The House Financial Services Committee held a hearing on Wednesday on the $2 trillion crypto market. The hearing was called to improve lawmakers’ understanding of the sector and how it fits into existing regulations.

Hundreds of posts promoting dangerous white supremacist ideologies are still readily available on Instagram. Anti Defamation League researchers searched for terms on Instagram related to white supremacist and neo-Nazi movements. The posts included references to "accelerationism," an extremist ideology cited in the manifestos of mass shooters.

Tinder is partnering with Spotify to launch a new “Music Mode” feature. Users will hear a 30-second looped preview of a potential match’s chosen song while checking out their profile. Music Mode will be rolling out to Tinder users globally, in all markets where Spotify is available.

Italy's antitrust watchdog says Amazon abused its dominant market position. The watchdog says the company pushed third-party sellers to use its logistics service Fulfillment by Amazon. Third-party seller who use FBA have a better chance of getting featured in Amazon's buy box.

Meta's social VR playground Horizon Worlds is now available to download for free in the US and Canada. The only caveat is that you need to be 18 or older to access the social playground. The company is also debuting a new minigame inside of Horizon Worlds called Arena Clash.

The past two years have been a boom for new businesses in the U.S. Yet many companies experience a slowdown as they try to scale. This phenomenon is often referred to as the "startup hump" and occurs when growth stops after a period of acceleration. Startups and small businesses have more tools at their disposal than ever before.

Oppo Find N will be the company's first foldable smartphone. The device will be launched next week on December 15th, on the second day of Oppo’s annual Inno Day. A teaser trailer shows it has a similar form factor to Samsung's Z Fold devices, combining a large internal folding screen with a smaller outer screen.

Google has pushed back its planned return to office further into 2022. The company has promised to give staff around the world an additional cash bonus of $1,600. The move is in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, which has affected many tech companies. Google didn't say how much the bonus would cost.

DeepMind has unveiled a new language model called Gopher. It's 60% larger than GPT-3 and about a quarter the size of Google's massive trillion-parameter LLM. Gopher outperformed state-of-the-art models in 80% of benchmarks used in research.

Kickstarter is launching an open-source protocol for its technology. It says the protocol will allow anyone, "even Kickstarter competitors," to build on it. Kickstarter will be one of the protocol's first clients and will give it funding and board members. It expects to move its site over to the protocol by 2022.

French firm Neoen SA (NEOEN.PA) activated Australia's biggest battery on Wednesday in time for the southern hemisphere summer, after fire damaged two of Tesla Inc's (TSLA.O) "Megapack" units at the project during testing in July.

For more than a decade, Alibaba Group (9988.HK) has been China's undisputed e-commerce king but of late its crown has shown signs of slipping, unsettled by an influx of aggressive competitors into the sector.