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Amazon says Dave Clark, CEO of its Worldwide Consumer division, will step down after 23 years with the company; his last day in the office will be July 1, 2022 — Amazon today announced that Dave Clark, CEO of the company's worldwide consumer division, will step down after 23 years in the position.
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More than 46,000 people have reported losing $1B+ to crypto scams from January 1, 2021 through March 31, 2022, about 25% of all losses reported to the FTC — From Super Bowl ads to Bitcoin ATMs, cryptocurrency seems to be everywhere lately. Although it's yet to become a mainstream payment method …
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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
The New York State Assembly passes the first right-to-repair bill in the US covering electronics; Governor Kathy Hochul is expected to sign the measure — ‘Repairs should become less expensive and more comprehensive’ because of the new measure, says iFixit
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A House and Senate bipartisan data privacy bill would let users opt out of targeted ads and sue internet companies that improperly sell their data, and more — The proposal, considered a step forward, still lacks the support of some key members — A bipartisan group of legislators …
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The New York State Senate passes a bill to ban crypto mining powered by carbon-based sources for two years; the governor now needs to sign the bill or veto it — The state Assembly had already passed the bill, which would bar new mining operations powered by carbon-based energy sources for two years.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Sensor Tower: an iOS app needs 156K daily installs to top the US App Store, up from 114K in 2019; an Android app needs 56K to top Google Play, down from 83K — A new analysis indicates it's gotten harder to get an app to the top of the App Store, in terms of downloads, over the past several years.
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Q&A with Pocket VP Matt Koidin on the 50M/month articles people save, longform content, the “algotorial” approach to the Pocket Hits newsletter, and more — Over the past decade, Pocket has endured as an unusually pleasant way to consume the internet.| Jim Hagerty / USA Today: |
In April, Google settled an Illinois lawsuit accusing it of violating the Biometric Information Privacy Act with its Photos face regrouping tool, for $100M — ROCKFORD, Ill. — Illinois residents are eligible to receive part of a $100 million class-action settlement after Google was accused of violating privacy laws in the state.| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Sandberg left Meta feeling burned out and amid an internal probe into her activities, including using corporate resources to plan her wedding — One of the world's most powerful executives became increasingly burned out and disconnected from the mega-business she was instrumental in building.
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| Gideon Lewis-Kraus / New Yorker: |
A look at the presentiment that social media is bad for society, as some researchers find fears are overstated and others caution about effects on individuals — There's a general sense that it's bad for society—which may be right. But studies offer surprisingly few easy answers.
Tweets: @brendannyhan, @tomgara, @dangillmor, @raohackr, @kmmunger, @michaelluo, @wexler, @benedictevans, @brendannyhan, @griverorz, and @deaneckles
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Sources: Facebook is developing a “basic ads” product that uses metrics like engagement and video views instead of using anonymized personal info from users — - Meta's Facebook is early in developing a “basic ads” product as privacy changes limit its targeting abilities.
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| Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology: |
Dall-E 2 created 3M images since April and OpenAI is adding up to 1,000 users per week, applying a content policy to try to avoid sensitive or biased images — Dall-E can illustrate just about anything using a short text prompt. Should it? — Dall-E's power becomes evident within the first minute of seeing it.
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