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Despite crypto ban, China's tech talent rides the global web3 wave
Despite China's sweeping bans on cryptocurrencies, domestic web3 talent is quietly flourishing, with many venturing beyond the country's border. What China doesn't want are cryptocurrencies' crashing prices that have roiled the market in recent months.
- Engadget
British army Twitter and YouTube accounts compromised to promote crypto scams
The British army is investigating an apparent hack after its official Twitter and YouTube accounts were compromised on Sunday.
- Engadget
Apple Watch Series 8 may be able to detect if you have a fever
The next Apple Watch will reportedly include a body temperature sensor that will warn you when you’re coming down with a fever.
- Engadget
Meta’s Novi cryptocurrency wallet is shutting down
Meta is shutting down Novi, its short-lived cryptocurrency digital wallet.
- Engadget
Twitch's latest test lets you preview channels without watching ads
It will give you one-minute previews of random channels.
- Engadget
Recommended Reading: Google's biggest hardware flop
Recommended Reading highlights the week's best writing on technology and more.
- Engadget
Google will start removing abortion clinic visits from users’ location history
Google says it will remove abortion clinics and other facilities from users’ location history amid renewed concerns about data privacy following the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
- TechCrunch
Samsung's cloud gaming hub brings Xbox, Twitch and more to newest smart TVs
Samsung announced yesterday that it is bridging its hardware and software for a better gaming experience, bringing the Samsung Gaming Hub to its 2022 lineup of smart TVs and monitors. Twitch has also been added, and Amazon Luna will be available soon. The company is rolling out its gaming hub on Samsung TVs like the 2022 Neo QLED 8K, Neo QLED 4K and 2022 Smart Monitor Series.
- Yahoo Finance Video
VideoMeta CEO Zuckerberg says he’s ‘turning up the heat’ on performance goals
Yahoo Finance's Allie Garfinkle discusses Meta's vulnerability to an economic downturn and CEO Mark Zuckerberg's latest comments on running the tech company.
- TechCrunch
The end of a second straight month of layoffs in tech
June brought another wave of layoffs in tech, with cuts impacting roughly the same number of employees as May: 16,000 employees, according to tracker layoffs.fyi. Another layoff aggregator from TrueUp paints a more dire picture, counting 26,000 impacted employees this month, up from about 20,000 last month. The end of a second straight month of nearly daily layoffs shows how every startup sector, from mobility to fintech, is impacted by the downturn. When Niantic released Pokémon Go in 2016, t