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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
iPhone 14 Pro review: excellent performance and an incredible 48MP camera, but Dynamic Island's potential isn't fully realized and the camera sharpens too much — The dynamic island is a potentially good idea that's waiting for the next step … Apple pulled off some unexpected surprises …
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| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Apple iPhone 14 review: an improved selfie camera and good battery life, but feels like an iPhone 13S with no ProMotion and the eSIM transition could be painful — A slight camera upgrade, new emergency features, and... not a whole lot else … The iPhone 14 is good. You probably shouldn't buy an iPhone 14.
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Tweets: @shiraovide and @allisonjo1
| New York Times: |
California's AG files an antitrust lawsuit against Amazon, focusing on the company allegedly penalizing sellers who list products at lower prices on other sites — Rob Bonta, California's attorney general, said the retailer punishes companies that offer lower prices on other websites.
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| Stephanie Bodoni / Bloomberg: |
An EU court backs the European Commission's decision to fine Google over Android antitrust breaches but trims the record €4.3B fine to €4.1B; Google can appeal — Google lost most of the first round of its battle to topple a record 4.3 billion-euro ($4.3 billion) …
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| Hooyeon Kim / Bloomberg: |
A South Korean court issues an arrest warrant for Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon and five others located in Singapore, after LUNA and UST's collapse in May 2022 — A court in South Korea issued an arrest warrant for Do Kwon, the founder of the Terraform Labs cryptocurrency ecosystem …
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| Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
Discord rolls out Reddit-like Forum channels, designed for asynchronous chat about specific topics, after testing them with some communities since February 2022 — If you've ever waded into a new Discord server and immediately been overwhelmed by a fast-scrolling wall of conversation …
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Discord Blog, Android Headlines, VentureBeat, The Verge, Input, Polygon, PC Gamer, and Engadget
Tweets: @discord, @walldo, @thecbgrass, @vahn16, and @harrisfoster
| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
Canva unveils new products Docs, Websites, Whiteboards, and Data Visualization, brings background removing to videos, and adds a remote control to Presentations — Canva is further establishing itself as more than just a user-friendly graphic design tool. The Australian company announced …
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The Verge, Fortune, Canva, Computerworld, Sydney Morning Herald, and The Verge
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
California Governor Gavin Newsom signs AB 587 into law, requiring social networks to share moderation rules, despite concerns it may violate the First Amendment — California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed a law aimed at making web platforms monitor hate speech, extremism, harassment, and other objectionable behaviors.
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Techdirt, Ars Technica, California Governor, Gizmodo, Washington Post, Axios, CBS News, and The Hill
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| David Pan / Bloomberg: |
Ethermine, the largest Ethereum mining firm, will shut down its servers for miners after Ethereum's Merge, switching its mining pool to withdraw-only mode — Ethermine, the largest Ethereum mining services provider by computing power, will shut down its servers for miners after the blockchain completes its historic technical upgrade.| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
Twilio plans to lay off 11% of its workforce, or around 900 staff, as part of a bid to become profitable by 2023; CEO Jeff Lawson says Twilio grew “too fast” — - Twilio will lay off 11% of its workforce as part of a major restructuring plan, according to a filing.
