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| The Verge: |
Everything Amazon announced at its product event: Alexa Emergency Assist for $6/month, the Alexa Eye Gaze accessibility feature, the $50 Echo Pop Kids, and more — Amazon is kicking off its annual fall product announcements at its HQ2 campus in Arlington, Virginia.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Amazon unveils new generative AI features aimed at making Alexa more conversational and personalized, available as a free preview on all Echo devices in the US — During a press event this morning at its HQ2 headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, Amazon announced that it'll soon use …
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| Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: |
Amazon unveils the $180 Echo Hub, a wall-mountable smart home controller with an 8" touchscreen, and Map View, an Alexa app interface for the user's floor plan — Designed specifically as a smart home controller, the Echo Hub is a slimline version of an Echo Show 8 or a shrunken version of a Show 15.| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Amazon refreshes its Alexa-powered Echo Frames glasses: enhanced speech processing, better noise isolation, 15% thinner, and a six-hour battery life for $270 — Amazon today unveiled a new generation of Echo Frames, its Alexa-powered glasses, with enhanced speech processing, better noise isolation and a $269.99 price tag.| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
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X: @daveleebbg, @lanceulanoff, @amazon, @amazon, @markgurman, and @daveleebbg
| Ina Fried / Axios: |
OpenAI teases DALL-E 3, which can be summoned and controlled using ChatGPT, and plans to make the tool available to ChatGPT+ and enterprise customers in October — OpenAI is offering an early look at DALL-E 3, the next version of its image generation tool.
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Forums: Hacker News, r/aiwars, r/OpenAI, r/dalle2, r/bing, and r/ChatGPTPro
| Ben Weiss / Fortune: |
PayPal says select Venmo users can now purchase its stablecoin PYUSD, with a rollout to more users in the coming weeks, in addition to BTC, ETH, BCH, and LTC — PayPal announced on Wednesday that Venmo users will be able to buy PayPal's new stablecoin, PayPal USD, increasing the number …
More: PayPal Newsroom, PYMNTS.com, Benzinga, Bitcoin News, Blockworks, Cryptopolitan, TechCrunch, and crypto.news. LinkedIn: Jose Fernandez da Ponte
| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Apple's FineWoven accessories and iPhone cases are really bad: they're expensive, quickly show wear, and scratch very easily, leaving seemingly permanent marks — Apple's new FineWoven iPhone cases and accessories are bad. Like, really bad. I've been puzzling over them for the past week, looking at them from different angles.
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| CNBC: |
Sources: as equities soared in 2020, Apple and Goldman were working on an iPhone stock trading feature but shelved the project when markets turned south in 2022 — - Apple was exploring the launch of an iPhone feature that would let users buy and sell stocks, according to three sources familiar with the plans.
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LinkedIn: Romeo Salta, Romeo Salta, and Arcady Lapiro
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Dana Mattioli / Wall Street Journal: |
In its Prime lawsuit, the FTC alleges three Amazon executives played key roles in enrolling customers unwittingly and making it hard to cancel subscriptions — Federal agency alleges Amazon executives were aware of enrolling customers unwittingly and erecting intentional hurdles to cancellation
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
MotherDuck, which is commercializing the database platform DuckDB, raised a $52.5M Series B at a $400M post-money valuation, taking its total funding to $100M — A few weeks ago, it was reported that MotherDuck, the company commercializing the lightweight database platform DuckDB …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
GitHub expands Copilot Chat beta in Visual Studio and VS Code to individual subscribers, after launching the tool for business users in July 2023 — Three months ago, GitHub launched Copilot Chat, its ChatGPT-like programming-centric chatbot, out of private preview by making it available …
More: The GitHub Blog, Visual Studio Magazine, The Verge, and Neowin
| BBC: |
After Meta criticized the UK's potential E2EE rules, the UK says Meta “failed to provide assurances” over keeping its platforms “safe from sickening abusers” — Facebook's owner Meta has hit back at a new government campaign strongly critical of its plans to encrypt messages.
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| Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: |
Documents: Amazon scrapped a planned 2% fee on merchants that don't use its shipping services; disclosed in August, the fee was set to take effect on October 1 — - Levy was to affect merchants that don't use Amazon logistics — US expected to file antitrust suit against company this month
More: PYMNTS.com, The Verge, Forbes, Reuters, and Best Stocks
| Victoria Song / The Verge: |
Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 review: Double Tap is great, but Precision Finding requires an iPhone 15, and the Siri and brightness improvements feel minor — Iterative updates aren't flashy, but these smartwatches are mainly for folks who don't have Apple Watches yet.
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X: @adrianweckler, @nicnguyen, and @nicnguyen
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Bloomberg: |
Klaviyo closes up 9.2% in its New York Stock Exchange debut, valuing the Shopify-backed e-commerce marketing company at $9.9B on a fully diluted basis — - Email software firm closes debut at $9.9 billion valuation — Founder Bialecki's fortune rises to $3.4 billion with IPO
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Uber plans to accept the US food stamps EBT card and health insurance-issued FSA and flex cards for Uber Eats grocery delivery orders, starting in 2024 — Uber Eats will start accepting food stamps and healthcare benefits as payment for grocery delivery orders, the company announced Wednesday.
More: TechCrunch, Uber, PYMNTS.com, Mercury News, Best Stocks, Reuters, Chain Store Age, and Forbes
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Darrow, which uses AI to parse public documents for class-action lawsuit potential, raised a $35M Series B led by Georgian and says ~50 law firms use its tool — The U.S. is famous (or infamous) for its litigiousness: the country may not have the highest per capita amount of lawsuits … | Qianer Liu / Financial Times: |
Sources: the Kirin 9000S SoC has four CPUs that use Arm designs, the other four use Huawei-modified Arm designs, HiSilicon developed the GPU and NPU, and more — Facing US sanctions, Chinese company emulates Apple by using its own designs in chips for Mate 60 Pro
More: Reuters and CNBC
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Meta expands its Meta Verified program to businesses on Facebook and Instagram in select markets, for $21.99/month/page for each or $34.99/month/page for both — Meta announced today that it is expanding Meta Verified to businesses after first launching it for creators in March.
More: Meta, The Verge, WhatsApp Blog, Silicon Valley Business …, The Information, Social Media Today, The Information, Engadget, Neowin, Mashable, WinBuzzer, and PhoneArena
Threads: @tech_transparency_project. X: @liahaberman, @indianidle, @liahaberman, @liahaberman, and @kyurieff
LinkedIn: Anna Gene Schmidt, Ritu Agarwal, and Conor Shanley
| Financial Times: |
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
1Password rolls out passkey support to its iOS and Android apps and web extensions; replacing the user's master password with a passkey is coming later in 2023 — Following months of teasing, 1Password has announced that support for passkeys — a new login technology that replaces passwords …
More: 1Password Blog, 9to5Mac, Engadget, iPhone in Canada Blog, TechSpot, SlashGear, Cult of Mac, and Android Police
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