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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
A look at updates that weren't in the Google I/O keynote, including a Nearby Passes notification in Wallet and the Play Store's Ask Someone Else to Pay button — The Google Play Store will let you ask other people to pay for your purchases, and Live Updates are coming to smartwatches.
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Crypto investor John Woeltz from Kentucky was charged in NYC for allegedly kidnapping and torturing an Italian tourist for three weeks to gain crypto passwords — The investor, 37-year-old John Woeltz, and another man abused their victim for three weeks in a Manhattan townhouse as they tried …
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| Jason Snell / Six Colors: |
Sam Altman and Jony Ive's awkward io video feels like empty hype until a compelling device is released, especially given Ive's post-Jobs design missteps — Ever since OpenAI announced a couple of days ago that it's integrating Jony Ive's hardware startup, I've been struggling with what to write about it.
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| Valentine Baldassari / Bloomberg: |
Elon Musk says he needs to be “super focused on X/xAI and Tesla”, saying major operational improvements need to be made “as evidenced by the X uptime issues” — Billionaire Elon Musk said he needs to be “super focused” on his companies, pointing to issues at X …
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| Jason Del Rey / Fortune: |
General Medicine, an online storefront for medical care founded by PillPack founders TJ Parker and Elliot Cohen, launches with $32M in funding led by Matrix — General Medicine's founding team has disrupted health care once. They're trying again. — Courtesy of General Medicine| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Despite Google's guardrails, Veo 3 users are generating realistic clips of news, disasters, and fictional events, some with dialogue not included in the prompt — Cursed AI-generated videos come with very convincing audio now. … Even at first glance, there's something off about the body on the street.
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| Abram Brown / The Information: |
A look at The Technology Brothers Podcast Network, a daily tech news talk show that has captured the attention of Silicon Valley's investors and founders — In recent months, John Coogan and Jordi Hays, co-hosts of “TBPN,” a daily tech news talk show that has captured the attention …
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| David Cendon Garcia / EU-Startups: |
Paris-based Veesion, which offers AI-powered video surveillance software for spotting suspicious behavior in stores, raised a €38M Series B led by White Star — Veesion, a French startup building AI tools to detect suspicious behaviour in physical stores, has announced …
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| Colin Demarest / Axios: |
CX2, a defense tech startup building software and hardware, including autonomous drones, for electronic warfare, raised a $31M Series A led by Point72 Ventures — Defense-tech upstart CX2 plans to hire more people and accelerate development of its electronic warfare tools on the heels of a $31 million raise, executives told Axios.
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| Leo Schwartz / Fortune: |
OpenFX, which is building a near-instant payments and settlement network for cross-border transactions, emerges from stealth with $23M in funding led by Accel — OpenFX founder Prabhakar Reddy. — Courtesy of OpenFX — Outside of AI, there's no hotter sector than stablecoins.| Evan Ochsner / Bloomberg Law: |
Legora, whose AI tools help legal teams review, draft, research, and advise, raised an $80M Series B at a $675M valuation led by ICONIQ and General Catalyst — Legora, the legal AI startup that's taking aim at the U.S. legal market, raised $80 million in a startup funding round that values the company at $675 million.
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| Adam Edelman / NBC News: |
Texas is set to enact one of the strictest bans on social media for minors, with age verification requirements and letting parents request account deletions — It's the latest attempt in a growing effort by states to enact significant limits on the use of social media by young people.
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| Coco Feng / South China Morning Post: |
Amap, Alibaba's mapping and local services business, introduces a ride-hailing feature on the app's English version, targeting foreign visitors in China — Amap's ride-hailing feature, available on the platform's English version, reflects support for China's visa-free travel scheme| Geoffrey Bunting / The Verge: |
Accessibility consultants say the video game industry's accessibility advancements, which gained momentum in 2020, have slowed down due to cutbacks — Video game consultants like Laura Kate Dale came into 2023 with a lot of hope. … Yet, as the year drew on, she says, “there started to be signs that … Sponsor Posts
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