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| Pratiti Raychoudhury / About Facebook: |
Facebook disputes the WSJ's framing of Instagram's harm to teen girls, saying internal research found using Instagram largely made difficult situations easier — - Contrary to The Wall Street Journal's characterization, Instagram's research shows that on 11 of 12 well-being issues …
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| Washington Post: |
Extremism researchers say the Epik hack is the “mother of all data lodes”, and will let them map the ecosystem of extremist websites and organizations — The colossal hack of Epik, an Internet-services company popular with the far right, has been called the “mother of all data lodes” for extremism researchers.
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple says it will fix a bug preventing some iPhone 13 users from using the Unlock with Apple Watch feature, in an upcoming software update — Apple today said an issue preventing some iPhone 13 users from using the Unlock with Apple Watch feature will be fixed in an upcoming software update.
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Apple Support, Gizmodo, 9to5Mac, The Verge, Tom's Guide, Forbes, Engadget, iPhone in Canada Blog, phonearena.com, and AppleInsider
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Source: Google Cloud Platform to slash its revenue share from 20% to 3% for third-party software on its cloud marketplace, matching Microsoft's cut — - Google is matching Microsoft's revenue share terms for purchases of third-party software through cloud marketplaces.
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| Rest of World: |
Survey of ~5,000 gig workers across 15 countries: over 60% say they are financially satisfied but most want out of the job within a year — A survey of nearly 5,000 gig workers in 15 countries compares the experience of platform work worldwide. — Platforms were supposed to set workers free.
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| José Adorno / 9to5Mac: |
Phone Repair Guru report finds that third-party repair centers will struggle to replace iPhone 13's screen without losing access to Face ID — Yesterday, we took a closer look at how the new iPhone 13 Pro Max handles drop tests. Now, another YouTuber claims that you'll probably not be able …
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Phone Repair Guru/YouTube, Channel News, phonearena.com, Gizmodo Australia, AppleInsider, YouTube, Mashable, Tom's Guide, and 9to5Mac
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| Cory Doctorow / Communications of the ACM: |
To limit the power of Big Tech, regulators should look to mandate interoperability, which will empower users and could spark more competition — Tech's market concentration—summed up brilliantly by Tom Eastman, a New Zealand software developer, as the transformation of the Internet into …
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Pluralistic and OneZero
Tweets: @doctorow, @jones1618, @eff, @jonl, @dweinberger, @eff, @phro, @jvagle, and @doctorow
| Financial Times: |
A look at the frantic dealmaking behind Europe's instant grocery startups like Gorillas and Flink, as investors see a classic land grab for the top position — Gorillas and Flink try to take on Getir in a merry-go-round of funding and merger talks — It was a sweltering …
Tweets: @vivifriedgut and @tim
| Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: |
Cryptocurrency exchanges Huobi and Binance have stopped letting traders use mainland China mobile numbers to register new accounts — - Binance, Huobi won't allow new sign-ups via China phones — Steps come after missive from PBOC about crypto transactions| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
How Toast, founded in Boston with a $500K investment from Endeca's Steve Papa after VCs shunned it, became a $30B business, in part by avoiding the Bay Area — - Toast's first backer, Steve Papa, invested in the company because no venture capital firm would write the initial check.
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple says it is working to fix an issue that is preventing iPhone 13 Pro from running animations in third-party apps at 120Hz and limiting them to 60Hz — One of the biggest new features exclusive to the iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max this year is the inclusion of high-refresh rate displays, or what Apple calls “ProMotion.”
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| Ruth Reader / Fast Company: |
GoodRx debuts GoodRx Health site for providing answers to the most googled health questions, as it looks to become more than a price comparison tool for pills — Cheap prescription-drugs platform GoodRx is getting into the content business. The company is debuting GoodRx Health …
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Becker's Hospital Review, TMCnet, Across America, US Patch, CNBC, and MobiHealthNews
Tweets: @harrymccracken, @glenngabe, and @fastcotech
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