silicon Macs now appear to be fixed in macOS 11.4  —  Solid State Drives (SSDs) …

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CA appellate court rules Amazon is responsible for the safety of third-party products it sells, rejecting Amazon’s claim of merely connecting buyers and sellers (David Lazarus/Los Angeles Times)

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CA appellate court rules Amazon is responsible for the safety of third-party products it sells, rejecting Amazon’s claim of merely connecting buyers and sellers  —  Should Amazon, which accounts for roughly half of all online sales, be legally and financially responsible for the safety …

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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)

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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  —  – Over 22 million U.S. school kids use the startup’s software  — Private equity betting edtech surge will stay post-pandemic

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Kyligence, a big data analytics startup founded by the creators of Apache Kylin at eBay in Shanghai, raises $70M Series D, bringing its total raised to $118M (Rick Whiting/CRN)

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Kyligence, a big data analytics startup founded by the creators of Apache Kylin at eBay in Shanghai, raises $70M Series D, bringing its total raised to $118M  —  Kyligence develops an advanced data analytics platform, based on the open-source Apache Kylin analytics engine …

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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 (Issie Lapowsky/Protocol)

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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  —  Software developers with white-sounding names may have more success on GitHub than developers whose names are perceived as Black …

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Helsinki-based Yousician, which claims to have 20M MAUs across its music education app and guitar tuning app, raises $28M Series B led by True Ventures (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)

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Helsinki-based Yousician, which claims to have 20M MAUs across its music education app and guitar tuning app, raises $28M Series B led by True Ventures  —  By his own admission, Chris Thür wasn’t the most obvious person to start a music education startup.

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