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Apple says it is discontinuing the original HomePod to focus on HomePod mini, will provide HomePod owners software updates and support via Apple Care — After 4 years on the market, Apple has discontinued its original HomePod. It says that it will continue to produce and focus on the HomePod mini, introduced last year.
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| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
US DOJ indicts CEO of encrypted phone company Sky for selling devices to drug traffickers, the second such company to face charges after Phantom Secure — “The indictment alleges that Sky Global generated hundreds of millions of dollars providing a service that allowed criminal networks around …
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| Jaron Schneider / PetaPixel: |
Adobe adds a new feature to Adobe Camera Raw called Super Resolution, which uses AI to double linear resolution of a photo, increasing its pixel count by 4x — Adobe has shipped the first version of Photoshop that can run natively on Macs equipped with Apple Silicon and also has announced … | Bloomberg: |
Federal judge rules Google must face a class action suit alleging that it collects browsing history and other data even when a user is in private browsing mode — - Judge concludes company didn't notify users of data collection — Class action suit alleges Google knows ‘who your friends are’
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Substack co-founder on how Substack Pro works: year one, writers get upfront pay, Substack keeps 85% of revenue; later, writers keep 90% revenue, no minimum pay — The thinking behind Substack Pro — When we started Substack in mid-2017, the future for writers was frightening.
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| Tom Krazit / Protocol: |
An oral history of Amazon's cloud storage service S3, which debuted 15 years ago to store 20B objects and has scaled to store 100T objects by 2020 — In late 2005, Don Alvarez was just another software entrepreneur struggling to get a new business off the ground when a friend working …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Microsoft will adjust its release cycle for Edge to match the four-week release cadence of Chrome, starting with Edge 94, which is set for release in September — The change will go into effect in September — Microsoft is going to adjust its release cycles for Microsoft Edge to match …
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| Micah Singleton / Billboard: |
Source: decentralized social network BitClout was selling “Creator Coins” of top 15,000 Twitter influencers without their permission, before it went offline — Over the past few months, music stars have been scrambling to cash in on the latest craze in collectibles by selling art …
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| James Tarmy / Bloomberg: |
MetaKovan, an anonymous digital asset investor and founder of NFT focused crypto-based investment fund Metapurse, is the buyer of the $69M Beeple NFT — A digital asset investor who goes by the handle Metakovan and refuses to give his full name, announced that he is the buyer … | BuzzFeed News: |
An internal doc at Facebook, co-written by Chris Cox, aims to equip employees with rebuttals to the perception that the company's products fuel polarization — In a Thursday presentation, Facebook executives told employees the company isn't to blame for social division in the country.
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| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Fox's free streaming service Tubi is planning to start funding original movies and TV shows; Roku and Pluto TV are also exploring original programming — Free streaming services increase their ambitions after growing like weeds during pandemic — Fox Corp.'s free streaming service Tubi … | Lora Kolodny / CNBC: |
NTSB sent a letter to the NHTSA asking for stricter standards on automated vehicle tech, citing Tesla's Level 2 Autopilot system tests as needing more oversight — - The National Transportation Safety Board is calling on its sister agency, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration …
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| Patrick Howell O'Neill / MIT Technology Review: |
ESET: at least ten, mostly state-backed hacking groups are exploiting Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities on thousands of servers in over 115 countries — Days before Microsoft released a fix for a secret attack on its email systems, hackers ramped up their activity. Now experts say swift action is required.
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