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SWVL plans to lay off 32% of its team two months after going public

TechCrunch

Tech companies, private and public, have faced a reckoning in the past few months with their valuations taking a beating. This March, the company went public via a SPAC merger with U.S. The company’s LinkedIn profile shows it has over 1,330 employees. It’s been a very busy 18 months for SWVL leading up to this news.

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Dear Sophie: Will published articles better my odds of getting an O-1A or H-1B visa?

TechCrunch

Sophie Alcorn Contributor Share on Twitter Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” Which publications are valid? Is that true? Should they be tier-1 or in English?

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Leaked Uber Files reveal history of lawbreaking, lobbying and exploiting violence against drivers

TechCrunch

The Uber Files, which were originally shared with The Guardian and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists , show a company that has knowingly broken laws, gone to extreme lengths to avoid justice, secretly lobbied governments, received aid from top politicians and exploited violence against drivers to drum up business.

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Apple’s App Store hosted kiddie games with secret gambling dens inside

The Verge

But then, instead of launching an ugly monkey-flipping endless runner game filled with typos and bugs, the very same app launches a casino experience: This @AppStore app pretends to be a silly platformer game for children 4+, but if I set my VPN to Turkey and relaunch it becomes an online casino that doesn’t even use Apple’s IAP.

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The best VPNs for staying anonymous and secure on the web

Mashable Tech

Connected to a free public WiFi network? Initially used exclusively by businesses, subscription-based VPN services for the general public starting gaining popularity about a decade ago "after a flood of security breaches," per the cybersecurity and antivirus giant Kapersky. Note: All pricing was accurate at the time of publication.)

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How eateries with breakfast menus are responding to high egg prices

Fast Company Tech

But an ongoing bird flu outbreak , which so far has forced farms to slaughter nearly 159 million chickens, turkeys and other birds including nearly 47 million since the start of December is making supplies scarcer and pushing up prices. In January, the average price of eggs in the U.S. hit a record $4.95

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Have autonomous robots started killing in war? The reality is messier than it appears

The Verge

It’s the sort of thing that can almost pass for background noise these days: over the past week, a number of publications tentatively declared, based on a UN report from the Libyan civil war, that killer robots may have hunted down humans autonomously for the first time. What’s next for LAWS and the law? Image: The Verge.

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