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Amazon unveils new $50 Echo Dot and $60 Echo Dot with Clock models, which double as Eero mesh Wi-Fi extenders and have a temperature sensor and improved bass — At its annual fall event, Amazon showed off its brand-new Echo Dot and Echo Dot with Clock. The fifth generation …
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Amazon debuts Amazon Roadside Assistance, accessible from the Alexa app, Echo Auto, and more, to connect users in need with a local roadside assistance provider — Amazon today announced a new feature for U.S. drivers who may need assistance while on the road — like if they get a flat tire or run out of gas, for instance.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon Alexa gains smart home features like a multi-camera view; Amazon says Alexa triggers 30%+ of users' smart home interactions without users saying anything — Amazon today announced a number of new smart features designed to allow Alexa device owners to better control their smart home … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple tells suppliers to pull back from increasing the supply of iPhone 14 models by ~6M units in H2, instead aiming for 90M units, on par with 2021 — Apple Inc. is backing off plans to increase production of its new iPhones this year after an anticipated surge in demand failed to materialize …
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Amazon unveils the $340 Kindle Scribe, an Oasis-like device for reading and writing with a 10.2" E Ink display and two stylus options, available to preorder — The newest Kindle is the first truly new Kindle in years. It's called the Kindle Scribe, and it's both a reading device and a writing one.
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| Umar Shakir / The Verge: |
Cloudflare releases Turnstile, a “privacy-preserving” CAPTCHA alternative that tests the browser, not the user, through JavaScript-based challenges, in beta — The company calls it Turnstile, and it's designed to spare us from performing those mundane click-the-traffic-light kinds …
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| Nitasha Tiku / Washington Post: |
OpenAI removes the waitlist for DALL-E, giving everyone immediate access; OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says a public release is essential to develop the tech safely — None of these photos were taken by a camera. — All of these images were created by the artificial intelligence text …
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Apple confirms it removed apps from VK, which owns Mail.ru and Russia's largest social network VKontakte, citing UK sanctions; the apps are still on Google Play — The translated statement says “some VK applications are blocked by Apple” but that it will “continue to develop and support iOS applications.”
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| Newley Purnell / Wall Street Journal: |
Audio: Meta executives told rights groups that a decision “at the highest levels” prevented a detailed report on hate speech in India “for security reasons” — Executives at the Facebook parent privately shared with rights groups their disappointment about the sparse report, according to audio recordings
Tweets: @press4change and @newley
| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
Source: FTX is in the process of raising a $1B round, which hasn't closed, as Sam Bankman-Fried considers bidding for bankrupt lender Celsius Network's assets — Sam Bankman-Fried, the crypto billionaire who has been bailing out distressed industry players in recent months …
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| Vicky Ge Huang / Wall Street Journal: |
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In a hearing, Twitter says Elon Musk's consultants estimated spam accounts at 5%-11% of users and Musk didn't share Signal texts, including with Marc Andreessen — Social media group seeks sanctions as billionaire attempts to pull out of $44bn takeover deal
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| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
The European Commission proposes the AI Liability Directive, seeking to make it easier to sue the makers of drones, robots, and other AI-based products — The European Commission on Wednesday proposed rules making it easier for individuals and companies to sue makers of drones …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Stockholm-based PE firm EQT plans to acquire New Jersey-based Billtrust, which offers SaaS tools for businesses to manage billing, for $1.7B in cash — Billtrust, a company developing a platform to automate the invoice-to-cash process, today announced that it agreed to be acquired by EQT …
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| Lisa Eadicicco / CNET: |
Amazon unveils the $140 Halo Rise, a bedside sleep tracker that uses contactless sensors, coming later in 2022 with six months of Halo subscription for free — It sits on your nightstand and functions as a sleep tracker and sunrise alarm clock. — Lisa Eadicicco
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| Bloomberg: |
The US SEC and CFTC fine 16 financial firms $1.1B and $710M in penalties, respectively, for failing to monitor employees using unauthorized messaging apps — US regulators reached settlements with a dozen banks in a sprawling probe into how global financial firms failed to monitor employees' communications …
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Amazon's expensive Astro robot gets pet detection, ability to check specific windows and doors, Ring camera integration, and an SDK for third-party developers — There's been a standing question surrounding how seriously we should ultimately take Astro. The product was launched exactly one year ago … | Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
Adobe Chief Product Officer Scott Belsky says the company plans to integrate Figma into other Adobe tools, not change its UI, keep the freemium model, and more — Adobe Inc. plans to add technology from its creative software portfolio to Figma without tweaking pricing or simplicity after its acquisition … | Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: |
A look at Verily's opioid addiction rehab clinic in Dayton, Ohio, which was meant to highlight a futuristic approach but went low-tech to treat ~5,200 patients — Christopher Boggs started smoking pot in his teens, moved on to cocaine, and finally settled on opioids, which allowed him to evade …
Tweets: @miller7, @jenn_elias, @mhbergen, and @byjulialove
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Milan-based Satispay, an independent payment network that bypasses banks and credit card companies, raised a €320M Series D led by Addition at a €1B+ valuation — More signs that the economy is slowing down in Europe, and that costs are going up, are driving merchants and consumers …
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| Jeff Green / Bloomberg: |
As California becomes the latest state to require listing salary ranges in job postings, Meta, Alphabet, Disney, and others will have to comply by January 2023 — Ready or not, what your job pays is about to get a lot less private. — California, with its roughly 19 million workers …
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| Tom Matsuda / The Block: |
Coral, which is building an “xNFT” wallet called Backpack for accessing DeFi apps and assets across blockchains, raised $20M led by FTX Ventures and Jump Crypto — - Coral, known for creating Solana developer framework Anchor, has raised a $20 million strategic funding round co-led by FTX Ventures and Jump Crypto.
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| Richard Lawler / The Verge: |
Fast Company took its website offline after a hacker used its Apple News account to send two obscene push notifications; Apple disabled the outlet's channel — It's been a little while since we had a high-profile media feed hijacking, but tonight someone sent an Apple News notification …
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Tweets: @applenews, @fastcompany, @fastcompany, @racheltobac, and @madebyuche
| Daniel Cooper / Engadget: |
Amazon's “Bird's Eye View” 3D motion detection tech comes to Spotlight Cam Pro, and the Astro robot gets Virtual Security Guard integration for small businesses — We've already seen Ring add Bird's Eye View — its fancy 3D motion detection — to its flagship security camera and its flagship outdoor light camera.
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| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
Tumblr introduces “community labels” to let users tag posts about drug and alcohol addiction, violence, and sexual content; its content rules remain unchanged — Tumblr announced a “community labels” feature this week that will make it easier for bloggers to filter out sensitive content that they may not want to see.
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