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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Alexa gets smart home features like a multi-view stream and scheduling; Amazon says Alexa triggers 30%+ of 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 …
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Amazon's $1,000 Astro robot gets pet detection, the ability to check specific windows and doors, Ring camera integration, and an SDK for three universities — There's been a standing question surrounding how seriously we should ultimately take Astro. The product was launched exactly one year ago …
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| Daniel Cooper / Engadget: |
Amazon's Ring adds “Bird's Eye View” 3D motion detection to the Spotlight Cam Pro and Virtual Security Guard for small businesses to the Astro robot — 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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| 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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Tweets: @kadhim, @mayazi, @napgener, @simondixontwitt, @cryptovinco, @claritytoast, and @mikeburgersburg
| 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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| 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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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google unveils search results with a “Discussions and forums” section, rolling out on mobile in the US, and machine-translated news coverage, set for early 2023 — At Search On 2022, Google announced that “Discussions and forums” will be getting their own sections in results … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon unveils a refreshed Fire TV Cube media player with Wi-Fi 6E for $140, Fire TV Omni QLED Series for $800+, and a refreshed Alexa Voice Remote Pro for $35 — Amazon today introduced two new Fire TV devices designed to cater to customers seeking a more premium experience.
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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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| Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: |
Amazon unveils its fifth-gen $50 Echo Dot and $60 Echo Dot with Clock, which double as Eero mesh Wi-Fi extenders and have a temperature sensor and deeper bass — At its annual fall event, Amazon showed off its brand-new Echo Dot and Echo Dot with Clock. The fifth generation … | 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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| Lisa Eadicicco / CNET: |
Amazon unveils the $140 Halo Rise, a bedside sleep tracker that uses contactless sensors, coming later in 2022 with a free six-month Amazon Halo subscription — It sits on your nightstand and functions as a sleep tracker and sunrise alarm clock. — Lisa Eadicicco
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| Reuters: |
Dyson, Mazda, and others suspended Twitter marketing campaigns because their promoted tweets appeared alongside tweets publicly soliciting or selling child porn — Some major advertisers including Dyson, Mazda and chemicals company Ecolab have suspended their marketing campaigns or removed … | Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
DocuSign plans to lay off 9% of staff as part of a major FY 2023 restructuring, incurring charges of $30M to $40M; DocuSign had 7,461 employees in January 2022 — - DocuSign will lay off 9% of its workforce as part of a major restructuring plan, the company announced Wednesday.
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Sources: GV shelved its algorithm, which for years served as a gatekeeper for new investments, suggesting that human judgement can't always be automated away — Google Ventures has mothballed an algorithm that for years had served as a gatekeeper for new investments, Axios has learned from multiple sources.| 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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| Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: |
Square launches support for Apple's Tap to Pay on iPhone to sellers across the US, available within its Square Point of Sale app on the iPhone XS or newer — Square today publicly launched support for Tap to Pay on iPhone to sellers across the U.S., enabling small merchants and independent retailers …
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9to5Google, PYMNTS.com, Block, Inc., 9to5Mac, The Verge, and AppleInsider
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon debuts Amazon Roadside Assistance, accessible from the Alexa app, Echo Auto, and other Echo devices, for contacting 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.| Financial Times: |
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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Insider, TechSpot, RTÉ, The Economic Times, and Wired UK
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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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Business Wire, PYMNTS.com, Axiom Groupe, Finextra, and EQT
| Samantha Cole / VICE: |
Meta confirms it has permanently banned Pornhub's Instagram account for “repeatedly violating” its policies, after a three-week suspension — Pornhub claims its account was “fully PG,” and cites the uneven treatment of mainstream celebrities like Kim Kardashian who post nudity to the platform, compared to adult creators.
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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: @newley and @press4change
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Coalesce, which helps model, clean, and govern data in Snowflake's cloud, raised a $26M Series A led by Emergence Capital, bringing its total funding to $31.92M — Coalesce is a startup that offers data transformation tools geared mainly toward enterprise customers.
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| Sidhartha Shukla / Bloomberg: |
Dune Analytics: NFT trading volumes fell 97% from a record $17.2B in January 2022 to $466.9M in September 2022 — Volume Drop — NFT monthly volume has dropped 97% from 2022 highs — Source: Dune Analytics; Dashboard by @hildobby — Note: Cumulative data from OpenSea, NFTX, LarvaLabs, LooksRare, SuperRare, Rarible, Foundation
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Fortune and Gizmodo
Tweets: @thestalwart, @maxjacobscfa, @f1broadcasting, @enginemode11, @asvanevik, @adamcrafton_, @firstadopter, @josephmdurso, @sarthakgh, @smdiehl, and @ahaywa
| Cameron Thompson / CoinDesk: |
Luxury auction house Christie's launches Christie's 3.0, an Ethereum-based platform for selling NFT art, in partnership with Chainalysis, Manifold, and Spatial — Christie's 3.0 has teamed up with Chainalysis, Manifold, and Spatial to sell NFT artwork on Ethereum.
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Metaverse Post, Coinspeaker, Ocula, The Art Newspaper, Ethereum World News, Christies, Forkast, Decrypt, and Cointelegraph
Tweets: @christiesinc, @christiesinc, @spatialxr, @seanelliottoc, @richerd, @manifoldxyz, and @tropofarmer
| 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
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