House of the Dragon fans, it's not just you. Many viewers, including yours truly, couldn't see anything at times during Sunday's episode. What was most likely an editing mistake, HBO has chalked up to be an "intentional creative decision". There you have it folks. Not being able to see what you're watching is now a feature, not a bug...

Wait... They shipped what!?

Shopify launched POS-Go, a handheld point-of-sale (POS) device for retailers.

Details: The new offering focuses on unifying online and in-person shopping by leveraging the broader Shopify platform. POS-Go allows merchants to:

• See a particular customers previous purchases

• Build carts in-store and email a link to finalize checkout later

• View live sales and inventory data on-device

• Operate portably without a phone or computer

Why it matters: Like many other pandemic-darlings, Shopify's business has taken a big hit as the pandemic wanes, with it's stock price down 80% in the last year.

In the same vein of Instacart announcing tools for in-store shopping a few weeks ago, Shopify is banking on in-person sales to turn things around. The company even promoted it's Merchant Services VP of Product to COO.

What to watch: How will competitive dynamics play out?

It's a crowded space, with players such as Square, Toast, and Clover, as well as Apple's new Tap & Pay offering.

Features & products hot off the press

Big tech

• YouTube runs a test limiting 4K watching to premium users only  

• Twitter rolls out the edit button in select markets 

• Amazon launches a dedicated hub for affordable shopping

• Tesla unveils the latest prototype of it's humanoid robot 

• Venmo rolls out in-app charity profiles

• TikTok will be launching live shopping in the US 

General and early-stage

• Telegram cuts its subscription fee by more than 50% in India

• Roofstock to enable buying and selling properties as tokenized NFTs

• Bumble tests letting users chat before matching

• Deliveroo opens a new type of 'dark store' in the UK

• Lemonade is launching its insurance product in the UK  

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• Communication - 7 powerful phrases for PMs, by Aakash Gupta

Other tech happenings

• Not keeping up. Kim Kardashian charged for unlawfully peddling crypto

• Exodus begins? Senior Tiger Global partner leaves the fund

• To the moon! Firefly Aerospace reaches orbit for the first time

• Consequences. UK coroner rules that IG contributed to a teenagers death

• Drawing lines. The US will limit Chinese company access to US tech

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And that’s a wrap for today. Stay tuned for more!

-  Amol