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Google refreshes Android's logo and releases updates to its mobile app and services, including its “At a Glance” widget and its visual accessibility app Lookout — Google is releasing a grab bag of updates to its mobile apps and services, including an At a Glance Google Assistant widget …
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple says visionOS beta will include the App Store this fall and, by default, iPad and iPhone apps will be published automatically on the Vision Pro app store — As developers continue to work on bringing their apps to Vision Pro, Apple has shared a new update via its website with details on the Vision Pro's App Store.| RT Watson / The Block: |
MetaMask says its customers in the US, UK, and parts of Europe can now convert ether for traditional fiat currency with a new sell function — - Company announces customers can now convert crypto for traditional fiat currency with a new sell function. — MetaMask customers that choose …
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| Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
Filing: Apple signed a new deal with Arm for chip technology that “extends beyond 2040” — Apple (AAPL.O) has signed a new deal with Arm for chip technology that “extends beyond 2040,” according to Arm's initial public offering documents filed on Tuesday.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft rolls out a new Xbox dashboard that lets users stream Xbox gameplay one-way to anyone on Discord, a tool for reporting Xbox voice chat clips, and more — Microsoft is rolling out a new Xbox dashboard for September that includes the ability to stream your Xbox gameplay to Discord friends …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Apple acquires Sweden-based BIS Records, founded in 1973, and plans to fold the classical music label into Apple Music Classical and Apple's A&R label Platoon — More than 80% of the music we listen to today is delivered over streaming, according to figures from last year.
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| Sundar Pichai / The Keyword: |
Sundar Pichai reflects on Google turning 25, says search is “still our biggest moonshot” and that AI will be the biggest tech shift “we see in our lifetimes” — Editor's note: Google will officially celebrate our 25th birthday later this month.
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| Dana Mattioli / Wall Street Journal: |
Source: the FTC plans to file an antitrust lawsuit against Amazon later this month, after Amazon offered no concessions in an August meeting with FTC officials — E-commerce giant's lawyers offered no concessions in talks with agency officials last month — officials haven't offered concessions …
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| Meg Kinnard / Associated Press: |
AGs in all 50 US states urge Congress to study how AI can be used to exploit kids, including via AI-made pornography, and pass legislation to guard against it — The top prosecutors in all 50 states are urging Congress to study how artificial intelligence can be used to exploit children through pornography … | Vishal Chawla / The Block: |
Visa expands its USDC stablecoin settlements to Solana and has partnered with Worldpay and Nuvei for pilots that have already moved millions of USDC via VisaNet — - Visa expanded its USDC stablecoin settlement capabilities to Solana, forming partnerships with Worldpay and Nuvei for pilot programs.
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X: @cuysheffield, @jerallaire, @cuysheffield, @cuysheffield, and @cuysheffield. LinkedIn: Glenn Rothwell
| Financial Times: |
Margrethe Vestager is stepping down as the EU's competition chief to run for a job at the EIB, and justice commissioner Didier Reynders will now assume the role — Belgian politician appointed while incumbent Margrethe Vestager targets top job at European Investment Bank
More: European Commission, Thurrott, Bloomberg, and Politico
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| Danny Nelson / CoinDesk: |
Email: Genesis Global Trading plans to close its US-focused spot crypto trading platform on September 18 and all remaining open accounts by September 30's end — The subsidiary had escaped parent company Genesis Global's lending-induced bankruptcy. — Genesis' U.S.-focused spot crypto trading business … | Christine Hall / TechCrunch: |
Harmonya, which offers software to help retail and consumer packaged goods companies decipher their product data, raised a $20M Series A led by Bright Pixel — Like other companies, retailers and consumer packaged goods companies have a lot of data accumulated about their products and consumers.| Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: |
Meta plans to deprecate the Facebook News tab in the UK, France, and Germany in early December 2023 and won't sign new deals for news content in those countries — The company will “deprecate” the news tab — a Facebook feature to prominently display news material — for users in the UK, Germany and France.
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| Amanda Hoover / Wired: |
NYC's Local Law 18, which imposes registration and other requirements on short-term rentals, goes into force, potentially wiping out thousands of Airbnbs — Thousands of Airbnbs and other short-term rentals are expected to disappear from rental platforms as New York City begins enforcing tight restrictions.| Wall Street Journal: |
How Spotify's $1B+ bet on building a podcast empire has not paid off: most shows aren't profitable, exclusives don't work, cutting staff and originals, and more — The prospect of podcast riches led to aggressive investments in celebrity deals and original programming for what appeared a sky's-the-limit media frontier
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Threads: @carnage4life. Mastodon: @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social. X: @jamesvgrimaldi, @podcast411, and @epsilontheory
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| Wes Davis / The Verge: |
Amazon will now charge $1.99 per delivery for in-garage deliveries that used to be free if the date is outside a customer's designated weekly “Amazon Day” — / Now there's an extra $1.99 fee to have Amazon drop packages off in your garage outside of your specified ‘Amazon Day.’| Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: |
TikTok opens its first European data center, in Ireland, after announcing the project in August 2020, and plans to finish the migration of user data by Q4 2024 — It has been a long time coming, but TikTok says that its first European data center is finally operational — partially … | Supantha Mukherjee / Reuters: |
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