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Hey, of us! Chromecasts have been a hacker and nerd favourite for a second or two, and we’re fairly psyched to see the value (with a distant!) dropping to $30. Apropos {hardware}, Brian and Kirsten simply printed our Apple Watch Ultra first look review, so we’ve been having fun with that, too.  — Christine and Haje

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• Love gadgets? You’ll love today’s newsletter: Google’s new Chromecast is a quadruple menace: 4K HDR assist, 10,000 apps, prices $30 and has a distant, Ivan writes. Sure, please.
• The first cut is the deepest: Simply when Indian resort chain Oyo thought it was secure to go public, SoftBank slashed its valuation by 73% to $2.7 billion, Manish experiences.
• No closing time here: E-commerce firm acquirer OpenStore is defying the e-commerce aggregator odds by each doing nicely on this financial system and elevating funds, Christine writes. The 1-year-old firm, began by Founders Fund’s Keith Rabois and Atomic’s Jack Abraham, raised $32 million in a spherical of funding that values the corporate at $970 million.

Startups and VC

Anybody who has to make use of a wheelchair often runs the danger of incurring harm from poor circulation. Kalogon believes it can mitigate this common but potentially life-threatening condition with a wise cushion that stops anyone a part of the physique from being compressed for too lengthy — and it has already caught the attention of the VA, Devin experiences.

Maintaining with tax compliance for cryptocurrency will be tough, particularly since many legal guidelines are new (or haven’t been written but). That’s why Binocs was founded. Customers combine their exchanges and wallets, and Binocs supplies a tax report and different accounting particulars. The startup introduced at the moment that it has raised $4 million to increase, Catherine experiences.

And some extra from around the world (around the world):

In the case of startup board participation, VCs and CEOs should do their jobs

“You had one job” may be amusing if a birthday cake ornament goes improper, however once we’re speaking about executives who don’t present for board conferences, the stakes are a lot increased, writes Matt Blumberg, co-founder and CEO of Bolster.

“Disengaged or dysfunctional boards aren’t simply dangerous for CEOs and LPs; they’re dangerous for everybody,” Blumberg says, a realization that spurred him to undertake a brand new assembly format that features follow-up surveys.

“That’s loads of transferring items to handle, however I discover that doing so retains the assembly contemporary and nicely paced.”

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Get able to chew into an enormous Apple. Brian placed on his reviewer hat and took a take a look at the AirPods Pro, which he stated had “some actually welcome additions to among the finest pair of earbuds on the market.” And Brian and Kirsten tried out the Apple Watch Ultra, the place certainly one of their concluding views was “the Extremely is rather more than an Apple Watch dressed up in a rugged case.”

In the meantime, purchase now, pay later large Klarna confirmed it needed to take some additional bites out of its workforce to the tune of 100 folks, although 500 have been warned of the discount, Connie writes.

• Adam Levine needs this existed already: Ivan experiences that Instagram is testing a nudity protection filter for direct messages in order that customers of the social media app don’t need to see unsolicited nude messages. Too dangerous there isn’t a function but to warn you towards sending sure messages…
• Don’t get locked in: Natasha L writes about Mozilla’s research concerning the power to decide on our personal internet browser on the units we like to make use of versus being offered with pre-installed ones.
• Not enjoying video games: India’s Division of Telecommunications is proposing the regulation of internet communication services that might require platforms to acquire a license earlier than they may function out there. Jagmeet has extra.
• Single and able to mingle: Alibaba Cloud has plans to double down on its cloud service offering overseas and is able to spend $1 billion on a “international companion ecosystem improve,” Rita writes.
• That’s a big chunk of “chain”: Authorities in South Korea uncovered one other $680 million in “irregular” crypto-linked foreign exchange transactions, Kate experiences. For those who’re maintaining rating at house, that’s now a complete of $7.2 billion since June.