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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The true covid death toll could be more than double what’s been reported The news: The true death toll of the pandemic is far higher than official figures […]

Cointelegraph:A report on publicly traded crypto mining companies finds Core Scientific leads with $545M in 2021 revenue, Riot Blockchain had $215M, and Hive Blockchain $195M  —  Mining firm Core Scientific’s hash rate leads all public companies with 8.3 EH/s, and it mined 5,769 BTC in 2021.  —  225 Total views

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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The gene-edited pig heart given to a dying patient was infected with a pig virus The pig heart transplanted into an American patient earlier this year in a […]

T.P. Yeatts / The Real Deal New York:Lev, whose marketplace uses AI to help borrowers compare and source commercial real estate financing, raises a $70M Series B, sources say at a $400M valuation  —  Round brings total equity funding to $110M; startup also raised $100M for direct lending platform

The Creative Outlier Pro wireless earbuds might not set the world of budget buds on fire, but they’re brilliantly fun.

The pig heart transplanted into an American patient earlier this year in a landmark operation carried a porcine virus that may have derailed the experiment and contributed to his death two months later, say transplant specialists. David Bennett Sr. was near death in January when he received a genetically edited […]

Nicole Sganga / CBS News:Cybereason: China-linked Winnti APT exfiltrated hundreds of GBs of IP in a cyber campaign targeting ~30 companies in North America, Europe, and Asia since 2019  —  A yearslong malicious cyber operation spearheaded by the notorious Chinese state actor, APT 41, has siphoned off an estimated trillions […]

A simple and stylish camera for travel and the street – but it’s only a modest upgrade over its predecessor.

Vulnerability in 3rd-party libraries can send devices users to malicious sites.