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Slack Is Increasing Prices And Changing Its Free Plan

Slack announced changes that will likely cause some confusion for businesses that use Slack on a regular basis. Slack posted news titled: “Everything you need to know about our first price change and plan updates”. It describes how these changes may affect people. …today we are announcing our first price change increase since we launched in 2014 - at 75

DFR Says Celsius Network Is “Deeply Insolvent”

Vermont Department of Financial Regulation (DFR) said it believes cryptocurrency lender Celsius Network is “deeply insolvent” and does not have assets and liquidity to honor its obligations to customers and other creditors, Reuters reported. According to Reuters: The crypto lender has been involved in an unregistered securities offering, selling cryptocurrency interest accounts to retail investors including investors in Vermont. Celsius

GameStop Launches NFT Marketplace After Laying Off Workers

GameStop fired its top executive and other layoffs at Game Informer. An article on Game Informer, posted on July 8, 2022, stated that GameStop “which is in the process of pivoting its business around crypto” fired one of its top executives and laid off a number of Game Informer staff. In a filing with the US government, GameStop said it

Meta Launches Sphere To Verify Citations On Wikipedia

Meta announced that, building on Meta’s AI research and advancements, they have developed the first model capable of automatically scanning hundreds of thousands of citations at once to check whether they truly support the corresponding claims. Volunteers double-check Wikipedia’s footnotes, but, as the site continues to grow, it’s challenging to keep pace with more than the 17,000 new articles added

WhatsApp Rolls Out More Emoji

Ahead of World Emoji Day (Sunday, July 17) Emojipedia reported that WhatsApp is getting more emojii. World Emoji Day is the annual celebration of emoji use across the world. Created and hosted by Emojipedia, the event is in its ninth year and is celebrated on July 17th each year. In addition, Emojipedia also stated that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has

U.S. Department Of Treasury Made Framework For Digital Assets

The U.S. Department of Treasury announced they have outlined an interagency approach to address the risks and harness the potential benefits of digital assets and their underlying technology, including through international engagement to adapt, update, and enhance the adoption of global principles and standards for how digital assets are used and transacted. This was done in response to an executive

Airbnb Officially Codifies Party Ban

Airbnb announced that they are codifying the party ban that was enacted in August of 2020 (as a temporary ban). According to Airbnb, the temporary ban has proved effective, and they officially codified the ban as their policy. Airbnb provided some details that led them to codifying the party ban: “Historically, we allowed Hosts to use their best judgement and