Deep Voodoo, founded by South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone to develop deepfake technology and cost-effective visual effects, raised $20M (Todd Spangler/Variety) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 10:53 Rating: 5

SEC deposition: in 2017, Zuckerberg considered saying Facebook was investigating "organizations like Cambridge Analytica", before advisers suggested against it (Brian Fung/CNN) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 15:47 Rating: 5

OpenAI releases Point-E, an open-source ML system that generates and displays 3D objects from a text prompt in one to two minutes on a single Nvidia V100 GPU (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 10:41 Rating: 5

Amazon rolls out Matter smart home standard over Wi-Fi to 17 Echo devices, including Echo Dot (5th Gen) and Echo (4th Gen), for users with Android phones (Stacey Higginbotham/Stacey on IoT) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 20:41 Rating: 5

Open-source database provider MariaDB closed down ~40% in its NYSE debut following its SPAC merger; MariaDB had a $368M market cap at $11.55/share opening price (Paul Gillin/SiliconANGLE) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 19:41 Rating: 5

Twitter says the #WC2022 tag for the FIFA World Cup generated 147B impressions, surpassing #WC2018 and over twice the impressions of the #Tokyo2020 Olympics (Twitter) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 18:43 Rating: 5

Elon Musk, in a reply to a tweet suggesting that voting on policy decisions should be restricted to Blue subscribers, says "Twitter will make that change" (Vlad Savov/Bloomberg) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 17:43 Rating: 5

ImagenAI, which uses AI to help photographers edit photos and automate postproduction, raised $30M from Summit Partners, bringing its total funding to $34M (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 15:44 Rating: 5

Helm.ai, which uses an unsupervised learning approach to its autonomous driving software, raised a $31M Series C led by Freeman Group at a $431M valuation (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 10:49 Rating: 5

Twitter deletes @TwitterSafety's thread and a webpage detailing its new policy to prevent accounts from promoting other social media platforms (Brian Fung/CNN) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 00:43 Rating: 5