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This week was a bit in all places, with one other massive story breaking each couple hours. Let’s simply drop proper in, we could?
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- Cutbacks at Area 120: Space 120 is Google’s in-house incubator, meant to let Googlers with doubtlessly massive concepts faucet the mega firm’s sources to show mentioned concepts into one thing actual. This week, nevertheless, Google confirmed that it’s slashing half of the Space 120 tasks at present in improvement, with the incubator “shifting its focus” to AI tasks. Impacted workers are being given till early 2023 to discover a new job inside Google.
- Adobe buys Figma: In one of many largest tech acquisitions of all time, Adobe introduced this week its intent to purchase the collaborative/web-based design device Figma for a whopping $20 billion. Figma noticed ridiculous progress all through the pandemic, as many, many tech groups went distant and adjusted their workflows accordingly. Even for an organization as massive as Adobe, successful that a part of the workflow again would’ve been robust.
- Layoffs at Twilio: Twilio confirmed this week that it’ll lay off roughly 11% of its workforce — someplace between 800 and 900 folks — as the corporate focuses on reaching profitability in 2023.
- iOS 16 goes live: As expected, iOS 16 rolled out to Apple gadgets this week. Need our ideas on it? Find Romain’s review here. Need to know the entire not-so-obvious new options hiding inside the replace? Check out Ivan’s list. Most of our readers appear to be searching for attention-grabbing methods to use those new Lock Screen widgets.
- South Korea issues an arrest warrant for Terraform Labs’ founder: “A court docket in South Korea has issued an arrest warrant for Do Kwon, the founding father of Terraform Labs,” writes Manish, “escalating its probe into the crypto ecosystem whose two tokens misplaced $40 billion in worth in a span of days earlier this yr.”
- Uber hack: Late Thursday evening, Uber confirmed that it’s “responding to a cybersecurity incident” after a hacker seemingly breached the corporate’s inner community, with the hacker reportedly asserting their presence (and protesting how Uber pays its drivers) proper inside Uber’s Slack.
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If you happen to like TechCrunch to your eyes, try TechCrunch to your ears. This week in TechCrunch podcast land, the Equity staff talked about how Y Combinator has advanced in recent times, the Chain Reaction crew “dug into the institutional embrace of blockchains by stodgy monetary powerhouses,” and the Found staff went all “biggest hits” by revisiting an interview with Figma founder Dylan Discipline from earlier this yr.
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