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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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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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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Google announces new Maps features, including the ability to visually soar over some areas, 250 more landmark views, enriched neighborhood info, and AR search — Google is gearing up to launch several new updates for Maps in the coming months, the company announced today at its Search On event.
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Google announces new US shopping features, including a “Shop the Look” display of complementary products, 3D images, trending items, and more personalization — At its Search On event this afternoon, Google announced a number of shopping-related changes and new features across areas … | 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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| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
UN1feed says Apple removed The OG App, which let users create and share Instagram feeds without ads and suggested posts, from the App Store; the app ranked #50 — This week, a new Instagram client called “OG App” caught the attention of the internet as it promised a better Instagram experience …
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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 …
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Square launches support for Apple's Tap to Pay on iPhone to sellers in the US, available within its Square Point of Sale app for iOS 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 …
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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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| Samantha Cole / VICE: |
Meta permanently bans Pornhub's Instagram account for “repeatedly violating” its policies, after a three-week suspension and ToS breaches accruing over 10 years — Pornhub claims its account was “fully PG,” and cites the uneven treatment of mainstream celebrities like Kim Kardashian …
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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 … | Adam Satariano / New York Times: |
A look at Portugal's Meia Praia beach, a haven where crypto supporters gather, creating a bubble of optimism about digital currencies amid crypto's downturn — In crypto havens such as Meia Praia beach, the confidence in digital currencies remains undimmed even after this summer's crash.| 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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| Matt Burgess / Wired: |
Pornhub is testing a chatbot that redirects users searching for CSAM to a service where they can get help; the bot intervened 173,904 times in its first month — Pornhub is trialing a new automated tool that pushes CSAM-searchers to seek help for their online behavior. Will it work?| Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: |
Amazon encourages some customer service staff to work from home, sources say to cut real estate costs; source: Amazon plans to close multiple US call centers — Amazon.com Inc. is encouraging customer service employees at some US call centers to work from home, signaling the company's preference … | 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.| Aoyon Ashraf / CoinDesk: |
SWIFT is working with blockchain data provider Chainlink on a cross-chain interoperability protocol to let SWIFT messages instruct on-chain token transfers — Interest from institutional investors moving into crypto has been “undeniable,” according to SWIFT's Strategy Director.
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| Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: |
New Jersey-based Sitetracker, which offers a cloud service to manage critical infrastructure projects, raised a $96M Series D, $66M in equity and $30M in debt — Startup Sitetracker Inc. today announced that it has secured $96 million in financing to broaden the adoption of its namesake cloud platform …
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| 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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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 … | 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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| 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.| 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.Sponsor Posts
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