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| CNN: |
After an employee claimed a package exploded at Northeastern University's VR lab, sources say it included a “rambling” note criticizing Mark Zuckerberg and VR — Authorities in Boston have launched an investigation after a package sent to Northeastern University exploded and injured …
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The Verge, Associated Press, The Register, YouTube, CBS News, Daily Mail, Engadget, Newsweek, VICE, Insider, MacDailyNews, and Mashable
Facebook: Boston Police Department. Tweets: @northeasternpd, @dimonauk, @fbiboston, @annameierps, @brian_jphillips, @wbz, @bcjordan, @ywnreporter, @lookner, and @meredithobrien
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Intel, Arm, and Nvidia propose a new open, license-free specification with 8-bit floating point, or FP8, precision as a common interchange format for AI — In pursuit of faster and more efficient AI system development, Intel, Arm and Nvidia today published a draft specification for what they refer …
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arXiv, NVIDIA Technical Blog, and TechPowerUp
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google cancels Qaya, which offered storefronts for creators, and six other projects out of the 14 housed at its incubator Area 120, as it shifts its focus to AI — Google CEO Sundar Pichai, speaking at the Code Conference last week, suggested the tech company needed to become 20% more efficient …
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Bloomberg, Android Authority, Wall Street Journal, Slashdot, 9to5Google, and Liliputing
| The Verge: |
In response to SCOTUS overturning Roe v. Wade in June, period tracking app Flo releases an Anonymous Mode for iOS, improving privacy but disabling some features — Period tracking app Flo released an “Anonymous Mode” on Wednesday, which lets people use the app without linking their data to their name, email address, or IP address.
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Flo.health, Gizmodo, Flo.health, PCMag, TechCrunch, and Engadget
Tweets: @flotracker, @marcyrw, @corintxt, @corintxt, and @elithrar
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: after its funds performed poorly, SoftBank considers launching a third Vision Fund; Vision Fund 2 is now worth 19% less than the $49B invested — Despite massive losses, Japanese billionaire Masayoshi Son has tried to chart a new path for the tech investment giant
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Bloomberg, Silicon Valley Business …, PYMNTS.com, Inc42 Media, and The Block
Tweets: @refsrc, @mattzeitlin, @landerswsj, @sfiegerman, @bigblackjacobin, @quinnypig, @danprimack, @eliotwb, and @ralph_squillace
| Bloomberg: |
A profile of Salesforce co-CEO and Twitter chairman Bret Taylor, a calm operator who is taking point on suing Elon Musk to enforce the $44B Twitter acquisition — At a technology conference in June, Bret Taylor, the mild-mannered co-CEO of tech behemoth Salesforce Inc., was losing his patience.| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Tel Aviv-based Groundcover, a performance monitoring service for cloud apps, raised a $20M Series A led by Zeev Ventures, bringing its total funding to $24.5M — Groundcover, a performance monitoring platform for cloud apps, today announced that it raised $20 million in a Series A round led … | Zeyi Yang / MIT Technology Review: |
Users say a demo of ERNIE-ViLG, a text-to-image AI model from Baidu, labels certain political words as “sensitive” and blocks them from generating any result — The new text-to-image AI developed by Baidu can generate images that show Chinese objects and celebrities more accurately than existing AIs.| Brandy Betz / CoinDesk: |
London-based Ownera, which wants to connect tokenized asset networks of the traditional finance world, raised a $20M Series A from JPMorgan and others — Ownera aims to connect the tokenized securities of institutional investors. — Ownera, a startup building infrastructure to connect …
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Business Wire, FinSMEs, PYMNTS.com, The Block, and Crowdfund Insider. Tweets: @mayazi. Thanks:@roi
| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Mark Bergen on his book “Like, Comment, Subscribe”, chronicling YouTube's evolution from a scrappy startup to a pivotal part of Google and social media — Mark Bergen takes us inside the black box … YouTube has always been fascinating to me because it's such a black box …
Tweets: @sarthakgh and @mhbergen
| The Verge: |
PlayStation VR2 hands-on: easy to set up, a joy to use, the OLED display looks great, the Sense controllers are a marked improvement, gameplay is fun, and more — And it's pretty good … Sony's PlayStation VR2 may not be coming out until next year, but after months of drip-feeding news …
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IGN, Forbes, Eurogamer.net, UploadVR, Polygon, Wccftech, GameSpot, TheGamer, Mashable, Road to VR, Press Start, IGN, YouTube, Washington Post, and Wired
Tweets: @firstadopter, @epro, @vicmsong, @leadergrev, and @gavinsbaker
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