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Gold set for biggest monthly drop since 2016
Microsoft says Windows 11 will feature a new Dynamic Refresh Rate, designed to save laptop battery life and boost refresh rates when they're really needed (Tom Warren/The Verge) TECH REVIEW
Sources: amid escalating rivalry, neither Google nor Microsoft are keen to renew a recently expired truce to not use their lobbying firepower against each other (Bloomberg) TECH REVIEW
SEC charges JPMorgan unit Neovest for operating as unregistered broker-dealer
Clickbait provider Outbrain files for IPO
Venmo raising and adding fees
Goldman to open Dallas campus, second largest after NY: report
Southwest Airlines under fire for canceling thousands of flights
Outbrain files for an IPO aiming to raise over $100M, says it had $767M in revenue last year, $4.4M in net income, and funnels ads to 7,000+ websites like CNN (Tiffany Hsu/New York Times) TECH REVIEW
Quizizz, which helps teachers create gamified quizzes and interactive lessons that generate instant student feedback, raises $31.5M Series B led by Tiger Global (Tarush Bhalla/Livemint) TECH REVIEW
TCGplayer, an online marketplace for trading card games, raises $35M from Vista Credit Partners to expand into collectibles such as sports cards and comic books (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat) TECH REVIEW
Senator Warren asks the FTC for a "broad and meticulous review" of Amazon's MGM acquisition, citing Amazon's anticompetitive history and growing monopoly power (Catie Keck/The Verge) TECH REVIEW
GAO report finds 20 out of 42 federal agencies surveyed use facial recognition tech and sheds light on how deeply the tech is integrated into federal agencies (Gerrit De Vynck/Washington Post) TECH REVIEW
Twitter says users losing access to its "Latest" chronological feed option from its web application is a bug and a fix is in the works (Chance Miller/9to5Mac) TECH REVIEW
Source: enterprise AI company DataRobot has raised ~$250M in new funding led by Altimeter Capital Management and Tiger Global at a ~$6B pre-money valuation (Dan Primack/Axios) TECH REVIEW
Forum Brands, which provides market intelligence for e-commerce acquisitions, raises $27M Series A led by Norwest Venture Partners (Mary Ann Azevedo/TechCrunch) TECH REVIEW
T-Mobile is letting eSIM-compatible iPhone owners try out its cellular network with a 30-day free trial just by installing an app; no billing info is required (Allison Johnson/The Verge) TECH REVIEW
Shopify drops Shopify App Store's cut to 0% on devs' first $1M in revenue, says app developer partners earned $233M in 2020, more than 2018 and 2019 combined (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) TECH REVIEW
Texas mayor hopes Trump’s border visit ‘brings attention to the issues we have’
Michael Dukakis warns Democrats against defunding police
Data on 700M LinkedIn users for sale on a forum, with info like names, addresses, inferred salary; LinkedIn says it seems some of the data is from other sources (Madeleine Hodson/PrivacySharks) TECH REVIEW
Facebook unveils Bulletin, its Substack newsletter competitor, but is not yet accepting signups and says it won't take a cut of creators' revenue "at launch" (Jacob Kastrenakes/The Verge) TECH REVIEW
Studies have found that certain neighborhoods across the US that were redlined in the past are the same areas without fast home internet service today (Shara Tibken/CNET) TECH REVIEW
A South Korean court has ruled that Netflix is obligated to pay network usage fees to mobile carriers; Netflix made up 4.8% of the country's traffic in Q4 2020 (Song Su-hyun/The Korea Herald) TECH REVIEW
Snapchat says it has fixed the issue causing its iOS app to crash for some users, asks users to manually update the app if they are still facing any problem (Mitchell Clark/The Verge) TECH REVIEW
Coinbase is granted a crypto custody license from Germany's Financial Supervisory Authority, the first company to get such a license according to the regulator (Nate DiCamillo/CoinDesk) TECH REVIEW
Duolingo files for US IPO, reveals revenue growth of 129% YoY in 2020, and reports $55.4M in revenue during Q1 2021 (TechCrunch) TECH REVIEW
Beachbody CEO celebrates IPO launch, shares roadmap to become ‘Disney Plus of fitness’
SEC’s Gensler aims to be ‘transformational’ Wall Street cop
Gas prices above $3 per gallon to remain elevated all summer
Snapchat says its latest iOS app update is causing widespread issues for users, including crashes a few seconds after launch, and is working on a fix (Malcolm Owen/AppleInsider) TECH REVIEW