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Hackers Breach Thousands of Security Cameras, Exposing Tesla, Jails, Hospitals. A group of hackers say they breached a massive trove of security-camera data collected by Silicon Valley startup Verkada Inc., gaining access to live feeds of 150,000 surveillance cameras inside hospitals, companies, police departments, prisons and schools. (William Turton via Bloomberg)
African payments company Flutterwave raises $170M, now valued at over $1B. The proliferation of fintech services across Africa remains in full swing as investors remain bullish about the opportunities that abound in the sector. (Tage Kene-Okafor via TechCrunch)
Apple Study Affirms That Women Have Cramps During Periods. Apple added period-tracking to the iOS Health app and launched a clinical study into women’s health back in 2019. Now, the Apple Women’s Health Study team has some preliminary data that affirms that, yes, there is an incredible variety of period symptoms suffered by menstruating people worldwide. (Victoria Song via Gizmodo)
BuzzFeed is making layoffs at HuffPost weeks after it acquired the company. HuffPost is laying off 47 staffers in the US, employees learned on Tuesday. BuzzFeed completed its acquisition of HuffPost in February. The restructuring is likely to extend to other HuffPost offices globally. (Steven Perlberg via Business Insider)
Latest Stimulus Package Could Jolt U.S. Growth, Revive Inflation in 2021. The nearly $1.9 trillion relief package heading for House passage Wednesday is projected to help propel the U.S. economy to its fastest annual growth in nearly four decades, reduce poverty and revive inflation. (Kate Davidson via Wall Street Journal)
Twitter is reinventing itself. Twitter recently announced that it’s going to be building a lot of new things into its product: there’s Twitter Spaces, which is a live audio feature very similar to the red-hot Clubhouse app. (Nilay Patel via The Verge)
Roblox goes public tomorrow - here's how indie game makers turned it into a $30 billion company. Ethan Gawronski was about 10 years old when he discovered Roblox. He dove into its games, mostly to socialize with other kids. (Ari Levy via CNBC)
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