📱 The High Cost of Living Your Life Online

Plus: There Was One Person Who Didn't Embarrass Himself in the Elon Musk Texts, The quiet ascent of Chinese high-tech start-ups, and more…

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The High Cost of Living Your Life Online. To be online is to be constantly exposed. While it may seem normal, it's a level of exposure we've never dealt with before as human beings. We're posting on Twitter, and people we've never met are responding with their thoughts and criticisms. (Thor Benson / WIRED)

Thor Benson @thor_benson

I wrote about the psychological toll of living on the internet for @WIRED

wired.comThe High Cost of Living Your Life OnlineConstantly posting content on social media can erode your privacy—and sense of self.

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There Was One Person Who Didn't Embarrass Himself in the Elon Musk Texts. The saga of Elon Musk and the abandoned Twitter acquisition has a little bit of everything–except for a clear protagonist. Maybe that's finally changing. But first... (Brad Stone via Bloomberg)

Brad Stone @BradStone

Not everyone looked foolish in last week's Elon-Twitter Texts. There was one person who didn't bend the knee: bloomberg.com/news/newslette… via the @technology daily newsletter.

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The quiet ascent of Chinese high-tech start-ups. Despite crackdown on big companies and tensions with the US, the sector continues to attract foreign funding In a brightly lit corner of a showroom in Hong Kong, a 300kg black robot disappears under a stack of shelves. The rack levitates and glides… (Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times)

Eleanor Olcott @EleanorOlcott

Looking to appease Beijing while not offending Washington, many China funds have narrowed in on healthcare, biopharma and high-tech niches with no military application, such as warehouse robotics. My first column for @FT

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Mastercard pushes deeper into crypto with new tool for combating fraud. Mastercard will on Tuesday launch a new product called Crypto Secure that helps banks assess the risk of crime associated with crypto merchants on its network. The service is powered by CipherTrace, a blockchain security startup Mastercard acquired… (Ryan Browne / CNBC)

Ryan Browne @Ryan_Browne_

Exclusive: Mastercard will today debut a new product that helps banks identify and prevent transactions from fraud-prone crypto exchanges on its network.

cnbc.comMastercard pushes deeper into crypto with new tool for combating fraudMastercard will on Tuesday launch a new product called Crypto Secure that helps banks assess the risk of crime associated with crypto merchants on its network.

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Liquid Death Water Startup Valued at $700 Million. Sometimes water tastes better when it's in a cool-looking can. At least that's the thesis behind Liquid Death, a 3-year-old startup that is already valued at $700 million following its latest round of financing. The $70 million investment was led… (Katie Roof / Bloomberg)

Katie Roof @Katie_Roof

Liquid Death is now valued at $700 million for its water in a beer can

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