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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Twitter appears to roll out its new Blue subscription, offering a blue checkmark for $8/month, on iOS in the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and UK — Twitter is officially rolling out its new Twitter Blue subscription service, which offers “blue check” verification to everyone for $8/month.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
A Twitter product lead says the new Blue subscription isn't live yet, but some users may see updates “because we are testing and pushing changes in real-time” — Just days after newly minted Twitter CEO Elon Musk floated changes to Twitter's system for verifying user accounts …
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| Elon Musk / @elonmusk: |
Elon Musk says Twitter plans to add the ability to attach long-form text to tweets, creator monetization for all forms of content, and better search — Twitter will soon add ability to attach long-form text to tweets, ending absurdity of notepad screenshots
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Source: Apple is working on simplifying the “Hey Siri” trigger phrase to just “Siri” and plans to integrate Siri deeper into third-party apps and services — Apple is working on a project to simplify the “Hey Siri” trigger phrase to just “Siri.”
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| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
Jack Dorsey apologizes for growing Twitter “too quickly”, amid mass layoffs; Twitter's headcount grew from ~2,000 to 7,500+ between June 2013 and December 2021 — - Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey apologized Saturday for growing the company “too quickly,” a day after hundreds …
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Tweets: @jack, @goldman, @zombaekillz, @reichenstein, @clarajeffery, @kurtwagner8, and @broderick
| Stephen Graves / Decrypt: |
Google Cloud says it is running a Solana validator and is indexing Solana data for BigQuery, will add Solana support to Blockchain Node Engine in 2023, and more — Solana ( SOL) rose 12% on the news, changing hands at around $36.80 at time of publication.
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Tweets: @googlecloud, @solana, and @decryptmedia
| Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: |
Hands-on with Matter devices at a launch event: Matter has a long way to go before delivering on its promise of an interoperable and simple smart home standard — At the official launch event for Matter this week, I saw a lot of exciting things: a Google Nest Hub controlling an Eve Energy smart plug …
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| Katie Deighton / Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon, BurgerFi, Chili's, and other companies end or are rethinking delivery and restaurant robot trials, unable to balance the costs against their usefulness — In retail, fast food and delivery, robots with names like Roxo, Rita and Scout have delivered mixed, sometimes quirky results, at costs some companies find too high.
Tweets: @rakeshlobster, @bylizyoung, @wsjcmo, and @dollydeighton
| Dave Karpf / The Future, Now and Then: |
A look at Twitter's chaotic first week under Elon Musk, who is acting like a poker player on tilt trying too hard to get his money back all at once — Well, Elon's first week running Twitter has gone worse than I expected. I said last week that I thought the platform would be pretty …
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| Washington Post: |
Review of misinformation labels: Twitter and Facebook have done little to refute inaccurate election claims by 26+ US midterms candidates since April 2022 — A Post review of hundreds of posts found many with misinformation but none with social media labels
Tweets: @dburghart, @alfonslopeztena, @cat_zakrzewski, @josephmenn, @martinsfp, @beckybunzy, @johncusack, and @dsilverman
| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
The US DOJ seizes internet domains for Z-Library, a repository that went viral on TikTok for offering 11M+ books, including pirated textbooks, and 84M articles — Internet domains for the popular Z-Library online eBook repository were seized early this morning by the U.S. Department of Justice, preventing easy access to the service.
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| Financial Times: |
CEO Kalyan Krishnamurthy says Flipkart plans to cut back on dealmaking and hiring to curb costs as losses mount amid fierce competition from Amazon and Reliance — CEO Krishnamurthy insists country's ecommerce sector remains ‘vibrant’ — Flipkart's chief executive says the Walmart-owned ecommerce group … Sponsor Posts
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