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Report: customers are using doorbell cameras like Amazon's Ring to monitor, control, and punish delivery drivers, such as sharing footage online to shame them — A Data & Society report interviewed doorbell camera users and delivery drivers to understand how surveillance is affecting both, for the worse.| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Intel previews the next-gen Thunderbolt, based on USB4 v2, with up to 80Gbps both ways, or 120Gbps one way and 40Gbps the other for “video-intensive usages” — Intel is showing off a preview of the next generation of Thunderbolt, which it says can “deliver up to three times the capability of Thunderbolt 4.”
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Filings with the UK's CMA: as part of its Activision Blizzard acquisition, Microsoft plans to build an Xbox Mobile Platform and a “next generation game store” — Microsoft's Activision Blizzard deal is key to the company's mobile gaming efforts.
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Analysis in 38 US cities: AT&T, Verizon, and others offer lower-income and least-white areas slow internet for the same price as faster service in other regions — An investigation by The Markup found that AT&T, Verizon, EarthLink, and CenturyLink disproportionately offered lower-income …
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Google unveils Android 13 Go edition, with Material You, the Discover feed, and Google Play System Updates support, arriving in 2023 on devices with 2GB+ of RAM — Google announced and detailed Android 13 (Go edition) today with several sizable changes to the user experience … | Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
SpaceX unveils its Starlink Aviation service, promising speeds up to 350Mbps in airplanes, with a $150K one-time hardware cost and $12.5K to $25K monthly fees — Airplane operators can reserve now for Starlink deliveries in mid-2023. — SpaceX is now advertising Starlink Aviation …
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| Andrew Tarantola / Engadget: |
Meta AI unveils an open-source translator for languages that are primarily spoken rather than written, which can currently translate between Hokkien and English — Nearly half of the world's roughly 7,000 known languages four in ten of them exist without an accompanying written component.
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The global smartphone market fell 9% YoY in Q3 2022, the third consecutive decline and the worst Q3 since 2014; Apple's market share grew from 15% to 18% YoY — In Q3 2022, the global smartphone market recorded its third consecutive decline this year, dropping 9% year-on-year, marking the worst Q3 since 2014.
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| Kaitlyn Tiffany / The Atlantic: |
A look at “gradient accounts” on Twitter that have color gradients as profile pictures, post viral “relatable” content, and are often accused of stealing tweets — Here's a very popular tweet: “she's a 10 but she cries on her birthday every year.” — Solid. Concise.
Tweets: @nxthompson, @bitinn, @picpedant, @llegrarosenberg, and @lenikacruz
| Niket Nishant / Reuters: |
Malaysian payments technology company Super Apps Holdings plans to go public in the US via a SPAC merger at a ~$1.1B valuation, listed on the Nasdaq under TETE — Super Apps Holdings will go public in the United States through a merger with a special purpose acquisition company in a deal …
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The $1,500 Quest Pro is primarily a gaming device with impressive hardware and does not realize Meta's vision of enabling tasks that couldn't be done before — It's not what Mark Zuckerberg promises. — BURLINGAME, Calif. — Good news, readers: After using nearly every virtual reality headset … | Dave Lee / Financial Times: |
Uber launches a global advertising unit, targeting $1B in annual gross ad bookings by 2024, including by displaying ads within its apps and on top of cars — Rideshare company looks to accelerate revenue growth with new business division — Uber has launched its global advertising unit …
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| Katyanna Quach / The Register: |
A study of 1,063 US adults' YouTube browsing experience shows the site is more likely to suggest conservative-leaning videos regardless of the viewer's ideology — There goes Woke Big Tech again, downplaying traditional liberal views — YouTube's recommendation algorithm not only gently traps viewers … | Ryan Weeks / The Block: |
Celestia, which builds a modular blockchain architecture, raised $55M, a source says in a Series A and a Series B that valued the company at $1B earlier in 2022 — - Celestia Labs netted $55 million across two quietly closed fundraises this year. — The latest capital injection values …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Reddit's chief product officer says 3M+ users created Reddit Vault wallets, including 2.5M to buy NFT avatars that can be used as profile pictures on the site — In July, Reddit jumped on the NFT train, launching an NFT-based marketplace that allows users to purchase blockchain-based profile pictures for a fixed rate.| Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: |
YouTube names Leo Olebe, who held executive roles in Google Play's games partnership division and at Facebook, as head of its gaming unit — YouTube named a new head of its gaming unit after an eight-month vacancy for the position. — Leo Olebe has held executive roles … Sponsor Posts
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